Sydney Park has undergone a major transformation over the past two decades. The land was originally given as a grant to a convict woman and has since served Sydney as a site for crops and food production, brick making, gas storage and waste disposal. When the New South Wales state government first envisaged turning the site into a public green space in the early 1980s, a key factor in transforming the site was to preserve some of the history associated with it.
Spanning 44 hectares, the park is the largest in Sydney and is connected by about 12 kilometres of pathways. The vast majority of the vegetation on the site was planted as part of a community effort in the early 1990s. The park now has nine hectares of gardens and 28,000 native trees, including 277 Port Jackson and Moreton Bay fig trees. Fifty types of mammals, native birds, frogs and reptiles also frequent the park.
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The Sydney Morning Herald, February 11, 2012 Rubbish dump transformed into park oasis tips its hat to the past
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I love it when cities do this. Much more beneficial to our wellbeing than more condos.
I agree, this park is an oasis in a rapidly developing area which councils call medium density 😦
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Reblogged this on Chimeneas Industriales de ladrillo and commented:
Es curiosa la cantidad de blogs australianos que he encontrado con post sobre chimeneas industriales de ladrillo, ¡aunque sólo sea una fotografia!
It´s curious tha vast amount of Australian blogs I´ve found with industrial chimneys of brickmasonry post, though there´s only one picture in it!
Not many chimneys in Sydney, most have been demolished. I like these because there’s a mixture of round and square:)
The other day, while I was at work, my sister stole my apple ipad and tested to see if it can survive a forty foot drop, just so she can be a
youtube sensation. My apple ipad is now broken and she has 83 views.
I know this is totally off topic but I had to share it with
someone!
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