Description
TIMING
5:00 pm
Duration 2.5 – 3 hours
COVERING:
The Rocks & Millers Point
Convict, Maritime and Crime History
MEETING POINT
Customs House
Meet your guide in front of Customs House at Circular Quay
TOUR DESCRIPTION:
Private Group Tour
Together we will rediscover the stories and secrets of Sydney’s original convict colony and how this scallywag settlement transformed into a notorious harbour-side hot spot for sailors, whalers, soldiers, street gangs, crooks and craftsmen over the 19th century.
Includes:
- The transformation of Warrane into Sydney Cove into Circular Quay
- Inside Customs house: historic, maps models and paintings
- Quay quarter historic installations
- Macquarie Place: Forgotten relics, monuments and hidden structures
- Sydney’s lost fresh water stream
- Sydney’s first hospital
- Convict quarries, bakeries, homes and taverns in The Rocks
- 19th century hotels, police stations, storehouses and cellars
- Street gangs that lurked in the laneways
- Former slums and ruins
- The Argyle Cut : the last convict engineering project in Sydney
- Millers Point historic pubs and houses
- Outbreak of the black plague
- The creation of Walsh Bay and its shipping industry
- The transformation of the area in the 20th century and heritage protection
PRIVATE TOUR : Corey Beat
DATE: Sunday 20th December 2022
TIME: 5.00pm
MEETING: In front of Customs House, Circular Quay
COST: $270 flat rate for 1-4 pax private tour
GUIDE DETAILS: Max Burns. Will be visible with a white tour folder and navy shirt.
CONTACT: 0421269240