Macquarie Place Park

They farmed, but the real work was boats, grain down the river, then coal, cedar, and cargo.

Then they moved into Sydney, built near Macquarie Place, and traded into the Pacific, China, and India.

Thomas was often at sea.

Mary kept the books.

She didn't either.

Mary opened a new warehouse in George Street, bought more ships and grew the business.

In April 1817, the Bank of New South Wales opened in her house at Macquarie Place and paid her a rent of 150 pounds per annum.

In 1820, Mary took two of her daughters to visit England, which is quite a touching insight into the return of a convict girl, sorry, an emancipist who had done good.

Well, the demonstration of the camera is set up outside a merchant storehouse, and Lucas is actually trying to sell the camera because he needs to pay for his passage back to France.

And he's not having any luck selling the camera as an inert object, so he sets up this idea of a demonstration, and it is of the streetscape, um, at Macquarie Place.

But we, we don't have the photograph.

We only have accounts of-