Under the Harbour Bridge

The Walsh Bay Arts Precinct features enormous corrugated iron sheds resting on timber pylons that stretch deep into the harbor water. These structures served as the primary shipping wharves for Sydney throughout the early twentieth…

Pier One Sydney Harbour sits on a massive timber wharf that juts into the water beneath the southern approach of the Harbour Bridge. It consists of two long, shed-like structures built in the nineteen twenties to process passengers and…

The Dawes Point Battery sits directly beneath the southern approach of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Four sandstone walls and a cluster of cannons facing the water mark the site where Lieutenant William Dawes established Australia’s first…

A jagged, rusted iron crane stands over the grass at Hickson Road Reserve. This relic once hauled cargo from the deep-hulled ships docking at the Walsh Bay wharves during the nineteen twenties. When the timber wharves finally decayed and…

The sandstone sea wall at Campbells Cove holds the remnants of heavy iron rings bolted directly into the rock face. These rings served as the primary mooring points for the tall sailing ships that anchored here in the early nineteenth…

The Argyle Cut is a deep, jagged chasm carved directly through the sandstone ridge that separates The Rocks from the rest of Sydney. Its walls still bear the deep, vertical grooves left by the iron chisels of convicts in the eighteen…

The Bridge Stairs are a steep, narrow flight of sandstone steps wedged between terrace houses in Millers Point. They exist because the hilly terrain of the Rocks and Millers Point proved impossible for early carriages to navigate. In…

The Sydney Harbour Bridge rises above Dawes Point with a massive steel arch that supports eight lanes of traffic and two rail lines. Engineers finished this heavy construction in nineteen thirty-two during the depths of the Great…