Fort Macquarie - Bennelong Point - Eastern Side Sydney Cove - Western Side Of Farm Cove
It would be hard to even believe that there was once a full operating Fort, like you’d see in medieval England. Very Soon After Lachlan Macquarie Was Appointed And Constituted As The New Governor In Chief Of The Colony Of New South Wales He Became Quite Aware Of The Threat Of Invasion.
Early to his time and to greet you South Wales can quite clear that Sydney was a penguin colony is giving no naval forces within about 5000 Miles.
It was on the night of August 7 around is either 1813 or 1814 and American fleet sailed into Sydney unnoticed by anyone in the colony until the next morning.
If you clean quite clear that Sydney was available target for the French or the Dutch to attack on all the Americans at one stage I was at fleet arrived in Sydney harbour and are there everybody in the colony realise the time they could’ve been burnt down and destroyed overnight the reasons for having a fort and the battle placements around the harbour became more important.
Therefore Governor Macquarie made one of the most important things in his time is governor to make sure that replacements were placed in strategic parts around Sydney in the first point of call was Bennelong point.
By that stage Bennelong had died over alcohol abuse and the lonely washed up man got accepted by the aboriginals not accepted by the colony.
Barangaroo had also died giving birth previously and so there was no link then I’ve been on point being anyone’s property apart from the colonies.
Going to McQuarrie decided to build a sandstone for it on the little bay outcrop of rock that test it out in low tide from Bendalong point are the sandstone quarry it from the top he on way.
Governor Macquarie decided to build a sandstone foot on the little bay outcrop of rocks it’s a straight out in Lowtide from Bendalong point are the sandstone quarry at from the top in way.
On the other side of the semi circular key is as it was cold in those days are Caedmon‘s cottage girls proximately 1815 for John Cadman who was about Stuart at that stage.
You have to imagine that the actual semi circular key was 150 m further back before 1845 when Governor darling are filled filled in through convert work and all the fence XS sandstone and rubble used from the government buildings.
Next point of call for governor McQuarrie was to set a site on the other side on another point new doors point call Port Phillip which had been set aside back in the 1790s by Governor Philip for that purpose
The land was set for Fort Philip on the northern side of the key which happened to be the most perfect semi circular key for shipping anywhere in the modern world.
Between 26 January 1788 on 6 February 1788 to 12 the ships were unloaded at Bendalong point which was called cattle point to that stage where they unloaded the forecast and six sheep as well as blacksmith animals and other equipment the governor of the Philip had made sure that they had on the ships when I first got here to be able to set up our small colony and I keep going without any supplies for 3 to 5 years
It was in the third you I’m going to the 50th at the convicts and the Marines as Wellers the party started to give up hope that Sydney was going to be a place that they could inhabit.
Ground around Sydney was very rocky and very sandy and not suitable for cropping the first farm was built for created in what is now the government botanical Gardens are and that took nearly a year to get up and running in the first crop was destroyed by marsupial mice.
Also in that they could’ve been rats from the ship ships that when they first start in to Sydney harbour. The rap population grew rapidly as there were no way
It was on the Site Of Where The Sydney opera House Is Located At Bennelong Point.
To think they pulled down such a grand building built By Governor Macquarie in 1816 to Build a Tram Shed, and then later The Opera House.
Although governor Macquarie was a military man, there is little evidence to suggest that he made any contribution towards the defence of Sydney other than upgrading the fort on Dawes Point and building Fort Macquarie on Bennelong Point which replaced a small fort established by First Fleeter William Dawes in 1788
Francis Greenwaydesigned The Fort which came into use in January 1821, just before Macquarie departed. Fort Macquarie was a large, impressive structure built of stone hewn frmo an outcrop of rock near the construction site known as the Tarpien Precinct. In 1902, it was replaced by the Fort Macqaurie Tram Depot.
The Original Building Was Designed By Francis Greenway, But As For Being A Fort....... Apparently it was terrible
The Site Was Used As A Tram Depot For Many Years Before The Thpught ofThe Opera House Came To Mind