White Bay (New South Wales)

File:Pacific Jewell at White Bay.JPG Pacific Jewel docked at White Bay Wharves in 2009]]

White Bay is named after John White, the naval surgeon aboard the First Fleet to Australia in 1788.{{NSW GNR|id = SXckoeWAan|title = White Bay|access-date = 12 October 2013}} Since the nineteenth century the bay has been used for water-based transport and industrial activities. In conjunction with adjacent Glebe Island it has been a multipurpose port, owned and controlled by the Government of New South Wales since 1901.[http://www.sydneyports.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/1438/PartA.pdf Glebe Island and White Bay Master Plan, Part A] Sydney Ports 2000[http://www.sydneyports.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/1439/PartB.pdf Glebe Island and White Bay Master Plan, Part B] Sydney Ports 2000

White Bay was the first port in New South Wales to handle containerised shipping, opening in 1969 on reclaimed land.Container Terminal Ready at Sydney's White Bay Network February 1969 page 2First stage of White Bay container terminal finished Freight & Container Transportation February 1969 page 11 In the 1970s there were several companies operating container terminals, with rail transfer via the Metropolitan Goods line to larger holding yards at Chullora. Container handling moved out of White Bay in late 2004 moving to Port Botany.{{cite web |url=http://www.sydneyports.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/29948/White_Bay_history.pdf |title=Tall Ships to Cruise Ships - White Bay History 1854 to Present |publisher=Sydney Ports Corporation |access-date=6 January 2017 |date=11 April 2013}}

The White Bay Cruise Terminal opened in April 2013 replacing a terminal at Wharf 8 on Darling Harbour.[https://web.archive.org/web/20130222062737/http://www.sydneyports.com.au/projects_and_planning/white_bay_cruise_terminal White Bay Cruise Terminal] Port Authority of New South Wales White Bay is also used for marine refuelling.

File:White Bay Hotel.JPG 2008]]

The White Bay Hotel was a historic hotel on Victoria Road. It was built in 1861, rebuilt in 1916, and refurbished in 1925 and 1933. It closed in 1992, landlocked by roads and with no local workers. Until 2004 it served only as a platform for billboards advertising to traffic on the Western Distributor, and on 5 September 2008 was destroyed by a suspicious fire and immediately demolished.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080907221205/http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/last-drinks-at-rozelles-historic-white-bay-hotel/2008/09/06/1220121592940.html Last drinks at Rozelle's historic White Bay Hotel] Sydney Morning Herald 6 September 2008[https://www.fire.nsw.gov.au/news.php?news=918 White Bay Hotel Fire at Rozelle] Fire and Rescue NSW 6 September 2008 The state government bought the site in June 2010.[http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/state-snaps-up-white-bay-hotel-site-20100630-zmvi.html State snaps up White Bay Hotel site] Sydney Morning Herald 30 June 2010 The rubble was removed on 29 October 2010 and the block levelled.

The recently refurbished White Bay Power Station dominates the landscape. On the eastern side stands the Anzac Bridge, which was completed in 1996 and is the main arterial link between the inner west and Sydney city. Below the bridge lies its disused predecessor, the Glebe Island Bridge, which opened in 1903.[https://web.archive.org/web/20190212013909/https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=4305018 Anzac Bridge] Office of Environment & Heritage

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Image:White Bay Power Station.JPG|White Bay Power Station

Image:White Bay New South Wales 4.JPG|Glebe Island grain silos

Image:Balmain Coal Loader 1.JPG|Balmain Coal Loader

Image:White_Bay_Demolition.jpg|White Bay Hotel demolition

File:B_Bush_Bridge.JPG|Beatrice Bush Bridge, bike and pedestrian access over Victoria Road

For 25 years from 1971 to just before her death in 1996, one of Sydney's true characters, Beatrice Olive ("Beattie") Bush, sold papers to passing motorists at the junction of The Crescent (City West Link) and Victoria Road.Powerhouse Museum; Statement of significance: Newspaper trolley owner by Beatrice Bush; [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=349572&search=beatrice+bush&images=&c=&s=]; Retrieved on 5 November 2006.

Every morning in all weather, wearing Balmain Tigers socks and running shoes, Beatrice was part of the drive to work for thousands of motorists.

The 1984 song The White Bay Paper Seller by Judy Small was written about Beatrice. The 1986 painting Beatrice the Paper-Seller of the White Bay Intersection by Susan Dorothea White shows Beatrice Bush running between the cars and trucks, selling newspapers in the rain. The 2004 documentary, The Paper Queen by Julie Nebauer documented her life.Australian Film Commission; The Paper Queen; Film Database Entry; [http://www.afc.gov.au/filmsandawards/filmdbsearch.aspx?view=title&title=THEPAP&keyword=the+paper+queen&area=title&year=all]; Retrieved on 5 November 2006. In 2005 a new cycle bridge crossing Victoria Road at the intersection of The Crescent was named the Beatrice Bush Bridge in her honour. Her newspaper trolley, hat, gloves and other clothing items are held in the Powerhouse Museum collection in Sydney.

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• [http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/natural_feature/white_bay reference] and [http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/white_bay article] (CC BY-SA) at the Dictionary of Sydney
• [http://www.sydneyports.com.au/corporation/media__and__publications/publications Sydney Ports - Master Plans]
• [http://photosau.com/Leichhardt/scripts/home.asp Local Images at InnerWest ImageBank]
• [http://www.lmc.nsw.gov.au/libraries/07 Local History Collection, Leichhardt Council]
• [http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/disney-considered-plans-for-white-bay/2008/02/26/1203788346568.html Disney held unsolicited discussions with the NSW Department of State and Regional Development about the redevelopment of White Bay]
• [http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/beer-may-flow-once-again/2008/06/01/1212258647602.html Beer may flow once again at White Bay Hotel]
• [http://www.susandwhite.com.au/paintings/beatrice.html Susan Dorothea White's 1986 painting 'Beatrice the Paper-Seller of the White Bay Intersection']

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Category:Sydney localities

Category:Bays of New South Wales