• Title
  [Mort's Dock, Balmain]
• Call number
  SPF/939
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  undated [ca. 1870s]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  421130
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - albumen photoprint - 23.5 x 35.7 cm.
  
• General note
  
  Thomas Sutcliffe Mort (1816-78) began to construct a dry dock at Waterview Bay, Balmain in 1854. It was completed in 1855. In 1872 Mort's Dock and Engineering Co. was formed. -- Reference: The Australian encyclopaedia / editor-in-chief: Alec H. Chisholm. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1958. Vol.VI
  Pigeon shooting was a popular sport at `Pigeon Ground' later the site of Rozelle Public School.
  Digital order no:a089939
  This item has been catalogued and digitised under a project funded and supported by the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Mort's Dock at Balmain - Snails Bay. Site of old pigeon ground on top of hill in pencil below image
• Topic
  bays
  dry docks
  steamships
  jetties & wharves
  
• Place
  Mort Bay (Balmain, N.S.W.)
  Mort's Dock and Engineering Company (Balmain, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1230946

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