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Sir Joseph Banks Hotel, Botany Bay 1857

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Sir Joseph Banks Hotel, Botany Bay 1857

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Mason, Walter G

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Sport

Sport has long been important in Sydney life, interwoven with its fabric and culture. The ritual contests and physical activity of the Aboriginal people gave way to the informal, disreputable and often cruel pastimes of the early nineteenth century. The late nineteenth century saw the development of formal codes and organised leagues, leading to the commercialised, professional sports of the present.

Botany

Visited by James Cook and Joseph Banks in 1770, but rejected as a site for the colony in 1788 by Arthur Phillip, Botany remained an important source of water and a site for varied industry throughout the nineteenth century, before becoming a transport hub in the twentieth. Throughout, a close-knit community has survived.

Hotels and Pubs

Sir Joseph Banks Hotel

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Hotel begun in 1840 as a two storey Georgian building and added to in stages over many years. The estate included sporting grounds and a zoological garden. Situated in what is now Anniversary Street, the building remains virtually intact. In 1921 the complex was sold and the hotel eventually converted into apartments. The license was transferred to a new 'Sir Joseph Banks Hotel' built on Botany Road.

Botany

Industrial and residential suburb on the northern shore of Botany Bay, immediately east of Sydney Airport. Originally seen as a country retreat, it saw industry flourish in the post-Second World War era.

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Sir Joseph Banks Pleasure Gardens

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Gardens, sporting fields and zoo established beside the Sir Joseph Banks Hotel in Botany, which became a tourist attraction for Sydneysiders who travelled there, first by horse-tram and then electric tram.