North Ryde RSL Community Club has various dining venues, live entertainment, gift shop and various sporting clubs. Australia Day Concerts and Carols by Candlelight are held each year at North Ryde Common, adjacent to Macquarie Hospital. The grounds are open now after the removal of the original hospitals gates and fences, leased to Ryde Council for 99-years. Ryde Hunters Hill Hockey Club is on the grounds of the former Peter Board High School has over a 50-year history in the area providing Field Hockey for Juniors, Women's and Men's. North Ryde Junior Rugby League Football Club (The Hawks) have been running for over 50 years. Their training ground is at ELS Hall and in 2009 they moved their home games to TG Millner Field when North Ryde RSL Club took over the running of the Eastwood Rugby Club facilities there. Politics North Ryde is in the State of New South Wales electorates of Lane Cove and Ryde, and the Federal electorate of Division of Bennelong Gallery See also Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest References External links North Ryde Shopping Centre – Coxs Road Mall City of Ryde – Council site Ryde District Historical Society Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest (Ryde Council website, with list of local endangered plant species that residents should give preference to when making new plantings in their gardens) Suburbs of Sydney City of Ryde