“Goendower” – Ryde
[Note: City of Ryde records this house as Glendower; the title has been left as it is.]
At a glance
- Location: corner of Constitution Road and Belmore Street, Meadowbank (Ryde)
- Built: c.1890 by Benjamin Charles Martyn
- Owners: from 1907 the Lackersteen family, “of jam and condiment fame”; part of the land was resumed in 1947 and 1959 for Meadowbank Public School
- Last occupants: Cecil Octavious and Mabel Lackersteen, who died within seven months of each other in 1962
- Fate: demolished c.1964 for a Hoover spare-parts factory; Ryde Council bought the factory in 1999/2000 and it became the council’s Operations Centre
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