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I initially thought “ridiculous” but then warmed to the idea. There were somewhat larger but still small indoor velodromes during cycling’s hey-day in Sydney early in the 20th Century, like the (140m?) Surry Hills board track (later moved to Canterbury before being added to the current horse racing reserve). And reportedly an even shorter and steeper(100m?)track in an old shed at Carlton near Hurstville. Some people believe that the shed still exists as an art supplies shop – and whilst I can visualise it (I’ve been there to check it out) it can’t have been even 100 around, surely, and it must have reached the roof to get enough banking… perhaps it was just a bit bigger than this new London one… which is 25m!!
A hot lap is around 3.2 seconds or so… and the trick is to ride smooth with constant pedal pressure and stay low on the banking.
I’ve previously mentioned that the Riley Street (Surry Hills) indoor board velodrome was shifted holus-bolus to Canterbury – splinters and all – which is remarkable enough, but there’s more to Canterbury than just an old velodrome site, a station, a bus terminus and a horse racetrack. There’s also a river – the Cooks River – that runs from Botany Bay to Canterbury and further westward. It was of course once a working natural river with meanders but dams, industry and concrete culverts put an end to much of the “natural-ness”.
I’ll post a map of the Tempe dam soon, but the article quoted below makes the location clear enough. The river was dammed to poor effect at Tempe and at Canterbury. The flood of the late 19th century wiped out much of the market gardening and led to grand schemes of tunnels and canals, of which only Alexandra Canal really came to pass. The river’s mouth was also moved to accommodate an enlargement of Sydney’s Mascot airport. You can find maps of that elsewhere on this blog.
Descriptions of the country along Cooks River by the early explorers were not optimistic about the land’s potential for food production. Captain John Hunter and Lieutenant Bradley both mentioned the shallowness of the water and the large swamps, in place of Cook’s ‘fine meadow’, so it was to the alluvial terraces of the Parramatta and Hawkesbury Rivers that the farmers of the colony went. The Reverend Richard Johnson, however, took time out from his chief mission – first pastor to the settlements in New South Wales – to cultivate his properties, among them being a grant of 250 acres at Canterbury (stretching along the river from present Garnet Street, Hurlstone Park to Croydon Avenue, Ashbury). There is no evidence that he ever lived on his ‘Canterbury Vale’ farm. But with the help of an overseer, several convicts, and labourers paid by himself, he cleared and planted several acres. Yields were high enough from his estates for him to be described by Watkin Tench as ‘the best farmer in the colony’. When the property was sold to William Cox in 1800, it included livestock, two acres of vineyard, and another acre of orchard with orange trees, nectarines, peaches and apricots.
Major industries of the area were fishing and lime burning, especially around the mouth of the river and in Botany Bay. In a new settlement, three basic needs had to be satisfied: the need for food, the need for water, and the need for shelter for the inhabitants. Although brick-making clay was abundant, nothing could be found for a long time to hold these bricks permanently together. Lime, essential in making mortar, was in such a short supply that most brick buildings collapsed in a heap of rubble as soon as the walls were leant on, and Governor Phillip constantly appealed for limestone to be sent out as ballast in the ships from home. Shell middens left by the aborigines on the shores of the Cooks River and Botany Bay proved to be a vital source of lime, and many colonists managed to make a living gathering the remnants from thousands of years of aboriginal meals to supply their kilns.
Cornelius Prout built a punt to give him access to his property, Belle Ombre (along the river from today’s Canterbury Road to Clissold Parade, Campsie); a punt also operated somewhere about the same time at Undercliffe, known as Thorpe’s Punt. This was a link on one of the roads to the Illawarra district. Fords existed at Tempe and further up the river, but with the spread of settlement and eventually industry, permanent bridges were needed.
A B Spark, Leslie Duguid, and F W Unwin all built country houses beside Cooks River in the late 1830′s, and by 1840, three bridge crossings were in use; Unwin’s Bridge at Tempe, (to give access from Sydney to his house, Wanstead); Prout’s Bridge, replacing the punt, at Canterbury; and the dam at Tempe, continuing the line of Cook’s River Road (Princes Highway) past the house of Alexander Brodie Spark.
A second dam was built to serve the river’s first manufacturing industry: the Australian Sugar Company’s refinery at Canterbury; this location was selected because of the need for ample supplies of water in processing.
The Sugar House is placed within one hundred feet on Cook’s River which is shortly expected to be fresh water, the Dam being quite close and is built of beautiful white sandstone. (Sydney Herald, 4 October, 1841)
The Cooks River is a 23 kilometre long urban waterway of south-western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia emptying into Botany Bay. The course of the river has been altered to accommodate various developments along its shore. It serves as part of a stormwater system for the 100 square kilometres of its watershed, and many of the original streams running into it have been turned into concrete lined channels. The tidal sections support significant areas of mangroves, bird, and fish life, and are used for recreational activities.
The river was discovered by Captain James Cook in 1770 but it was not until 1793 that any permanent settlement began to occur along it. The first bridge was erected here in 1810, give access to the southern bank of the river for timber getting. It was then a limit of recreational excursions from Sydney.
With the degradation and growing inadequacy of Sydney’s Tank Stream water suppy by 1826 the Cooks River was considered as a possibly fresh water supply. A dam was built across it here for that purpose, in the 1830s. The work was mainly completed in 1839-1841 using convict labour. It was considered that floods might flush out the saline water and give allow a fresh supply behind the dam (cf. in a flood of 1889 the river flowed 10 above the dam at Tempe). However, the dam was unsuccessful, as the water remained saline and the main effect of the dam, because of the increase of upstream polluting industries, was to generate a cesspool. Most of the fresh water remained dammed behind the later dam at the Sugar House at Canterbury, but that dam water too was often in a very offensive condition. There was an outbreak of typhoid fever affecting swimmers in 1896. The Tempe dam was lowered to improve flushing, and eventually demolished entirely.
I’ve previously mentioned that the Riley Street (Surry Hills) indoor board velodrome was shifted holus-bolus to Canterbury – splinters and all – which is remarkable enough, but there’s more to Canterbury than just an old velodrome site, a station, a bus terminus and a horse racetrack. There’s also a river – the Cooks River – that runs from Botany Bay to Canterbury and further westward. It was of course once a working natural river with meanders but dams, industry and concrete culverts put an end to much of the “natural-ness”.
I’ll post a map of the Tempe dam soon, but the article quoted below makes the location clear enough. The river was dammed to poor effect at Tempe and at Canterbury. The flood of the late 19th century wiped out much of the market gardening and led to grand schemes of tunnels and canals, of which only Alexandra Canal really came to pass. The river’s mouth was also moved to accommodate an enlargement of Sydney’s Mascot airport. You can find maps of that elsewhere on this blog.
Descriptions of the country along Cooks River by the early explorers were not optimistic about the land’s potential for food production. Captain John Hunter and Lieutenant Bradley both mentioned the shallowness of the water and the large swamps, in place of Cook’s ‘fine meadow’, so it was to the alluvial terraces of the Parramatta and Hawkesbury Rivers that the farmers of the colony went. The Reverend Richard Johnson, however, took time out from his chief mission – first pastor to the settlements in New South Wales – to cultivate his properties, among them being a grant of 250 acres at Canterbury (stretching along the river from present Garnet Street, Hurlstone Park to Croydon Avenue, Ashbury). There is no evidence that he ever lived on his ‘Canterbury Vale’ farm. But with the help of an overseer, several convicts, and labourers paid by himself, he cleared and planted several acres. Yields were high enough from his estates for him to be described by Watkin Tench as ‘the best farmer in the colony’. When the property was sold to William Cox in 1800, it included livestock, two acres of vineyard, and another acre of orchard with orange trees, nectarines, peaches and apricots.
Major industries of the area were fishing and lime burning, especially around the mouth of the river and in Botany Bay. In a new settlement, three basic needs had to be satisfied: the need for food, the need for water, and the need for shelter for the inhabitants. Although brick-making clay was abundant, nothing could be found for a long time to hold these bricks permanently together. Lime, essential in making mortar, was in such a short supply that most brick buildings collapsed in a heap of rubble as soon as the walls were leant on, and Governor Phillip constantly appealed for limestone to be sent out as ballast in the ships from home. Shell middens left by the aborigines on the shores of the Cooks River and Botany Bay proved to be a vital source of lime, and many colonists managed to make a living gathering the remnants from thousands of years of aboriginal meals to supply their kilns.
Cornelius Prout built a punt to give him access to his property, Belle Ombre (along the river from today’s Canterbury Road to Clissold Parade, Campsie); a punt also operated somewhere about the same time at Undercliffe, known as Thorpe’s Punt. This was a link on one of the roads to the Illawarra district. Fords existed at Tempe and further up the river, but with the spread of settlement and eventually industry, permanent bridges were needed.
A B Spark, Leslie Duguid, and F W Unwin all built country houses beside Cooks River in the late 1830′s, and by 1840, three bridge crossings were in use; Unwin’s Bridge at Tempe, (to give access from Sydney to his house, Wanstead); Prout’s Bridge, replacing the punt, at Canterbury; and the dam at Tempe, continuing the line of Cook’s River Road (Princes Highway) past the house of Alexander Brodie Spark.
A second dam was built to serve the river’s first manufacturing industry: the Australian Sugar Company’s refinery at Canterbury; this location was selected because of the need for ample supplies of water in processing.
The Sugar House is placed within one hundred feet on Cook’s River which is shortly expected to be fresh water, the Dam being quite close and is built of beautiful white sandstone. (Sydney Herald, 4 October, 1841)
The Cooks River is a 23 kilometre long urban waterway of south-western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia emptying into Botany Bay. The course of the river has been altered to accommodate various developments along its shore. It serves as part of a stormwater system for the 100 square kilometres of its watershed, and many of the original streams running into it have been turned into concrete lined channels. The tidal sections support significant areas of mangroves, bird, and fish life, and are used for recreational activities.
The river was discovered by Captain James Cook in 1770 but it was not until 1793 that any permanent settlement began to occur along it. The first bridge was erected here in 1810, give access to the southern bank of the river for timber getting. It was then a limit of recreational excursions from Sydney.
With the degradation and growing inadequacy of Sydney’s Tank Stream water suppy by 1826 the Cooks River was considered as a possibly fresh water supply. A dam was built across it here for that purpose, in the 1830s. The work was mainly completed in 1839-1841 using convict labour. It was considered that floods might flush out the saline water and give allow a fresh supply behind the dam (cf. in a flood of 1889 the river flowed 10 above the dam at Tempe). However, the dam was unsuccessful, as the water remained saline and the main effect of the dam, because of the increase of upstream polluting industries, was to generate a cesspool. Most of the fresh water remained dammed behind the later dam at the Sugar House at Canterbury, but that dam water too was often in a very offensive condition. There was an outbreak of typhoid fever affecting swimmers in 1896. The Tempe dam was lowered to improve flushing, and eventually demolished entirely.
Where have we raced our bikes in Sydney? Lots of places. Cycling was the workingman’s way to travel long distances before mass production of the motor car. The bike was ridden everywhere (if someone tells you that Sydney’s ‘too hilly’ for bikes just laugh – they have no idea what’s possible on a bike) and inevitably raced.
It’s a work in progress, but here goes….
Crit circuits and velodromes in the Hurstville area: Oatley Park, Olds Park, Hurstville Oval(velodrome), Kempt Field and Railway Parade (velodrome)
Crit circuits in the Sutherland area: Waratah Park
Crit circuits and velodromes in the Eastern Suburbs: Riley Street (velodrome), Heffron Park, Coogee and Bondi Beach
Western and Inner Western Sydney Crit circuits and velodromes: Merrylands Oval (velodrome), Canterbury (old Riley Street velodrome, moved), Tempe (or Canterbury velodrome), Wiley Park (velodrome), Bass Hill (crit track and velodrome), Camperdown (velodrome), Blacktown crit track, Lidcombe Oval (velodrome), Lansdowne, Henson Park (velodrome)
Where have we raced our bikes in Sydney? Lots of places. Cycling was the workingman’s way to travel long distances before mass production of the motor car. The bike was ridden everywhere (if someone tells you that Sydney’s ‘too hilly’ for bikes just laugh – they have no idea what’s possible on a bike) and inevitably raced.
It’s a work in progress, but here goes….
Crit circuits and velodromes in the Hurstville area: Oatley Park, Olds Park, Hurstville Oval(velodrome), Kempt Field and Railway Parade (velodrome)
Crit circuits in the Sutherland area: Waratah Park
Crit circuits and velodromes in the Eastern Suburbs: Riley Street (velodrome), Heffron Park, Coogee and Bondi Beach
Western and Inner Western Sydney Crit circuits and velodromes: Merrylands Oval (velodrome), Canterbury (old Riley Street velodrome, moved), Tempe (or Canterbury velodrome), Wiley Park (velodrome), Bass Hill (crit track and velodrome), Camperdown (velodrome), Blacktown crit track, Lidcombe Oval (velodrome), Lansdowne, Henson Park (velodrome)
My dad used to catch rabbits at Henson Park, but before that locals took a dicey dip in the fathomless depths of the ponds in Daley’s Brickworks. Marrickville Council even has some pics.
As a kid growing up in Marrickville myself I did wonder about the slightly banked tar oval – some 800m long from memory – it seemed like it to a bookish sub-10 year old asked to run around it at school athletics carnivals, anyway. It was lit by rusty lamps on rusty lamposts and surrounded by an equally rusty old, low wire fence decorated with scattered advertising hoardings. There were coloured lines that seemed indecipherable at the time but must have represented the duckboard, the inner edge line, the sprinters line and so on. Inside the oval was a football field, the home of the Newtown Jets, formerly the Bluebags.
The velodrome itself was the home of Dulwich Hill club until they were offered a much better deal – the 45 degree banked concrete Camperdown track. In return they gave up the big old saucer at Henson Park, with the Rugby League club taking over completely an dinstalling massive lighting towers for night matches. I’m pretty sure that Marrickville Council stumped up some of the cash for that, but it was a poor deal for Newtown RLFC anyway as they were still booted out of the first grade comp.
Still, that’s the stuff of Sydney’s history.
In brief:
Henson Park was established in 1933 on the site of Daley’s brick pit
Thomas Daley operated the Standsure Brick Company from 1886 to 1914. The brickworks occupied 3.6 ha. When the brickworks closed the pits filled with rain and ground water, forming waterholes, of which “The Blue Hole” was the biggest
Marrickville Council purchased the site in 1923 as it was a serious danger to the braver local kids
Henson Park was officially opened in 1933 with a cricket match between a Marrickville Eleven team and a North Sydney District team, including Don Bradman
Henson Park was named after William Henson, Mayor of Marrickville in 1902, 1906 to 1908 and his son, Alfred Henson, who was an Alderman of Marrickville Council from 1922 to 1931
Henson Park hosted the cycling events and the closing Games ceremony of the 1938 British Empire Games, 40,000 people packing the ground (a record for the ground and likely to be the top attendance at any suburban ground in Sydney)
The Henson Park Hill is steep and huge. You can easily see how they packed the numbers in.
My dad used to catch rabbits at Henson Park, but before that locals took a dicey dip in the fathomless depths of the ponds in Daley’s Brickworks. Marrickville Council even has some pics.
As a kid growing up in Marrickville myself I did wonder about the slightly banked tar oval – some 800m long from memory – it seemed like it to a bookish sub-10 year old asked to run around it at school athletics carnivals, anyway. It was lit by rusty lamps on rusty lamposts and surrounded by an equally rusty old, low wire fence decorated with scattered advertising hoardings. There were coloured lines that seemed indecipherable at the time but must have represented the duckboard, the inner edge line, the sprinters line and so on. Inside the oval was a football field, the home of the Newtown Jets, formerly the Bluebags.
The velodrome itself was the home of Dulwich Hill club until they were offered a much better deal – the 45 degree banked concrete Camperdown track. In return they gave up the big old saucer at Henson Park, with the Rugby League club taking over completely an dinstalling massive lighting towers for night matches. I’m pretty sure that Marrickville Council stumped up some of the cash for that, but it was a poor deal for Newtown RLFC anyway as they were still booted out of the first grade comp.
Still, that’s the stuff of Sydney’s history.
In brief:
Henson Park was established in 1933 on the site of Daley’s brick pit
Thomas Daley operated the Standsure Brick Company from 1886 to 1914. The brickworks occupied 3.6 ha. When the brickworks closed the pits filled with rain and ground water, forming waterholes, of which “The Blue Hole” was the biggest
Marrickville Council purchased the site in 1923 as it was a serious danger to the braver local kids
Henson Park was officially opened in 1933 with a cricket match between a Marrickville Eleven team and a North Sydney District team, including Don Bradman
Henson Park was named after William Henson, Mayor of Marrickville in 1902, 1906 to 1908 and his son, Alfred Henson, who was an Alderman of Marrickville Council from 1922 to 1931
Henson Park hosted the cycling events and the closing Games ceremony of the 1938 British Empire Games, 40,000 people packing the ground (a record for the ground and likely to be the top attendance at any suburban ground in Sydney)
The Henson Park Hill is steep and huge. You can easily see how they packed the numbers in.
Interesting article on track cycing in the UK… quite a turnaround for the UK, which was long mired in road TTs and inadequate outdoor tracks. The BBC reports that as well as a development program for trackies, “facilities are obviously also crucial. Britain has three indoor velodromes – in Manchester, Newport and Calshot near Southampton – with a fourth planned in London for the 2012 Olympics. The Manchester velodrome is the busiest in the world, with cyclists using it from 8am to 10pm most days, and the track is now practically worn out.” It seems to be paying off in medals.
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