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Patent slip belonging to the Australian Steam Navigation Co c1855

By
Frederick Garling
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a353001 / DGD 3,1]
(Dixson Galleries)

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Garling, Frederick

Customs official and marine artist.

State Library of New South Wales

Pyrmont

Home to the Gommerigal people until the 1830s, Pyrmont peninsula remained undeveloped until the 1840s despite its proximity to Sydney Town. Quarrying the Pyrmont sandstone became a major industry, changing the natural features of the place. Wharves, factories and haulage provided work for the people who moved in, until the industry moved out, and another transformation began in the 1980s.

Ship building

Shipping

Darling Island

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Originally separated from the mainland by a mud flat, which was bridged by a causeway in the 1840s. From 1851, the Australian Steam Navigation Company occupied the island, steadily reclaiming land around the causeway, so that by the 1870s the island had become a peninsula. Ships were built and repaired here until the 1890s. The NSW government bought the site, and wharves and rail links were built to handle wheat and coal shipments. From 1951, the wharf known as 'Pyrmont' was the first landfall in Australia for hundreds of thousands of post-war immigrants. On the western side are two tall buildings constructed for the Navy between 1903 and 1912, the Ordnance Stores and the Royal Edward Victualling Yard.

Australian Steam Navigation Company

Shipbuilding company which built the first Australian iron-hulled vessel, the Ballarat, which was launched from the company's works at Pyrmont in 1860.

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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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