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Buildings in the 3rd Class Area 

Aboriginal
Heritage

History
Immigration

Buildings
in 1999

Carvings
on site

Residents
in the past

Natural
Environment
Conservation
Plan

Wharf area

Hospital area

Asiatic

3rd Class area

2nd Class area

1st Class area

Staff   buildings

Facilities

Passengers who travelled on cheap fares on ships bound for Australia,
were housed in the third class area of the Quarantine Station.

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Third Class dining and living rooms
with the dormitory in the background.
Photograph by J. Simpson
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Third Class cooking was done here.
Can you see the food lift at the left of the picture?
This took food up to the dining room.
Photograph by J. Simpson
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Passengers helped to wash dishes and clothes.
Photograph by J. Simpson
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Big fired ovens were used for cooking in the 3rd class area.
Passengers took turns to help with chores.
Photograph by J. Simpson
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Facilities in the third class area.
Photograph by J. Simpson

 

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Passengers helped to wash dishes and clothes.
Photograph by J. Simpson

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There was a special pulley system to bring the food up from the kitchen on the ground floor to the dining room above.

The passengers helped prepare, serve and clean up the meals.

 

Photograph by J. Simpson
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Can you see the "food lift" on the far wall of the dining room?
Photograph by J. Simpson
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Third Class Dormitory repainted in the original colours.
Photograph by J. Simpson
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Many functions have been held in this third class hall.
Photograph by J. Simpson

Wharf area

Hospital area

Asiatic

3rd Class area

2nd Class area

1st Class area

Staff   buildings

Facilities

This page was created 9th June, 1999, by Judith Bennett,  Friends of Quarantine Station,
and was last modified 20th January, 2007.