A unique mix of mansions and workers’ cottages, Georgian, Victorian and Federation architecture, Battery Point is a remarkable snapshot into the lives of the earliest residents of Hobart. Perfectly preserved and lovingly tended by their current owners, the houses that form Battery Point Village, are like stepping back in time to a little piece of England which is just what the colonists wanted to achieve.

We’ll take you through these narrow streets, stopping along the way to tell you the story of Battery Point and allowing plenty of time for appreciation and photos.

Hang on to your hats as we come up the hill!

Hobart is a working fishing port, right on the door to the CBD. We travel over Constitution Dock and Victoria Dock, both of which have opening bridges to let the boats into port. The Waterfront is a popular place for dining on seafood, whether in a restaurant or takeaway from the many fish punts on Constitution.

The Waterfront is also the site for the first settlement of Hobart, on Hunter Island (now Hunter St), where a rag tag bunch of soldiers, convicts and free settlers first made camp after a failed settlement the year prior on the eastern shore. The year was 1804 and, in 1842, Hobart was proclaimed a city, the same year Melbourne was founded; making Hobart the second oldest city in Australia.

The Waterfront also maintains its original architecture, the highlight being the IXL Jam Factory complex. Now, an upmarket hotel, named in honour of it’s proprietor, Henry Jones, the early Georgian building has been added to over the years and now also contains the University of Tasmania.

Thousands of people stream through the Waterfront during cruise ship season and you’ll be sure to turn heads as you pass in your sumptuous carriage.

The old sandstone buildings which form Salamanca Place were built around 1830 and remain virtually unchanged since then. They form a unique streetscape which now houses restaurants, arts and theatre centre, craft and specialty stores. You’re sure to find a memento of Tasmania here!

Home to the award winning Salamanca Market which trades every Saturday since 1972, you can also take this tour on a Saturday, however, we are unable to travel down Salamanca itself due to the market but you can still combine your market visit with a Trot Through Time tour to relax after the hustle and jostle of the market.

It’s easy to imagine colonial life here when Salamanca was known as New Wharf and the dock workers busily loaded their ships from the warehouses with wool, wheat, whale and seal products. The decline in the whale industry meant ruin for some merchants but the warehouses remained until their gentrification in the 1970s and onwards.