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Cockle Bay, now Darling Harbour c1819-20

By
Major James Taylor
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[ML 941]
(Mitchell Library)

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Taylor, Major James

State Library of New South Wales

Bricks

Sydney is unusual in the extent to which the urban landscape has been profoundly influenced by the basic, yet ancient, building material of bricks. Bricks made by the first convict brickmaker were used in the public buildings of the new colony, and the presence of brickyards influenced a succession of localities, from the inner city to the outer suburbs.

Aboriginal

Convicts

Mills and windmills

Timber

Agriculture

Cockle Bay

Small bay in Darling Harbour to the west of central Sydney. The bay was an important site for shipping and industry during the nineteenth century.

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Darling Harbour

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Waterway to the west of the city once surrounded by wharves, goods yards, woolstores and factories which contributed enormously to the city's economic wealth. The former rail lines and goods yards were transformed from commercial port to a recreational and pedestrian precinct in the 1980s.

Millers Point

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Inner-city suburb on the western side of the Harbour Bridge's southern approaches. It was named for the windmills that were built on its heights, and their owner, John Leighton, known as Jack the Miller.

Cockle Creek

Small waterway which originally flowed north into Cockle Bay from the Brickfield area.

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Pyrmont

Peninsular inner-west suburb between Darling Harbour and Johnston's Bay. Quarried for its sandstone, it later became a heavily industrialised working-class enclave, then gentrified as industry declined.

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Parramatta River

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Major tributary of Sydney Harbour, which flows east from Blacktown Creek to meet Port Jackson between Greenwich and Birchgrove. The river is tidal to Charles Street Weir at Parramatta, 30 kilometres from Sydney Heads.

Goat Island

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Referred to as 'Me-mel' ('eye') by Aboriginal people, Goat Island stands at the entrance to Darling Harbour.