Harbour Mill's building frame is now only one floor from the top, the 11th floor (including the lower ground and ground floor). Above this, the roof will be flat, with the private garden areas for the top apartments.
The first photograph shows how much the top floors are above the old flour mill facade, and the second photo shows how the building drops down from 11 floors for most of its footprint to 4 floors at the south end. The top photo was taken at about 4pm, when the north-facing part was bathed in sunshine.
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And here's a view from the end of Jones Lane, which will be the back way into the building.
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And for those of you who want to know what some of the inside is looking like, you can see here that some of the apartments are 'sheeted' already, that is, the internal gyprock walls are up. This gives a bit of a guide to the size of the corner bedrooms - not bad (this photo is extra enlarged).
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Hi Elana. I've just finished reading through your blog after your dad told me about it.
ReplyDeleteI'm well familiar with the Edwin Davey Flour Mill, as the goods trains which serviced it used the Glebe tunnel, the Jubilee Park entrance to which lies nearly under my house. Lying in bed in the quiet of the middle of the night with my ear to the pillow I used to occasionally feel rather than hear those trains' gentle rumblings coming through the sandstone under my house. I'd often see a goods carriage, or maybe 2, waiting forlornly on the siding under the mill. This continued right up to the early '90s when the line was ready to be electrified for the advent of the light rail.
Keep up the informative writing, Elana!
Geoff Walker