Yearly Archives: 2022
Glebe’s social, commercial and industrial history
Posted on 20th December 2022This year the Glebe Society’s Bulletin has published many fascinating articles about Glebe’s social, commercial and industrial history, its historic buildings and about the people and families who lived here in the 19th and 20th centuries. Often in response to enquiries from members of the public with a family connection to Glebe.
Mystery photo: December 2022
Posted on 18th December 2022Not a mystery this time, but an undated photograph taken on the back steps of Ellangowan, a mansion in Stewart Street that was demolished around 1970. See also the answer to last month’s mystery photo.
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Another Triumph! Glebe Music Festival 2022
Posted on 15th December 2022The 33rd Annual Glebe Music Festival in November was of the highest standard. The seven-part concert series embraced music of the English Renaissance, the court of Louis XIV, Corelli and Handel, Beethoven and Chopin, the contemporary American jazz composer ‘Chick’ Corea and more. If you love music this is the festival for you – keep a look out for the 2023 Glebe Music Festival!
Society wins grant to investigate Glebe’s Hill as urban wildlife refuge
Posted on 15th December 2022Great news from the Blue Wren Subcommittee! The Society has been awarded a City of Sydney Innovation and Ideas Grant to investigate Glebe’s Hill potential as a site of the City’s first urban wildlife refuge.
Blue Plaque nomination #10: 23 Avenue Road Glebe, once home of Bernard and Kate Smith
Posted on 14th December 2022The NSW Government has called nominations of places linked to notable personalities and events for recognition as part of the NSW Blue Plaques program. The Glebe Society made a number of nominations. The tenth site nominated by the Society is 23 Avenue Rd, Glebe. the former home of Bernard and Kate Smith and where the Glebe Society started from a meeting held on 27 February 1969.
Thank you, Keiran! All the best for the future
Posted on 14th December 2022The Glebe Society has great respect for the way Keiran Kevans, outgoing Coordinator of Glebe Youth Service, has brought together so many community groups in Glebe. Keiran reflects on his time at GYS and its growing role in the community.
What’s happening at Bidura?
Posted on 14th December 2022Bidura at 357 Glebe Point Road was built in 1860 by Edmund Blacket and is listed on the State Heritage Register. Property developer Vision Land has plans to demolish the Metropolitan Remand Centre (behind the heritage building) and replace it with an apartment block. The Council is expected to make a decision about the latest DA in mid-December. Meanwhile the heritage building and fence look to be in serious need of repair.
What’s happening with the Bridge Rd cycleway
Posted on 14th December 2022The Society met recently with representatives of Transport NSW to discuss the problems with the Bridge Rd cycleway and to get an update on proposed improvements. The Management Committee is particularly concerned about the stretch of cycleway between Glebe Point Rd and Ross St because of safety for cyclists and amenity for residents. We note that not all our members share this view. Your feedback is welcome.
Glebe, naturally…
Posted on 30th November 202233 different bird species were identified during this year’s spring bird survey in Glebe and Forest Lodge, including a tawny frogmouth, lots of lorikeets and magpies, herons, tree martins and red wattlebirds. Two brush turkeys have recently been spotted building their characteristic mounds.
Blue Plaque nomination #9: 52 Toxteth Road, once home of Dorothy Drain
Posted on 30th November 2022In September last year the NSW Government called for communities to nominate places linked to notable personalities and events for recognition as part of the NSW Blue Plaques program. The Glebe Society made a number of nominations. The ninth site nominated is 52 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, the former home of Dorothy Drain, once one of Australia’s best known journalists.
Glebe Public School: Call out for musical instruments!
Posted on 30th November 2022Do you have any woodwind or brass instruments lurking in a cupboard unused? Glebe Public School is looking for donations to get a band program started next year.
Glebe Society 2022 Christmas appeal
Posted on 30th November 2022Members are asked to provide items for Christmas gifts for children and parents living in supported accommodation in Glebe. The Society is joining with the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse cancer centre in Camperdown, in this annual appeal.
Uncle Ray Minniecon honoured
Posted on 7th November 2022On Tuesday 11 October, standing near the Scarred Tree in the grounds of St. John’s Church in Glebe, Uncle Ray Minniecon bowed his head to receive the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation medal from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. Uncle Ray is the pastor of St. John’s Indigenous Ministries
Jamie Parker to quit Parliament at next election
Posted on 7th November 2022Jamie Parker MP has represented the state seat of Balmain (in which Glebe is located) for nearly 12 years but has recently announced his decision not to contest the next election in March 2023. He spoke to the Glebe Society Bulletin about his proudest achievements and what he leaves undone.
More Cycleway Madness
Posted on 7th November 2022The Lord Mayor and NSW Minister for Transport seem uninterested in community opinion on the issue of the Bridge Road cycleway and are determined to make it permanent. The City Council also has a plan to allow cyclists to go both ways down some one-way streets in Glebe and Forest Lodge.
Bridge Road resident Di Anstey writes about the unresolved safety, parking and drop off issues associated with the cycleway and asks why St Johns Road couldn’t be an alternative route.
Mystery photo: November 2022
Posted on 4th November 2022Where are we, and what’s changed? See also the answer to last month’s mystery photo.
From the President – November 2022
Posted on 4th November 2022Catch up with what’s been happening at the Glebe Society. After ten years doing an amazing job as editor of the Bulletin, Virginia Simpson-Young is standing down. Allan Hogan takes her place on an interim basis. Welcome also to three new committee convenors – Louis Taborda, Community, Tamira Stevenson, Environment and Duncan Leys, Transport.
Sydney Streets comes to Glebe, 5 November
Posted on 4th November 2022Glebe Point Rd will be closed to traffic to St. Johns Rd from 11 am this Saturday 5 Nov, with food from local eateries, live music, entertainment, activities for children and more on offer.
The raison d’être of the Glebe Society
Posted on 9th October 2022Reflections written in 2010 (with some factual updates since) on the social and economic conditions in Glebe in the 1960s and the factors that saw the birth of the Glebe Society. In the intervening 50 years, the changing demographics of Glebe have also played a role, arguably both positive and negative. By long term Glebe Society member and former Planning Convenor, Neil Macindoe.
The Glebe Society Bulletin –a previous editor’s memories
Posted on 6th October 2022Sadly, this is Virginia’s last Bulletin, at least for now. This has prompted former Bulletin editor Edwina Doe to look at all the Bulletins, since 1969, on the Glebe Society website.
Lake Northam, Victoria Park
Posted on 6th October 2022Victoria Park – and Lake Northam – have a rich history. Have a look at some photos depicting Lake Northam at different periods in history.
Blue Plaque nominations #8: 151 Glebe Point Road, once home of Etty Mace
Posted on 6th October 2022by Lyn Collingwood, from Bulletin 8 of 2022, October The eighth site nominated by the Glebe Society for a Blue Plaque is 151 Glebe Point Rd, where the abortionist Etty Mace (1878-1950) lived. Although used for centuries as a means of preventing the birth of unwanted children, abortion in NSW was not fully decriminalised until […]
Switch off the lights, a step in the right direction
Posted on 6th October 2022The recent decision by the Independent Planning Commission regarding the advertising on the Glebe Island Silos, to have the lighting switched off at 11 pm, is a welcome improvement.
Attention members! Christmas Party 2022
Posted on 5th October 2022The Glebe Society Christmas Party will be held on Sunday 11 December 2022 from 5 pm to 7 pm at The Gardener’s Grill in Victoria Park, in a beautiful 19th century gothic sandstone lodge building. Two types of tickets are available. An ‘all weather ticket’ which guarantees a place – rain, hail or shine – and a ‘fine weather only ticket’ which will enable you to attend only if the weather is fine.
Demonstration against demolition of public housing in Wentworth Park Rd
Posted on 2nd October 2022On 17 September, Hands Off Glebe held a demonstration to protest against the demolition of 17 public housing units at 82 Wentworth Park Rd by the NSW Land and Housing Corporation. Speakers called for existing public housing estates to be upgraded and repaired and for the social and urban fabric of Glebe to be respected, and for the NSW Government to stop ‘cannibalising’ public housing.
On Track
Posted on 20th September 2022The Goods Line through Glebe – now used by the Light Rail – turns 100 this year. The viaducts crossing Jubilee Park and Wentworth Park are the longest and second longest respectively, brick viaducts built for the New South Wales Railways.
News from the Blue Wren Subcommittee
Posted on 20th September 2022Recent Bushcare, Landcare and biodiversity news, including the upcoming bird survey and recent plantings in Federal Park and at the Palmerston steps off Ferry Road.
The future of Wentworth Park when the greyhounds leave
Posted on 20th September 2022The NSW Government has committed to relocating the Wentworth Park greyhound track, which is licenced to the Greyhound Breeders Owners & Trainers Association until 2027, to create one large, unified park. The City of Sydney is currently preparing a draft concept plan for the park, which at the moment is cut in two.
33rd Annual Glebe Music Festival
Posted on 14th September 2022The 33rd Annual Glebe Music Festival will take place from Friday 4 November to Sunday 27 November. At this year’s Festival, eight concerts are scheduled, at Gleebooks, Glebe Town Hall and Margaretta Cottage in Leichhardt St. Tickets are going fast.
