Darling Harbour. Walsh Bay. Sydney Harbour. The Rocks. Circular Quay. City Centre. Kings Cross. Things to do and places to stay Loading. Events 14 Nov - 27 Feb. Final tickets are on sale now. Do not miss your shot. Hamilton is the story of America then, told by America now. A record…. It brings together pioneers from a myriad of industries to…. It was famously visited by Captain John Macarthur and his entourage in December , when the presence of a spring of natural water at the chosen picnic spot inspired the naming of the place 'Pyrmont', after a spa town of that name in northern Germany.
The spring later became known as Tinker's Well. But it was the rock, rather than the spring that came to define Pyrmont and eventually the word Pyrmont became a byword for some of the best sandstone in the world. For the first half century of European occupation, minimal industrial uses did little to alter the timeless landscape of Pyrmont.
Macarthur built a windmill that ground grain for a few years, but it could not compete with the mills in the centre of the city, and it soon slipped into folklore as 'haunted'. After the land was finally subdivided in , some shipbuilding and an iron works took tenuous hold of the shoreline, and a smattering of rough-hewn stone cottages appeared. But there was no [media] stampede to populate Pyrmont, and never a time when its residents did not share the space with industry and quarries.
In the [media] late s, Darling Island was levelled and joined to the mainland with the hewn rock. The 'island' became home to the shipbuilding yards of the Australian Steam Navigation Company. By a patent slip was in use, repairing ships of up to 2, tons. Nearby, associated industries began to congregate. Uncounted tons of Pyrmont 'yellowblock', as it was known, were carted into the city to build the great public buildings which remain the signature of Sydney's nineteenth-century built form.
The quarries were known locally as 'Paradise', 'Purgatory' and 'Hellhole', in recognition of the difficulty of working the stone. After the opening of the Glebe Island abattoirs in , dusty streets were host to herds of cattle being driven to slaughter. When the killing was on, the sound of their bellows filled the air, and the waters of the harbour ran blood red. At the end of the day, hard men drank to ease the stress of it all at the Quarrymen's Arms, the Butchers' Arms , The Greentree, or at Kennedy's.
Eventually much of the trade of the colony passed through the wharves that lined the peninsula — the wheat and timber and coal that came in on the coastal ships, and went out again to make bread, construct buildings and heat the houses of the city and beyond. Sydney CBD and Pyrmont newsletter. Stations and sites. Westmead metro station. Parramatta metro station. Clyde Stabling and Maintenance Facility. Silverwater Services Facility.
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Construction updates Pyrmont utility investigation: November - December Document type: PDF. Pyrmont utility surveys: November Pyrmont utility surveys: September - November Darling Harbour marine investigations: September Previous The Bays Station.
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