gladesville

Updated: May 8, 2025

Then the banks went bust, and my last boss went insolvent, and one of his partners went into Darlinghurst for suicide, and the other went into Gladesville for being mad; and one day the bailiff seized the cart and horse with me in it and a load of timber. So I went home and helped mother and the kids to live on one meal a day for six months, and keep the bum-bailiff out.

Henry Lawson - While the Billy Boils

I should explain to you, perhaps, that "over the river" meant Gladesville, which is Sydney's Colney Hatch. Many things had led the unhappy Martha to a belief in this conspiracy. For instance, when she went to make Pip's bed as usual one morning all the bedclothes had gone.

Ethel Sybil Turner - Seven Little Australians