The Pyrmont branch of the Labor Party operated as an employment agency and organised the first paid jobs for members’ sons, usually as City Council employees. A major sugar refinery was operated by Pyrmont was considered to be a slum area in the 19th century. It is not surprising that trade unions (of stonemasons and waterside workers) were among the earliest forms of social solidarity.
These pillars crumbled only in the late twentieth century when heavy industry wound down and the population dwindled.
The stench of the sugar company boiling molasses has long gone. Urban renewal, from the 1990s, displaced residents and industries but did not obliterate their experience. Recent scholarly work suggests that the people living around Go-mo-ra Europeans visiting Pyrmont in the early years were likely to do so by boat. These pillars crumbled only in the late twentieth century when heavy industry wound down and the population dwindled. For the first decades of the nineteenth century, ‘society’ comprised two great landowners, their employees and retainers, and Gommerigal who camped, fished and hunted without much interruption. Trade unions formed early and enjoyed massive support among working men. From 1868 onward, the principality was administered as part of Prussia, but retained its legislative sovereignty. Churches were filled with loyal congregations. The county gained its independence from the County of Schwalenberg in 1194. Formerly called Pyrmont, it was the seat of a small county during much of the Middle Ages. A century later, heavy industries also moved out. At the water's edge is the sculptural installation Tied to Tide by Jennifer Turpin and Michaelie Crawford, which rises and falls with the tides.Western inner-city suburb named for surgeon John Harris's estate, densely populated by the end of the nineteenth century. Pyrmont Society organised itself successfully around unions, churches and ALP until Pyrmont itself faded away. This website describes this transformation and its effects on society. History. For those who could afford it, the newer leafier suburbs beckoned, while others who remained watched their schools close and their amenities shrink. The County of Waldeck (later the Principality of Waldeck and Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and its successors from the late 12th century until 1929. Pyrmont contained a mineral spring of cold water bubbling out of a rock and was thus named for a similar natural spring in Before European settlement the Eora tribe of Indigenous Australians inhabited the area. In the same spirit, trade unions supported unemployed members – and extended their support to seamen and other visitors who fell foul of their employers. Quarried for its sandstone, it later became a heavily industrialised working-class enclave, then gentrified as industry declined.
The Pyrmont History Group is an association of residents recovering and sharing information about this suburb and community. Politics. And the Labor Party ruled for decades. Pyrmont was well placed for industries that … Pyrmont Point Park Pyrmont Point Park is bounded by Pirrama Road and the foreshore at the end of Pyrmont Point.
About Pyrmont. Originally known as the Butchers Arms Hotel, it was renamed in 1940 to commemorate the World War II Battle of Dunkirk in France earlier in 1940.Sugar refining company whose factories left a mark on many areas of Sydney and which later diversified into building materials and aluminium.Steam driven station which powered Sydney's first electric street lights. The area was still handy for the City, so factories and cottages were replaced by media and IT firms and high-rise apartments. Among laws that offended working men were liquor laws, justifying extensive sly grog consumption – including, by some accounts, the police themselves.Their sisters, wives and daughters saw matters in a different light, and often found moral and material support in the churches. Working men would resist authority in several domains: from the 1890s to the 1940s, waterside union members fought pitched battles against non-unionists (scabs or snipers) for jobs on the docks. The maritime industries on the shoreline did not employ large numbers, even after Pyrmont Bridge opened. Labor Party leaders and union officials banked on unionists’ support, but working men were often more militant than their leaders, as in the 1890 Maritime Strike and the General Strike of 1917. The old Pyrmont Society was no more, and the new Society will organise itself on new foundations. Macarthur built a Eventually much of the trade of the colony passed through the wharves that lined the peninsula – the wheat and timber and coal that came in on the coastal ships, and went out again to make bread, construct buildings and heat the houses of the city and beyond.By the end of the nineteenth century the population had peaked.
The abattoir attracted related smelly industries and contributed to the noxious pollution of the bay, but provided fresh meat for Sydney.Three storey Federation hotel building on the corner of Harris Street and Pyrmont Bridge Road in Pyrmont which replaced an older building dating from at least 1876. In the twentieth century it became heavily industrialised, as well as a centre for technical education, and is now largely gentrified.The only legal casino in Sydney, the complex also contains theatres, restaurants and a hotel.Built on the site of Sydney's first official European cemetery, the Town Hall was designed by architect JH Willson in High Victorian style and constructed of Pyrmont sandstone. Land was sold to Obadiah Ikin in 1796 for 10 pounds, which he then sold to Captain John Macarthur in 1799 for a gallon of rum. A century later, heavy industries also moved out. Pyrmont was well placed for industries that were essential to the City but unattractive to its citizens. About us. The Pyrmont branch of the Labor Party operated as an employment agency and organised the first paid jobs for members’ sons, usually as City Council employees. The power station itself was demolished in 1993 to make way for Star City Casino.