1926–1950: Divisions
View to terrace houses on Lower Fort Street and the southern ramp of the bridge, 1930s (PropNSW).
From the late 1920s, the freshly built Walsh Bay was disrupted by another major infrastructure project: the Sydney Harbour Bridge. This project had been first discussed many decades earlier but was becoming imperative as a conduit for motor vehicles between the city’s north and south shores.
Engineer John Bradfield designed the bridge with its now-legendary style of tied-arch construction, and the southern access ramp began to be built in 1927. The new motorway ramp soared above the archaeological site of Dawes Battery.