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Saturday, February 15, 2025

CONTINUATION WEEK

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DRUMMOYNE

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One I like, I used to live here.

Location:

Drummoyne is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Drummoyne is six kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the City of Canada Bay. Drummoyne sits on the peninsula between Iron Cove and Five Dock Bay. It is surrounded on three sides by the Parramatta River and, as such, has some of Sydney's best waterfront views.

Name origin:

William Wright, merchant, whaler and sealer, named his land Drummoyne Park in 1853 after his family home on the Clyde in Scotland.

About:

In the 2021 census the population of Drummoyne stood at 12,011 people with a median age of 42 years, 66.9% of people having been born in Australia.

Drummoyne is now part of the City of Canada Bay, a municipality formed in 2000 by the amalgamation of the municipalities of Drummoyne and Concord.

Victoria Road, one of Sydney's busiest roads, cuts through the heart of Drummoyne en route to the Sydney central business district.

Drummoyne is mostly residential with some commercial developments, and still retains some of its industrial heritage. The main shopping strip is located along Victoria Road and the intersecting Lyons Road. The Birkenhead Point Outlet Centre, featuring a Coles supermarket, specialty shops and factory outlet stores is located at Birkenhead Point.

The Bay Run is a popular route for runners and walkers.

Gallery:

Apartments on the Parramatta River, Drummoyne

Afternoon traffic on Victoria Road

Drummoyne Presbyterian

Birkenhead Point Outlet Centre

Drummoyne Reservoir, Rawson Avenue, Drummoyne, NSW is listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register. Built 1910-1914, Drummoyne was one of two reservoirs built with an attached tower and was the only reservoir in the group to feature a tower as a deliberate ornament. It is now the only reservoir with its tower surviving.

Sydney Water sold the property in September 2018 to owners of a chain of childcare centres, who plan to convert the site into a childcare centre while retaining most of the heritage structure.

Gladesville Bridge is a heritage-listed concrete arch road bridge that carries Victoria Road over the Parramatta River, linking the Sydney suburbs of Huntleys Point and Drummoyne.

As at 2013, Gladesville Bridge has state heritage significance as the longest concrete arch span bridge in the world at the time of its completion in 1964, being 305 metres (1,000 ft). One of only two of its type in NSW, Gladesville Bridge is considered to be a leading example of technical and engineering achievement on the international stage. An innovative design that set new global standards for design and construction, Gladesville Bridge was one of the first bridges in the world (if not, the first) to utilise computer programming in its construction.