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View of Mount Wellington from ‘The Fort’ - a mid 19th century military battery to ward off potential Russian invaders.

It’s a tourist preservation now, but when I was a kid it was wild and feral. We’d hide and seek through the tunnels and dungeons, throw rocks and firecrackers at rival neighbourhood gangs, catch tadpoles and spy on courting couples in their parked cars.

I was banned from going there many times.