Talk:Carlton Gardens

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This article needs work. Somebody needs to go back to more substantial secondary sources for the history, such as Georgina Whitehead's Civilising the City: A history of Melbourne's Public Gardens. The City of Melbourne marketing department's information and the citations for Heritage Victoria and the World Heritage listing are derived mainly from these, often through a series of 'chinese whispers' that result in a hash of facts. Their claims are also hyperbolic at times, e.g. the 'botanical significance' of the quite limited range of species in the Carlton Gardens is risible. There are many fine trees, it is a fine landscape, but it is not a significant botanical collection. I have made a few obvious corrections but there is more that should be done. R Jones 22:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

There certainly seems to be a lot of history missing. I lived opposite the gardens in Carlton Street in the late 60s and early 70s and things I remember that are not yet covered are: maternal & child health centre that used to be where museum now is; traffic school where playground now is, including a shallow, empty, round 'lake' with a sort of metal stepped bridge-like structure in the centre; metal pipe playground equipment, including swings, a see-saw and a roundabout; a poorly-designed 70s-style treated pine and tan bark playground constructed next to the lake during the time I lived there; and annual outdoor art exhibitions held where the garden show is now held. Zoe Ocean 23:07, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the proposal was moved. --BDD (talk) 22:27, 27 December 2012 (UTC) (non-admin closure)

• Carlton Gardens, Melbourne → Carlton Gardens
• Carlton Gardens → Carlton Gardens (disambiguation)

– Carlton Gardens, Melbourne is a World Heritage site while the other uses are a barely notable primary school with a name derived from the World Heritage site and a cul-de-sac in the UK without its own article. Mattinbgn (talk) 21:49, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

• Support The World Heritage gardens is clearly the primary topic.--Melburnian (talk) 00:04, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

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