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The Gladstone Hotel
has been a family owned business for three generations, so there's no better place for your 'local'.
It's also been recently refurbished giving a modern, relaxed feel indoors and a great new Garden Bar for those sultry summer nights.
is named after the London suburb of Dulwich. Earlier names were Wardell's Bush and Wardell's Hill, after the extensive estate of Dr Robert Wardell. Parts of what is now Dulwich Hill were referred to until about 1911 as Fern Hill.
The last extensive subdivision of land in the Marrickville LGA occurred in 1928 at Dulwich Hill. This was the Abergeldie Estate, property of Sir Hugh Dixson, tobacco tycoon and philanthropist. The subdivision comprised 153 allotments with the auctioneer selling all of the allotments on the one day with the sale finishing by candlelight."
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Looking down Marrickville Road from New Canterbury Road. The balconies and awnings, supported by nicely detailed posts, serve to visually demarcate the pedestrian realm from the roadway, an effect lost when cantilevered awnings replaced the older structures after World War I. Happily, these details survived in a few places and some have even been recreated in recent years. Note the elegant gas street light.
The tram network provided excellent service from the city centre even to a developing suburb like Dulwich Hill, which, at a whole nine kilometres from the city, was very much on its outskirts.
When the tramline from Petersham to Dulwich Hill was extended to here in 1913, this locality was known as Wattle Hill. However, the name of the railway station on the Bankstown line had been changed from Fern Hill to Hurlstone Park in 1911, and Wattle Hill tram terminus was re-named Hurlstone Park three months after the tramline was opened.
Passengers from Hurlstone Park could change at Dulwich Hill for trams to the city or at Petersham for trains. In 1921, the line was extended from Hurlstone Park to Canterbury Station, with Darling Street Wharf trams providing the service. In 1927, a through service from Canterbury to the city commenced. A tramline opened between Hurlstone Park and Summer Hill in 1915, but was closed in 1933.Buses replaced the trams in 1954.
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