Middle Head
Clifftop fort headland with disappearing guns, tunnels, and hidden torture-resistance training cells.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Middle Head in Sydney traces the fort colonial architect James Barnet raised in 1871 against a feared Russian invasion, and the disappearing guns installed here by the 1880s to defend the harbour. Decades later, with that invasion never having come, the army found a very different use for the tunnels beneath the gun pits. It names the engineer, Peter Scratchley, who toured the harbour with the governor and set the rebuilding in motion. Stand at the gun pits and look down into the tunnels below.
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