Coming up

Unsold items will be collected on Monday 28th during the Council Clean Up.  All registered addresses will be advertised and participating households will receive a free poster to go on their fence.

6.30pm - guided tour of the Barracks
7.15pm - drinks in the ante-room
7.45pm - excellent 3 course dinner in the Sargeant's Mess

Members of the Society: $75; friends $85 
Wine is available at very reasonable prices
Silent auction - including a week in a charming house in France

Everyone welcome - please bring your friends 
Parking is available in grounds, you will be directed at the gates

Bookings are essential, rsvp by Thursday 30th July

Leone Morrison 0409 361 378  or  Francis Walsh 9363 9572
email: heritage@paddingtonsociety.org.au

 

May 2009

•  Wednesday 6th May Know Your Gallery Series

Sara Roney Gallery
104 Glenmore Road Paddington 

Karen Ball - The narrated self

Exhibition to be opened by Dr Eril Baily

6.30pm to 8.00pm - drinks with the artist

Society members $12; Non-members $15; Concession $8.50; 
Bookings: Leone Morrison 9361 0863 or 
email: heritage@ paddingtonsociety.org.au

April 2009

•  Sunday 5th April - Second Hand Sunday Zone 2 Woollahra Council
          (Paddington Society in conjunction with Woollahra Council)

Residents are invited to organsie their own Garage Sale; unsold items will be collected on Monday 6th during the Council Clean Up.  All registered address will be advertised.

Register with Woollahra Council by Monday 23rd March.
Call Pamela Mina on 9391 7062.

Barbeque breakfast for Zone residents and Garage Sale shoppers between 8.00am and 10.00am on the grass verge in Windsor St, cnr Elizabeth St. Provided by Woollahra Council.

March 2009

•  Sunday 29th March - Grand opening by Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP

PADDINGTON RESERVOIR GARDENS incorporating Walter Read and John Thompson Reserves

Oxford Street, opposite the Town Hall
4pm - 6pm, all welcome 

Celebrate the completion of this unique, world standard public space with its sunken gardens and vaulted structures, a fine example of heritage conservation and interpretation.

Live music, entertainment, and afternoon tea for the first 1,000 visitors.

•  Friday 27th March - Twilight Fair

St Vincent's Private Hospital Centenary Celebration
Barcom Ave Park Darlinghurst

4pm - 7pm

An evening of food, entertainment, free health checks, wine tasting, sausage sizzle, gelato and an Irish band.

The Paddington Society will have an information stall.

•  Tuesday 24th March - Know Your Own Pub Series

The Local Tap House (formerly The Palace)
Cnr South Dowling and Flinders Streets; www.thelocal.com.au 

6.30pm to 8.00pm

20 beers on tap and the usual bar

Society members $12; Concession $8; Non-members $15
Price includes first drink and savouries (further drinks at bar prices), short talk on the history of the building and President's update.

Bookings: Leone Morrison 9361 0863 or 
email: heritage@ paddingtonsociety.org.au

•  Thursday 19th March - Seniors' Bike Ride and Picnic 
    (BikeEast in conjunction with The Paddington Society)

Centennial Park to McKell Park, Darling Point (lunch) & return - 13km

Meet: 11am Paddington Gate, Oxford Street Centennial Park
Route: Ride with leader through Paddington, past Edgecliff Station, through Darling Point to McKell Park.  Return via Trumper Park.
Pace: slow an easy, some traffic.

Picnic lunch provided - gold coin donation.

To participate call Adrian Boss 9363 9131 or 
George Leindekar 9398 7341.

•  Sunday 1st March - Clean Up Australia Day

The Paddington Society is coordinating Clean Up Australia Day for Paddington.
Meet at Glenmore Rd Public School (crn  Glenmore Rd & Gruner Lane) 9am - 1pm to register as a volunteer, bring gloves, sunscreen, hat etc - bags will be supplied.  Any queries about the Clean Up please contact Sinead Joyce on 0405 423 834.

December 2008

•  Christmas Party on Sunday, 7 December 2008
Join us in the front garden of historic Juniper Hall - drinks, live Spanish guitar music  & fine food from 5.00pm to 7.00pm.  If it is raining, come to the back of Juniper Hall, entrance in Underwood St, to the shelter of our Society rooms.

Donation $12.50 member; $7.50 concession ; $15 non-member 

RSVP by 3 December 2008.  

Call Francis 9360 6159 or Leone 0409 361 378 or email: heritage@ paddingtonsociety.org.au

November 2008

•  Saturday 29 & Sunday 30 November from 10am to 3.30pm
Three of Paddington’s Designer Gardens Open
By pre-paid ticket only  $20.00 – includes entry to three gardens.  Book online via a secure website www.opengarden.org.au or ring (02) 9983 1836 during office hours.  Australia's Open Garden Scheme – a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting the knowledge and pleasure of gardens and gardening.

•  Saturdays from 1st November - Paddington Pictures -  See original paintings, meet the artist, hold and feel  the book which will be on sale at the Paddington Markets.  A fabulous Christmas present.  For a preview go to the top right corner of this page. 

•  Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd November - Open Garden, part of Australia's Open Garden scheme, winner of Woollahra Council's best established garden 2005; 35 Harris Street Paddington, off Elizabeth Street; 10am to 4pm ; $5 entry fee which is donated to a charity; c uppa on offer; owners Malcolm and Annie Jones 9363 3704 .  

•  Sustainable House - Another member is willing to open her South Paddington house by arrangement; email the Society for contact details, and for information on the house see: www.sustainablehouseday.com/locations/pdfs/NSW-Paddington.pdfooter"> 

•  ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - Monday 10th November - 6.30pm - Paddington Town Hall, Oxford Street Paddington, upstairs opposite main hall 

GUEST SPEAKER - ELSA ATKIN former Executive Director of the National Trust of Australia (NSW)

Followed by wine and light refreshments at the Chauvel Theatre - through the connecting door.