1983 Australia Sydney Skyline Harbour Bridge Night Gold Fields House NSW Postcard
Front
Full-bleed colour night photographic postcard showing an elevated aerial view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the city skyline after dark, looking north across Sydney Harbour from above the Rocks.
The Harbour Bridge sweeps diagonally through the frame from the lower left to the upper right. Its great steel arch is picked out in green floodlighting, the hangers and roadway edged with rows of white lights, and the deck carries the bright continuous streaks of vehicle headlights recorded by the long exposure. The southern approach spans and their arched masonry viaduct run across the lower left, and the massive sandstone pylons stand illuminated in pale amber at both ends of the arch. The bridge’s lights and structure are reflected in long shimmering bands on the black water below.
Beyond the bridge lie Lavender Bay and Careening Cove, with dozens of small moored yachts visible as dark specks on the gleaming water. The North Sydney business district rises behind, a dense cluster of brightly lit office towers with glowing window grids, and beyond it the lights of the northern suburbs spread away to the horizon in a vast amber and white carpet under a black sky. The lit curve of the Warringah Expressway threads through the middle distance.
The lower right of the image is filled with the buildings of the Rocks and Circular Quay West: a large modern office slab in the foreground carries a big illuminated rooftop sign reading GOLD FIELDS, with lit office windows across its façade. Around it are the older warehouse and terrace roofs of the Rocks, lit streets, parked cars, and the pale sheds and rooflines of the wharf area, with a flagpole and floodlit trees on the point.
Back
Divided-back colour postcard on white stock printed in black. The caption at the upper left reads:
Sydney Skyline & Harbour Bridge, NSW
P 3090-2
Running vertically down the centre:
NationalView
Published by Murfett Pty Ltd Australia
At the centre in large type:
POST CARD
At the lower right, the Australia Post device:
POST OFFICE PREFERRED
The address panel at right, printed with “To” and “Postcode” prompts, is completed in blue ballpoint:
Master Mark Brook
6 Queenslea Drive
CLAREMONT WA
Postcode 6010.
At the upper right is a 27c Australian definitive from the Butterflies series depicting a ULYSSES butterfly in blue, black and green on flowering lantana, tied by a machine cancellation. A boxed slogan cancel at the left reads in part:
ST LEONARDS MAIL CENTRE … 1983 … N.S.W. 2065
and a further slogan cancel reads:
ADDRESS MAIL PRIVATE BOX NO. IT EXPEDITES DELIVERY
Written in blue ballpoint across the top:
12th July, 1983 LANE COVE. NSW
The message, in blue ballpoint filling the left half:
Darling Mark – your favourite bridge – it really does glitter like this when you fly in at night. Hope you are a good boy for Nanna & Grandpa & doing what they tell you to do. Remember me to Miss Burns – Lots of love, hugs & kisses. Missing you. Mummy xxx ooo
Estimated Era
1983, Australia. The card is dated by the sender’s own inscription of 12 July 1983 and by the St Leonards machine cancellation of the same year, posted from Lane Cove, New South Wales to Claremont, Western Australia. The 27c Ulysses butterfly definitive was current at that time, and the Gold Fields House sign and pre-Darling Harbour skyline are consistent with the early 1980s.
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