Old Sydney

1930s10 photos

Display at Police Carnival taken for Grace Bros, 19371937Fonsgren at fire station taken for Stadiums Ltd, 19371937Inspection of mat by police taken for Leichhardt Stadium Ltd, 19371937Ambulance, Bankstown, 19381938Opening of Police Boys Club at Balmain, 19381938Ambulances wait to transport survivors of Rodney disaster to Sydney & St. Vincent's Hospitals 13 Feb 19381938Police dogs 19391939Police dog Zoe with receiving set on back, 19391939Policeman with receiving set, 19391939Ambulance and officers outside the Balmain, Drummoyne and Five Dock Branch of the Central District Ambulance, 1932–471932–47

1940s41 photos

Conferring of honours and medals at Government House Sydney St Johns Ambulance parade, 19401940Governor inspects St Johns Ambulance Brigade, 19401940St Johns Ambulance parade The Governor Lord Wakehurst shakes hands with a recipient, 19401940St Johns Ambulance parade The Governor Lord Wakehurst shakes hands with an ambulance officer, 19401940The Governor Lord Wakehurst shakes hands with a recipient St Johns Ambulance parade, 19401940St John's Ambulance parade. The Governor takes the salute from the Red Cross girls, 19 October 1940, by Sam Hood1940Policeman helps woman with group of girls to cross a city street, ca. 1935, from Hood Collection part II - (Children in groups and with adults, social functions, etc.), ca. 1925-ca. 1955 - Sam Hood, 1925–551925–55Fire truck and firemen, NSW Brigade headquarters 19411941Breathing apparatus, by Robert Donaldson, 19411941Police Carnival, 1925–571925–57Police Carnival, 1925–571925–57Police Carnival, 1925–571925–57Police Carnival, 1925–571925–57Police Carnival, 1925–571925–57Police Carnival, 1925–571925–57Police Carnival, 1925–571925–57Police Carnival, 1925–571925–57Presentation of ambulance by the staff of Standard Telephone Cables, 19411941Presentation ambulance Wallacia Lord Mayors Fund, 19411941Returned soldiers 8th Field Ambulance taken for Miss Coxon AIF, 19411941St Johns Ambulance parade, 19411941Women war workers presentation of an ambulance by the staff of STC Standard Telephones and Cables, 19411941St Johns Ambulance Parade, 19421942Darcy Dugan Fahy scrapbook slnsw, 1937–491937–49St Johns Ambulance parade, 19431943St Johns Ambulance parade Government House, 19431943St Johns Ambulance annual parade at Government House taken for Mr W Stone Upfold Street Mayfield St Johns Sec Hamilton, 1944194411 St John Ambulance women, 19451945Eight St John Ambulance women officers, 19451945Seven St John Ambulance women in uniform Thornleigh, 19451945St John Ambulance women Thornleigh, 19451945Gift from the Irish Linen Spinning and Weaving Company through Red Cross to the Army military ambulance, 1945–471945–47Lions head at police station, 19461946New Methodist Nursing Service ambulance taken for Mr Bagnall, 19461946Sydney Fire Brigade Headquarters, 1948, c. 1948c. 1948Senior St Johns Ambulance parade Government House, 19481948St Johns Ambulance Brigade cadets, 19481948St Johns Ambulance parade Town Hall, 19481948Police raid Sydney 19491949Police station, Pyrmont, 1949 slnsw1949Railway Ambulance Corp State Shield Ambulance Competition at Telopea (NSW), c. 1949c. 1949

1950s8 photos

Five firemen, Metropolitan Fire Brigade engine and crew, Castlereagh Street headquarters, (pre-1955) - photograph Sutcliffe Pty Ltd, 1920–801920–80Opening of Police Boys Club at Wickham, 19521952Police Boys Club, 19521952Opening of new ambulance station at Boolaroo, 19541954Superindendent Rayner North Eastern Police District, 19551955Railway Ambulance Corp, c. 1956c. 1956Railway Ambulance Corp, c. 1956c. 1956Traffic policeman on patrol duties Hunter Street looking west Steel Street on left, 19571957

1960s1 photo

First aid competition, 19601960

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141 historic photos for Police, fire and ambulance, taken between 1872 and 1998, gathered from across the suburbs by what their catalogue titles say. They span 13 decades, with the most from the 1930s (49). They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.