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Who lived in your street? ‘Yabba’
Posted on 1st December 2025Stephen 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.
Richard Beaumont Orchard
Posted on 12th June 2022Richard Orchard was one of the celebrities sketched in Sydneyites as we see ’em, published in 1915. He was then living at 22 Allen St, Glebe, He had a varied career including as a jeweller and politician.
