Thread: Cockatoo Island NSW

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Great photos I'm amazed and surprised so much was left behind ! I haven't been there since the week long auction in 1992 ! It was a certainly site to see then (It look like ever one had just walked out) and it was also very sad that one of Australia's great engineering establishments was being sold off piece by piece !! I stayed in Sydney for a week or more, travelled to the island each day on one of the work's ferries. On the last day (blacksmith's equipment is always sold last at auctions!) three of us were on the ferry pushing a barge carrying our 10 pallets of blacksmith's gear that we'd won to Cockatoo Island's wharf by the Iron cove bridge. From there we trailered it to the then gutted John Heine workshop where one of us was renting workshop space where we divided it into lots of three piles and drew straws !! Australian engineering / manufacturing has been on the slippery slope for a long long time.
Graeme

Thanks "DSL",
I was on HMAS Yarra & we did a refit there in about 1975 in the drydock then along side for a while; had to catch the ferry to Balmain for leave.
There was a sub there too while we were in dock.
I went there with a mate in the early 1990's just before the last of the onsite auctions....big shame to see the whole place closing down..
Thanks for the memories...
Cheers crowie

I think the only reason this stuff is left is due to the fact that it was too big to move without breaking up.

Huge things! Pity not much is left to preserve in the terms of a working site as a museum.

Dale I could move my container home in there and be happy as a pig in mud and still have room to move
But I don't think someone else would say yes
Well acutely I'm to afraid to ask lol

Originally Posted by Simplicity

Dale I could move my container home in there and be happy as a pig in mud and still have room to move
But I don't think someone else would say yes
Well acutely I'm to afraid to ask lol

There are two fully restored homes on the island which can be rented and there is camping facilities or bring your own tent. So you may be able to come to some agreement

Agreement immmm
I don't think so
Lol