Alexandra Gardens
Riverside park of lawns and palms lined with historic timber rowing boathouses and a skate park.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Alexandra Gardens in Melbourne recalls the days when this riverbank, once known as Henley Lawn, drew crowds of three hundred thousand for the Henley-on-Yarra regatta each spring, a floating carnival of decorated punts and brass bands. You'll hear how engineer Carlo Catani spent four years turning a flooded swamp and brickmaker's pit into this ground before 1896, and about the star-shaped rose bed he and curator George Cooper planted to mark Federation. Watch the rowers slide out from the timber boathouses that still line the water.
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