Williamstown's walks
Sea · Williamstown
First Port
Older than Melbourne — the Time Ball Tower, the dockyards, the navy.
Williamstown was a working port before Melbourne was much more than a tent. The Time Ball Tower that synchronised the colony's clocks. The Gem Pier where gold arrivals stepped off. The Nelson Place pubs that drank them in. The dockyards that built and repaired the navy, well into living memory.
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