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Remodelling of Hyde Park - Scheme of Mr Norman Weekes August 1927

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(Sydney Morning Herald, 25 August 1927 p14)

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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.

City Underground

The creation of a city railway was a central concern for town planners in Sydney from almost the moment that the first railway was opened in 1855. Initially the main terminus was in Cleveland Paddocks on the outskirts of the city, meaning commuters coming into town were required to alight from the train and transfer to trams, hansom cabs or omnibuses to continue into the city. The underground City Circle, and the city as we know it, took one hundred years to be completed.

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Weekes, Norman

Town planner and architect.

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Hyde Park

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Park providing green space in Sydney's busy centre.

Anzac War Memorial Hyde Park

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The main war memorial in Sydney and one of the city's finest Art Deco buildings. It embodies the collective grief of the people of NSW at the loss of Australian servicemen and women since World War I. It is associated with the landing of Australian troops at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, since fundraising for the memorial was established on the first anniversary of the landing.

Archibald Fountain

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A large and elaborate Art Deco fountain in Hyde Park constructed to commemorate the association between Australia and France in World War I. It depicts a bronze Apollo surrounded by other mythical figures.