short time became a lighterage for McEnnally Bros. & Co. Ltd. While the sites of Venetia and The Poplars, together with Bellevue were incorporated into the Vanderfield & Reid Ltd. Timber Yards. 49-53 Leichhardt Street became Sylvester Stride's ship breaking yards. The crane which remains on the foreshore today (2004) to the rear of numbers 49 & 51B was part of Stride's operation. Although Stride demolished parts of the houses on his site, they remained relatively intact during his ownership, number 49 becoming part of the offices for the salvage and wrecking business. Windeyer sold his land on the Point to Property Purchase P/L in 1939. Vanderfield & Reid Limited bought the property in 1948. The survey by the City of Sydney shows the extent of their timber yard holdings, north and south of Leichhardt Street. They also extended their holdings into the bay, as large numbers of logs were floated ready for processing. A photo shows a building (now demolished) had been attached to the rear of Bellevue (its south). Ownership, 1970s to 1980s In 1970, the extensive Vanderfield & Reid holdings were sold to Korvette Hardware, with mortgage finance provided by Parkes Developments and CAGA Finance. Parkes became known as the developer of the sites. At that time, the foreshore land was zoned industrial, and described in The Glebe as "a disaster area - deserted timber yards, empty fuel drums littered about, derelict houses and rusting hulks of barges moored to rotting jetties". Only the Maritime Services Board opposed the rezoning of the land to residential. As a condition of the rezoning of the land as residential, and the approval process for a large apartment development on the site, the developer agreed to set aside land on the foreshore for a park. That outcome was assisted by community activists and members of the Glebe Society who, in particular, opposed the demolition of Bellevue. Another condition of development approval was the restoration of Bellevue for community use, but Parkes commenced demolition. Insisting that it was an unfortunate misunderstanding, the company halted the demolition but subsequently failed to restore Bellevues fabric, and also dumped fill excavated during the apartment construction on to the Bellevue site. Local government ownership Leichhardt Council subsequently purchased the foreshore parkland, including Bellevue, at the end of 1981. A section 130 Order was placed over Bellevue on 16 May 1980 to provide time to investigate the