User:Dave Rave/Wentworth Park

Wentworth Park is an open area grass covered park reclaimed from the head of Blackwattle Bay, surrounded by Wattle Street, Wentworth Park Road and Bridge Road. It contains a sporting complex used for greyhound racing.

Beginning of the reclamation.

Wentworth Park Sporting Complex
Most of this will be available on the Wentworth Park page, so I'm mainly after bits regarding the Blackwattle Swamp, the causeway across it, becoming Bridge Rd, Glebe. Started 1876

History
this needs re-wording with refs and put above the SC. It's the park not the SC.

http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/learn/sydneys-history/people-and-places/park-histories/wentworth-park

reclamation
started

Bridge Road
1858 ?

A drawing of a causeway showing three spans for small boats

Page - http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/album/ItemViewer.aspx?itemid=861663&suppress=N&imgindex=12

JPG only - http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_DAMx/image/19/154/a2085012h.jpg

whole Pyrmont Bridge doesn't seem to elevate at either end - http://www.anathan.me/images/375_LR_Pyrmont_Bridge.jpg

Where is this
a shot of a bridge, much like Glebe Island Bridge, but no drawbridge, not as high, not enough spans and no central raised section for small boats - Two shots one is Glebe island, one isn't

Pyrmont/Glebe Island
various views of Pyrmont and Glebe Island http://www.jacksonslanding.net.au/history/sourcedocs/EcologyOfPyrmont-FullReport.pdf

with Bridge Rd, Glebe (Wentworth Park) being shown in FIgure 2.20, Page 32 (70/770) and the glebe island bridge with raised centre pictured p417 (455/770) 1899 Illustrated Sydney News shows raised section of bridge

picture of blackwattle (564/770) http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?l-decade=187&l-year=1873&q=blackwattle

mentions Blackwattle Causeway and Bridge

Pyrmont bridge, glebe island bridge with the hump and bridge rd over blackwattle swamp https://maptitude1.tumblr.com/image/89467023705