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6 unusual facts about Glebe


Balmain Rowing Club

It has occupied its current site at the bottom of White St, Balmain since the club's inception.

Bara, East Lothian

The Glebe was on the north side of the road leading to Garvald and the manse stood where, in 1890, the Bara blacksmith's premises stood.

Glebe Rowing Club

It has occupied its current location at the foot of Ferry St, Glebe since the club's inception.

Lands of Lainshaw

The 1779 Lainshaw estate map shows the Glebe meadows running down from the Laigh Church to the river and as far as the Old Stewarton Road at Kirkford.

Malarndirri McCarthy

Born in Katherine in 1970, Malarndirri attended school in Borroloola, Alice Springs and St Scholastica's College in Glebe, Sydney, where she was School Captain in 1988.

Mordington

It mysteriously burnt down in 1757 and a new church was erected on the Duns road on what became known as the Minister's Glebe.


1912 Eastern Suburbs season

But two rounds of the rugby League competition remain to be played, and the last vestige of hope that Glebe possesse of dethroning Eastern Sububurb has almost disappeared, for the Sydney Tricolours will have to be beaten in both contests before they are overhauled by the Reds - a most unlikely happening.

Ballston, Arlington, Virginia

Washington-Lee High School and two small parks, Welburn Square and Glebe and Randolph Park, are also located in Ballston.

Bellevue, Glebe

In 2003 Bellevue came under the jurisdiction of the City of Sydney Council because the suburb of Glebe had been transferred to their control.

Blackheath, West Midlands

The changes brought about by the industrial revolution led to a Private Act in June that year that allowed the sale of the Rowley Regis glebe lands in order to finance the building of a new vicarage.

Carol Klein

There she taught at North Devon College before setting up her own plant nursery, Glebe Cottage Plants.

Fernand Fau

Camille Lemonnier, Les Concubins ; La Glèbe ; Un pèlerinage, Paris, E. Monnier, de Brunhoff, 1886

George Dearnaley

He would watch matches mainly from the Glebe Stadium in Umlazi where he encountered the likes of Mlungisi Ngubane and Jomo Sono on numerous occasions.

Haliburton Sculpture Forest

These partners include Fleming College, Haliburton Campus, the Haliburton County Development Corporation, the Municipality of Dysart et al, Haliburton Highlands Secondary School, Haliburton Highlands Museum, Haliburton Highlands Trails and Tours Network, Haliburton Nordic Trails Association, Head Lake Trail Committee, Glebe Park Committee, the Arts Council~Haliburton Highlands, and community volunteers.

James Joynton Smith

In 1901, his interest in sports led to him taking out a lease at Brighton racecourse at Rockdale, and later the Forest Lodge racecourse in Glebe, which eventually became Harold Park.

Morris Birkbeck Pell

Morris Birkbeck Pell (31 March 1827, Albion, Illinois, USA — 7 May 1879, Glebe, New South Wales, Australia) was an American-Australian mathematician, academic, government advisor, lawyer and actuary.

Simon Degge

There were many chapters of the details of tithing as well as now obscure problems such as, the income from a glebe, Jus patronatus and Simony.

Sydney underground railways

The former railway from the Powerhouse Museum to Lilyfield, including Pyrmont and Glebe tunnels, has been converted to form part of the Inner West Light Rail line from Central station.

One runs underneath Railway Square, between the Central station railway yards and the Powerhouse Museum, the others underneath Pyrmont and Glebe.

Toxteth Park, Glebe

In 1829 George commissioned the famous architect, John Verge, to build Toxteth House on 96 acres that he had acquired in Glebe.

Virginia State Route 123

SR 123 passes by the Marden House before entering the northwestern corner of Arlington County and meeting the northern end of SR 120 (Glebe Road).

William Guilfoyle

The family migrated to Sydney in 1853 where William Guilfoyle was privately educated at Lyndhurst College, Glebe where he received botanical instruction by William Woolls, William Sharp MacLeay (1792–1865) and John MacGillivray (1821–1867), who all encouraged him to follow in his father's career.


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