Yurulbin Park (formerly Long Nose Park) is a public open space located at the end of Yurulbin Point on the Balmain Peninsula in the suburb of Birchgrove in the

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, Australia.

Description

Yurulbin Point lies north east of Snails Bay and extends approximately into

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at the northern end of the Balmain Peninsula. Louisa Road runs the length of the point and has views of

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and Sydney Harbour. At the end of the point lies the

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(AILA) award-winning Yurulbin Park, which was transformed from a derelict industrial site in the early 1970s. The water frontage of the park offers extensive views from Snails Bay, Goat Island, Sydney central business district and the

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. The park contains interpretative signs with information about traditional place names of sites in the harbour and the history of the area.

History

Prior to European occupation, the local area was close to the border of the

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and Wanegal clans of the

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nation and is believed to lie just within Wanegal land. Evidence of etchings and

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s on nearby private land show the site was used for fishing and conducting feasts. Following European settlement in 1792, George Whitfield was granted an area of land on the north eastern end of the Balmain Peninsula and in time it took the descriptive name ''Long Nose Point''. Given its location, it is believed to have been used as a landing point for water craft on the harbour. The first industrial use of the site at the end of Long Nose Point was as a galvanised iron works built by a cooper, Alexander Cormack. Further development by the Wallace Powerboat Building Company took place between 1917 and 1920. In 1923, Morrison & Sinclair Ltd transferred from Johnson's Bay in Balmain to the site and carried out a shipbuilding operation there until the company ceased trading in 1970. The company designed, constructed and repaired Government vessels, Naval, island trading and merchant ships and many

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and

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. The yacht ''Morna'' (later ''Kurrewa IV''), which won line honours seven times from ten starts in the

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, was built here. Morrison & Sinclair Ltd no longer exists but the records of the company are held by the

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. On 17 June 1971, the land was acquired by the State Planning Authority of New South Wales for A$185,000. Landscaping was carried out by Bruce Mackenzie & Associates and the site, then known as ''Long Nose Park'', placed under Leichhardt Council control in 1981. The park won the 1986 AILA Award of Merit. Both ''Long Nose Point'' and the park changed to the traditional name of ''Yurulbin'', Aboriginal for 'Swift Running Water', on 8 July 1994.

Gallery

Yurulbin Park New South Wales Picture 1.JPG, Yurulbin Park with

in the background Yurulbin Park 11.JPG, Interpretative sign

References

External links

Local Images at InnerWest ImageBank

Local History Collection, Leichhardt Council

Gadigal Information Services
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Description

History

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