Industrial Pyrmont
Industry came slowly to Pyrmont until the 1870s, when quarries changed the landscape, sugar was shipped in to be refined, and trains brought wool and wheat to be stored and exported through Darling Harbour. Pyrmont became famously smoky, noisy and smelly. During two world wars, the pace was frenetic. From the 1950s onwards, however, old industries lost momentum. In the 1990s the state government stepped in to launch a second wave of industry, based on clean, quiet, high-technology and high rise apartments.
