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of land              precinct were completed by Charles Harding of the
in the area had occurred, and by the late 1880s, a Harbour and River Navigation Branch. The blueprints
jetty had been built 7. are believed to have been largely based on Barnet's
                               earlier designs 10.

3.5 Planning a lighthouse

Why Cape Byron?

Owing to the importance of shipping and trade within the region, nautical traffic was relatively frequent with freight shipping increasingly common towards the
end of the 1860s. Figure 14. James Barnet (n.d)

In 1864, the freight ship HMS Volunteer was
wrecked on the Cape rocks which resulted in a James Barnet (1827-1904)
large loss of cargo. By 1896, five wrecks had been
recorded along Byron's beaches and in 1897, funds Born 1827, Barnet studied drawing, design and totalling £18,000 were allocated to the erection of a              architecture in London before he and his family lightstation on Cape Byron 8.              migrated to Australia c.1854. Appointed clerk of
The site, which was cleared of vegetation by mid works for Sydney University, Barnet later joined 1898, was chosen due to its elevated position              the Colonial Architect's Office in 1860. By 1865, along the cape—approximately 113m above sea              he was named colonial architect, a position he level (1901 data). Newspaper articles of the time              held until his retirement in 1890. In that timeframe, announcing the lighthouse's completion dictated that,              Barnet was responsible for the architectural
  as the most easterly point in Australia, the position design of numerous public works including called for the erection of a light, while the stretch of              alledgedly 15 lighthouses. His design style, coast between the North Head of the Richmond and              adopted from Francis Greenway's Macquarie the light at Fingal Point, near the tweed, was another              Light (1818), served as the quintessential NSW reason why it should be erected 9.              style until the end of the 19th century.

  4   Stubbs, B. J., History of the Cape Byron Lightstation Precinct, (2008) pg. 1.

  5   Brooks, G and Associates Pty Ltd, Cape Byron Lighthouse: Supplementary Information, (2001) pg. 5.

  6   "A lighthouse for Cape Byron," The Northern Star, Dec 1st, 1897, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ article/71758856?searchTerm=Cape%20Byron%20lighthouse%20&searchLimits=dateFrom=1897-01-01|||dateTo=1901-12-31

   7      Brooks, G., and Associates Pty Ltd, Cape Byron Lighthouse: Supplementary Information, (2001), pg. 5.

 Figure 15. Blueprints for Cape Byron Lighthouse tower and attached pavilions (c.1899)

 Figure 16. Design plan of Cape Byron's lens and lantern room (1982)

Construction

 Tenders for the construction of Cape Byron Lighthouse were called in March 1900 and Mitchell and King were successfully chosen as contractors for the project at a cost of £9970.

 Construction started in July of 1900 where the area was levelled (undertaken by day labour) and plots were outlined for:

  •       the lighthouse tower

  •       workroom