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Cockle Bay, now Darling Harbour c1819-20

Cockle Bay, now Darling Harbour c1819-20

By

Major James Taylor

From the collection of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a928747 / ML 941]

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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.

Girard's wharf

French-born ex-convict and entrepreneur François Girard had a range of business interests, all centred on his Cockle Bay wharf which received goods and raw materials from the colonies and the world.

Aboriginal

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.