The Woollahra Council has revealed its five-year library strategic plan for the Woollahra Libraries in Double Day and its networks.
Following a consultation with the public, the Council is currently reviewing the plan before publishing the final report and recommendation in August 2019.
The library strategic plan should cover the evolving needs of the community and users of the Woollahra Libraries, located at New South Head Road, and its annexes on Watson Bay and Paddington. At least 55 per cent of residents from these suburbs, or about 32,162 members, use the libraries’ facilities on a regular basis.
Since the Woollahra Libraries opened in May 2016, the Council has strived to make this centre a major part of the community by building a vast collection of books, magazines, audiobooks, CDs and DVDs for loaning. It has also provided members access to downloadable eBooks, music, and audiobooks.
The library has a fast Internet connection, a number of computer networks, and play equipment that members can use for their learning and enjoyment. It also provides spacez for different events, workshops, or group meets.
Pamper yourself with a luxurious browcation at the newly opened Amy Jean Privée, located at The InterContinental Hotel Sydney Double Bay!
It takes a little work to achieve sophisticated and perfectly shaped brows. In fact, eyebrows today are considered to be more of an art form than just a simple add-on.
Luckily, Australia’s brow queen herself, Amy Jean, decided to open a salon at Double Bay that is ideal for her clientele who want to experience a luxurious ‘browcation’ without having the need to travel far away from the Eastern suburbs.
Amy Jean Privée Double Bay
The Amy Jean Privéesalon is placed inside a hyper-luxe private suite of a five-star hotel for an ultimate eyebrow couture experience. This discrete yet sophisticated beauty haven is exclusively tailored for Amy Jean’s VIP clientele.
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Upon entering the suite, you will surely notice its splendid interiors that exude an aura of both decadence and femininity. Fresh flowers and scented candles are placed in majority of the tables and nooks of the suite that enhance the room’s airy and light-filled mood. Two treatment beds in adjoining rooms are also found inside the spacious suite.
Photo credit: Amy Jean Brow Agency/ Facebook
Services offered in this luxurious salon include brow sculpt, henna brows, feather touch and mist brow tattoo, lash extensions, keratin brow and lash treatments, forever lash liner, lip tint tattoo, skin needling, and eye elevate plasma tightening.
Apart from these services, Amy Jean also offers her Amy Jean Privée Collection, a selection of brow products, on Net-a-Porter.
The Amy Jean Privée Double Bay is strictly by appointment only. Click here to know more about the salon’s one-of-a-kind Privée Experience.
Amy Jean started off with a single brow boutique in 2004 at Gold Coast, an area that does not have much salons that offer the same services as Amy Jean’s. Upon its opening, the boutique hit off easily given the highly rated reviews shared by its loyal customers.
Soon, word of her skills and expertise in eyes and brows spread. Amy Jean’s services became highly in demand.
She then found herself having a number of influential and wealthy clients coming from all over the world.
Photo credit: Amy Jean Brow Agency/ Facebook
At present, Amy Jean has three outlets in Sydney, and one in Brisbane, Melbourne, and Gold Coast. She also travels to London every eight weeks to service her eminent European clientele.
Gladswood House, also called Glenyarrah and Seaford House, is a two-storey Gothic Revival residential mansion located in 11 Gladswood Gardens at Double Bay. It’s a heritage-listed property which, today, houses multiple occupants.
The main house’s features include:
The building stands on a property that stretches to three acres of land with its original stone gate pillars entrance facing the New South Head Road. In 1927, however, the land was subdivided into 14 blocks with the original residence assigned on Lot 6.
an entry vestibule leading to several adjoining rooms
Additional renovations over the years extended the house to include more cloakrooms and bath, more verandahs and drawing rooms, a boudoir, a study, and the house manager’s flat.
This building was part of the Point Piper Estate owned by New South Wales Corps Captain John Piper in the 1820s. Faced with financial difficulties, Capt Piper sold the property to philanthropist and politician Daniel Cooper. Following his death, Mr Cooper bestowed the property to his nephew, also named Daniel.
The younger Copper leased the property for 99 years to Edwin Thomas Beilby in 1856. Two years later, Beilby sold his leasehold to Samuel Deane Gordon, who decided to build a mansion by the waterfront.
Building Glenyarrah
In 1862, Mr Gordon enlisted architect William Munro to build Gladswood House, then known as Glenyarrah. Newspaper records show that Mr Munro advertised the job for stonemasons for the site with The Sydney Morning Herald.
Construction of the two-storey sandstone structure took two years. The design of the house had a slate roof with Tudor chimneys and a fireplace reminiscent of 14th century England. The building also had two wings and a verandah with large window bays.
Gladswood House was originally named the Seaford House during construction. It was later changed to Glenyarrah when Mr Gordon and his family moved in.
Mr Gordon stayed at Gladswood House until 1882. His monogram is set on the panels of the stained glass windows that brighten the lobby of the main stairs. He left the property to his daughter Jessie Maria Gordon upon his death in 1882.
But since Ms Gordon lived in England with her husband, Gladswood House was leased to Francis Bothamley Lark, and later to Thomas Hussey Kelly of the Sydney Smelting Co. The latter would eventually buy the property from Ms Gordon and leave the house to his son, Sydney-born Thomas Herbert Kelly, upon his death.
From Glenyarrah to Glasswood
By 1913, however, the younger Kelly would sell the property to Melbourne local Mr John Spencer Brunton of the family that founded the Australian Flour Mills. It was he who changed the name of Glenyarrah to Gladswood House.
Mr John Spencer Brunton changed the name of Glenyarrah to Gladswood House. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Aside from the name change, Brunton would also make drastic renovations and additions to Gladswood House by hiring architect Howard Joseland, who favoured the “Queen Anne Style” — characterized by wide porches, shadowed entrances and lobbies, and brickwork with softer finish — to Munson’s Gothic inspirations.
The words “Brunton” and Gladswood” were carved on the floors of the house’s main lobby entrance during this massive renovation.
Following the new developments, Gladswood House would then be a distinguished house in Double Bay, popular for its social events and parties, such as the wedding of Mr Brunton’s son to Mr Joseland’s daughter.
The guests during one of the parties at Gladswood House. Photo Credit: Arthur Wigram Allen/Wikimedia Commons
Upon Brunton’s death, Frederick Louis Perini, a builder from Rose Bay, took ownership of the house and turned it into a residential site for multiple occupancies in 1937. Gwendoline Jean Von Tidermann and later, Ray William Stafford and Hannah Maria Stafford, took a lease on the house and managed it as a guest house or private hotel until 1988.
In 1990, Coronet Investments, headed by Ian Joye, built three two-storey apartments with three bedrooms to the west of the original house.
In 1999, New South Wales government listed Gladswood House as a heritage site, one of the very few examples of the work of Mr Munro. It’s also a popular landmark in Double Bay and one of the oldest examples of a house with Gothic and colonial influences in NSW.
Another reason that it was listed as a heritage site was that it had many occupants of significant importance to the business, political and cultural history the region and Australia. Additionally, the renovations and alterations done to the house displayed the craftsmanship of noted Australian builders.
Have a perfect night under the stars with new releases and cult classics at Moonlight Cinema at the Centennial Park. The open-air amphitheatre offers a relaxed vibe, complete with delicious eats and drinks from a food truck and bar, plus BYO.
