Magazine Looking Down warning Staircase at Pyrmont

Staircase at Pyrmont

Timber weatherboards and a standing chimney point to a later selector's cottage

6-hectare property that operated as a public wildlife park from January 1970 until 2006

Empty catching pens and weathered timber framing inside a woolshed near Deddick Valley

Heritage NSW calls it a superb example of a non-standard solution to site access

Magazine Looking Down warning Staircase at PyrmontThe concrete interior of a munitions magazine at Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve drops away below the frame, walls textured by decades of damp and stillness. Every surface here was engineered to contain a worst case event: double walls, copper earthing strips, concrete floors. The depot stored and distributed armaments for the Royal Australian Navy from 1921 until the last ammunition operation was conducted in December 1999. Part of the