Glen Eira Historical Society Newsletter Number 11, November 2016 ISSN 2201-5647 one. If you have doubts about Editorial the history of a tree, on private or GEHS Future Dates In these rapidly changing times, Details are sent to members and it is important to remember that public land, please contact us and we can investigate. are available from the Society nothing stays the same forever. website or office. Unfortunately, many of us are We must preserve and record our experiencing change overload in natural and built heritage. We Friday 16 December 2016 some areas of Glen Eira. This can need your help. With your eyes and Last day rooms are open for 2016 be difficult to process. camera, plus any stories you may Saturday 17 December 2016 to Monday 30 January 2017 With this in mind, we appeal have of an area which is changing, Society rooms closed to you and your friends to help we can create a picture which the heritage of our area and the might otherwise be lost. Thursday 19 January 2017 Historical Society expand their files Carol Stals Visit to Islamic Museum and information. Geoffrey Paterson Tuesday 31 January 2017 We can all be Citizen Historians First day rooms are open in 2017 by keeping our eyes open when Then and Now Wednesday 1 February 2017 we move around our suburbs. If St John's Elsternwick Deadline for Newsletter Issue 12 you carry a smart phone you can Wednesday 22 March 2017 capture change in all sorts of ways, at 7.30pm and the things you would like to Boyd Room, Carnegie Library retain. Speaker to be advised GEHS has been active in campaigning for a higher level GEHS Past Events of heritage awareness and Tuesday 16 August appreciation by Council. We hope Glen Eira Councillors visit GEHS the dark days of the senseless loss Thursday 18 August of Frogmore will not be forgotten. Glenfern visit It was the last mansion of its type Thursday 25 August in Murrumbeena. Like shooting the last Dodo, it too was powerless, Truman film night although GEHS did fight hard for Wednesday 28 September the house’s retention. Heritage Caulfield Grammar Archives visit communities around Australia were Thursday 29 September shocked by this act. The land still Salvation Army Heritage visit lies vacant one year on. Sunday 16 October At present, we are trying to save History Week and GEHS Book Sale the former World War 1 Red Cross The brick church at St John's Rest Home at Caulfield Hospital Presbyterian Church was 3–20 November and will be attending a Heritage dedicated on 20 February 1916. Glen Eira Gallery Exhibition Council hearing on 25 November Between 1888 and 1916, the Sunday 13 November 2016. wooden hall in Foster Street had World War 1 Bus Drive served as the church. These two We suggest you move about with Wednesday 30 November cultural awareness and look at buildings remain at the now St General Meeting anything of interest which will John's Uniting Church. one day be of heritage concern. Top photo courtesy of St John's. Speaker John Maidment Check out gardens and trees. Glen Pipe Organs in the Glen Eira Area Eira Council no longer has a tree Issue 12: March 2017 register but we could establish Theme: sport and recreation We acknowledge that the including scouts and guides Boonwurrung People are the We thank David Southwick MP Deadline 1 February 2017. traditional owners of the area for kindly donating the printing Please send contributions to known as Glen Eira. of this Newsletter. [email protected] The Glen Eira Historical Society Inc is proudly sponsored by Glen Eira City Council Community Grants and Bendigo Bank Murrumbeena 2 President’s Column Contributors GEHS meetings and events seemed a good idea. in this edition History of the Salvation clearly show Army in Australia In those days, women did a six one of the major week course to become an officer. conclusions of the Wednesday 28 September 2016 The Salvationists had a threefold book reviewed Talk by Yasmin Van Gaalen- idea, love of God, obedience on page 12: local historical Prentice and work. Lady cadets became societies play a significant role The story began in involved in slum ministry, social in connecting people to history England in 1865 services and were best known for through their community and when William their Christianity, with sleeves locale, especially where they Booth took on the rolled up at the ready. They have grown up. role of preaching formed slum brigades, going the Gospel to the poor, into the opium dens, cooking It is wonderful to see our underprivileged and outcasts of and cleaning for the needy. The Newsletter being a strong, society and the Church. Army set up shelters for country positive example of this – a tree girls who fell on hard times. can resonate as strongly as a The various ministries that Commandant Cornelius Booth set child’s bonfire, a tiny newspaper evolved were a result of the idea up midnight banquets for women kiosk or a grand old home. of practical Christianity. from the brothels and opium dens The Significance Assessment There was little point in of the city, a safe place where Report we commissioned preaching about God’s love to their needs could be identified for our Collection has also someone with an empty stomach, and met. reinforced the value of items dirty house, or no job! That’s why Catherine’s daughter-in-law we hold as custodians for the the Salvation Army often says Florence encouraged women to local community. Of particular their motto is Heart to God, Hand join the fellowship, called the note are historic photographs, to Man. Home League, where they were research notes from key local By 1867, the Army had developed educated in budgeting, opening historians and items from the into a ministry, offering schooling, social clubs and by these means old Caulfield City Council. soup kitchens and relief aid to they hoped to alleviate the The Report provides clear the destitute. Catherine, whom depressive situations in which direction for conservation and William married in 1855, was found themselves. future planning too. Thanks to known as the Army Mother, as Bendigo Bank Murrumbeena for well as the co-founder. She was Nursing brigades (on bicycles) funding this. a fearless preacher, a gifted were set up, Bethesda Hospital was part of this, The Army sent By the time you read this, we teacher, and was the person that female cadets to the goldfields, will have attended the Heritage held her family and the Army and they assisted by healing Council of Victoria’s hearing together. As early as 1855, and tending the sick. They held on 25 November about the Red Catherine promoted women’s meetings to empower women to Cross Rest Home (Montgomery female ministry, equality with take up the cause. House) at Caulfield Hospital. God equals equality with society. Hopefully we will have good Catherine had eight children, and There have been numerous news to deliver! her daughters became leaders. women leaders in the Army, one Anne Kilpatrick The first Salvationist meetings was Brigadier Frances Gillam, GEHS President held in Australia were in 1880. who was a pioneer of Salvation In 1882, Major James Barker Army missionary work in North and his wife Alice were appointed China from 1916 to 1936 and Glen Eira Historical Society Inc a pioneer in the beginnings of A0041700U published this Newsletter. by the General and sent to the policewomen in Victoria. The Society’s street address is Australian colonies to further the 965 Glen Huntly Road, Caulfield, Salvation Army’s work. Major Mary Anderson was 3162. Postal address is PO Box 202, Alice came from a wealthy family, involved with the court and Caulfield South 3162. Phone 9077 and left her family home because prison services and Brigadier 5395 Doreen Griffiths, another leading Email [email protected] of her association with the Army . woman of the Army, was involved Website www.gehs.org.au She married her husband the day The office is open Tuesday and Friday before they sailed for Australia. with community work at the between 9 and 12 or by appointment. The Salvationists had experienced Children’s Court. The Newsletter will be published in persecution in England, marching Report by Claire Barton March, July and November 2017. The was illegal, fines had to be paid, next deadline is 1 February 2017. and coming to serve in Australia We welcome your contribution. 3 The village of Ripponlea growing population. At the same time, many shops were built that Letter to the Editors Wednesday 27 July 2016 are still in evidence along Glen Dear Editors Talk by Dr Judith Buckrich Eira Road today. One of these Here is some feedback on the Judith Buckrich significant shops was Johnson’s July Newsletter. spoke at our AGM Chemist Shop, which pioneered Page 2 Labassa . arty about the history needle exchanges for drug users bohemian tenants of the of the suburb of in Victoria. Another was the fruit 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s Ripponlea, shop, now run by Bill Magliss, included the Pieper family. reflecting on the stories she had which opened one hundred Liam was born at Labassa in discovered while researching her 1984, and his older brother, 1 years ago, and has functioned book The Village of Ripponlea . continually as a fruit shop ever Ardian, was born there in Judith’s book was commissioned since. 1979. Liam refers to Labassa in chapter 1 of his first book. The by Bill Magliss, owner of the Glen Ripponlea continued to develop Eira Road fruit shop Victoria book’s cover features the author and grow over the next decades, at the front door of the mansion.1 Fruit Palace.