Monthly Archives: July 2024
2024 Annual General Meeting
Posted on 31st July 2024The Glebe Society’s 2024 Annual General Meeting was held on September 1st at the Tramsheds, followed by a debate with the mayoral candidates for the City of Sydney Council Election.
Walkshop on 8 Sept: What bird is that?
Posted on 31st July 2024Join an interpretative walk on 8 September along Johnstons Creek where birds have previously nested and been observed.
In Focus: This month’s photo competition, August 2024
Posted on 31st July 2024This month’s photo competition was a tough call for the judges, but there was one very worthy winner. Have you recently taken a photo of Glebe-Forest Lodge that you particularly like? Please send it in! Keep your smartphone handy when you’re out and about, and snap something you find interesting, beautiful, new, old, colourful, animal or vegetable.
This month’s mystery photo, August 2024
Posted on 31st July 2024What are we looking at here? Plus find out the answer to last month’s mystery photo.
Remembering their sacrifice: Max Solling’s 2024 Anzac Day address, part 3
Posted on 31st July 2024Max Solling recalls the ‘war memorial movement’ that followed the First World War, when the design and construction of many beautiful monuments in our neighbourhood marked the grief and pride experienced by local communities at the tragic loss of so many young lives
Some special visitors: Blue wrens at Rozelle Bay
Posted on 31st July 2024We thought they’d left us, but a keen-eyed observer discovered two Superb Fairy-wrens at Rozelle Bay.
Blue Wren Subcommittee Annual Report 2023–2024
Posted on 31st July 2024A busy year for the Blue Wren Subcommittee. The project sponsored by the Subcommittee has made successful observations of some of the fauna resident in ‘The Hill’. It’s just one of this year’s notable achievements by the Blue Wrens.
Letter to the Editor, August 2024
Posted on 31st July 2024On the never-ending saga of the Bridge Road cycleway
Sunday Talks with Pyrmont History Group
Posted on 31st July 2024Join the Pyrmont History Group on 18 August for a talk about the survivor of the mutiny on the Bounty and the fourth NSW governor
Planning Subcommittee Annual Report 2023-2024
Posted on 31st July 2024In his annual report, Ian Stephenson, the Glebe Society’s Planning Convenor, recommends that the State Government exempts the Sydney Local Government Area from the proposed Low- and Mid-Rise Housing State Environmental Planning Policy, but sets housing targets for the LGA to ensure the City does its bit to alleviate the housing crisis.
Glebe Music Festival Special Concert on 17 August
Posted on 31st July 2024A program of magic and mystery. That’s the promise of the Glebe Music Festival special concert on 17 August
Guided Walk report: The Hidden History of Blackwattle Bay
Posted on 31st July 2024A report on a Guided Walk in June by Ian Stephenson through the locations of existing and former sites connected to Blackwattle Creek.
Guided Walk report: Bus tour to Rookwood Cemetery and back
Posted on 31st July 2024On a Guided Walk at Rookwood Cemetery a busload of Glebe Society members enjoyed Max Solling’s account of the lives of some of its historic residents.
The Glebe Society’s latest planning submission
Posted on 31st July 2024The Glebe Society’s recent submission to Council on a development application in Forest Lodge.
Recent transport and traffic issues in Glebe–Forest Lodge
Posted on 1st July 2024Knock-on effects of Rozelle Interchange problems in Glebe–Forest Lodge; transparency concerns about building the Bridge Road Permanent Cycleway; and it never rains but it pours when it comes to local bus arrival times!
‘In Focus’ photo competition, July 2024
Posted on 1st July 2024This month, four diverse photos were submitted. Mary Regan’s ‘Winter Sunrise Blackwattle Bay’ captures the bay’s tranquil beauty at dawn; Dale Dengate’s ‘A different angle on Blackwattle Bay’ is a jumble of structures of a modern working harbour; Caroline Lipovsky’s ‘Tree culling on a eucalyptus above Wigram Lane’ showcases an arborist at work amid colourful flora, while Lyn Collingwood’s ‘Montrose’ captures a blend of old and new architecture on a winter’s day.
A community united: at the Old Fire Station
Posted on 1st July 2024Cheryl brings us up to date with some of the opportunities for community interaction available at the Old Fire Station. Volunteers are being sought for Glebe Community Projects Group and the computer lab.
Glebe’s Hill: Bunyip Tails? What the cameras saw
Posted on 1st July 2024Join us for the next instalment of the Innovation and Ideas grant project on the biodiversity of Glebe’s Hill – a ‘walkshop’ with Prof. Dieter Hochuli and Genevieve Heggarty titled: Exploring Glebe’s wild spaces – the fauna and flora of The Hill and Johnstons Creek.
Walk Report: The Glebe Estate — St Phillips and Bishopthorpe
Posted on 1st July 2024Max Solling led Glebe Society Walks fifty years ago to raise awareness of the Glebe Estate’s significance. A successful campaign resulted in the protection of the Estate by the Whitlam government. Max led another fascinating Walk of the Glebe Estate in May this year.
This month’s mystery photo, July 2024
Posted on 1st July 2024In this month’s mystery photo, you see only part of a building. Can you identify it?
Gone and Forgotten on Glebe Point Road, Part 2
Posted on 1st July 2024Gone and forgotten are Gurth, Wamba and Mussett, three of the six dwellings replaced by the Anchorage at 451 Glebe Point Road. Read about some of the families that occupied these beautiful waterfront homes.
‘Set in Stone’ – music for piano four hands
Posted on 1st July 2024This is a special Glebe Music Festival concert by Michael Tsalka and Diana Weston performing music for piano four hands on harpsichords and piano.
More green time, less screen time – better health outcomes
Posted on 1st July 2024The Society’s 8th biodiversity lecture in May was an informative and entertaining lecture entitled Regenerative Cities and Flourishing Communities: why more trees might mean less loneliness and better health by Professor Thomas Astell-Burt. He shared his knowledge and enthusiasm for the importance of nature and well-designed green space for improving the health of the world’s city-dwellers.
Max Solling’s 2024 Anzac Day address, Part 2
Posted on 1st July 2024In this second extract from his 2024 Anzac Day address, Max Solling looks behind the public commemoration of WWI dead to the private grief of the many Glebe women who lost sons, brothers and husbands. As the bodies of WWI war dead were rarely repatriated, Glebe’s War Memorial in Foley Park became the focal point for remembrance and processing grief.
War and no peace – the never-ending saga of the Bridge Road cycleway
Posted on 1st July 2024The new cycleway design does not improve safety;, eg. footpaths will be accessible to cyclists via ‘pram ramps’ to avoid cycleway sections with merged cycle and general traffic lanes. Eight months of night-time construction will generate noise levels exceeding industry standards. Recommended Industry-standard noise mitigation measures will not be used due to cost or effect on construction time.
