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Hyde Park near Sydney 1840

Hyde Park near Sydney 1840

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Jones, Richard

State Library of New South Wales

Hyde Park

Part of the common land reserved by Governor Phillip for the town's use in 1792, Hyde Park was proclaimed by Macquarie in 1810, and became a racecourse, cricket ground and open space. Without trees until 1854, in later years plantings, civic monuments, paths and buildings were all placed in the park. When the City Circle railway loop was built in the 1920s the whole park was dug up and reconstruction work included planting many of the trees that are still there.

Colonial architecture

Parks

St Mary's Cathedral

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St Mary's Cathedral is the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney and the mother diocese of Australia, and remains the largest ecclesiastical building in the English Gothic style in the world.

Woolloomooloo Bay

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Bay in Sydney Harbour east of Farm Cove.

Sydney Hospital

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Hospital founded by Lachlan Macquarie and housed in a number of buildings in Macquarie Street.

Hyde Park

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Park providing green space in Sydney's busy centre.

Hyde Park Barracks

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Georgian brick building at the southern end of Macquarie Street. Designed by colonial architect Francis Greenway to house male convicts, it subsequently became an immigration depot, government asylum, law courts and museum.