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delicacies. Visitors watch the
experts as they tenderize
octopus and squid in concrete
mixers. As well as fishmongers,
there are a number of fresh food
shops, several restaurants and a
seafood school – cost includes
tuition, seafood and wine.

6 Balmain
@ 433, 434, 442. See Shops and
Markets p203 and Four Guided Walks
pp144–5.
Balmain was once one of Sydney’s
most staunchly working-class
areas, with ship yards, a dry dock
and repair yards, a coal mine,
numerous rough-and-ready pubs
and an intimidating criminal
element. Its late 19th-century
town hall, post office, court
house and fire station in Darling
Street reflect the civic pride of
Badde Manors Café on Glebe Point Road, Glebe the suburb in the Victorian era.
The many stone and timber
4 Glebe to New Age goods and chattels. cottages of what had become
Glebe Market, held every a slum have transformed into a
Map 3 A4. @ 431, 433.
See Shops and Markets: p203. Saturday, sells an array of charming, bustling suburb that
jewellery, secondhand clothing still retains its village character,
The word “Glebe” means land and bric-à-brac. with inter esting shops, galleries,
assigned to a clergyman as part cafés, restaurants and pubs.
of his benefice. In 1789, Governor 5 Sydney Fish The proximity of the Balmain
Phillip granted 162 ha (400 acres) peninsula to the city and its
to Richard Johnson, the First Market bohemian ambience may
Fleet chap lain, and his wife Mary. Cnr Pyrmont Bridge Rd & Bank St, explain why many prominent
Almost all of the present suburb Pyrmont. Map 3 B2. Tel 9004 1100. writers – including novelist Kate
was once part of that Glebe @ 443, 501. v Fish Market. Open Grenville and playwright David
Estate. Many of its streets wind 7am–5pm daily. Closed 25 Dec. Williamson – have lived and
down to the working harbour 7 8 6:40pm Mon & Wed–Fri. worked here.
and contain terrace houses Booking essential; phone 9004 1143. The Saturday market, held
with Sydney wrought-iron ∑ sydneyfishmarket.com.au at St Andrews Congregational
“lace” in varying states of repair. See Shops and Markets: p202. Church in Darling Street, is
The once-grand residences one of Sydney’s best. Antiques,
of the 19th-century élite were Every weekday, about 200 estate jewellery and ingenious
mostly towards the harbour sea food retailers and dealers art and craft items are on sale.
end of Glebe Point Road, with arrive at this market’s private
workers’ cottages clustered auction to bid for the previous
nearer Parramatta Road. Glebe is day’s catch. It is sold by Dutch
still partly a gentrified member auc tion, with prices starting high
of the café society, although and decreas ing. The volume and
its proximity to the Broadway variety of the catch, including fish
shopping mall and its popularity and sea food, makes this the most
with students from the nearby diverse fish market after Tokyo.
University of Sydney have given A fair amount of this catch
it a more bustling atmosphere. ends up, later in the morning, in
It is densely populated and the fish market’s six large retail
lively, with many restaurants outlets which, for the general
and cafés in all price ranges, public, are its main attraction.
traditional and trendy pubs, As well as fresh fish, these retailers
good bookshops, an art- sell smoked salmon and roe,
house cinema and shops selling sushi, mari nated baby octopus Imposing entrance to Balmain court house
everything from antique clocks and many other ready-to-eat on Darling Street

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