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Aerial view over Camperdown Cemetery before resumption, July 1946

By
Ray Olson
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[ON 388/Box 014/Item 066]
(Town planning series: aerials, July 1946, ACP Magazines Collection, Mitchell Library )

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Olson, Ray

Press photographer in Sydney in the mid 20th century.

State Library of New South Wales

Cemeteries

Suburbanisation

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Camperdown Cemetery

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Private cemetery in Newtown that was consecrated in January 1849 and remained the main burial ground for the Church of England until the opening of Rookwood in 1868. St Stephen's Anglican church was built in the middle of it in the early 1870s. All but 4 acres of the cemetery were resumed in 1948 to become the Camperdown Memorial Rest Park.

Camperdown Memorial Rest Park

Large park between Newtown and Camperdown in Sydney's inner west on the site of the former Camperdown Cemetery.

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St Stephen's Anglican church Newtown

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Gothic revival style church designed by Edmund Blacket which is still surrounded by its churchyard and trees, despite its inner-city location. It was built in 1871 in the existing Camperdown Cemetery. It was the second St Stephen's church building in Newtown. The first, on Longdown Street, also designed by Blacket, was consecrated in 1845 but quickly became too small. After the new church opened the older building was used as day and Sunday school, and then converted for use as a parish hall until it was destroyed by fire in 1938.

Newtown

Inner-west suburb which developed along the main road south from Sydney. It became a prosperous shopping district in the late 19th century, and later a working-class and migrant suburb, now gentrified.

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Camperdown

Inner-western suburb, home to the University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, as well as high-density residential dwellings, mainly gentrified workers' terraces and apartment buildings. It is named after a naval battle in which Governor Bligh took part in 1797.

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Enmore

Inner-west residential suburb on the ridge between Newtown and Marrickville. Its name comes from Enmore House (1835), designed by John Verge for master mariner Captain Sylvester Brown.

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PIX

Popular culture magazine which feature a mix of scandal, sensationalism, human-interest stories, fashion, politics, culture and entertainment.

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