On the western shore of Sydney Cove — Hickson Road / Circular Quay West, hard by today’s Overseas Passenger Terminal — you are standing in Robert Campbell’s old commercial kingdom. Scottish merchant Campbell, trading out of Calcutta then Sydney, put up warehouses and a private wharf on land at Dawes Point from the turn of the nineteenth century. By 1803 the live plaque language is right enough: house, wharf and first storehouse were in place; by 1810 visitors were already admiring a second wharf and a colonnaded house in its own garden.
Campbell became the colony’s great private merchant fair prices, credit to small settlers, Bligh’s ally in 1808, later “Campbell’s Bank” shorthand for the Savings Bank he helped shepherd. The early waterfront buildings are gone. What still stands immediately north along the quay are the mid-century Campbell’s Stores (stone bond stores built in stages from the early 1850s, with earlier waterfront stores on the same wharf complex; upper brick storeys and further bays followed later in the century). They are among the last quayside Georgian warehouses on Sydney Cove, now restaurants under Place Management NSW care, and listed on the State Heritage Register.
Read the site as layers: Campbell’s Wharf (the commercial foreshore from c.1800) underneath; Campbells Stores (the surviving mid-Victorian warehouses) as the visible remnant. Do not flatten them into one build date.