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James Barnet at Mortuary Station, Rookwood 1871

By
Charles Percy Pickering
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a089044 / SPF/44]
(NSW Government Printing Office collection of copy negatives (Frame no. GPO 1 - 05243))

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Cemetery Station No. 1 Rookwood

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Pickering, Charles Percy

State Library of New South Wales

Lidcombe

Standing on Dharug land, Lidcombe was settled by 1828 with ex-convicts and free settlers on small grants. With the railway, stockyards and abbatoirs, and the large cemetery, prosperity came to what was then Rookwood. In the twentieth century, industrial development and decline, and new migration have changed the face of the suburb.

Architecture

Railway stations

Trains

Victorian architecture

Cemeteries

Barnet, James

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Colonial architect who designed many of Sydney's public buildings.

Cemetery Station No. 1 Rookwood

A railway station terminus at Rookwood Cemetery, also known as the Necropolis Receiving Station, which served the cemetery's railway line. It was part of a larger line completed in 1869 that ran to the Woronora General Cemetery in Sutherland and to Sandgate Cemetery in Newcastle. James Barnet adopted elements of 13th-century Venetian Gothic style and the station included wide platforms, a ticket office, two vestibules, retiring rooms and a carriage port. After the station closed, it was dismantled and moved to Canberra where it is now All Saints Church.

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