Sydney Harbour Trust - Birds Eye View of General Wharfage Scheme West of Dawes Point as it will Appear when Completed. garden city Creator Stewart & Morton Auctioneers

Creator Stewart & Morton Auctioneers

rhapsodising in his ‘Journal of Tours in New South Wales’ how ‘After feasting our eyes on the view from the summit’ he descended into rainforest ‘with the largest and finest trees ever seen in the colony’

and richly illustrated narrative scenes symbolising the seasons and stages of life

Early roads and rail lines generally follow the ridges

He was impressed with the ‘vast quantities of cabbage palm and fern trees … the former being very beautiful and of great height’

Sydney Harbour Trust - Birds Eye View of General Wharfage Scheme West of Dawes Point as it will Appear when Completed. garden city Creator Stewart & Morton AuctioneersCreator Sydney Harbour Trust Date 1912 In 1912 the Sydney Harbour Trust published ambitious plans to develop Darling Harbour and the wharves around Pyrmont into a vast industrial container port. The railway brought freight from the far corners of the state into the port, and continuous elevated conveyer system ran along the shores of Darling Harbour, Johnston's Bay, Blackwattle Bay, Rozelle Bay and White Bay. Even a harbour tunnel was proposed from