North Bondi is a coastal,
eastern
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suburb of
Sydney, in the state of
New South Wales
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Australia 7 kilometres east of the
Sydney central business district, in the
local government area of
Waverley Council
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.
North Bondi is a mostly residential area bordering
Bondi Beach and the suburb of
Bondi, as well as
Bondi Junction, the commercial centre.
Ben Buckler is a locality in North Bondi.
History
Bondi is an Aboriginal word meaning ''water breaking over rock''. It has been spelled a number of different ways over time, Boondi, Bundi, Bundye. Aboriginal rock carvings can still be seen on a rocky surface between the sewerage ventilation shaft near Bondi Golf Course and the cliff.
A nearby group of carvings were done by Europeans; these were examined in 1910 by
Lawrence Hargrave
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, who considered them to be the work of Spanish sailors who arrived in 1595. However, more recent study has suggested that the carvings were in fact the work of quarrymen working at the nearby Murriverie Quarry, and were created between 1890 and 1915.
Another Aboriginal carving can be found at Ben Buckler, the headland immediately east of Bondi Beach. It is approximately a metre long and represents a turtle.
The whole Bondi area was part of an land grant to road-builder William Roberts in 1809. In 1851,
Edward Smith Hall
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, editor of the Sydney Monitor, purchased the land for
A£
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200.
Heritage listings
North Bondi has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
*
Ben Buckler Gun Battery
The Ben Buckler Gun Battery is a heritage-listed fortified former gun emplacement and military installation of the late-Victorian period and now public open space located in the locality of Ben Buckler, in the Waverley Municipality of Sydney ...
* Blair Street:
Bondi Ocean Outfall Sewer
The Bondi Ocean Outfall Sewer is a heritage-listed sewerage infrastructure at Blair Street, North Bondi, Sydney, Australia. The sewer line commences at the intersection of Oxford Street and College Street in Darlinghurst and then travels in ...
* Military Road:
Bondi Sewer Vent
Rathouse
On 22 March 1944, original members of the
Rats of Tobruk
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formed the North Bondi Sub-Branch of the
Returned & Services League of Australia
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Mission
The RSL's mission is to ensure that programs are in place for the well-being, car ...
and it is still known in modern times as ''Tobruk House'' or ''The Rathouse''. In 2003, the ''
New York Times
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'' ran an article on ''The Rathouse'' calling it "an ideal beachside hang out."
Ben Buckler Gun Battery
The Battery was constructed in 1892 and was intended to protect the colony and the approaches to Sydney Harbour from enemy vessels standing off the coast. During the 1950s the army vacated the premises and the fortification was buried. In the mid-1990s, the site was excavated by Water Board engineers planning to install a new pipeline. The site has been reburied and is currently under Hugh Bamford Reserve.
Tram to North Bondi
Tram services to North Bondi from the CBD operated from either
Circular Quay
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(via
Bridge
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and
Elizabeth
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* Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name)
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streets) or
Railway Square
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(via Elizabeth and
Liverpool
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streets), to
Oxford Street
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. The line then passed down Oxford Street to
Bondi Junction, where it branched off from Bronte services, to run down Bondi Road to Fletcher Street, Campbell Parade and then to the North Bondi tram terminus. A feature of this line was the large three track terminus cut into a hillside at North Bondi, which opened in 1946, as well as an underpass at 331a Bondi Road. Trams entered onto Campbell Parade via the under pass at a point where Bondi Road was too steep. The underpass and cutting have now been filled in, part of which is now public reserve and units.
The line opened in 1884 as a steam tramway to Bondi, then to Bondi Beach in 1894. Electric services commenced in 1902. The line closed in 1960. The tram line followed the current route of
bus route 333 as far as North Bondi.
The service also travelled via
Paddington
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and
Bellevue Hill. Heading south down Elizabeth Street from Circular Quay, the line turned left into
Park Street, then wound through
East Sydney. A feature was the tram only viaduct over Barcom Avenue and Boundary Street in
Darlinghurst
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as the line headed into MacDonald Street. This viaduct is now a road bridge. The line then travelled to Paddington and down Curlewis Street in Bondi to join the Bondi Beach via the Bondi Junction line on Campbell Parade, to the North Bondi terminus. The line follows approximately the current route of bus route 379.
Population
In the 2016 Census, there were 9,165 people in North Bondi. 56.3% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 7.2%, South Africa 5.6%, New Zealand 2.5%, United States of America 1.6% and Brazil 1.4%. 75.0% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Hebrew 1.8%, Italian 1.7%, Portuguese 1.6%, French 1.5% and Spanish 1.4%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 32.6%, Judaism 21.9% and Catholic 18.4%.
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Landmarks
* Bondi Golf & Diggers Club sits on the coast, east of Military Road.
* North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
The North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club is a foundation member of the surf lifesaving movement in Australia. It was founded in 1907 by a group of concerned locals and has a proud history of no lives being lost whilst its members have patrolled.
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sits beside the beach in Biddigal Reserve.
* St Anne's Catholic Church
Sport and recreation
Since 1908, North Bondi has been represented in one of Australia's most popular sporting competitions, the National Rugby League
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, by the Sydney Roosters
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, officially known as the Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club.
Gallery
File:North Bondi 2.JPG, Art Deco
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shops and flats
File:(1) rock carvings Bondi-1.JPG, Aboriginal rock carvings near golf course
File:(1)European carvings-3.jpg, European rock carvings thought by Lawrence Hargrave to be Spanish
File:Eastern subs sydney11.jpg, Bondi Golf Course
File:Site of former Basalt Quarry at North Bondi.jpg, Former Basalt Quarry at North Bondi
References
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