The area contained little more than dilapidated warehouse space before community leaders dug in their shovels for a groundbreaking new era.

This was the country's first provincial headquarters and you can detect its former importance along the rotting wharf, where dilapidated warehouses still bear company names.

Gasworks, dilapidated warehouses and disused railway sidings formed striking talismanic reminders of less bland times, before super-modernity began to obliterate the last vestiges of the landscapes of the past.

That place currently occupied by dilapidated warehouses.