Image held by Richmond Library. Cremorne Gardens was an amusement park on the banks of the Yarra which operated from 1853 to 1863. This ornate rotunda, dating from the opening of Cremorne in 1853, was used for housing the orchestra in the centre of an outdoor dance-floor.For further information consult local history file RFC 569:"Cremorne Gardens, Richmond, and the modelled panoramas 1853 to 1863" by Mimi Colligan, in the Victorian Historical Journal Vol 66, No.2. October 1995; and RFC 7: "Cremorne Gardens: a brief history" by Barbara J Savill in the Victorian Historical Journal Vol 51, No.1, 1980.Image held by library is a copy of a nineteenth century photograph; source uncertain.
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