Seven

Shack number Seven at Tin City stands at one end of the settlement, its corrugated iron walls painted a flat blue-grey that has weathered down to something close to driftwood. The painted numeral 7 is large on the front wall, hand-applied in white, the brushstrokes still visible. A short timber porch runs along the front, raised slightly above the surrounding sand. The roof line is single-pitched, sloping toward the back. Salvaged window frames have been let into the side wall, glazed in mismatched panes. Sand drifts up against the back wall in a wedge that the wind keeps replenishing.

The shacks at Tin City are commonly referred to by number or by personal nickname rather than any formal address. The numbering reflects the order in which the surviving shacks sit along the ridge; the names trace back to the period before the settlement was formally licensed. Tin City sits at the Stockton Bight on Worimi country in Port Stephens. Eleven shacks remain. They are administered under the Worimi Conservation Lands Plan of Management 2015, which allows the shacks to pass to family or friends but prohibits both sale and any rebuilding after destruction.