by Jude Paul, Bulletin 2024/8, October

A Glebe Talks brief history of 49 Glebe Point Road, home of Gleebooks.

Lamings golden gloves on footpath outside Gleebooks, 2013 (photo: newtown graffiti, Flickr)

There were paddocks nearby when this building opened for business in 1871. Since then it’s been a grocery, furniture factory, boxing gym, and a meeting place for political agitators – including the father of Bob Gould, another iconic bookseller. 

Where: café at Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road

When: 6 November, 6–7 pm

Cost: $25, includes finger food and a glass of wine

Bookings: via Eventbrite 

A woman shopping in Gleebooks, 2003 (photo: Patricia Baillie, City of Sydney Archives)