Removing mould and termite damage was one thing, finding someone to manufacture 14,000 buttons was quite another.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.It was the building that refused to fall down despite dodgy construction, combined with the mould, slugs and termites that thrived for centuries in the damp, dark nether regions of today’s NSW State Parliament.
Completed in 1816, and funded by the import of rum, the NSW Parliament was once part of the Rum Hospital for Sydney’s poor. It was converted to house Australia’s first legislature in 1829. It also fixed a set of internal stairs – that had been propped up for years – used by the premier and his cabinet to get to the chamber.
Greenway had noted the poor quality of the timber, and said supporting beams were too short, which Smith and Panton confirmed during the work.
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