ten days in chippendale » glengary hotel http://eatingmywords.net/tendaysinchippendale a mini-residency at serial space Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:58:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 day two http://eatingmywords.net/tendaysinchippendale/2010/11/day-two/ http://eatingmywords.net/tendaysinchippendale/2010/11/day-two/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 03:50:06 +0000 http://eatingmywords.net/tendaysinchippendale/?p=17 Continue reading →]]> Jane Lanyon was born in 1920 in Balfour Street, Chippendale. Growing up poor in Depression-era Chippendale, Jane would busk out front of the Glengarry Hotel (on Lawson Street, Redfern) for spare change. I love this story of her singing for ha’pennies because I can imagine it so vividly, perhaps because I often drink at the Glengarry myself. In fact, we’ve nicknamed it the ‘People’s Pub’ – but I’m not quite sure why… I think because it has an amazing old table in the centre of the front bar that fits a lot of people! You can definitely imagine members of the Unemployed Workers Union sitting around that table and talking politics in the ’30s.

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Nowadays we might say that we were ‘born’ in a particular suburb, but we really mean it as the place where we grew up. But Jane Lanyon was literally born in Balfour Street – in the front room of one of three two-story terraces between Queen and Henrietta Streets. Seeing as Balfour Street is just around the corner I took a little walk to see if the house Jane describes in the interview is still standing – and it is! Jane was born in the middle terrace.

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