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Edda Boyd talks about her childhood in Glebe in...

Edda Boyd talks about her childhood in Glebe in the 1950s, October 2007

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Beasley, Margo

Margo Beasley is a consultant public and oral historian.

City of Sydney Council

Glebe

Cadigal and Wangal country that was parcelled out to the Church of England soon after the Europeans arrived, Glebe became a retreat for the gentry and later a gritty working-class enclave. The late twentieth century saw it transformed again into a heritage precinct, saved from redevelopment by resident action.

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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.