Hyde Park Barracks: A Historical Overview

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Hyde Park Barracks
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Introduction:
This essay is discussed on The Hyde Park Barracks, which is located in Sydney. It is
also listed as a cultural site of Australia. This place was built as earlier barracks, sanatorium,
convict accommodation, mint and courthouse and in the present date of the century it is
converted into museum and cafeteria which is located at Macquarie Street in
the Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Bennett 2013).
This essay is discussed in details on the history of Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney. Including
who made it, when made it, where was it made, why it made and what is the relevance in
today’s world.
Hyde Park Barracks:
Hyde Park Barracks was the first convict bases. In 19th century, Hyde Park Barracks was built
for the convicts and intersections were made for thousands of convicts slouched backward
and forward throughout the colony. Hyde Park Barracks is presently on the World Heritage
list that is acknowledged amongst the world’s greatest traditional and educational heritage
places which is related to involuntary migration, colony building and convict culture
(MUSEUMS 2019).
The Hyde Park Barracks was constructed under the rule of Administrator Lachlan Macquarie,
in the year 1817 to 1819. The aim of building this structure was to provide the male
government-assigned convicts secure accommodation. In early years, the convicts were only
allowed to find their own space but by providing rooms in barracks, Macquarie increased
their efficiency and improved their ethical values.
The transportation of convict to North South Wales was terminated in the year 1840, the
amount of convicts was declining in government services in 1848, some other convicts,
which were still living in the Barracks, were shifted to Cockatoo Island, and then it was
converted into accommodation for orphans and single female migrants ( Murray, Crook and
Davies 2013).
On the ground floor, the Agent offices for Immigration and the Female hiring rooms of the
Immigration Depot were situated. On the second and third floors, the temporary
accommodation was provided for new people who were transferred from station of
Quarantine. The Hyde Park Barracks provided with female Irish orphans accommodated. In

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the central dormitory of the top floor, it was provided to the Government Asylum for Infirm
and Destitute Women, in addition followed by the colonial government's statement of
accountability to take care of the unwell and aged.
In 1886, overloading was the major challenge face, hence the inmates were moved to
Newington, which was located on the Parramatta River, and the Immigrants Depot was
transferred. This building was utilised for the purposes of various legal and government
offices until 1979; the Barracks was converted into a museum, which depicted the history of
the location Sydney, which was opened in the year 1984. In the year 1990, Barracks was
converted into the Historic Houses Trust of North South Wales and revived as a 'museum of
its own history’, which further continues to function successfully today’s world (University
2018). The Royal Historical Society of Australia and the National Trust suggested the
barracks to convert into an arts centre in the year 1940 ( Gorman, et al. 2018).
In the year 1848, when Hyde Park Barracks was closed as a convict barracks it was converted
into a female refuge up to 1887. Native employment deficiency and gender inequity was one
of the major problems in the colony, for the solution to this problem numerous single or
orphaned young girls migrated from Ireland and Britain to find employment in the growing
colony. Earl Grey, the building on 6 October 1848, was made as a reception or a help desk
area and employment discussion area for 'unprotected female' supported refugees when two
hundred orphan girls arrived there. These girls lived in dorms. In the year 1848, the Barrack
was converted to provide accommodations to the girls (P. M. Davies 2011). From the year
1887 to 1975, the Barracks was used for accommodation for the government departments of
North South Wales. It is now a converted into a museum, which is managed by the Historic
Houses Trust of North South Wales (Government 2019).
Francis Greenway designed Hyde Park Barracks, who was also a convict architect. This
building consists of three-storey with huge roof. Macquarie was impressed with the plan of
the structure that he approved Greenway a full pardon.
Excavation was directed during 1979 and 1981, when the renovation work was revealed and
it had archaeological material in a huge ditch crossway to the constructions and patios of the
Hyde Park Barracks compound. In the underground trenches of the main dorm structure, it
had unique architectural history (Arthure 2015).
This 'underfloor' collection is significant worldwide as an illustration of the substantial beliefs
of female refugees and the inhabitants of organization for the ill and the needy. Most of these
materials had been dragged underneath the flooring by the mice that filled the complex by
most of its antiquity, burglary and gathering junk to make their own nests. This gathering