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The first Spit Bridge, Middle Harbour c1925

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Clontarf

Named for a seaside town near Dublin, Clontarf's beach was a popular picnic spot by the 1860s. In 1868, at a picnic in the pleasure grounds, Prince Alfred the Duke of Edinburgh was shot, in an unsuccessful assassination attempt, by Henry O'Farrell who was hanged. Clontarf remained a cheap suburb, with a tent city springing up in the Depression of the 1930s, but a new bridge in 1958 made it more accessible.

Bridges

The Spit

Sandspit protruding from Beauty Point in Mosman into Middle Harbour. From 1834 a ferry operated across to Manly Road on the northern side and in 1924 a bridge opened. The Spit has been enlarged by land reclamation.

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Middle Harbour

Suburb on the north shore of Sydney, occupying the area south of the Spit Bridge.

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Spit bridge

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Sydney's only remaining lift bridge on a major arterial road.

Middle Harbour

An arm of Port Jackson, extending north-west from the Heads with its headwaters in Garigal National Park.

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