1930 - Ambulance Station - Auburn, NSW, Australia
S 33° 51.029 E 151° 01.902
56H E 317900 N 6252679
This Ambulance Station was built in 1930, for the community of Auburn.
Waymark Code: WMZRBY
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 12/27/2018
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This two-storey brown brick building is (or was) the Ambulance Station for the inner-city suburb of Auburn. There are three roller-doors for vehicular access onto Narrow Road, and the white-marble tablet Foundation Stone is at the northeastern obtuse corner of the building. The lead-filled inscription is:
This Foundation Stone
was Laid on the 11th October 1930
by
alderman A.T. Briggs, mayor
_______
Dr L.A. Kortum, Mr H. Mather,
President. Hon. Treas.
The cream-painted, rendered facade above the security-grilled entrance facing the Queen Road plaza and the Auburn Central Shopping Centre has, "AUBURN AMBULANCE STATION" on it. All of the ground-floor windows have mesh security grills, while the upper windows on the northeastern side are mostly double-pane casement windows; with a few single-pane fixed. There are fixed-glass arches above the double-casement windows that are below the arched sections of the facade where Maltese crosses are moulded, and painted brown - the insignia of St John Ambulance. The 'residual' windows facing Narrow Road (east) have four panes on the upper-sliding half-hung part of the windows, with a single fixed panel below.
Address: 64 Queen Street, NSW, 2144, Australia
Visited: 1552-3, 1600, Thursday, 27 December, 2018
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