Rose Bay, New South Wales

Rose Bay, New South Wales

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Rose Bay
city = Sydney
state = nsw



caption = Boats on the shore of Rose Bay
lga = Waverley Council
postcode = 2029
est =
pop = [http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/ProductSelect?newproducttype=QuickStats&btnSelectProduct=View+QuickStats+%3E&collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=SSC11863&geography=&method=&productlabel=&producttype=&topic=&navmapdisplayed=true&javascript=true&breadcrumb=LP&topholder=0&leftholder=0&currentaction=201&action=401&textversion=false#Dwelling%20Characteristics 8,929 ] (2006 Census)
area =
propval = [http://www.domain.com.au/public/suburbprofile.aspx?mode=%20$257,000&suburb=Rose%20Bay&postcode=2029#mapanchor $1,750,000] (2007)
stategov = Vaucluse
fedgov = Wentworth
near-nw = Point Piper
near-n = "Port Jackson"
near-ne = Vaucluse
near-w = Bellevue Hill
near-e = Dover Heights
near-sw = Bellevue Hill
near-s = Bondi Beach
near-se = North Bondi
dist1 = 7
dir1 = east
location1 = Sydney CBD

Rose Bay is a harbourside, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Rose Bay is located 7 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of Waverley Municipal Council (east of Old South Head Road) and Woollahra Council (on its western side towards the bay).

Rose Bay offers views of both the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge together. Lyne Park abuts Sydney Harbour, on its west. Shark Island is located in Sydney Harbour, just north of Rose Bay.

History

Rose Bay was named after The Right Honourable George Rose who was joint Secretary to the British Treasury with Thomas Steele, after whom Steel(e) Point at Nielsen Park was named. The name Rose Bay was used as early as 1788 by Captain John Hunter. [Peter Roland: "The Right Honourable George Rose". (1989). Woollahra History and Heritage Society Inc.]

From 1938, seaplanes landed in Sydney Harbour on Rose Bay, making this Sydney's first international airport. On 14 September, 1945, nine Catalina flying boats landed and moored at the Rose Bay wharf, repatriating Australian POWs, survivors of Japanese camps. Sydneysiders looked on in silence, aghast at the emaciated state of the returning soldiers. [cite web|url =http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/pow/aussiepowsreturn.htm|title = Returning POWs|accessdate = 2008-06-08 |year = 2006|publisher = Peter Dunn] There is a nearby restaurant called Catalina, referencing the aircraft of the same name.

The Wintergarden Cinema was a landmark building which housed the Sydney Film Festival from 1968 to 1973, but which was demolished to make way for exclusive apartments in the late 1980s. ["The Book of Sydney Suburbs", Compiled by Frances Pollon, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8, page 225.]

Landmarks

Rose Bay Cottage

Rose Bay Cottage, located in Salisbury Road, was built in 1834 by the important colonial architect, John Verge, for James Holt who, at the time, managed the 'Cooper Estate'. When built, it was the only house on the 'Estate', with the possible exception of Henrietta Villa, Captain Piper's previous home on Point Piper. The house was built as a single storey verandahed residence of about 225 m². over a similar sized stone cellar. Adjacent to it was an earlier structure (circa 1820's) which was apparently adopted as a kitchen. The house was significantly enlarged by sympathetic additions between 1837 and 1850 and the kitchen wing was joined to the main house forming a courtyard. By the end of this period the house had more than doubled in size. From 1861 until 1911 the house was usually known as Rose Bay Lodge. It was surrounded by extensive gardens embellished by five working fountains fed from a water source above on the slopes of Bellevue Hill which later fed 'Woollahra House', built in 1883 on Point Piper. One of the fountains still remains. Prominent occupiers of the house included Sir Daniel Cooper (his son Daniel was born there in 1848), Walter Lamb (1825-1906) and Sir John Hay (1816-1892) - they were all noted businessmen and parliamentarians. In 1911, the property, then of 4 acres (1.6 ha), was sub-divided and surrounded by other houses. During the next fifty years the old house suffered extensive unsympathetic additions including a second story over the original Verge cottage which converted the house to twelve flats. It has subsequently been restored according to strict conservation standards and the unsympathetic additions removed.

Fernleigh Castle

This spectacular home was built in 1892, ["The Heritage of Australia", Macmillan Company, 1981] incorporating part of a sandstone cottage that dated back to 1874. Aptly named, it resembles a castle with its turrets, castellated towers and square Norman tower. Its sandstone structure contains thirty rooms and a number of stained-glass windows. Fernleigh Castle is on the Register of the National Estate. ["The Heritage of Australia", Macmillan Company, 1981]

Rose Bay Police Station

This police station originally started life as the gatekeeper's lodge in the estate of 'Woollahra House', a nineteenth-century mansion that has long gone. ["The Heritage of Australia", Macmillan Company, 1981] The surviving building was designed in a Victorian Classical Revival style which is attributed to 'Hilly and Mansfield' and which probably tells us what Woollahra House looked like. It was built in 1871 and features rendered walls punctuated with pilasters. Sympathetically restored, it is now on the Register of the National Estate. ["The Heritage of Australia", Macmillan Company, 1981] The building is reputed to house a ghost, although authentication is scant.

Transport

The Rose Bay ferry wharf provides access to the Eastern Suburbs ferry services. There are frequent buses to and from the centre of Sydney via Kings Cross as well as other points and out to Watsons Bay and the coast. Seaplane operators offer scenic flights over Sydney itself as well as a number of excursions along the coast with aircraft operating out of the seaplane terminal near Rose Bay ferry terminal.

chools

Rose Bay is home to two independent schools: Kambala Girls School (1887), an Anglican, day and boarding school for girls from Pre-school to Year 12; and Kincoppal - Rose Bay (1882), a Catholic, day and boarding school with a co-educational primary school and girls-only high school. Kincoppal - Rose Bay was originally Rose Bay Convent but amalgamated with Kincoppal Elizabeth Bay in the late 1970s to become "Kincoppal - Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart". The prep school campus of Cranbrook School (1918) is also located in the suburb.cite web|url = http://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/16321/2007_Schools.pdf|title = Woollahra and Surrounds Schools Directory|accessdate = 2008-01-28 |year = 2007|format = PDF|publisher = Woollahra Municipal Council]

Public schools in the suburb are Rose Bay Secondary College (2004) and Rose Bay Public School (1891). Rose Bay Secondary College was formed by the amalgamation of Vaucluse High School and Dover Heights High School. Originally these schools were known as Vaucluse Boys High, Dover Heights Boys High and Dover Heights Girls High. The cost of improving the public school facilities at Rose Bay was linked to the sale of the campus at Vaucluse. Despite a surge in enrolments and an unmet demand for public high school places in the area, the Vaucluse campus was sold in February 2007 by the NSW Government for $30M to become a seniors community development site [ [http://www.villagevoice.com.au/article/20070215/NWS06/102130003/-1/nws/Site+snapped+up+for+seniors Wentworth Courier, 15 Feb 2007] ] .

port and recreation

There are two golf courses located in Rose Bay. Woollahra Golf Club is a public 9-hole course and Royal Sydney Golf Club is a private 27-hole championship course, not open to the public. Rose Bay also has a very active Rovers (Australia) known as 3rd Rose Bay Rovers. The hall is located in Vickery Avenue, opposite Whoollahra Sailing Club.

Population

DemographicsAccording to the 2001 census, the population of Rose Bay was 9,085. 59% of people in Rose Bay are Australian-born, compared to 61% for the wider Sydney area. Of the immigrants, most are from South Africa (7%), then the United Kingdom (7%), New Zealand (3%), Poland (2%) and Germany (1%).

ReligionRose Bay has been the centre of Sydney's well-established Jewish community, which has now spread all over the Eastern Suburbs. It is still a strong centre for the Jewish population of Sydney, and has attracted a sizeable number of immigrants from Israel, South Africa and Russia. Fact|date=April 2007

HousingAccording to the 2001 census, there are 2,138 flats in Rose Bay, or 55% of all dwellings. There are also 1,032 separate houses (27%) and 330 semi/terraces (9%). Of these, 41% are rented, 40% are fully owned and 10% are purchasing.

Notable residents

* Seven Network newsreader Jessica Rowe.Fact|date=March 2008
* "60 Minutes" reporter Peter Overton.Fact|date=March 2008
* Model Jodie Meares.Fact|date=March 2008

References

External links

* [http://www.rosebayrovers.org.au] 3rd Rose Bay Rovers Website


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