Yearly Archives: 2024
Glebe Talks: Lyn Collingwood & David Gaunt – Biscuits to Books
Posted on 2nd October 2024In this ‘Glebe Talks’ event on 6 November, Lyn Collingwood and David Gaunt will talk about the history of the 49 Glebe Point Road in which Gleebooks has been located for decades. It’s also been a grocery, furniture factory, boxing gym and more.
How I got to Glebe – Lydia Bushell
Posted on 2nd October 2024There’s a lot to the story of Lydia Bushell, an active long term member of the Glebe Society with an illustrious career in the conservation of antiquities.
2024 Glebe Art Show
Posted on 2nd October 2024The Glebe Art Show 2024 will be at the Harold Park Community Hall, Tramsheds, from Thursday 17 October until Sunday 20 October. It has been held annually since 1997, with prizes across several categories and all artwork is offered for sale. Online viewing from 6 pm Wednesday 16 October.
In Focus: This month’s photo competition, October 2024
Posted on 2nd October 2024There was a diverse collection of entries and subject matter in this month’s photo competition.
News from the Blue Wren Subcommittee, October 24
Posted on 2nd October 2024A walk along Johnstons Creek gives insights into Glebe’s bird life. The Society’s Spring Bird Survey is coming up, as is a presentation on the Glebe Hill biodiversity project.
Planning submission re Denman Lane, Glebe
Posted on 2nd October 2024The Society made a submission to Council on a development application to erect a two-storey dwelling in Denman Lane behind 32 St Johns Rd.
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.
The Slippery Slope
Posted on 28th August 2024In recent years some of Glebe’s buildings deemed important to maintaining the character of its heritage conservation areas have been demolished or approved for demolition, despite planning laws that are meant to prevent this. Planning Convenor, Ian Stephenson, wants more rigorous control by the City of Sydney Council.
This month’s mystery photo: September 2024
Posted on 28th August 2024Someone is building an aircraft, but where and when?
In Focus: 2037 photo competition rules
Posted on 28th August 2024Get out your phone or camera and enter our monthly In Focus competition. Send us a picture of somewhere or someone in Glebe or Forest Lodge, in fact anywhere in the 2037 postcode. Open to all members of the Glebe Society.
News from the Blue Wren subcommittee: September 2024
Posted on 28th August 2024Recognition for the volunteers from the Orphan School Creek Bushcare Group and reports on the well-attended talk and walk in July about The Hill research project. A male brush turkey has built a mound in the Wood Street lands area in Forest Lodge. It’s obviously impressive as he has had two female Brush-Turkeys inspecting the condition of his mound.
In Focus: This month’s photo competition, September 2024
Posted on 28th August 2024There have been excellent entries in this month’s photo competition. Take a look at them and find out the judges’ decision. Thinking of entering a photo? Deadline is the 15th of each month.
Communications Subcommittee Annual Report 2023-2024
Posted on 28th August 2024The annual report of the Communications Subcommittee, responsible for the Society’s Bulletin, websites and social media. One of the Society’s videos on YouTube has been viewed 85,000 times!
Mind the GAPP – supporting those in need in Glebe for the last 20 years!
Posted on 28th August 2024The Glebe Assistance Partnership Program (GAPP) has been supporting those in need in Glebe and the surrounding suburbs for 20 years. Now the Anglicare grant that has been its lifeblood for 10 years, will no longer be available.
‘Going to the Dogs’, by Max Solling and John Tracey
Posted on 28th August 2024Richard Cashman’s review of ‘Going to the Dogs; A History of Greyhound Racing in New South Wales’, by Max Solling and John Tracey, says the authors have undertaken a thorough interrogation of what many have regarded as a sport on the margins of respectability.
Heritage Subcommittee Annual Report 2023–2024
Posted on 28th August 2024The Society’s Heritage Subcommittee Annual Report points out that it does a lot more than simply monitoring the impact and application of local and State heritage controls.
Kanangra’s restoration is progressing
Posted on 28th August 2024At Rozelle Bay some dedicated volunteers are restoring the Kanangra, a ferry built in 1912 that served Sydney Harbour for more than 70 years. The volunteers are keeping alive the old shipbuilding skills that were once a feature of docks on the Harbour foreshore.
2024 Glebe Art Show and September Art Walk
Posted on 28th August 2024Read about this year’s Glebe Art Show in October and the artwalk along the Glebe Foreshore in September
Planning Submission: 1-7 Bellevue St
Posted on 28th August 2024The Glebe Society has recommended some modifications to the development application including the retention of an external door.
35th Annual Glebe Music Festival
Posted on 25th August 2024This year’s Glebe Music Festival line-up includes a rock concert (“No Other” – songs of Gene Clark from The Byrds) and a jazz concert (Kyell Goyer and Stolen Moments).
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.
Famous figures in Glebe’s past
Posted on 1st August 2024Each month we publish articles by our intrepid History Team on famous and infamous figures in Glebe’s past.
Here are some of our recent stories. This photo is of ‘Comrade Wally Clayton’ of Glebe Point Road.
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.
