Specialist Cottages (60 Colonial Road)

As an incentive to attract skilled workers who needed to be on call overnight, the Colonial Sugar Refining Company built four specialist cottages along Colonial Road. These two-storey structures were erected between 1908 and 1910 using bricks quarried from clay found within the Chelsea Estate. Each structure cost £1,200 and was large enough to support two full-sized families. Changes in labour laws and company processes meant that the cottages were no longer needed. They were vacated in 1976 and quickly fell into disrepair. Beginning in mid-1983, the cottages underwent renovation and were subsequently leased as private residences. They are now part of the Chelsea Estate Heritage Park.

Continue along the trail and take the left trail just past the public toilets.