History
Gone and Forgotten on Glebe Point Road, Part 2
Posted on 1st July 2024
Gone 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.
This month’s mystery photo: October 2024
Posted on 2nd October 2024
This one’s a bit tricky. And there’s an interesting solution to last month’s mystery photo.
This month’s mystery photo: September 2024
Posted on 28th August 2024
Someone is building an aircraft, but where and when?
This month’s mystery photo, August 2024
Posted on 31st July 2024
What 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 2024
Each 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 2024
Max 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
Walk Report: The Glebe Estate — St Phillips and Bishopthorpe
Posted on 1st July 2024
Max 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 2024
In this month’s mystery photo, you see only part of a building. Can you identify it?
Max Solling’s 2024 Anzac Day address, Part 2
Posted on 1st July 2024
In 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.
This month’s mystery photo: June 2024
Posted on 29th May 2024
Glebe and Forest Lodge sleuths wait with bated breath for the next identification challenge and the revealing of the answer to last month’s mystery. Lyn Collingwood poses the challenge and provides a bit of history for last month’s photo..
Supporting a fellow community group: Pyrmont History Group
Posted on 1st May 2024
Following the seminal work ‘Women of Pyrmont’, first published in 2017, ‘Men of Pyrmont’ was finally produced in 2024. The new book has been glowingly described as ‘surprising, entertaining, a joy!’. It is a collection of 42 most diverse reflections on life in Pyrmont. The Pyrmont History Group is offering the two books for sale.
Max Solling’s 2024 Anzac Day address
Posted on 26th April 2024
Glebe historian, Max Solling’s 2024 Anzac Day address touching on war memorials, Indigenous Australians in the First Australian Imperial Force (AIF) and the women of Glebe.
This month’s mystery photo: May 2024
Posted on 1st May 2024
This month’s photo has something of a development flavour. Last month featured a home in Ferry Road. This home and others in the street have an interesting history which has inspired coverage of the street’s background.
This month’s mystery photo: April 2024
Posted on 27th March 2024
A new photo for this month. Can you guess where the photo’s subject is located? And find out where last month’s photo was taken.
‘The Cream of the Coast’ in Forest Lodge
Posted on 27th March 2024
Stripped of its paint during recent renovations, the wall of a former corner shop in Forest Lodge revealed a fragment of a Streets Ice Cream advertisement before being once more retired beneath layers of paint. The fragment was from Streets’ tagline, ‘The Cream of the Coast’.
This month’s mystery photo: March 2024
Posted on 28th February 2024
A new mystery photograph to test your knowledge of Glebe and Forest Lodge.
Blue Plaque nominations Part 21: Calmar, 128 Glebe Point Road
Posted on 28th February 2024
The twenty-first and final site nominated by the Society in 2021 for a Blue Plaque is Calmar at 128 Glebe Point Road which was designed by Edmund Blacket.
It’s official: A Blue Plaque for Dorothy Drain
Posted on 28th November 2023
She charmed Frank Sinatra into giving her a rare interview. Journalist, war correspondent, and editor, Dorothy Drain’s home in Glebe will be remembered with a Blue Plaque.
Blue Plaque nomination No 20: Hartford, 244 Glebe Point Road
Posted on 28th November 2023
A grand Glebe mansion with a history. Hartford, the home of pioneering dentist Edwin Magnus.
A successful Blue Plaque nomination for Dorothy Drain
Posted on 30th October 2023
Heritage NSW has accepted our nomination for a Blue Plaque at the former home in Toxteth Road, Glebe, of journalist, war correspondent and Women’s Weekly Editor, Dorothy Drain.
This month’s mystery photo: October 2023
Posted on 5th October 2023
The ever-popular mystery photo competition … this months’ a doozy!
Glebe’s Blue Plaque Nominations, Part 18: Harry Hopman
Posted on 5th October 2023
This month, the Society’s continuing series of nominations for a Blue Plaque recommends the home of Harry Hopman at Minerva Terrace, Wigram Road. Harry Hopman was the successful captain-coach of 22 Australian Davis Cup teams from 1939 to 1967. As architect of Australia’s post-war tennis supremacy, his stint as non-playing captain-coach became known as ‘the Hopman era’, during which he won the Davis Cup 15 times.
Lyndhurst St home of Robert Askin: Glebe’s Blue Plaque Nomination #17
Posted on 29th August 2023
NSW Premier Robert Askin lived in Glebe from 1920 to 1931. He’s probably not our favourite son, but the Glebe Society will nominate his home for a Blue Plaque.
This month’s mystery photo: September 2023
Posted on 28th August 2023
Try your hand at this month’s mystery photo. Where are we and what’s going on?
A letter from Lodge Street
Posted on 1st August 2023
His mother didn’t want him to go, but Glebe’s Frank Hurley persuaded Douglas Mawson to employ him as the official photographer on the 1911 Antarctic expedition.
This month’s mystery photo: August 2023
Posted on 30th July 2023
Try your hand at this month’s mystery photo. Where are we? And what on earth is going on?
Who lived in your street? John George Bryen and St Helen’s
Posted on 30th July 2023
What did John George Bryen have in common with Toad of Toad Hall? They were both terrible drivers, and as Lyn Collingwood recalls, Bryen lived in a well-known house in Glebe but was not a fictional character.
Mystery photo: July 2023
Posted on 26th June 2023
Try your hand at this month’s mystery photo. And find the answer to last month’s.
Glebe’s Blue Plaque Nominations, Part 15: 21 Ross St Forest Lodge
Posted on 30th June 2023
The Communist Party of Australia printed its newspaper Tribune in Forest Lodge from 1943 to 1981. The Glebe Society is nominating the building at 21 Ross Street for a Blue Plaque.
Who Lived in Your Street? The Herron and Ayre families of ‘alphabet’ house, Divo
Posted on 26th June 2023
The Herron then Ayre families occupied ‘Divo’, one of the ‘alphabet’ houses in the terrace at 433-445 Glebe Point Road. The other alphabet houses are Gaza, Favo, Edna, Cama and Boro.
