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Sydney dockyard - work station

Placename
Sydney dockyard - work station
Layer
Convict Sites - Aust and Norfolk Isl.
Type
Other

Details

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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ID
tc498b

Extended Data

Start Year
1797
End year
1833