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BANTRY BAY CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT PLAN
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Powderhulk Bay to the southern end of the site c.1914, and then to its present location in
1919. It is a timber framed building, supported on brick piers and clad with flat iron sheeting,
and has a half-gabled roof of corrugated iron. The external walls have been painted, and are
flaking. There are two door openings on either side of a central window opening on the side
facing the bay. The doors are solid iron, and the window opening has an external solid iron
shutter and internal timber shutter. There remains evidence of the rail track, which ran along
the front of the building. The building consists of a single large internal space for examining,
and a small entry porch at the northern end of the building. Internally the building has timberboarded
walls and ceiling, and a timber floor structure.
Figure 3.6.16 Examining shed, 2001
Air Raid Shelter
At the far northern end of the site is a small building of cement rendered brick wall
construction, with a concrete floor and flat roof, which is thought to be a former air-raid shelter
constructed during the second World War, given its distinctive form and construction.
Although not documented, it was most likely constructed between 1939-1945.
Figure 3.6.17 Air raid shelter, 2001
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