This image is from the City of Sydney's Foundations for a City: Building Sydney Town Hall exhibition http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/history/foundations
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Bond, Albert Bond, to the rescue Albert Bond was appointed City Architect in April 1873. He found
that Willson’s notes and drawings of roofing details and the
internal treatment of the hall were very scanty. To Bond, then,
go the honours for designing the turrets on the roofs and the plans
for the vestibule, with its intricate plaster work. This photograph
of the Town Hall c.1875 shows the roof under construction. Sun streams
through the uncovered rear portion of the building. Bond’s
work must have been frustrated when in 1874 the Council was given
notice to quit its administrative buildings and they moved into
the partially complete Town Hall. Bond, the first full-time City
Architect, resigned in December 1877.
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