Sydney Harbour Trust - Birds Eye View of General Wharfage Scheme West of Dawes Point as it will Appear when Completed. garden city with rowing boats pulled up

with rowing boats pulled up to the bank

rhapsodising in his ‘Journal of Tours in New South Wales’ how ‘After feasting our eyes on the view from the summit’ he descended into rainforest ‘with the largest and finest trees ever seen in the colony’

Creator Stewart & Morton Auctioneers

and early ferry services

before Dutch explorer Abel Tasman charted New Holland in 1642

Sydney Harbour Trust - Birds Eye View of General Wharfage Scheme West of Dawes Point as it will Appear when Completed. garden city with rowing boats pulled upCreator Sydney Harbour Trust Date 1912 In 1912 the Sydney Harbour Trust published ambitious plans to develop Darling Harbour and the wharves around Pyrmont into a vast industrial container port. The railway brought freight from the far corners of the state into the port, and continuous elevated conveyer system ran along the shores of Darling Harbour, Johnston's Bay, Blackwattle Bay, Rozelle Bay and White Bay. Even a harbour tunnel was proposed from