ON AN ISLAND IN Sydney surrounded by the luxury of harbourside mansions and parklands sits the remains of a long past convict penal establishment and an industrial complex that maintained Australia’s submarine fleet.
This space was once thriving with the sound of clanging metal chains and cranes lifting giant crankshafts and the voices of craftsman working on enormous metal lathes and mills machining their pieces to precise specifications. The sandstone buildings and iron workshops are now silent except for the sound of the footsteps of tourists on the concrete paths and wind rattling an old window in the empty workshops. Somewhere ahead the fluttering of a pigeon’s wings echo in the hall, while the sun’s rays’ stream through a break in frosted glass highlighting the dust swirling from the wind.
These empty halls of Cockatoo Island and harbour backdrop are a perfect location to host the Sydney Harbour Concours D’Elegance for 2024. A display of over 80 vintage, classic,imagination of artisans. A meld of engineering excellence and luxury. In amongst the Jaguars, Bentleys, Porsches, Ferrari’s are the Brough Superiors.
