Blasts from the Past
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Blasts from the Past
Posted on 12th March 2018
Sarah Fogg, from the Society’s Communications subcommittee, has dipped into this now-complete archive, to extract some interesting snippets from the first Bulletin for each volume from 40, 30, 20 and 10 years ago.
Your reflections on these snippets are most welcome.
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100 years ago in Glebe & Forest Lodge this month: November 1920
Posted on 4th November 2020
A snippet of history…
![Detonator accident, Victoria Street, Glebe Point, 30 November 1919.](https://glebesociety.org.au/wp-content/uploads/detonator-accident-30nov1919-150x150.jpg)
100 Years ago in Glebe & Forest Lodge – November 2019
Posted on 23rd February 2020
Researcher’s Note: This is the tunnel which today is used by the light rail. For related articles on the tunnel see Bulletins 2016 (Issue 5) and 2017 (Issue 8).
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The Seventies
Posted on 4th April 2018
How different things could have been, Expressways through Glebe, ‘The Glebe Ferry’, ‘The Ungreening of Glebe’, ‘Use the Library!’, a homecoming poem, Bidura site development, University Hotel and Opening Up the Glebe Foreshore.
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The Eighties
Posted on 4th April 2018
Public transport v expressways, ‘Reflecting on the socio-economics changes in Glebe’, ‘Bicentennial Park Two Steps Closer’, ‘The incinerator to become a brewery’, ‘Traffic Petition from The Glebe Society’, ‘Army stands firm’, ‘Oops’, a Helipad for Glebe, Anzac Bridge plans unveiled, ‘As grand as the Botanic Gardens’ and “Sign to be removed from University Hall’
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The Nineties
Posted on 4th April 2018
A hospital, prison or library, ‘Wentworth Park’, Report from Councillor Macindoe, ‘Sydney airport(s)’, “A Glebe Ferry’, ‘Light Rail’, ‘Claytons Public Consultation’, ‘4WDs in the Park’, ‘Progressive Dinner’, Tranby Aboriginal C-Operative College, ‘A bus to the airport’ and ‘The boxing gloves outside Gleebooks’
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The Noughties
Posted on 4th April 2018
Events in Glebe, ‘Bellevue, 55 Leichhardt St’, ‘Wentworth Park: a changing Scene’, ‘Glebe Conservation Study’, ‘$30,000 to preserve Wireless House’, ‘Captain James Francis Hurley, OBE’, ‘Lucky Catch’, Guest Writer: Tom Uren, ‘Temple Fire’, ‘Public Art’, Fish Market upgrade and Glebe Point Road upgrade