Green Park — Attraction in Sydney

Green Park is between St Vincent’s Hospital and the former Darlinghurst Gaol, bounded by Burton and Victoria Streets and Darlinghurst Road.

Darlinghurst was named after Governor Ralph Darling (‘Hurst’ being an old English word for a heavily-timbered hill). His successor Richard Bourke transformed the area when he decided to build a new gaol and courthouse on the ridge with its scattering of villas and windmills. The prisoners were marched here in 1841 from the old gaol near Circular Quay.

Alexander Green arrived as a convict in 1824 and became the assistant hangman in 1828. By the time he moved to Darlinghurst Gaol in July 1841, he was described as very ugly, with pockmarked skin and stumps for teeth, of simple mind, with a large scar, from an axe attack by a prisoner, down the side of his face. Green was given a whitewashed hut to live in outside the eastern wall of the gaol in modern Green Park but was forced to move inside the gaol walls when larrikins attacked his house and burnt it...

The Park is quite run down now compared to my visits in previous years. Some good shade and grassy areas to sit. Loads of birds in the area that are sure to harass you if you have food. Watch where you sit as there is quite a bit of rubbish and things that are unsafe for kids, so not really suitable at all...

Yes it is unfortunate about the homeless ,the drug use well the cross is just down the road and also there is a methadone clinic in the hospital complex across the road from green park aside from that the park is well maintained and it is a pleasant place to sit on a...