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Plan shewing the situation of Mr William's property at Glebe Island, WH Wells, surveyor July 11th 1844

By
William Henry Wells
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a8329001 / Ca 85/32]
(Dixson Map Collection)

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Wells, William Henry

State Library of New South Wales

Glebe Island

From abattoir to shipping terminal, Glebe Island has been an intrinsic part of the development of industrial Sydney.

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Glebe Island

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Rocky outcrop bounded by White Bay to the west and north and Johnstons Bay to the east and south and linked to Balmain by causeway in 1840s. It was the site of abattoirs from 1850s to 1912, then levelled and used as wharves.

Glebe Point

Headland in Rozelle Bay marking the northern end of the suburb of Glebe.

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Johnstons Bay

Bay between Rozelle and Pyrmont first spanned by the Glebe Island Bridge, and later the Anzac Bridge.

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Balmain

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Harbourside suburb on a peninsula west of central Sydney, named after the First Fleet assistant surgeon, with a working-class and industrial history. From the 1960s, as industry waned, it became popular with professional and business people who wanted to live close to the city.

Darling Harbour

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Waterway to the west of the city once surrounded by wharves, goods yards, woolstores and factories which contributed enormously to the city's economic wealth. The former rail lines and goods yards were transformed from commercial port to a recreational and pedestrian precinct in the 1980s.

Glebe

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Inner-city suburb named for its original status as Anglican church land granted to Richard Johnson, chaplain of the first fleet in 1790. The Glebe Point area became fashionable in the nineteenth century, while the southern part of Glebe became a working class district.

Pyrmont

Peninsular inner-west suburb between Darling Harbour and Johnston's Bay. Quarried for its sandstone, it later became a heavily industrialised working-class enclave, then gentrified as industry declined.

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Ultimo

Western inner-city suburb named for surgeon John Harris's estate, densely populated by the end of the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century it became heavily industrialised, as well as a centre for technical education, and is now largely gentrified.

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Toxteth Park Estate

Inner-city estate of prominent solicitor George Allen which was subdivided for residential development following his death.

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