It was the first park to be laid out in connection with a major Exhibition and predated the Garden Palace in the Sydney Domain, built for the first International Exhibition in 1879, and the world-heritage-listed Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne (1880).The remaining area of Cleveland Paddocks was gazetted as a public reserve on 22 December 1865, although it was described in 1869 by Jules Joubert, a member of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales, as However, it has a quality quite unlike that of mere documentation. Commissary John Palmer received 90 acres (360,000 m ).
Unique ID A-00016487 Series Sydney Reference Collection (SRC) - Photographs Date Between 1st January 1969 and 31st December 1970 Date qualifier circa Format Photograph - Print Description View looking east towards the corner of Chalmers Street and Bedford Street showing Australian male figure skater Reg Park, with woman figure skater Pat Gregory. Aboriginal people have occupied the Parramatta region for tens of thousands of years. Prince Alfred Exhibition, Prince Alfred Park, Sydney Shown in 2 exhibitions Exhibition history Souvenirs of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 Mar 1992–10 May 1992. There is reason to suggest that King himself recognised this, as another version of the photograph exists, with the men in the foreground cut out. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communitiesThe role of the Lord Mayor and CouncillorsWhat's On – Sydney's most trusted events directoryAnne Cooke, “Heritage Study: Prince Alfred Park”, 1997Guidelines for speakers at Council CommitteesDuring the life of the Exhibition Building 1870-1954 the park performed a major public function as a venue for important events and exhibitions. The denuded grass field reinforces the atmosphere of oppressive heat, which this photograph manages to capture so well. The NSW Agricultural Society organised the Exhibition to mark the centenary of Captain Cook’s landing at Botany Bay inviting all Australian states and New Zealand to submit a display. If you wish to use it for any other purpose, please visit You may order a copy or use the online copy for research or study; for other uses This application requires JavaScript to be enabled.

An ice skating rink was built behind the pool in 1959 and demolished in about 1996-97.The remaining area of Cleveland Paddocks was gazetted as a public reserve on 22 December 1865, although it was described in 1869 by Jules Joubert as ‘a quagmire with a filthy drain running across it – a plague spot’. The first land grants in Surry Hills were made in the 1790s. He called the property George Farm and in 1800 Palmer also bought Foveaux's farm. 1930 [picture] Call Number PIC/15611/15857 LOC Cold store PIC/15611 Created/Published ca. The central avenue of London Planes and Brush Box probably dates from the inter-war period, as do the Washington Palms and Canary Island Date Palms.Prince Alfred Park is bounded by Chalmers Street, Cleveland Street and Central Railway, Surry Hills.The first Agricultural Society show was held here in 1869. Sydney’s Prince Alfred Park is a good place to examine this question because it is both generic and specific. Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate.Select the images you want to download, or the whole document.Citations are automatically generated and may require some modification to conform to exact standards.Your browser either has no support for JavaScript, or has JavaScript turned off.You can order a copy of this work from Copies Direct.Roller skating rink in the Exhibition Building, Prince Alfred Park, Sydney, ca.


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