• Title
  Panorama across Balls Head to Birchgrove
• Creator
  American & Australasian Photographic Company
• Call number
  ON 4/Box 83/no. 39
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1870-1875
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  65596
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 negative - 18 in. x 22 in. - glass
  
• Copying Conditions
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  Out of copyright
• General note
  
  Menevia, Ballast Point, mid right hand side
  1844 -1852 Ballast Point leased to George Cooper of Balmain for use as a quarry and ship's ballast storage.
  1852 -1893 Ballast Point purchased by clothing merchant Thomas Perkins, who builds large 2-storey private home -- "Menevia". From 1867, the southern half of the Point is reclaimed and seawall constructed.
  1893 - 1928 "Menevia" is leased as a boarding house, and slowly falls into disrepair.
  1928 - 1999 "Menevia" demolished. Texaco purchases site for oil terminal and grease plant, and cuts series of "steps" into rock face for tanks.
  1999 Oil operations cease.
  2002 NSW Government acquires Ballast Point for $24M, for use as a public park (while retaining existing maritime refuelling facility.)
  Source: New headland park for Sydney Harbour foreshore : media release, 6 Oct 2005 (website)
  Digital order no:a2825469
  Copy print available: PXA 4999 Available on Open Access shelves in Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room
• Topic
  bays
  eucalypts
  panoramic views
  suburbs
  
• Place
  Balls Head (N.S.W.)
  Birchgrove (N.S.W.)
  Menevia (residence : Ballast Point, N.S.W.)
  

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