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Sydney dockyard - work station

Placename: Sydney dockyard - work station
Layer: Convict Landscapes - Australia and Norfolk Island
Link back to source:: https://convictlandscapes.com.au/australia/
Type: Other

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Latitude: -33.859792
Longitude: 151.209375
Start Date: 1797
End Date: 1833

Description

Located on west side of Sydney Cove. Described by Macquarie in 1821 as 'The old Dock Yard enlarged and greatly improved, with new building and repairing docks, wharfs, quays, sail-rooms, and all the requisite workhops, including boat-houses; and also offices for the master-builder and master-attendant of the colonial, marine; the whole of the premises being inclosed with a stone wall twelve feet high.... A stone-built Barrack, contiguous to the dock yard, for the accommodation of the cockswain and crews of the government boats, inclosed with a high stone wall'.

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