Enmore Park Plan of Management - Land

Conservation Management StrategyEnmore ParkFigure H8 – Aerial photograph from 1930, showing marked with red crosses those pathways or desirelines through the park which no longer remain. However, the access provided by these removed trackswas retained by new paths laid out in similar locations in subsequent decades. There appears to be nobandstand at the centre of the park at this time. Source: Marrickville Council.In 1930, Enmore Park was defined by a haphazard line of canopy trees around its streetboundaries. Very few trees lay within the body of the park, although the Phoenix palms whichonce existed along the main path from Enmore Road to the central feature had been planted bythat date. During the 1930s, the park seemingly retained its original overall layout with a centralcircular zone remaining the feature of the site. It is evident that whilst the Council was movingaway from authorising public events and sports uses for the park during the late 1920s, the parkwas being used at that time for other facilities or events. At the time of the 1930 aerial photo, aportion of the park’s Enmore Road frontage had a range of small structures located on it, whichmay have been associated with a circus event of something similar.Information contained in the 1936 publication “A History of the Municipality of Marrickville”suggests that around that time substantial expansion and improvement works were undertaken tomany of the parks within the Marrickville area. Acreages reserved for parks were increased andimprovements within existing parks included tree plantings, flower beds and playing grounds.Enmore Park was described in this publication as being ‘greatly improved under council’sbeautification scheme with lawns and gardens. On the north and south-eastern corners of thepark the children have not been forgotten as swings, etc., have been erected for their use’. Thepublication suggests that in the early 1920s there had only been three parks in the Marrickvillearea, of which Enmore Park was one.Mayne-Wilson & Associates9Conservation Landscape Architects