Bill Mackay

Yeah.

No, because it's near the art gallery and library.

So the building that's the art gallery now, that was both art gallery and library.

Oh, okay.

So it's quite handy.

So if it was after hours at the art gallery and library, there you've still got a toilet.

They could, yeah.

And I've been down inside this one.

We've had students in there doing installations.

Yeah, so there was a big fear of Japanese invasion at the beginning of the Second World War because all our soldiers were away fighting in Europe.

Yes.

And the Japanese made swift advances.

They got down to Papua New Guinea.

They bombed Darwin in Australia.

So we built these air raid shelters under Albert Park and there's an enormous labyrinth of tunnels in there and we're standing in front of the door of one of them.

It took about a year, I understand, about a year and a half, two years.

But we actually stopped it early because as the Americans really got involved,

and there were some big naval battles down in the Coral Sea, Midway, that kind of thing.

They pushed the Japanese back, so there was less fear of invasion.

So we actually closed down the tunnels while the war was still on.