Come and see the beautiful images of Balmain taken by Lynn Pearce.
Opening Night July 1st 2015 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Balmain Library 370 Darling Street Balmain.
A Village on the Harbour
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Monthly Archives: June 2015
Geo Referencing
Have you been enjoying access to the City Section Maps for Leichhardt, Balmain and Annandale.
Well it’s just got a whole lot more exciting with a Geo referencing project from the State Library of NSW
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/using/map_georeferencing.html
Are you interested in local history and old maps? Would you like to see how the streets and suburbs of Sydney have changed over the past 100 years? Help us place a selection of digitised maps of Sydney!
Using our online mapping tool you can quickly create an overlay of an old map on top of current mapping and compare the past with the present. In our first geo-referencing project we are featuring around 1,000 maps of inner Sydney. Many of the streets have changed names or even disappeared. Identifying the locations can be like solving a puzzle.
Your name will be credited for any contribution you make and your efforts will significantly improve public access to these collections. Contributors can see the results of their work, as well as the progress of the pilot and other participants.
Flashback Friday
Caffe’ Sport (est. 1956) now Bar Sport situated at 2a Norton Street close tot the intersection with Parramatta Road Road, opened as a coffee lounge in 1956. It is reportedly the first italian – style coffee lounge (in Italian, bar) in the area. Over the years Caffe Sport has achieved trendy statu, something that Rafaello Raffaelli it’s first proprietor and the person who named it, could never have imagined.
Raffello is originally from Bolzano, near the Austrian frontier with Italy.
Around the mid- 1950s, one of Raffaello’s sisters told him of a shop for sale in in Norton Street, close to tthe Parramata Road intersection. Back in the day it was half a fruit shop and half a milk bar. LaPavoni was the only coffee-making machine imported from italy at that time. small espresso cups and cappacino cups did not exist. Small espresso cups and cuppuccino cups did not exist so he made do. From 1983 – 2000 the Turco’s family ran Bar Sport. From 2000 Joe Napoliello whose family originates from Salerno have continued the tradition of Bar Sport, as they are in italydecked with a score board of Soccor scores a lunchtime menu good coffee and a vibey atmosphere.
 Outside Caffe Sport 1973 |
 Ralph Rafaello 1956 |
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Joe Napoliello Photograph by Amie Zar |
