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Devonshire Street cemetery prior to demolition, showing the headstone of Joseph Leburn c1900

By
Ethel Foster
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[ON 146/no 401]
(Mitchell Library)

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Foster, Ethel

Josephine Ethel Foster was a historian and photographer. She and her husband Arthur George Foster documented the Devonshire Street Cemetery in the early 1900s before its removal for the construction of the Central Railway station.

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Death and Dying

Cemeteries

Devonshire Street Cemetery

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Burial ground established in 1820 on the outskirts of colonial Sydney to replace the earlier burial ground on George Street. It was the city's main burial ground until the opening of Rookwood Cemetery. It officially closed in 1867, although people who had family vaults or previously purchased plots were still being buried there until much later. Also referred to as the Sandhills Cemetery due to its proximity to sandhills, it was resumed in 1901 to enable the building of Central Railway Station.

Intercolonial Exhibition Building

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Exhibition hall built in Prince Alfred Park in 1870 to mark the centenary of Captain Cook's landing at Botany Bay and to house the first major inter-colonial Australian Exhibition.