Johnstone Park

Johnstone Park is a landscaped garden in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. It is bounded by way of Railway Terrace, Gheringhap Street, Little Malop Street, Fenwick Street, and Mercer Street. The park is surrounded via civic buildings inclusive of the Geelong Town Hall, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong Library, Geelong Law Courts, and the Geelong Railway Station. A warfare memorial and bandstand function within the centre of the park.

The location occupied with the aid of Johnstone Park became at first called Western Gully, a watercourse that drained toward Corio Bay. In 1849 a dam was built at the downstream end of the gully, close to the intersection of Gheringhap, Malop and Mercer streets. The dam was fenced off in 1851 after at the least one individual and several horses had drowned. The place become made into a park in March 1872, and named after former Geelong mayor Robert De Bruce Johnstone.

The park stretched from Gheringhap Street to Latrobe Terrace. In December that year the primary band live performance was held with the aid of the Geelong Artillery Corps band. An octagonal wooden bandstand become erected within the park at some point of November 1873. The Belcher Fountain turned into hooked up adjoining to the park in 1874, within the center of the intersection of Gheringhap, Malop and Mercer streets. The fountain become a gift to the City of Geelong from former Mayor George Frederick Belcher.