Long before the 1900 rat plague or the 1918 naming of Walsh Bay, our headland was a new frontier of global commerce for colonial shipping agents who built the first jetties and bond stores here.
Lavender Bay artist Peter Kingston was furious about 1990s plans to redevelop the wharves at Walsh Bay—and especially to replace the single-storey Pier 6/7 with a brand-new, over-water apartment block
Walsh Bay’s main street, Hickson Road, is named after Irish civil engineer Robert Rowan Purdon Hickson (1842–1923), who led major 19th century public works programs to modernise Sydney for a new era of
At the end of the 20th century, most of Walsh Bay’s old wharves and warehouses were abandoned, padlocked and dilapidated—but also the subject of intense opposition from local residents and heritage conservationists against state government plans to redevelop the precinct. French architect Philippe Robert (pronounced ‘Robear’) was invited to Sydney in 1997 to advise the […]
Henry Deane Walsh (1853–1921) was a Dublin-educated civil engineer who arrived in Sydney in 1877 and designed major public works in Newcastle and Sydney, including the Walsh Bay wharves precinct and