The Tragic Story of Mort's Dock: How Australia's Dockyard Giant Was Demolished and Nobody Remembers

The Tragic Story of Mort's Dock: How Australia's Dockyard Giant Was Demolished and Nobody Remembers On the first of January eighteen fifty five, Australia got its first completed dry dock at Waterview Bay, Balmain, beating Cockatoo Island by two and a half years. But on the twelfth of November nineteen fifty eight, seven hundred men got one week's notice, and nine years later Albert G. Sims bulldozed the buildings into the dry dock itself. Today, Mort Bay Park sits quietly at the end of Thames Street, with low sandstone walls tracing the rectangle of the buried dry dock in the central lawn. #MortsDock #Balmain #LostAustralia #DemolishedHeritage #LostPlaces #AustralianHistory