Dawes Point
Sydney's Dawes Point. Formerly a cemetery, an observatory, a powder magazine and a castellated fort by Francis Greenway. And of course, the superb Dawes Point Battery.
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Sydney, Australia
Lower Fort Street - stretching from Observatory Hill (formerly 'Fort Phillip') to the Dawes Point Battery. The origin of the name is uncertain - it may refer to either, or both, forts.
NB : since being divided by a quarry in the 1820s, the street has been referred to as 'Upper' and 'Lower'.
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This particular building is Milton Terrace (1-19 Lower Fort Street). Although the site was owned by merchants William Walker & Co from the early 1820s, the current buildings date to the 1880s.
