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North Ryde is a suburb of Sydney in Australia , 15 km northwest of Sydney city center. It belongs to the Local Government Area Ryde City and is part of the northern suburbs of Sydney.
The suburb is one of Australia's most important business locations and is primarily home to computer companies such as Microsoft , Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems . Macquarie University has also settled there and so many students and scientists of the university live in North Ryde.
Like the suburbs of East Ryde and Macquarie Park , North Ryde also has the zip code of 2113. These two suburbs were formerly part of North Ryde and many business and private people there still use North Ryde as their address. The neighboring Macquarie University was given zip code 2109 in the late 1980s.
history
The name North Ryde is mentioned for the first time when the first public school, the City View Public School , founded on January 25, 1876 , was renamed North Ryde Public School in 1877. North Ryde was an extension of the neighboring town Ryde , the after Ryde store of GM Pope was named. He took the name of his hometown Ryde on the Isle of Wight in Great Britain for his business. The name Ryde has been in use since the 1840s and was adopted for the LGA in 1870.
Aboriginal culture
The entire area between the Parramatta River and the Lane Cove River was originally referred to by the Aboriginal name Wallumatta . Today only one park, the Wallumatta Nature Reserve on the corner of Twin Road and Cressy Road, bears this name. The park is the last remnant of the original and now threatened turpentine pine and ironbark eucalyptus forests on Wianamatta Group grounds in Sydney (today still 0.5% of the original population, as of 2007).
European settlement
Ryde is the third oldest European settlement in Australia after Sydney and Parramatta. What the Aborigines called Wallumatta was initially called the Field of Mars by the European settlers and then The Eastern Farms . North Ryde was established in the middle of the 19th century - although densely overgrown with forest - as farmland next to the already designated area of Ryde. The area of the Field of Mars was considered dangerous because there were escaped convicts and bush thieves hanging around.
Coxs Road
North Ryde's main drag is Coxs Road, which was originally paved with sandstone to facilitate the transport of goods up the hill from the jetty on the Lane Cove River. Until recently, the street name was Cox's Road (with an apostrophe). North Ryde's first post office on Lane Cove Road opened in 1885 and relocated to Coxs Road in 1908. Since then, it has moved within the Coxs Road shopping district at least six times. The North Ryde School of Arts at Literaty Institute , built in 1901 on land donated by William Cox of Pomona, has been the venue for the annual ball, community meetings , festivals, art exhibitions, dance and cultural events. In 1907 additions for the library were built. In 1980 the old building was demolished and a new community center with an art school and library was built.
Thomson's Shop (1904) on Coxs Road has long been the local general store and post office. Besides the old schoolhouse, it is the only building that remains from this period. Three gas lights were installed on Coxs Road in the 1920s. One, in front of the schoolhouse, has been restored. The shopping center on Coxs Road was destroyed by an unexplained fire around 1990 and a new shopping center with improved facilities was created.
Motorcycle racing tracks
In 1928 the Chatswood Motorcycle Club built a racetrack that is now the Commandment Rock Picnic Area in Lane Cove National Park . This North Ryde circuit was an early version of a speedway . The first competitions took place in May and October 1928. 7,000 spectators were counted at the October event. The Commandment Rock route was closed and the North Ryde Speedway was built opposite today's art school, which is now part of the golf course (then: Cox's Paddock ). The race course was in a kind of natural amphitheater, which gave the spectators a fantastic view of the competitions. A typical racing event consisted of 30 races over 10 laps. The track closed around 1935 when the golf course was built and the Chatswood Motorcycle Club merged with the Willoughby Motor Cycle Club .
post war period
North Ryde remained a rural parish until after World War II . Then the state bought large parts of the land and divided it into smaller plots for rental and private houses. In the course of North Ryde's tumultuous development in the 1950s and 1960s, many older buildings were demolished.
Housing for immigrants was built on the south side of Blenheim Road. During World War II, the 3rd Australian Ordnance Army Vehicle Park (bounded by Epping Road, Coxs Road, and Blenheim Road) was in North Ryde. The residents had orchards and vegetable gardens and poultry. A pig farm on Wicks Road operated until the late 1960s. The House of David on Lane Cove Road for many years had a general store, picnic and tennis courts, a miniature train and a small zoo. A VW dealer was added later . A small VW assembly plant was behind the House of David on Waterloo Road until it was moved to Mexico . In 1956, the North Ryde Skyline Drive-in Theater opened on the southern corner of Waterloo Road and Lane Cove Road, immediately following the newly built North Ryde High School . It operated until the mid-1970s.
economy
North Ryde has many commercial and industrial operations. The shopping center on Coxs Road has a supermarket, post office and many shops. The public schools, community center, library, and School of Arts are all close by. Opposite is another center with a few cafes and grocery stores. There are also a number of shops on Blenheim Road, e.g. B. the Adwill Place Arcade .
In the mid-1960s, the North Ryde industrial estate was created together with Macquarie University, which is connected to Stanford University near San Francisco . The settlements were originally limited to science-based light industry. The area has grown rapidly since the 1960s, with the Macquarie Park and Riverside Corporate Park sub-areas now considered to be Australia's leading high-tech industrial areas, attracting key information technology, communications electronics, computing, and medical and pharmaceutical companies.
In the neighboring suburb of Macquarie Park , which is still considered part of North Ryde today, are the Macquarie Center , a regional mall, Macquarie University, ARN radio station ( WSFM and The Edge 96.1 Studios ), Sony , Foxtel TV , Optus , CA. , Rexel Group Australia and many other companies.
schools
The first public school in the area, City View Public School opened on January 25, 1876, but was renamed North Ryde Public School as early as 1877 . It was there that the name North Ryde appeared for the first time. The school was originally called City View, as the city center of Sydney could be seen from the roof. The first school building on Coxs Road was a brick and sandstone building that now houses the NSW Schoolhouse Museum of Public Education . It is one of the oldest school buildings in New South Wales.
A second elementary school, Truscott Street Public School , opened on May 21, 1958. A special needs school has also been integrated there since 1988 .
A large, modern, secondary school, North Ryde High School was built on land between Epping Road and Waterloo Road and opened in January 1962. It was later renamed Peter Board High School , which, in the opinion of many neighbors, lost its local connection. In December 1998 the school was closed due to a lack of students. North Ryde, for example, no longer has a secondary school; the closest such institution is Ryde Secondary College in Ryde .
One Catholic school, Holy Spirit Primary School , is a little further down Coxs Road than North Ryde Public School across the street. The Ryde East Primary School is located at the Twin Road and has 350 students.
The Arndell Special School , a special school, is located on Badajoz Road on the Macquarie Hospital campus.
Hospitals
Macquarie Hospital
Macquarie Hospital is on property on Coxs Road, Wicks Road, Twin Road, and Badajoz Road. Initially it was called the North Ryde Mental Asylum , later the North Ryde Psychiatric Center , Gladesville-Macquarie Hospital (after merging with the Gladesville insane asylum ) and finally, after its closure, simply Macquarie Hospital . It is a major 195-bed state psychiatric hospital providing inpatient and outpatient treatment to mentally confused or insane adults in the Sydney area. The hospital works together with various other state hospitals and special private organizations and serves a population of approximately 1.11 million people.
There is no emergency room at Macquarie Hospital. The closest emergency rooms are at Ryde Hospital and the Royal North Shore Hospital .
Macquarie University Hospital
Macquarie University Hospital is a private specialty hospital that opened on June 15, 2010 on the Macquarie University campus in Macquarie Park. It is now the main teaching hospital associated with the Australian School of Advanced Medicine in the university. The hospital offers some of the most advanced medical facilities in Australia such as: B. the first gamma knife in Australia.
There is also no emergency room at Macquarie University Hospital.
traffic
The Hills Motorway M2 passes through North Ryde and then on through the Lane Cove Tunnel , to Gove Hill / Warringah Freeway and the Sydney Harbor Bridge to the city center of Sydney. The Lane Cove Road (Metroad 3) runs through North Ryde from north to south, creating the link between the northern suburbs of Homebush to the Olympic Park. The Epping Road runs from west to east over the '' Lane Cove River Bridge '' and connects Ryde City with the Lane Cove Municipality . There are several public bus routes leading to North Ryde, No. 285–297, 506 and 534–535, which criss-cross the suburb. There are also private bus routes, e.g. B. also to the airport.
North Ryde Underground Station is on the Epping – Chatswood railway line and opened in 2009. It is near the junction of Epping Road and Delhi Road, just off Hills Motorway M2. In the steam locomotive era, there was a proposal to build a station near the intersection of Coxs Road and Wicks Road, but the Epping – st. Leonhards was never built.
The junction of Epping Road and Pittwater Road was once intended to be a major hub of the Sydney's Missing Roads project, but the abandonment of the construction plans for the North Western Expressway and Lane Cove Valley Expressway in the late 1970s ended those plans too. There was also a proposal to build the Eastwood County Road (including the Silverwater – North Ryde route or the Erminton – Epping road), but this too was not implemented. A lane for this has been kept free to this day.
The junction of Epping Road and Lane Cove Road was supposed to be Australia's first four-leaf clover. At all four corners of the intersection, land was bought up for the road connections. But with the construction of the overpass for Epping Road, the clover leaf solution was dropped and there is still a traffic light-controlled intersection under the overpass. The purchased land was used elsewhere; a medical center was built on one part and an office block on another. This spot is now one of the most congested on the Sydney road system.
Parks and green spaces
North Ryde has many beautiful parks and green spaces, e.g. B. North Ryde Common , the adjacent Lane Cove National Park and the Field of Mars Reserve , as well as access to the Great North Walk and the Lane Cove River . The latter was once home to the famous Fairyland picnic areas , when boatloads of day trippers came up the river from Sydney to take part in the regular dance events on Saturdays. Today Fairyland is almost completely overgrown.
The North Ryde Park was completely renovated in 2009. He received fully equipped picnic areas and a new playground.
The Blenheim Park has a free zone for dogs.
Sport and recreation
- The Macquarie University Theater hosts classical concerts and other performances during the winter. The vice-chancellor of the university invites you to attend.
- The North Ryde Golf Club - the end of the 1920s a motorcycle circuit - runs a par-69 golf course
- North Ryde RSL Community Club
- Every year, Australia Day concerts and Carols by Candlelight Christmas concerts are held at North Ryde Common, which is attached to Macquarie Hospital. The site is now open with the fences and gates removed and the property leased to Ryde City for 99 years.
Constituencies
North Ryde is part of the constituencies of Lane Cove and Ryde in elections for the New South Wales Parliament and in the Bennelong constituency in federal elections.
Web links
- Ryde City City Council website
- Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest . Ryde City Councilor
- North Ryde . Margaret Farlow website
Individual evidence
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics : West Ryde ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
- ^ A b Frances Pollon: The Book of Sydney Suburbs . Angus & Robertson Publishers (1990). ISBN 0-207-14495-8 . P. 189
- ↑ NATIVE VEGETATION: Sydney Turpentine - Ironbark Forest . City of Ryde ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sydney turpentine-ironbark forest - endangered ecological community listing . National Parks and Wildlife Service (New South Wales) ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Wallumatta Nature Reserve . National Parks and Wildlife Service ( Memento of the original dated August 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b North Ryde . Dictionary of Sydney
- ^ Gregory Blaxell: Rev Heads Roar across North Ryde . Northern District Times. April 1, 2010
- ↑ Photo of the 3rd Australian Ordnance Army Vehicle Park ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ NSW Schoolhouse Museum of Public Education
- ↑ Truscott Street Public School ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Parliament of NSW - Legislative Council Hansard . June 19, 1998 ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Macquarie Hospital ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Latest News and Events . Macquarie University Hospital
- ↑ City of Ryde Agenda of the Committee of the Whole , Session No. 11/08 on July 15, 2008 ( Memento of the original of July 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Unbuilt NSW roads - Lane Cove Valley Expressway . Oz Roads
- ^ Unbuilt NSW roads - Eastwood County Road , Oz Roads
