Tanks Arts Centre
Concrete World War Two fuel tanks reborn as a live-music, gallery and market venue.
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This guide to the Tanks Arts Centre in Edge Hill, Cairns, traces the secret naval fuel depot built here in nineteen forty-three to supply Pacific War convoys, and the anonymous construction crew who poured its metre-thick concrete walls in round-the-clock shifts. It follows the tanks through decades of working life, storing crude oil and later molasses, before Cairns City Council converted the site into today's arts venue in the nineteen nineties. Best heard standing by the low wall near the entrance gates.
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