Fishing Nets to Olympic Rings - The Many Chapters of Sydney Olympic Park

Storyteller Jo Henwood will share tales of the Blaxlands and the Wentworths, and the colonising farmers before them who, from 1788, claimed the tidal wetlands of the Wangal. We will be looking at a site that was often a place for things people didn’t want to see - the industrial workplaces of brickpit and abattoir, storage for explosives in the Armory, and the infirm in the Hospital. And, we will see the Olympics structures that were built to be seen on a grand scale. Meet at the Showground Road side of Olympic Park station 10 minutes before the tour starts so it can commence on time.

This walk will go ahead whatever the weather, except where the guide deems there to be a threat to health and safety. In this situation you will be contacted with an alternative date. Please ensure your mobile phone number is up-to-date with WEA before enrolling and ensure that you have it with you on the day in case the tutor needs to contact you.

DELIVERY MODE

• Face-to-Face

COURSE OUTLINE

• Olympic Memories, Cathy Freeman Park, Showground
• Brickpit Ring, Wentworth Commons, Bennelong Parkway
• Treillage, Lake Belvedere, the Abattoir

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Identify and find buildings and memorials around Olympic Park and what they signify   
2. Describe events that happened in and around this land in the past