Newmarket Precinct - Young Street - Randwick NSW

 

Newmarket Precinct - Young Street Randwick 

Newmarket was built as Newmarket hotel by John Dylan in 1861. Property, including site of big stable sold to James White, Grassia and chairman of the AJC.
The big stable built 1880. A number of prominent racing men including Thomas Peyton, Jim Pike, William Inglis and Sun and WJ Smith owned and least stable.
During World War II used as detention barracks
After war as a Laminex factory.
The presence of Randwick racecourse to be racing was first held in 1833, brought to the suburb trainers, jockeys and stable hands, and from them developed a local racing industry which continues to this day

Sydney Garden Palace In Pictures

If you’ve walked the southwestern edge of the Botanic Garden and wondered why the lawn feels oddly ceremonial, you’re standing near where Sydney briefly had a Crystal Palace of its own. The Garden Palace was the vast exhibition hall Colonial Architect James Barnet designed in the Inner Domain for the Sydney International Exhibition of 1879. Contractor John Young (with Hudson Brothers) drove construction from January 1879 so the cruciform timber, brick and iron palace could open that September. Its great dome dominated the skyline between today’s State Library precinct and the Conservatorium; more than a million visitors came between 17 September 1879 and 20 April 1880.

After the Exhibition closed, the Palace kept busy with events, offices and collections. In the early hours of 22 September 1882 fire completely destroyed the building in about forty minutes. Irreplaceable official records, art works and museum collections went with it. An inquest returned an open verdict; arson was widely suspected but never proved.

Almost nothing of the structure survived above ground. A later garden and fountain mark the former dome site. The photographs here preserve views of a building that reshaped the Domain for only three years — a pictorial memorial, not a standing hall.