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Gardener's Lodge - Victoria Park - Camperdown
Gardener's Lodge - Victoria Park - Camperdown

FOLLOWING major renovations by the City of Sydney, the historic Gardener’s Lodge Cafe is open for business.
Nestled inside Camperdown’s Victoria Park, the venue has now been turned into a cafe after remaining vacant for almost 10 years. Aboriginal Elder Aunty Beryl Van-Oploo, from the Gamillaroi people of north-west NSW, is one of three hospitality teachers who run the cafe.
Lord Mayor Clover Moore said the rustic sandstone venue could not be in better hands. “Where the cafe is located is a beautiful setting with a grand entrance with a lovely lake beside it,” she said.”Aunty Beryl, who will be running the cafe, also runs a hospitality training college that teaches students about using bush flavours.”She will be giving her graduating students work experience. She is really pleased with it because the area was an Aboriginal meeting spot where kangaroos came down to drink at the water hole.”
Ms Moore said the Gardener’s Lodge has come a long way since it was first built in the 1800s. “We planned to spend $1.5 million doing it up however it only cost $1.35 million,” Cr Moore said.”It was first designed by colonial architects and it was an old gate house.
The Gardener’s Lodge was one of two lodges built in 1888 by the former Colonial Architect to NSW, James Barnet, to provide a grand main entrance to the university. The Gothic-styled Gardener’s Lodge was the former home of the University of Sydney’s groundskeeper, who tended the sweeping lawns and gardens surrounding the campus.
In 1911, ownership passed to the City of Sydney and the building was later converted into public toilets, or ‘conveniences’ as they were then called. In need of repair, it was closed to the public in the mid-1980s.
Source: Gardener's Lodge website

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