Glebe Chronology

Decade	Event	Glebe Population	Notable Buildings and Terraces
1790s	• Governor Phillip granted land at Glebe for clergy and school
1820s	• Church and School Corporation given control of Glebe land (1826) • Land auction at Glebe (1828) • Glebe Point Road created (1828)		• Hereford House built (1829) (since demolished)
1830s	• Free land grants discontinued (1831) • Accession to throne of Queen Victoria (1837)		• Toxteth Park completed (1831) • Lyndhurst (1836) • Margaretta Cottage (1836)
1840s	• Depression (1840s) • Edmund Barton born in Glebe (1849)	1,055 (1846)	• Tranby (c1840) • Rothwell Lodge (c1840s)
1850s	• Gold discovered in Australia • First mail deliveries to Glebe (1852) • Glebe Island Abattoirs opened (1857) • Glebe Public School opened (1858) • Architect Edmund Blacket settled in Glebe (1853) • Glebe Municipal Council formed (1859)		• Rosebank House (c1858)
1860s	• Gas lighting (1860) • Town water (1862)	3,700 (1867)	• Bidura (1860) • Hamilton (1860s) • Briarbank (1862) • Aust Youth Hotel (before 1867) • The Hermitage (1866) • Reussdale (c1868)
1870s	• Blackwattle Swamp reclaimed	5,714 (1872)	• St Johns Church (1870) • Hereford House (1874) • Benledi (1875) • Kinrarra (1877) • Mitchell St terraces (Lorne, Park, Magnolia)(1875-9)
1880s	• George Wigram Allen died (1885) • Glebe estates broken up • Wentworth Park proclaimed (1885) • Steam tram service to Glebe Point and Forest Lodge from Bridge St, city • Properties begin to be sewered (1885)		• Glebe Town Hall (1880) • Former Presbyterian Church (1881) • Terraced shops, 153-181 Glebe Point Rd (before 1882) • Police Station (1883) • Bellevue (c1883) • Palmerston Tce, 257-287 Glebe Point Rd (1882-4) • Herberto Tce, 2-18 Boyce St (1885) • Cliff Tce, 2-8 Crescent Lane (1888) • Courthouse (1889) • Kerribree (1889)
1890s	• Depression • Land purchased for Joss House (1897) • Glebe Telephone Exchange (1898)	15,000 (1891)	• University Hall and cottages (1890) • Montana (1892) • 63-71 Wigram Rd (1892) • 433-445 Glebe Point Rd (1899-1900) • Record Reign Hall (1897)
1900s	• Federation (1901) • Electric trams replace steam trams • Steel Pyrmont Bridge opened (1902) • Jubilee Park opened (1908)	19,232 (1902)	• 168-182 Glebe Point Road (1903) • Sze Yup Chinese Temple (1904) • 1-11 Cross St (1905) • 1-39 Avona Ave (1906) • Fire Station (1906)
1910s	• World War I (1914-18) • Glebe Island Abattoirs closed (1916) • Glebe said to be fully built out • Electricity replaces gas lights (1911)	22,500 (1915)	• Forest Lodge (built 1836, architect John Verge; demolished 1912) • Railway Viaduct, Wentworth Park (1916)
1920s	• Great Depression (1929)	23,000 (1920)	• Glebe War Memorial (1921)
1930s	• Sydney Harbour Bridge (1932)	19,886 (1936)	• Walter Burley Griffin incinerator (1932) • Valhalla cinema (1932) • Original Hereford House demolished
1940s	• Second World War (1939-45) • Glebe transferred to Sydney City Council
1950s	• Buses replace trams (1958)		• New Joss House opened (1955)
1960s	• Glebe transferred to Leichhardt Council (1968) • First property resumptions by Dept of Main Roads for proposed expressway (1969) • Formation of The Glebe Society (1969)		• St Johns Village built (1964) to provide retirement accommodation
1970s	• Protest against proposed high-rise development in Ferry Road (1971) • Federal Govt purchased Glebe Estate (1972) • Glebe Estate project commenced (1974) • Glebe listed on the Register of the National Estate		• Lyndhurst saved from demolition
1980s	• Gateway of Joss House opened (1983) • Transfer of Glebe Estate from Commonwealth to NSW Government (1983-4)	11,454 (1986)
1990s	• Work began on Anzac Bridge (1992) • Rozelle Super Yacht Marina developed prior to Sydney Olympics • Broadway Shopping Centre (formerly Grace Bros Dept Store) opened (1998)	13,626 (1991)	• Glebe Gardens development (Hereford Street) (1997) replaced disused warehouse buildings with 90+ townhouses and apartments
2000s	• Opening of Light Rail from Central to Lilyfield (2000) • Centenary of Federation (2001) • Glebe and Forest Lodge transferred to City of Sydney (2003) • Foreshore walk (from Chapman St to Ferry Road) completed by City of Sydney (2006) • Glebe Point Road “re-opened” after installation of new footpaths, power cables part-buried and Parramatta Road end of the street re-aligned (2009) • Sesquicentenary of establishment of local Government in Glebe (2009)	13,747 (2001) 13,468 (2006)	• Lyndhurst sold by Historic Houses Trust (now a family home) • Pavilions on the Bay replaced timber yard/artists workshops with 48 apartments (2003) • Valhalla restored for re-use as offices (2007) • Glebe Harbour replaced Fletchers container site (2007) with 136 apartments • Bellevue restored (2007) by City Council and re-opened as a café • University of Sydney acquired the heritage-listed Art Deco 431 Glebe Point Road for the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research (2006)
2010s	• Harold Park closed as a harness-racing venue (2010) • Glebe Post Office closed (2011) • Earth v Sky artwork launched at Glebe Point (2012) • Opening of the first new precinct of the Harold Park re-development (2014) • Completion of the Glebe foreshore walk (from Bicentennial Park to Bridge Road) (2014) • WestConnex plans for inner-west stirred resident anger (2016) • Memories of Trams mural in Hereford Street (2017) • Elsie Walk mural installed (2018)	16,576 (2011) 19,609 (2016)	• Reussdale, fully restored, sold as a family home (2010) • Harold Park development commenced (2012), to provide 1250 apartments and townhouses over the next decade • Heritage-listed Tramsheds restored, re-purposed and reopened (2016) • Refurbishment of Glebe Town Hall by City of Sydney (completed 2013) • Sale of heritage-listed Bidura by State Govt (2015). Land & Environment Court subsequently rejected first proposal for redevelopment at the rear of the site (2016)