with Lyn Collingwood, September 2020
Last month’s mystery photo is the stretch of buildings opposite the former Glebe Post Office on Glebe Point Rd near St Johns Rd. Charles Plumridge recalled number 130 was a boarding house, mainly for Uni students, ‘but also a collection of other eccentrics’. Thanks to Rodney Hammett who sent today’s image for comparison.
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I really want to see the photo of Duran Duran in the house!!
130 Glebe Point Rd was a youth refuge in the 80s, I lived there in about 85. Its the single most haunted building Ive ever excerienced. I still have nightmares about it
I lived there in 1986 when 130 Glebe Point Road was the Twenty-Ten Youth refuge. I remember the rumour the previous commenter made about the building being haunted, and I, not being a believer in Ghosts, was never worried, but I recall other residents were terrified, and the youth workers had the place exorcised. The building was old, and it creaked, but i loved the warm atmosphere and the mutual love and friendship felt there. It was beautiful and warm. There were many aspiring musicians and artists living there, and the British band Duran Duran visited there. One of the residents was an artist for a project funded by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straights, who donated $50,000 to a project to help stop drugs on the streets. It was called “the rock Project.” A couple of us auditioned. I missed out, but I was shocked to see one of the residents being interviewed on Count Down a couple of months later. He was part of that project. Apparently Neil Finn wrote the song that accompanied the booklet, and other member’s of Finn’s band including Paul Hester appeared on the recording. The Vita Beats sang on the recording also. The photograph of Nick Rhoads, Simon Le Bon, John Taylor from Duran Duran in my friend’s bedroom left a big impression because I was so young. They weren’t part of the Rock Project, but because they were friendly with Molly Meldrum, who was a great spokesperson for promoting these kinds of projects my friend moved in the same circle. I asked him when the photo of Duran Duran in his bedroom was taken, and he was really casual about it. Very sweet boy. They were all going with Molly to see Neil’s new band play. In hindsight it was early days of Crowded House. There was always television cameras in that house, and people being interviewed. Never a dull moment in that house. I have read that it used to be the Ananda Marga sect house prior to it being a youth refuge.
In the 1980s, 130 Glebe Point rd was the Twenty-Ten gay youth refuge. I lived there in 1985/86. It was the most haunted building I have ever lived in and was quite frankly at night, terrifying.