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By ALEC SMART The Colourful House at 625 South Dowling St, Surry Hills, painted by Thierry Noir. Photo: Alec Smart Decorated with brightly-coloured rectangles like a rainbow quilt, it is owned by Australian Photo: Alec Smart Noir was commissioned to paint the former jam factory (latterly a furniture warehouse Photo: Alec Smart ========================================

By ALEC SMART Screen shot from Soul Movers "Fool I Am" video. Photo: Alec Smart What's next on The Soul Movers' horizon: gigging, recording or taking a break?

By Alec Smart More on St Ives The history of Sydney Grammar School starts in 1954, as St Ives Sydney

More on Glebe By ALEC SMART Born in Karpasi, on the island of Lemnos, Greece, in 1953, Tom arrived in 1988 he began a long-term photographic study of an Eastern Arrernte Indigenous family group around Alice “When, in 2008-9, Eulalie and I started the Glebe project, a group of six homeless men moved in together

By Alec Smart More on Dee Why The Long Reef Headland coastal walk is a circular trek from Dee Why Surf Photo: Alec Smart It’s an enjoyable 90-minute walking adventure at all times of year, especially during Photo: Alec Smart The shoreline defences were embedded to impede tanks arriving by marine craft. Photo: Alec Smart Fossils Fossils of sea creatures and marine plants often fall from the cliff face around Photo: Alec Smart Suggested Route for Long Reef Headland Walk Start from Dee Why Surf Life Saving Club

By ALEC SMART The original Headmaster's Cottage from the first school in St Ives. Photo: Alec Smart However, the region of Roseville, 8km to the south-east, which was first settled in Photo: Alec Smart First St Ives Settlers The first four of the most prominent European settlers on the In 1819, St Ives history started in earnest. Photo: Alec Smart Origin of St Ives Name On 10 November 1885, Rosedale Post Office opened, followed a

By Alec Smart This is the marker of the final resting place of Edward Wollstonecraft, successful businessman Photo: Alec Smart Edward Wollstonecraft History The Wollstonecrafts were the nephew and niece, respectively Photo: Alec Smart According to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, “In its early years it dealt in Photo: Alec Smart Edward Wollstonecraft was initially buried in the Brickfield Hill graveyard in the Photo: Alec Smart ============================================================

More on Surry Hills By ALEC SMART A large mural of talented Aussie Rules football player Adam Goodes Photo: Alec Smart Foveaux Street Art Adam Goodes, 2014 Australian of the Year, dual Brownlow Medal recipient Photo: Alec Smart Marn Grook Goodes wrote an essay in which he speculated that the modern game may have Photo: Alec Smart =======================================

More on Glebe By ALEC SMART Reg Mombassa, surrealist artist and musician (and resident of Glebe), has Photo: Alec Smart How is your band, Chinese Burns Unit, progressing?

By ALEC SMART Jo Haylen MP for Summer Hill, cuddles a baby saltwater crocodile at Dulwich Hill Fair, Photo: Alec Smart Ms Haylen probably came to most people’s attention in the Inner West as the youngest-ever Photo: Alec Smart Moving ahead.. in Western Sydney, the vast majority of public transport projects delivered by the Coalition either start

By ALEC SMART The Friend in Hand Hotel at 58 Cowper St Glebe has an unusual house guest who is a favourite Photo: Alec Smart The sociable sulphur-crested cockatoo is very popular among the clientele and also Photo: Alec Smart Avian abduction It was not the first time the friendly parrot had gone missing. Phone calls soon started coming in and eventually, just before 1pm, the parrot pincher was spotted at Photo: Alec Smart In June 2019 the Byrnes sold the hotel to former Wallabies front rower Bill Young.

By Alec Smart Sydney’s Upper North Shore is renowned for its many grand Heritage-Listed homes in the Photo: Alec Smart According to the Federation House website, “Ku-ring-gai Council has about 40 Heritage Photo: Alec Smart Federation explanation But what are ‘Federation’ style houses and how did the name Photo: Alec Smart Other key distinctions of Federation homes are the ‘earthy’ colours (terracotta tiled Photo: Alec Smart Further reading Australian Residential Architectural Styles https://en.wikipedia.org