The Chandlery on Bent Street

When a development application appears on the chandlery door at the south end of the Bent Street foreshore, the Safety Bay Six recognise the signs: a heritage-listed building, a compressed public comment period, and a sub-floor excavation scheduled in six weeks. What the application doesn't mention - and what Barry, Annie, Rose, Vic, Kath, and Pip are determined to protect - is the hollow floor that Pip documented two years ago, a stone chamber beneath it that pre-dates the Australian colon...