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Hi Duck,

I can offer you only the following. I don't know what happened to St Enoch's

"Wellington Street was formed prior to 1858, and became Chelmsford Street sometime after 1939. The Presbyterian church was located here prior to 1881; this street was surely named for the Duke of Wellington, the English hero of the Napoleonic wars, though a certain Mr Wellington did live in Egan Street in the 1880s."

This is a Google 'Street View' of the corner of Lennox and Chelmsford streets. Now a vacant block/park. Perhaps St Enoch's once stood here.

Duck, the following links have information regarding St Enoch's Presbyterian Church, Newtown.

The first link is to the Newtown Project, a historical project from the City of Sydney Archives, documenting the Municipality of Newtown, which was absorbed into the City of Sydney in 1948, via legislation, to assist in the progress of infrastructure development.

The Newtown Project

The second link is a "social sketch" of Newtown, from 1892 to 1922, a total of 7 pages, from the Newtown Project.

Interestingly, there is no information in this "social sketch" on St Enoch's Church, which was built in 1887 - but there's a section, and a photo, on the Coronation Hall of St. Enoch's, which was built in 1911.

The Coronation Hall was apparently some way distant from the actual Church.
Newtown - A social sketch - 1892-1922

The third link is to a genealogy page, which has a photo and a snippet of information about St Enoch's, stating it was built by John Morrison and the artchitects were Blackett Bros.

Family History4U

You probably need to contact the City of Sydney Archives people, they will no doubt be interested to hear any history, or see any early photos of Newtown, and its buildings.

That Kevin Budden was bit of a nutter as regards snakes, wasn't he?
I've read his story before, and it leaves me cold, just the thought of going around lifting sheets of old tin, trying to find, and grab a Taipan!!

I don't like the part, about how the scientists have found that the Taipan venom still held its full toxicity, even after 60 years in dry storage!!

Cheers, Ron.