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Who lived in your street?  ‘Yabba’

Posted on 1st December 2025

Stephen Harold Gascoigne was a Sydney Cricket Ground barracker, famous as ‘Yabba’ for his raucous, witty interjections. His tall, burly figure is commemorated by a bronze statue in the Victor Trumper Stand. For much of his life Yabba lived in Glebe near Parramatta Road.

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