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Parks, Reserves and Playgrounds Register, 1811-1985 [Municipal Council of Sydney / City of Sydney]

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Unique IDAS-0108DateBetween 5th October 1811 and 27th May 1985Date qualifierexactFormatVolume - Leather BoundShort descriptionThis series consists of two volumes containing histories of parks reserves and playgrounds under the Sydney City Council's control.DescriptionThis series consists of two volumes containing histories of parks reserves and playgrounds under the Sydney City Council's control. The registers were created by City Engineering and Building Surveyors Department (AG-0061) in the period 01/01/1930 to 31/05/1936 and the City Engineers Department I (AG-0005) in the period 01/06/1936 to 27/05/1985.

Each park, reserve or playground was allocated a number, which appears on the top right-hand corner of the register pages. The volumes are indexed alphabetically by name at the front of each volume.

Each entry contains a description of when the land was first dedicated for public recreation; when it came under Council control and how; details of any legislation affecting the land; details of resumptions and any other changes to the land, including if it was transferred to the control of another Council; related file, deed packet, and plan numbers, related Resolutions of Council and Government Gazette numbers; area measurements; and a coloured plan of the area.

It is not clear when the registers first began to be compiled, but it appears to have been around 1930, with references dating back to 1811. The first volume seems to have been compiled from around 1930 to 29 May 1942, the second from 1937 to 1985. Volume 2 is an updated version of Volume 1 with additional entries so there is no need to consult Volume 1.

The following parks, reserves and playgrounds are listed in Volume 1: Argyle Place Park; Beare Park; Belmore Park; Bent and Raphael Streets Reserve - now Farrer Place; Camperdown Park; City Road Reserve; Cook Park; Dawes Point Park; Drivers Triangle; Green Park; Hyde Park; Lang Park; Macleay Reserve; Macquarie Place Park; Moore Park; Observatory Park; Phillip Park; Cook and Phillip Park's; Prince Alfred Park (Cleveland Paddock); Rushcutters Bay Park; Victoria Park; Watson Road Reserve (see Observatory Park); Wynyard Park; Domain and Botanic Gardens etc; Benelong Point Reserve; Reserve at Dawes Point east side of Hickson Road; Domain fronting Woolloomooloo Bay; reserves at the Bradfield Highway; reserves adjoining the Bradfield Highway (now The King George V Memorial Park); Moore Park - areas not under Council control; list of street plantations (areas set aside for rock gardens, gardens, fountains, grassed areas etc) in Essex Street, York Street North, Gloucester Street, Circular Quay, Wattle Street; corner of Circular Quay, Alfred and Pitt Streets, corner of Kensington and Regent Street (reserve for fountain), York Street North, Shannon Reserve (corner Foveaux, Crown, Collins and Richards Lane); playground at corner of Alexander and Phelps Street; playground at Berwick Lane and Palmer Lane; playground at Bremner and Harvey Streets; Charles St playground; Macarthur Street and Henson Lane playground; O'Sullivan St playground; Pine St playground; Smith St playground; Lance Kindergarten High St; Dowling St and McElhone St playground; Moore Park Kindergarten; Brougham St playground; Buckland and O'Connor Street Rest Area; Dowling Street at Sydney place; Llankelly Place and Orwell Street Rest Area.

Folio 70 of Volume 1 has a list of private and denominational schools, and state schools and colleges. Folio 71a has a list of when parks were dedicated for public recreation, a breakdown of the total area of parks and playgrounds in the City, additions and deductions from parks and reserves for the past twenty years (1933).

Folios 105 to 111 of Volume 1 have a list of parks and reserves under, and not under, Council control.

The following parks, reserves and playgrounds are listed in Volume 2: Argyle Place Park; Beare Park; Belmore Park; Bent Street and Farrer Place- Reserve; Camperdown Park; City Road Reserve; Cook Park; Dawes Point Park; Drivers Triangle; Green Park; Hyde Park; Lang Park; Macleay Reserve; Macquarie Place Park; Moore Park; Observatory Park; Phillip Park; Prince Alfred Park (Cleveland Paddock); Rushcutters Bay Park; Victoria Park; Wynyard Park; Domain and Botanic Gardens etc; Benelong Point Reserve; Reserve at Dawes Point east side of Hickson Road; Shannon Reserve; reserves at the Bradfield Highway; Fitzroy Gardens; Dowling Street Rest Area; The King George V Memorial Park; Moore Park - areas not under Council control; Regent & Kensington Streets - Reserve for Fountain; York Street North; Domain - fronting Woolloomooloo Bay; Essex Street; Reserve at Pitt Street and Circular Quay; Barcom Avenue, Boundary & Aest Streets (turfing and bubbler fountain); Caldwell & Nimrod Streets Rest Area; Hunter & Phillip Streets - north west corner (dissolved into Elizabeth Street extension); Balfour and Bartley Streets - Rest Area; Argyle Street; Billyard Avenue & Onslow Avenue; Bourke St Fitzroy St and Foveaux Street - Rest Area; land at 25 Pyrmont Bridge Rd; O'Dea Reserve (formerly Fowler's Pottery); Fitzroy St and Foveaux Street - Rest Area and Men's Convenience; Rest Park Glebe, corner Bridge Rd and Glebe Point Road (transferred to Leichhardt); King and Alice Streets Newtown rest park; Devine and Concord Street Erskineville Rest park; Arundel Street Glebe Public Park; Pyrmont Bridge road, Harris St and Gipps Street Rest Park; Ellen Lawman rest Area - Erskineville Rd Erskineville; Jones St Fig Lane Henry Avenue and Quarry Lane rest area; Mrs Isabella Hills Rest Area - Union and Harold Streets Newtown; 48 Pearl St Newtown park; Renwick St Alexandria Rest Area; Hollis Park; Warerloo Park; Ferry Rd and Avon Street park; St Johns Rd and Talfourd Street Rest Park; 40 Mitchell Rd Alexandria Public Park; Redfern Park; Burton Palmer and Langley Streets Playground and Public Park; Dowling St and McElhone St playground; Smith St playground; Buckland and O'Connor Streets - rest area; Pine St Playground; Macarthur Street and Henson Lane playground; O'Sullivan St playground; Dowling Street playground; playground at corner of Alexander and Phelps Street (John J Carroll Kindergarten); playground at Berwick Lane and Palmer Lane; playground at Bremner and Harvey Streets; Charles St playground; Woolloomooloo Playground - Dowling St McElhone St Pring St and Sydney Place; Raglan St and Surry St Waterloo (James Cahill Kindergarten); Llankelly Place and Orwell Street Rest Area; Brougham St playground; Moore Park Kindergarten; Harris Street Playground (Maybanke Kindergarten); Argyle St Millers Point - Children's Playground; Minogue Reserve; John St and Erskineville Rd Erskineville; Bannerman Crescent Recreation Area; Dadley St & Renwick St Children's Playground; Clyne Reserve - Dibbs St Millers Point; Septimus St and Baldwin St - Playground; Stephen and Glen Streets Paddington; Joseph Sargeant Children's Centre - Prospect St and Pleasant St Erskineville; Littlebridge Playground - William Henry Harris and Bulwara Rd; 6 - 12 Surrey St Playground; 218 - 225 Barcom Ave and Lacrozia Lane playground; 205 - 209 St Johns Rd Glebe playground; Billyard Ave and Ithaca Road playground (May Pitt Playground); Fowler Park; The A V Henry Playground - Crescent Street Glebe; 49 Oxford Street Newtown - George Smith Playground; 24 Hordern St Newtown - playground; Campbell and Samuel Streets - James Hilder Playground; 69a Surrey St playground: 42 - 46 Renwick St Alexandria; William Henry Street and Harris St playground; Victoria St and Beaconsfield St playground; 156 - 158 Darley Street Newtown playground; Cooks Paddock - Victoria St and Victoria Place Paddington; Catherine St and Seamer St Glebe; 72 Foveaux St and Waterloo St; 7 - 9 Spring St Paddington - Fernandez Playground; Pine St - Golden Fleece Kindergarten; Wells St and Burnett St Redfern - lease for playground;Zamia and Kepos Street playground; Cambridge St Paddington playground; 170 - 172 Mitchell Rd Alexandria; Cowper Wharf Roadway Memorial Park; 3 Little Dowling Street Paddington playground; Perry Park; Erskineville Park; 16 Rochford St and Prospect St Erskineville; 135 - 137 Union Street Newtown; Alma St Darlington Perkins Playground; Marine Reserve Glebe - Glebe Point Rd and Federal Rd; M J Hayes Playground - 3 Egan St Newtown; Australia Street North - access to Newtown Cemetery; 24 - 26 Sutherland Street Paddington ; adjacent to 12 Erskineville Rd; James Street and Young Lane; rest area and playground Raglan St, Pitt St and Green St Waterloo; parts of 1 - 11 and 13 Darley St Newtown; Charles Lawrence Rest Area - Caroline and Hugo St Redfern; Wilson and Golden Grove St Redfern; 27 Lambert St ; Baron Street near West Circular Quay; The Walter Read Reserve Oxford Street Paddington; 119 Gowrie St Newtown; 80 - 84 Arthur Street; Trinity Avenue; Cascade St & Norfolk Lane; Crete Reserve Waterloo; 165 Lawrence St; Trumper Park; Hills Reserve; Devonshire St Eddie Ward Park; 5 - 7 Cahill St; 41 Knight St; 48 - 50 Camden St Newtown; 48 - 50 Camden St Newtown; Wyndham St & Boundary St - Daniel Dawson Playground; 7 Neild Ave Paddington; Jack O'Brien Playground & Rest Area - 87 Kepos Street; John Victor McMahon Reserve - Minogue Crescent Glebe; 126 Morehead Street; 108 Burren St Erskineville; Jubilee Park; 17 - 21 Ada Place; Scott St, Cross St, Bowman St, Harris St and Point St; Martin Place btwn Pitt and Elizabeth St; Martin Place; The John Armstrong Reserve Greenknowe Avenue; Oswald Lane - Arthur Reserve; 456 - 458 Bourke St and 35 - 39 Marshall St; 251 - 255 Oxford Street; Queens Square Pedestrian Plaza; Regimental Square; 87 - 91 Phelps Street; 1 - 3 Ithaca Rd.Relationship summaryRELATED TO: Management of parks and reserves AY-0084 (01/01/1930 to 27/05/1985) LanguageEnglish (eng)

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Park - Argyle Place Park, Millers Point, 1867-1933

Park - Beare Park, Ithaca Road, Gurrajin/Elizabeth Bay, 1901-1968

Park - Belmore Park, Eddy Avenue, Haymarket, 1868-1972

Park - Farrer Place, Bent Street, Sydney, 1905-1940

Park - Camperdown Park, Australia Street, Camperdown, 1882-1970

Park - City Road, Camperdown, 1880-1925

Park - Cook Park [Cook & Phillip], William Street, Sydney, 1878-1980

Park - Dawes Point Reserve, Hickson Road, Dawes Point, 1908-1968

Park - Drivers Triangle, South Dowling Street, Moore Park, 1866-1970

Park - Green Park, Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, 1871-1935

Park - Hyde Park, Elizabeth Street, Sydney, 1878-1966

Park - Lang Park, Lang Street, Sydney, 1866-1966

Park - Macleay Reserve, Elizabeth Bay Road, Elizabeth Bay, 1909-1964

Park - Macquarie Place Park, Bridge Street, Sydney, 1866-1978

Park - Moore Park, Moore Park Road, Moore Park, 1811-1980

Park - Observatory Hill Park, Upper Fort Street, Millers Point, 1935-1979

Park - Phillip Park [Cook & Phillip], Cathedral Street Sydney, 1878-1975

Park - Prince Alfred Park, Chalmers Street, Surry Hills, 1865-1972, 1865-1972

Park - Rushcutters Bay Park, Waratah Street, Rushcutters Bay, 1879-1964

Park - Victoria Park, Parramatta Road, Camperdown, 1870-2005

Park - Wynyard Park, York Street, Sydney, 1887-1979

Park - The Domain and Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, Prince Albert Road, Sydney, 1916-1980

Park - Circular Quay East, 1909-1973

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CSA069249

CSA080637

CSA028159

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Plans of Parks, Reserves and Playgrounds [Municipal Council of Sydney / City of Sydney]

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Public access statusOpen to public access

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Source system ID108System of arrangementSingle number

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Digitisation statusFully digitised

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Authenticity & integrityThis is the original Parks, Reserves and Playgrounds Register by the City of Sydney Council. The record has been held in the Council’s custody and has a high level of authenticity. Users should be aware that this is an historical record and the language used within the record was the language of the time it was captured, and may not reflect current community values or expectations.

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CollectionPlaygroundsOrganisationSydney City CouncilRelated seriesPlans of Parks, Reserves and Playgrounds [Municipal Council of Sydney / City of Sydney]Creating agenciesCity Engineer's Department ICity Engineering and Building Surveyor's DepartmentRelated activitiesManagement of parks and reserves

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