Balls Head Bay , formerly known as Oyster Cove , Wollstonecraft Bay, Sugarworks Bay , Powder Works Bay and Kerosene Bay , is a bay located to the west of the Waverton Peninsula, west of Balls Head and to the east of Berry Island, on the north of Sydney Harbour , Sydney , New South Wales , Australia.
7-474: Some of the older alternative names for the bay refer to industries that were once situated on its foreshore. There was a sugar factory, Robey's Sugar Works , there from around 1857 to 1859. There was a facility that produced kerosene from oil shale and handled imported 'case oil', Australian Mineral Oil Company, there from 1865 to 1868. There was an explosives factory, Neokratine Safety Explosives Company, there from 1889 to 1891. The site of these earlier enterprises
14-403: A 147-ton brig, 29.9 metres (98 ft) long. (See Lalla Rookh (ship) .) 33°51′S 151°12′E / 33.850°S 151.200°E / -33.850; 151.200 This article related to the geography of Sydney is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ralph Robey Ralph Mayer Robey (8 January 1809 – 1 April 1864), often "Ralph Meyer Robey",
21-764: A sugar refinery in opposition to CSR at Oyster Cove ( Waverton ), which failed when credit was curtailed under controversial circumstances. Financially embarrassed, Robey had to sell the enterprise to CSR at a loss, leading to dispute and litigation. He served on the Sydney City Council from 1846 to 1847 and was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1858 to 1861 and from 1861 to his death at Longton in Staffordshire in 1864. Robey married twice: first to Mary Ann Robey, née Leese, with whom he had five children, and died in 1841 on
28-472: The residential complex. Balls Head Bay contains the former Balls Head Coal Loader . Parts of the disused loader site have been converted to public space—now known as the Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability—with the derelict loading wharf remaining safely off-limits. The site has interpretive signage that provides information covering in detail the history of the site. In June 2021, the coal loader site
35-599: Was added to the NSW Heritage Register. It is now the home of the museum and training ship MV Cape Don . The naval base HMAS Waterhen is located within the bay. Ships were broken up and burnt to the waterline in the bay. One such ship was the Lalla Rookh , which was broken up at Kerosene Bay in 1898 after it caught fire in November 1897. The Australasian Underwater Cultural Heritage Database describes her as
42-531: Was an English-born Australian politician and businessman. Robey was the son of William and Elizabeth Robey, and migrated to New South Wales in 1841. He ran a store and ironmongery in Sydney from 1843, and gradually expanded his business over the subsequent years. He was also involved in sugar growing and was one of the original shareholders of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR). He set up
49-474: Was later occupied by a gasworks owned by the North Shore Gas Company , from 1917 to 1987. After coal gas production ceased, during the period 1971–1973, the artist Brett Whitely used the disused coal store building as a studio for creating large artworks. The site is now the residential complex, 'Wondakiah', with some public open space. Some of the old gasworks buildings have been repurposed as part of
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