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The dome was 100 feet (30 metres) in diameter and 210 feet (64 metres) in height. The building was over 244 metres long and had a floor space of over 112,000 metres with 4.5 million feet of timber, 2.5 million bricks and 243 tons of galvanised corrugated iron. The building was similar in many
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in the early morning of 22 September 1882. The Garden Palace at that time was used by a number of
Government Departments and many significant records were destroyed in the fire, notably records of
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relating to The Garden Palace include a piece of glass melted by the fire, a handkerchief and a book, The Sydney Garden Palace : a patriotic and historical poem by
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concert grand piano, that won a first prize, had luckily been removed from the Garden Palace prior to the fire, and is held by the
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marks the former location of the Palace's dome. Few artefacts from the
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occupation in New South Wales. Between 500 and 1000 pieces of Sydney
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of similar form, each terminating in towers and meeting beneath a central dome. The successful contractor was
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was a large, purpose-built exhibition building constructed to house the
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The Sydney Garden Palace : a patriotic and historical poem
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Sydney's Garden Palace; an architectural drawing from the 1870s
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Exhibition building in Sydney, Australia destroyed by fire 1882
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128:The Great Exhibition of 1851
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741:expositions
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1846:1882 fires
1805:Categories
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172:The Domain
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