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ISSN 1836-599X 7/2010 August/September not passtotheClub,whichmade littleeffort to the tramsremained sheds weresoldtotheHarness RacingClub, been somewhatuncertain. When thetram Even theownershipoftrams seemstohave historical associationwiththesite. later itemerged thatafourthtramalsohadan three tramswereofhistoricalsignifibut cance, site earlythisyearitwasthoughtthatonly heritage studywaspreparedontheHaroldPark neglected andalmostforgotten. When a Over subsequentyearstheoldtramswere ceased operationinFebruary1961. the largest andmostsophisticatedintheworld, the network,whichinitsheydaywasoneof trams weremovedtotheRozelleDepotafter depot wasclosedinNovember1958.Six Tram ceasedandtheRozelle servicestoGlebe devoted tocommunityuse. reuse ofthetramsheds,with500squaremetres proposed rezoningwhichenvisagesadaptive Club hasnotannouncedadecisiononthe moment thisisuncertainastheHarnessRacing the futureholdsforHaroldPark,andat on site.Ofcoursethiswoulddependwhat historical associationwiththesiteberetained recommends thatthefourtramswithdirect with theproposedrezoningofHaroldPark The heritagestudycarriedoutinconnection historic tramthanapuborcitylane. tram shedsareamoreappropriatehomeforthis workshops on25February, 1961.Surelythe service fromLaPerousetotheRandwick number 1995whichranthelastpassenger The mostimportanttramistheR1classcar the oldtramdepot. Francisco, butmadenomentionofdisplayin in the Annandale HotelorgiventoSan raised thepossibilityofatrambeingdisplayed surprisingly, theLordMayor’s mediastatement cosmetic renovationforstaticdisplay. Rather to fullyoperational ranging fromrestoration in thedepot,withoptions for thesixtramsstored announced arescueplan The CityofSydneyhas there. Park, andwehopeitstays depot adjacenttoHarold in theformerRozelletram vandalised andneglected passengers inSydneylies The lasttramtocarry tram inGlebe Let’s keepSydney’slast Don’t forget the AGM onSunday -10.30amatBenledi in situ , butownershipdid and upholstery. cosmetic renovation,includingnewpaint,glass 3. Staticdisplay–thetramswouldundergo a context. able torunoccasionallyinatransportmuseum 2. Part-timeoperational–thetramswouldbe use asatouristfeatureontheexistinglightrail. restored toastandardcapableofensuringdaily 1. Fullyoperational–thetramswouldbe options fortherestoration: early investigationshaveidentifibroaded three of, preservingthetrams. The statementsays to examinetheavailableoptionsfor, andcosts stakeholders andotherinterestedorganisations Itplanstoestablishaworkingpartyof repair’. and areatgreatriskofdeterioratingbeyond ‘have beenvandalisedandweatherdamaged The City’s announcementsaysthetrams interest inthetrams. care forthebuildingandcertainlyshowedno From Saturday, February25,1961. Randwick Workshops duringtheafternoonof through KingsfordenroutefromLaPerouseto system,R1classcar1995,passed The lasttramtocarrypassengersonthe Artisans: awalkingtour. Seep7. Thursday 16September Glebe. Seep7. Tuesday 14September, Walk -Rockaround Community Games. Sunday 12September, W Tuesday 7September don from Meeting withguestspeakerDrStewartCon- Benledi, Sunday 29 August What’s comingsoon Tramways ofSydney GlebeSociety Annual General Médecins SansFrontières. Continued onnextpage... , 10.30am-1.30pmat , Neil’s walk. Seep7. , 1.30pm-Glebe byDavidRKeenan. entworth Park Seep7. Kitchen Garden for Glebe Public School Kitchen garden beds have now been built at Glebe Public School. The school was successful in its application for a grant from the Council – their application assisted by the Glebe Society – to build a kitchen garden which can be used by the teachers in various areas of the curriculum, and to give students an experience of growing and using a variety of vegetables. The garden beds were constructed by Some of the trams which the City Council hopes to rescue. Photo: Bruce Davis volunteers from Pfi zer, which funded their participation for the day. The col- ... continued from previous page to volunteer their time and expertise to laboration between Pfi zer and Glebe Other suggestions include using one of ensure these pieces of our history are Public was coordinated by United Way the trams as a small laneway bar or as preserved. Sydney, an organisation that special- an art gallery at the Annandale Hotel. ‘We know the trams are of signifi cant ises in connecting corporate volunteers with appropriate grassroots community Lord Mayor Clover Moore said: ‘The value to the area and the community projects. City could also consider sending one and we want to bring them back to life of the trams to our sister-city, San before it’s too late.’ Teachers and parents are starting to plan the use and maintenance of the garden. Francisco, in return for the tram it sent The City has already preserved a section to Sydney in 1987 as a Bicentenary gift. They may need some volunteers from of tram track in north the community to help with aspects of ‘We have received numerous letters of Bridge Road, so let’s hope we can get the garden project, for example with of concern at the condition of the a tram to go with it! maintaining the garden during school trams and many people have offered - Bruce Davis vacation. So, watch for updates and the chance to participate. inquest dealing with a death resulting - Jan Macindoe Visit to the from a collapsed shop awning during a Coroner’s Court storm. This visit was arranged especially for Twenty Glebe Society members came the Glebe Society and was not part of a away from the Coroner’s Court last regular program at the Court – a special Wednesday with a new awareness of the privilege for us, and as Liz Simpson- role of an important institution located Booker noted, a very valuable insight within Glebe on , near into an extraordinarily different facet of Ross Street. We were fortunate to be Glebe life. provided with a most interesting and We hope to organise another visit to the informative talk on the NSW Coroner’s Court early next year. Building the garden beds. Court and the Department of Forensic Photo: Jan Macindoe Medicine which have responsibility - Dorothy Davis for determining the identity, date, place, cause and manner of death of Wren friendly seedlings planted ‘reportable deaths’ which cover violent, The Glebe Society’s Blue Wren Group were supplied by the Glebe Society, unnatural or sudden or unexplained held a highly successful Planting Day accompanied by espresso coffee from deaths, and also the deaths of people in Paddy Gray Reserve, Hereford a local ‘coffee-van’ and followed by a who had not seen a medical practitioner Street, on the gloriously sunny morning sausage sizzle provided by the Lions in the previous six months. of Sunday 1 August 2010. About Club. Thank you to the many who 150 people came including lots of contributed to the success of the day and Maurice Taylor, psychologist with the children and, demonstrating the power especially to the Council staff whose Coroner’s Court, and two counsel- of the internet, residents from 16 hands-on involvement was critical. lors with Forensic Medicine, covered other suburbs, citywide. The City of a range of topics from post-mortem Continuing the heavenly blessing, Sydney’s contractors had prepared examinations to the inquest process, to within a day or two good rain fell, the soil. Tools were provided, and handling sensitively the different cul- helping the seedlings to get a fi rm 1,000 Blue-Wren friendly seedlings roothold. tural approaches to death and providing were planted, provided by Council and support to family members. the Rozelle Bay Community Native - Andrew Wood and Jan Craney Some of the group listened briefl y to an Nursery. Delicious morning pastries for the Blue Wren Group

2 Glebe Society Bulletin On the Waterfront

The bigger issue is to complete the Heritage fl eet foreshore walk between the Rowing move now only a Club and Bridge Road. Plans are to build a path along the water's edge in matter of time front of the Blackwattle Campus of The move of the Sydney Heritage Fleet the Sydney Secondary College. The from its present location in Rozelle Bay school has agreed to this, a survey has to new premises in Pyrmont is now only been completed, and documentation is a matter of time. being prepared to create the necessary easement. Sydney City Council has The fl eet is to be granted a lease on committed funds for design work in land at Pyrmont Point adjacent to the 2011-12 and construction work the approaches to the old Glebe Island following year. Bridge. Land in this area has long been earmarked for public recreation, Because Maritime is now moving on and the planned development includes the boardwalk in front of the Rowing a community water sports centre and Club, the council will be asked through park in addition to a new home for the the Coalition of Glebe Groups (CoGG) Heritage Fleet. if it would be possible to expedite work on our missing link. The Fleet has been searching for a new home for some years. Its current site in The Heritage Fleet’s James Craig along- Rozelle Bay is a valuable commercial side at Darling Harbour. Bridge Road property and NSW Maritime is keen to maximise its return from these wharves. Photo: Bruce Davis wharves blocks close to the Fleet's planned new Goat Island was proposed as a new If we proceed around the corner past the location but later scrapped, reportedly home are also concerned that noise Hanson’s concrete batch plant we come because of opposition from former from the Fleet’s restoration work, such to the next big issue – the sites known Prime Minister Paul Keating. as riveting steel plates on the John Oxley, will be disruptive. as B1 and B2. Announcing the move, the NSW Ports and Waterways Minister, Paul McLeay, The fact that this decision has been The Government has announced a said the new site would offer more announced, and the fact that other Bays preferred applicant for the future land space and water frontage than the projects are proceeding, does not bode development of the wharves and the Rozelle Bay site. well for our hopes that government former coal bunker, but next to nothing authorities would pause a little to has been revealed about what this Planned facilities include a dedicated allow consideration of the Community company plans. Initially the drum restoration wharf, workshop and stores Reference Group’s principles for was that the development application area, and berthing facilities for the integrated development of the Bays (DA) would be handled by the City Fleet’s vessels, including the former Precinct. We have been told that the of Sydney. Now we are told that it is tug, Waratah which is being chartered Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority regarded as a ‘major project’ and the for a Glebe Society harbour trip on (SHFA) will announce what will be Department of Planning will consider 31 October. There will also be space included in Stage 2 of the Bays Precinct the DA. CoGG has stressed the need for a history centre covering the story planning exercise in September. of Sydney Harbour and the Pyrmont for public consultation. The proximity peninsula. NSW Maritime will fund the Foreshore walk of these two sites to Wentworth construction of a boat ramp which will Park and the Fish Market means that be available to the public as well as the Steps are being taken to fi ll the missing their future should not be decided in two Dragon Boat organisations which link in Glebe’s foreshore walk isolation. will operate from the site. NSW Maritime has agreed to fund a Fish Market Plans for the onshore facilities will be small boardwalk in front of the Glebe submitted to the City of Sydney in a Rowing Club and work is expected to Meanwhile, the fi rst small step has development application within the next be completed about the end of the year. been taken in the redevelopment of the 12 months. This will mean that foreshore access Sydney Fish Market. A DA is about However negotiations are continuing will be possible by walking behind the to be submitted to the City Council over how the water should be shared Sydney University Women's Rowing for a new building near the current between the Heritage Fleet and the Club and Boathouse Restaurant, and parking boom gates. This will allow the passive boating community, including then in front of the Glebe Rowing Club. relocation of Claudio’s and Musumeci rowers who are concerned about The club also plans to build a launching in preparation for the renovation of the safety issues that may arise from the ramp in front of the clubhouse, but sea front. this has been delayed through lack of construction of the new wharves. - Bruce Davis People living in new residential tower money.

August/September 2010 3 A Cautionary Tale by Brian Hannant particularly at night. time a roller-door goes up and a kerb crossing is made, parking there becomes Take a look at happier pictures of the Brian’s neighbour Ann has been telling illegal. street; go to Google Street View and me about this planning problem while make the journey along it. It’s not a There is another angle though. Over in the pool doing aqua-aerobics. ‘pretty’ street like some of those tree- a period, permissions to redevelop for - Editor lined avenues on Glebe Point. But one particular site, a conglomerate of I have a story to tell about David Street it was friendly and safe with a good three adjoining properties (199 to 203 – my street – that you might think is feeling – and we all liked it that way. St Johns Road), stated one thing and then another. The original Development useful to know. It’s a story about how You can’t help noticing how narrow the Application (DA) plainly said there anyone’s street, maybe even yours, can street is. With residents’ cars parked, was to be no entry for a vehicle become the play-thing of people with there remains just a comfortable car and no off-street parking permitted deep pockets and greedy eyes. width to pass. Early every Thursday for 203 St Johns Road and the rear morning, a well-practiced driver has to David Street hides behind the far wall to be retained with no loss of swing close to every external rear-view western end of St Johns Road in Forest parking on David Street – though the mirror to allow the garbage truck to Lodge - a short, narrow, one-way developer had applied for this. But a reverse up the street. street of seven houses and a block of Complying Development Certifi cate three unlovely conjoined townhouses Visually, the street’s saving grace was (CDC) countermanded the DA – and no that clutters up the top dead-end. The a higgledy-piggledy line of trees and notifi cation was given to residents. The important point to remember here is fi rst residents knew was when a hole this: all these David Street houses have was cut in the wall for a roller door. been built along one side of the street. All line the northern side; all have no Thus the Council rejects vehicle access, rear lane access; all have their entry the builder applies for a CDC and from the front of the property only. proceeds, a roller door is erected and a kerb crossing made, residents, after So what is it that borders the southern objecting, are informed that this was side of the street? Answer: the rear ‘not part of any DA. It is part of [a] of those properties that front St Johns CDC’. Moreover, residents were told Road – Numbers 195 to 225. These that the work on the kerbing opposite St Johns Road properties consider our the hole in the wall was to ‘repair David Street - a Google Map view street their back lane, a place out-of- the footpath’. But a proper driveway sight-out-of-mind for rubbish bins crossing was constructed. A lie. that get removed only when someone backyard fences along the St Johns sometimes remembers. Road side bisected by a very popular Without prior mention, a new weapon playground, the May Pitt Reserve, was fl ung into the e-mail war – a Once, not so long ago, the area was recently upgraded by the Council. This fragment of the ‘Roads Act’ giving an dominated by owner-occupiers. And was less than four years ago. Now, adjoining land owner ‘right of vehicular other people rented. Now, with values trees and bushes are being cut back and access to the public road’. What does soaring and hovering around the million timber fences removed. Squared-off this mean? Whose property doesn’t dollar mark, more and more properties brick and metal ugliness will replace have access? Do they mean rear lane are owned by companies or rich people them, sealing off any aspect of what access, perhaps? What about my access who live elsewhere and lease them to seemed natural. then, only from the front with no rear those who can afford it. lane possible? It seems like a Furphy! The one roller-door already in operation Madness. Bureaucracy in full fl ight. But there remain three families in David (soon to be three – and how many People diving for cover. Street who are owner-occupiers and more?) is meant to take a vehicle off the would like the quality of living in our streets. But does it? Seldom if ever! Here are some snippets from Council street to remain pretty much what it has Negotiating a turn into the property past correspondence: been. The problem lies with parking parked cars is so diffi cult and accident- • ‘Consent ... does not include a car our cars in our street. Until recently, ten prone that it’s simply not attempted any parking space at the rear of the prop- cars could park safely and hassle-free. more. The mystery, though, is how they erty of 203.’ Now there is pressure to allow off-street contrive to get a sticker for on-street garage space to cut into the rear of the parking; I thought the rule was ‘in or • ‘The timber framed pergola (at the St Johns Road properties, and to replace out’. rear of 203) is not to be used as a car back fences, trees and shrubbery with parking space.’ I have to conclude that what’s been a line of roller doors. And thus have • ‘A CDC has been lodged ... which happening is the result of stupidity or parking removed from David Street. seeks consent for a rear parking carelessness or both. Simple common space, however the development Now, legal parking anywhere within sense, looking at the street, tells you is not complying under either the reasonable walking distance, not just that this is no solution to parking in David Street, is often impossible, problems . It’s making it worse. Every Continued on next page... 4 Glebe Society Bulletin Who lived in your street?

Joseph Fowles (1810-78) by Lyn Collingwood On the down side, bushfi res were a problem and some items expensive. Sydney in 1848, illustrated with copper Fowles advised would-be immigrants plate engravings of the city’s main streets to bring their own ploughs, wheels, and buildings, was an instant success furniture and crockery and to speculate when published in parts in 1848-9. in butter and cheese. Republished in 1878 and in facsimile in 1962 and 1973, it remains a widely After staying with family friends, the consulted reference work. The book’s Morrises, in Bridge Street, Joseph and author lived for a number of years in Emily started looking for somewhere to Glebe. live. They visited Newcastle but settled on Figtree Farm (a house and two Joseph Fowles migrated to Australia cottages on 110 rocky acres ‘six miles on the barque Fortune, leaving London from Sydney’) in Balmain. Joseph in April 1838 and landing in Sydney planned to grow vegetables and fruit nearly fi ve months later. On the voyage and harvest the plentiful fi sh and oysters he occasionally took the wheel, played in the harbour. While living in Balmain the fl ute, did some fi shing, painting and which was draped with the Union Jack he set up as a wine merchant, bird shooting, and kept a diary. His wife and lowered into the sea. a business sold in 1844 to Edward Emily Lambrick (née Collier ca 1816-61) After a seasick beginning, Fowles Goddard who pledged to sell a quality and sister-in-law were among the female enjoyed life on the ocean, particularly product at prices ‘commensurate with cabin passengers who, on embarking, sharing meals at the captain’s table. the depressed times’. were wrapped in a chair with a Union They drank champagne and ate roast Jack and hoisted by rope from the wharf beef, turkey and goose, fresh lobster By 1847 Fowles had become a serious onto the ship. Fowles painted a plaque and salmon, gooseberry and raspberry painter, submitting seven works – for the coffi n of the captain’s two- pies. A cow provided fresh milk. fi ve of ships and shipping – to the year-old son who died at sea. Normal fi rst exhibition of the Society for the practice was for a corpse to be tied in a Port Jackson was impressive, the Promotion of Fine Arts. At its second hammock weighted with lead and thrown cove alive with boats, the country exhibition in 1849 he showed ‘Byrnes overboard. However, in this instance the beautifully green with cedar and other Mills, Parramatta’, described by the ship’s bell tolled. The child’s gown and trees, the splendid mansions of the Sydney Morning Herald as a ‘glaring christening cap were placed in the coffi n, merchants in settings ‘truly exquisite’. and unmeaning mixture of red, yellow and brown’. However, by this time he ... continued from previous page had achieved commercial success with Leichhardt Exempt and Complying or houses fi lled with university stu- Sydney in 1848 (printed at his studio at Development Control Plan or the dents and cooking smells, a lock on 5 Harrington Street) and had won prize State Environmental Planning Policy every door. But we lived in our hous- money for marine paintings. es; we cared for them, our neighbour- - Exempt and Complying. This ap- By 1858, having switched subject hood and one another. We understood plication is likely to be refused.’ matter, Fowles was described as ‘Our the nature of close inner-city living. The current situation is this: a fully Colonial Herring’ after John Herring, And we still do. functional roller door leading to a car an English painter of racehorses. As a space under a pergola stands ready with Certainly, as a ‘selling point’, having souvenir of his term in offi ce Governor its approved kerb crossing. No vehicle is rear lane access for off-street parking FitzRoy commissioned Fowles to make permitted to cross over and enter through looks good on paper and may improve portraits of his favourite horse, Sam the roller doors and park, but if any the property value – and the lease. Weller, and Buffalo Bull and other cattle vehicle parks in David Street obstructing And the Sydney City Council seems in the Domain. Fowles frequented the access to the roller door, an $85 fi ne is poised to believe this line of thought. race track near Government House imposed. Madness! We are only a very few residents and Parramatta and in 1862, employing Look, not one of us in David Street is we’re ‘taking on city hall’. Of course, a trainer Noah Beal, established the opposed to change. When we bought there are the usual suspects among Newmarket stables at Randwick, a in here thirty or so years ago, we helped the councillors who support the view short-lived venture which ended in change the nature of the suburb our- of David Street residents. But are insolvency. selves. We were among those baby- they enough to carry the day for us? I guess we’ll soon fi nd out. Fowles had other sources of income, boomer newbies who began to ‘gentrify’ however. He was the fi rst art teacher at - Brian Hannant the area, taking properties over from the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts working blokes with greyhounds who’d 6 David Street, Forest Lodge been living with their widowed mothers, Continued on next page...

August/September 2010 5 ...continued from previous page The 21st Annual Glebe Music Festival and taught at public and private schools including King’s, Sydney Grammar, 28 October to 28 November Camden College, St Barnabas’, Lyndhurst College and Glebe Point The opening concert of this year’s Glass will perform a Sacred Drama, Collegiate School. He trained and Glebe Music Festival will be at with works by Bouzignac, Charpentier, examined art teachers for the National Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, at Mazzocchi and Carissimi. Tickets are Board of Education and its successor 7pm on Thursday 28 October. The $38/$33. the Council of Education. ‘Artist by string quartet The NOISE will take us on This year, unfortunately, there will be Appointment to H.R.H. the Duke of A Musical Journey Through Literature . no concert at the Great Hall. Instead, Edinburgh’, he published a series of Tickets are $20/$10 including food and a new venue will be explored – the drawing books as standard school drinks. Florilegium Garden Bookstore at textbooks in and The soirée at Margaretta Cottage, 6 65 Derwent Street, on Thursday 25 Queensland. Leichhardt Street, which includes fi ne November at 7.30pm with George In 1858-72 Fowles lived in a house food and wine, is at 8pm on Saturday 13 Arnare (singing, guitar, harmonium, with vacant allotments on both sides November. There will be performances Appalachian dulcimer), accompanied on Glebe Road between Francis and by the internationally acclaimed pianist by violinist and guitarist. They will Mitchell Streets. In 1873-6 he was Ambre Hammond, the violinist Sophie perform songs from the debut album in Macdonaldtown at Fern Villa Serafi no accompanied by Lindsay Soul Volition. Tickets are $10. Erskineville Lane but had moved to St Gilroy, and the soprano Donna Cain And by popular demand, there will Johns Road Forest Lodge by the time accompanied by Darren Saady. Tickets be a piano duo concert by Robert he made out his will in February 1878. are $40/$20. Weatherburn this time alongside Walter He died of a stroke at Parramatta on 25 There will be two concerts at St Shovk on a grand piano in the Old June 1878, leaving ‘a wife and young Scholastica’s Chapel, on the corner of Court House (corner St Johns Road and family and several grown up sons and Arcadia Road and Avenue Road, both Talfourd Street) at 7.30pm Friday 26 daughters’. His estate valued at £1000 at 3pm. On Sunday 14 November, Bel November. Tickets are $15/$10. was divided among his widow, three a cappella under the directorship of Tickets will be available at the door sons and two daughters. His artistic Anthony Pasquill will perform Britten’s materials and the goodwill of his for all performances. Further details A Boy was born and Pärt’s Berliner including how to book in advance are practice were left to the eldest son, said Messe. Tickets are $30/$25/$20. On by Joseph to have ‘artistic tastes’. This available at www.glebemusicfestival. Sunday 28 November, Coro Innominata com. son was probably William Henry (1845- under the directorship of Wayne ‘Sandy’ 83). - David Macintosh Fowles’ fi rst wife Emily had died in former headmaster at Glebe Public Sources: September 1861; her eldest daughter, and then in charge of William Street Baily, Frank E Letters 1866-75 18-year-old Augusta Emily, two months School, and had suffered a stroke after Bell’s Life 4.9.1858 later. Both deaths were registered in going to bed. Parramatta artist and Bibliography of Australian Art Paddington and both women were historian Collinridge Rivett maintained buried at St Stephen’s Newtown. Other that Fowles, who had some physical Fowles, Joseph Journal London – Sydney on ‘Fortune’ 5.4-3.8.1838 children of Joseph and Emily were handicaps, turned to spiritualism, an Joseph jnr who died in 1875 in Brisbane enthusiasm not shared by Emily who Illustrated Sydney News 13.7.1878 where he was City Surveyor; Emily banned seances from the Harrington NSW Births, Deaths, Marriages online Frances (‘Fanny’) who married Frank E Street premises. The enthusiasm was NSW cemetery records Baily in Brisbane in 1874, a ceremony apparently not shared by Elizabeth NSW electoral rolls attended by her father; and Jessie either. According to Rivett, Joseph, Queensland Births, Deaths, Marriages online Elizabeth (died 1909) who married after travelling by train to Parramatta, Rivett, J Collinridge the Art Union Story – was thrown to the fl oor by a violent William James Titterton in 1865. old Parramatta 1953 seizure during an after-dinner seance. In 1874 Joseph married Elizabeth Harris Calling up spirits was a popular activity Sands directories at Glebe. His second family comprised in the second half of the nineteenth State Records NSW John Percival (1870-1936) who married century. Sydney Morning Herald 1.9.1838; Emily Moore in 1891 and Margaret B 27.4.1844; 26.7.1847; 27.9.1878 Handford in 1896 and divorced in 1920; - Lyn Collingwood Albert (born 1871); Beatrice L (died 1872); Josephine Amy (1875—1921) Correction and Arthur Edward (died 1927). Joseph’s second wife died aged 63 in In last month’s article on the Sydney Lead Works, we should have said that Queensland on 26 September 1897. ingots of pig lead, not pig iron, from Broken Hill were converted into various lead products. Mystery surrounded Joseph’s death. The Sydney Morning Herald reported Bruce thought pig iron only worked if you possessed the Philosopher’s Stone, or that he had attended a gathering at the in the interior of stars. Lyn says she is too familiar with Pig Iron Bob. home of a friend William Matthews,

6 Glebe Society Bulletin Coming Glebe events Know Your Local Two more Walking Tours in Glebe, both 10am - 12 noon Neighbourhood Politicians, Publicans and a format that can either be printed or Glebe Artisans: Sinners: Walking the Streets viewed on a smartphone. a walking tour of Glebe To book, ring Jan and Neil, 9660 0208 Tuesday 7 September Thursday 16 September, Rock around Glebe 1.30pm – 4.30/5pm This History Week event, led by Neil Tuesday 14 September This walking tour will reveal some Macindoe, has a social history focus A second walking tour is taking place surprising crafts and locations in Glebe. and recounts the stories of many of the in the week after History Week, and is We will visit a stencil gallery, a garden distinguished and colourful fi gures from part of the City U3A course program. bookstore, artists’ studios, bookbinders the past associated with buildings and Led by local resident and geologist and a fl oral design school – small institutions in this area of Glebe. The Anton Crouch, the walk provides a brief businesses which still use manual walk begins at the Barton footbridge introduction to the geology of the Glebe techniques in this automated age. crossing Parramatta Road (at Arundel Street), and fi nishes at Foley Park. Point area and the variation in the rock types which can be seen in the many We will meander (on foot and by bus) exposures in the area's streets and parks. from a grand terrace in Glebe Point An answer to the question ‘where is Road, to a group of artists’ studios, to a Glebe Point?’ will be given. bookstore in a former bakery, then into a workshop in a lane, fi nally ending up The walking tour starts at the corner at Yuga Café. of Cook Street and Glebe Point Road, Cost: $15 including, coffee, tea and proceeds downhill to Blackwattle Bay, cake. follows the foreshore to the end of Glebe Book by 9 September on the enclosed Look for this plaque at the start of Point Road, examines the rock outcrops fl yer or on the website. Be quick - the walk. behind Hilda Booler Kindergarten and numbers are limited. Photo: Liz Simpson-Booker ends at the corner of Eglinton Road and - Dorothy Davis Glebe Point Road. This walk is based on the fi rst of a series of walks being developed by Glebe Society members may wish to Liz Simpson-Booker and Jan and take the opportunity to join City U3A Neil Macindoe, with assistance from (annual fee $40 – to end June 2011), or Lyn Collingwood. We have applied could participate for free on a one-off Annual General for a grant from the Royal Australian basis. Meeting Historical Society to publish the walks, To book, ring Jan on 9660 0208. with text accompanied by maps and All members are invited to the AGM photographs, on the Glebe Society For more information about History at Benledi on Sunday 29 August at website. Each of the walks will be in Week, see page 8. 10.30am to 1.30pm. The Agenda and the fi rst of the Cruise our local bays and Harbour Annual Reports were published in last month’s Bulletin, 6/2010. Sunday 31 October, 3pm We can confi rm that Dr Stewart Cruise with us on the Sydney Heritage we expect that this will be a popular Condon, a representative of Fleet’s Waratah , the world’s oldest event, if we don’t achieve the full Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors operational coal-fi red steam tug. We complement we will need to cancel the without Borders), who has worked will visit the bays and foreshores of event. extensively in the fi eld, will be our the inner parts of the Harbour for a guest speaker. leisurely afternoon. An update on Places are limited due to the boat size. Dr Condon will talk about the work the bays and foreshores planning Please book by Thursday 30 September, of MSF in different parts of the issues will be provided and we will so you don’t miss out. See the enclosed world, and especially in Pakistan have the opportunity to view the key fl yer to book. in the aftermath of the disastrous development sites from the water as we Further information on the bays and fl oods. Relief teams there are head around the Harbour. The cruise foreshores and the Waratah is available working hard to prevent outbreaks promises to be both enjoyable and of disease, particularly cholera, and educational. on the Glebe Society’s website, www. provide essential healthcare to a glebesociety.org.au. Early bookings are essential due to the population desperately in need. high cost of chartering the boat. While - Katharine Vernon

August/September 2010 7 News and Notes Thirsty Thursdays History Week, 4 – 12 September. Three Members and friends are invited to meet in restaurants in and events in Glebe – and much more around Glebe on the fi rst Thursday of each month at 7pm, to eat and talk with other people who live in Glebe. We visit a The theme of this year's History Week is 'Faces in the Street', different restaurant each month, varying cuisines. Put these a focus on ‘the everyman and woman who populate the dates in your diary now. historical world: the famous, the infamous and the rest of us’. There are 150 events in History Week this year, and the Glebe On Thursday 2 September we will venture beyond Glebe Society is presenting one of them, a walking tour on Tuesday again and go to The Persian Room, 52 Harris Street, Pyrmont. 7 September – see page 7. As I will be unavailable, please email Jan Macindoe or ring her on 9660 0208 by the Tuesday before the dinner to let her As well as the Glebe Society's event there are two other know if you are coming, and if you are likely to be late. History Week events in Glebe. One is a joint presentation by Tranby Aboriginal College and the History Council of NSW On Thursday 7 October we will go to Cucina Calabrese, 30 entitled 'Through their eyes: learning from the past'. This is Pyrmont Bridge Road, Camperdown, on the old Children’s hospital site. a presentation at Tranby, 13 Mansfi eld Street, on Thursday 9 September, 6-8pm. And on Thursday 4 November we will go to Elizabeth’s Boutique Café, 175 Glebe Point Road, near the Post Offi ce. The other Glebe event is at St Scholastica's Chapel where Sophia Laba will talk about her research into the life and - Edwina Doe work of John Radecki, who designed the stained glass Welcome to new members windows in the Chapel, amongst other work. Sunday 12 September, 2-4pm. The following people were accepted as members of the Glebe Society at the August Management Committee meet- Information about these and the many other interesting events ing: on offer is listed in the program, Faces in the Street, 4 – 12 Annie Atkinson, Rory Burns, Janet and John September 2010 available from the Glebe Library, and also at Conroy, John C Hutton, Caroline Ilufi -Bowker, the Glebe Society AGM. William Ryan and Susan Shearing. Our local Member of Parliament We look forward to seeing them at future Glebe Society func- tions. State Member for Balmain, Hon. Verity Firth MP. Players in the Pub Offi ce address: 112a Glebe Point Road, Glebe 2037. Senior Electorate Offi cer: ph 9660 7586, fax 9660 6112, The next moved reading at the Toxteth is The Trials of Ann email [email protected] Rumsby or Bonnet v. Teapot by Canberra writer Brian Hungerford. A world premiere for History Week, the play is based on events at the Parramatta Female Factory in 1822. City of Sydney Councillors The cast includes 'the fl ogging parson' Samuel Marsden. The Lord Mayor: Clover Moore MP author and descendants of some of the protagonists in the Ann Rumsby story are coming to the reading. Councillors: Where: Toxteth Hotel 345 Glebe Point Road Glebe (upstairs Phillip Black Media Room, Ferry Road entrance). Meredith Burgmann When: Tuesday 7 September at 7 pm. Free admission. Two main meals for the price of one on Irene Doutney Tuesdays. - Lyn Collingwood Chris Harris Marcelle Hoff Glebe Art Show Robert Kok Now in its 13th year, the Glebe Art Show is held annually Shayne Mallard in the Glebe Library and the adjoining building, Benledi, 186 John McInerney Glebe Point Road. Di Tornai The Art Show aims to support and encourage both emerging and established artists living or working in the Glebe area, For enquiries: Please contact the City of Sydney on and to promote the work and services of the Glebe Library. 9265 9333. This year’s Opening is on Friday 17 September, from 6pm. All are welcome. Forest Lodge The show will be held from Saturday 18 September to Sunday 26 September, 11am to 5pm Monday to Saturday, Public School 12 noon to 4pm Sunday (Benledi only). Home of The Glebe Details of the prizes and entry forms are available at the Society Archives Library or on the website, http://www.glebeartshow.org.au. - Margaret Whittaker Phone 9660 3530 8 Glebe Society Bulletin For your diary ... Sunday 29 August, 10.30pm - 1.30pm – Glebe Society Annual General Meeting – Benledi. See page 7. Thursday 2 September, 7pm – Thirsty Thursday – The Persian Room, 52 Harris Street, Pyrmont. See page 8. Tuesday 7 September, 10am – Walking the Streets of Glebe - History Week event. See page 7. Tuesday 7 Septemner, 7pm - Players in the Pub, at the Toxteth Hotel. See page 8. Wednesday 8 September, 7.30pm – Management Committee Meeting, 115 Mitchell Street. Sunday 12 September – Wentworth Park Community Games. See www.wentworthparkcelebration.org.au Tuesday 14 September, 10am – U3A Walk – Rock around Glebe. See page 7. Thursday 16 September, 1.30pm – Glebe Artisans – a Walking Tour. See page 7. Friday 17 September, 6pm – Glebe Art Show opening at Benledi. Show dates 18-26 September. See page 7. Thursday 7 October, 7pm – Thirsty Thursday – Cucina Calabrese, 30 Pyrmont Bridge Road. See page 8. Wednesday 13 October, 7.30pm – Management Committee Meeting, 115 Mitchell Street. 28 October to 28 November – Glebe Music Festival. See page 8. Sunday 31 October, 3pm – Waratah Cruise. See page 7. Thursday 4 November, 7pm – Thirsty Thursday – Elizabeth’s Boutique Café, 175 Glebe Point Road. Sunday 21 November – Glebe Street Fair. Contacting The Glebe Society Inc The Glebe Society Established 1969 Management Committee: Mail President Lesley Lynch 9660 5084 All correspondence should be addressed Vice-president Bruce Davis 9660 7873 to: Immediate Past President Jan Macindoe 9660 0208 The Glebe Society Inc Secretary tba tba PO Box 100, GLEBE NSW 2037 Treasurer Bruce Davis 9660 7873 Website Committee Members: Andrew Craig 9566 1746 Dorothy Davis 9660 7873 The Society has a growing Website (www.glebesociety.org.au) for the Carole Herriman 9571 9092 Liz Simpson-Booker 9518 6186 information of members and anyone Sub-committee Convenors: with an interest in Glebe. The Website All sub-committee convenors are ex-offi cio members of the Management will only fl ourish if members use the Committee site. Send contributions or comments to Arts, Culture and Media Sue Ingram 9692 8534 [email protected] Bays and Foreshores Tony Larkum 9660 7030 The Bulletin Community Development Robyn Kemmis 9692 9440 The Environment Jan Macindoe 9660 0208 We are glad to publish letters or articles on any matters of interest to Glebe, any Heritage tba tba topic raised in the Bulletin, or any issues Membership Cheryl & Bryan Herden 9660 7371 relating to the Glebe Society, within the Planning Neil Macindoe 9660 0208 Guidelines published on our website. Transport, & Traffi c Andrew Craig 9566 1746 Write to the address above or email Other contacts: [email protected] Archivist Lyn Milton 9660 7930 Disclaimer Blackwattle Cove Coalition (BCC) Bruce Davis 9669 7873 Views expressed in this Bulletin are not Blue Wrens (Acting Convenor) Tessa Copland 9660 0446 necessarily those of The Glebe Society Bulletin Editor Edwina Doe 9660 7066 Inc. Event Coordination Dorothy Davis 9660 7873 Bulletin deadline History of Glebe Max Solling 9660 1160 History of the Glebe Society Jeanette Knox 9660 7781 The next edition of the Bulletin will be published at the end of September. The Liaison with CoGG Bruce Davis 9660 7873 deadline for contributions is Wednesday Liaison with FLAG Robyn Kemmis 9692 9440 15 September. Website Phil Young 9692 9583

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