central business district (downtown) 2

Hyde Park area
01 Obelisk	02 St. Mary’s Cathedral	03 Anzac War Memorial
04 Sydney Grammar School	05 Australian Museum	06 Former Registry Office
07 The Great Synagogue	08 Mark Foy’s Department Store	09 The Archibald Fountain

 

Elizabeth St. Hyde Park was dedicated for public recreation and amusement in 1810 and has maintained its original boundaries almost intact since that date. Two of the most popular national sports were practised there, horse racing and cricket. Both found keen supporters amongst the military who were garrisoned in the town. The present landscape of the park does not however owe anything to its early days but to the construction of the City Railway which was opened in 1926. The tunnel for the railway was excavated by an open cut along Hyde Park and the whole area re-planted when the excavation had been covered in again.