Tarban Creek Bridge is a concrete arch bridge over Tarban Creek, a tributary of Sydney Harbour. It is located between Gladesville Bridge and Fig Tree Bridge. The bridge allows Burns Bay Road and a walkway to connect the suburb of Hunter's Hill to Huntley's Point. This one looks like a mini Gladesville Bridge.
Completed in December 1965, Tarban Creek Bridge formed the "missing link" between the existing Gladesville and Fig Tree Bridges, which traffic used to flow through the residential areas of Hunter's Hill to the annoyance of residents. The three new bridges were built for the proposed North Western Expressway that was cancelled by the Neville Wran state government.
Tarban Creek Bridge is one of the seven bridges in the annual Seven Bridges Walk, a community fitness event to raise money for charity. It consists of a loop circuit that crosses seven of Sydney's harbour bridges in a clockwise direction, which are: Sydney Harbour Bridge to Pyrmont Bridge to ANZAC Bridge to Iron Cove Bridge to Gladesville Bridge to Tarban Bridge to Fig Tree Bridge. You can start at any one of seven "villages" next to the bridges.
As an aside to an otherwise boring review, in the 1920s a beloved Aboriginal woman named Lucy Willerri ("Black Lucy") originally from Alligator River in Queensland, lived next to Tarban Creek. She was ancient but of unknown age from 70 to 100. Her and her dogs lived in a shanty of scrap iron and wood on the banks of Tarban Creek. When her hut burnt down in 1923, the citizens of Gladesville organized and built her a cottage on nearby Auburn Street. More than 200 people attended a ceremony where the Mayor of Hunters Hill handed over the keys. When Lucy died in 1928,the residents of Gladesville paid the costs of her burial in the Presbyterian section of Field of Mars Cemetery. No word on the dogs. read more
