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the balmain association mmm si incorporated NEWS SHEET Vol 26 No 11 Issue 209 FOUNDED 1965 DECEMBER 1991 Extend Public Participation Street as well as a reservation for extra lanes ThebyRezoning LeichhardtWorkshops Council conducted have been on Victoria Rd from Iron Cove Bridge to concluded and there is agreement that Terry Street was well supported. The street they generally presented a consensus of network as portrayed on the sketch is not residents* views and concerns. The desirable and does not follow the site levels. Council is now expected to determine the Chemplex representative, Mr John Boyd, Local Environment Plans before the end stated that they had not tendered for of the year. Cockatoo Island as it does not appear to be As we forecast last month, the Depart a viable development ment of Planning is still formulating their The Caltex workshop wants Council to Regional Environmental Plan which they request the State Government to purchase had proposed to exhibit on 18 November 'Vs of Ballast Point for a park and to allow and is now due "before the end of the year". development on the remainder. If this re There is, however, a possibility of a legal quest was unsuccessful a minority report challenge to this process from the Council had two schemes which approximated the and the Local Government Association. Commissioners' recommendations. Caltex Some of the developers have discussed advocated the adoption of the "umpire's" the rezonings with the workshops and decision. agreement had been achieved on general The next step in the public participation principles. The most developed concepts operation is to produce measures to control were from Leda on the White Bay site and the effects of the development on these five the sketch illustrates some of the ideas sites and others such as the MSB buoy site promoted by members of the workshop and the White Bay Power Station which is committee. The main principle agreed to about to be demolished. The Council is ex was the linkage of open space through the pected to form the precinct committees that site from Punch Park to \S^ite Bay Park. we have been advocating. However, the Variations to access roads and traffic traffic control measures and improvements arrangements are imperative and the to infrastructure and amenities need to be recommendations include: (a) Improve !DEX€> t=aL-. considered over the whole Peninsula and ments to access Victoria Road and keep the precincts need to work in conjunction. heavy vehicles out of narrow suburban A future resident committee should ex streets, (b) Extension of Booth Street to No detailed concept has been revealed amine the traffic calming measures required Roberts Street, (c) Extension of Reynolds by Chemplex but general agreement was especially for the Darling Street shopping Street to Roberts Street, (d) Closing off reached for waterfront open space with the area. Contributions should be obtained from Buchanan Street to form a cul-de-sac possibility of enlarging the Balmain High the developers as well as the State serving only the commercial premises of the School playing field. The widening of Terry Government to finance this work. Ampol and Unilever sites. Street between Victoria Road and Margaret President Jane Ward for the Management Committee wishes you all the best for the Festive Season. ' AMerryXmas Please join us at 3-6pm on Saturday December 21 at the Watch House for and a C h r i s t m a s d r i n k s Happy New Year to All Snowy Baker, Olga Petrove, Ruby De G o u r i i e s C o m e r Remer and Charlie Chaplin. One of Australia's silent movie stars Picture Theatres was Lottie Lyell who was born in Balmain in 1890 and grew up here with Picturearound sho^ the operated 1930s by inthe Balmain National her two sisters. Her father, Joseph Cox, Theatre (the "Old Nash") in Rowntree was a local real estate agent and her Street and Kings on the corner of mother, Charlotte Louise Hancock. Birchgrove Road and Darling Street. Beginning in 1907, Lottie's work as a Screenings were on six nights a week film director and actor appears today as with a children's matinee on Saturday a significant departure from the accepted afternoon. Two others were the Rozelle norm. The bohemian life of an actor, in Hoyts at 730 Darling Street and the those early years, still attached a Amusu on the corner of Darling and considerable social stigma. Her Thornton Streets. The old Amusu was association with Raymond Longford known to the children as the "Bug produced many well loved films House". One of the buildings, Kings, including 'The Mutiny of the Bounty", has been demolished. 1916, and those adapted from C J Emerging from its shroud now is the D e n n i s ' p o p u l a r p o e m s " T h e refurbished Bijou (Hoyts) Theatre in Sentimental Bloke", 1919, and "Ginger Rowntree Street adjacent to Darling St. Mick", 1920. Lottie Lyell died at the This building has retained its 1930s early age of 34 years. remodelled Art Deco facade and will Before the talkies arrived in the be recycled as ofFxce space and shops. 193Ds a pianist or a small group of Being in a prominent position its colour musicians would synchronise sound to scheme compliments the 1887 Post the mood required by the screen action. Office opposite. The Powerhouse Museum's Kings The National Picture Theatre was Theatre has a Photoplayer to built in 1913. The entrance was in accompany silent movies. It is a piano Darling St where the foyer held the which has buttons to operate sound ticket office and later the milk bar. It is effects such as pistol shots, bells, now a gift store at 371A Darling Stteet whistles, etc. and when the proprietor renovated the From 1947 to 1964 the building was shop she discovered, under layers of known as the Balmain Hoyts, after lino, the foyer's original tiles which are which it had a variety of uses. Live now on view. Another entrance led to performances came again in the 1970s the National Billiards rooms above (the when Reg Livermore opened the re Loft) and there was also the Vaudeville named Bijou with Betty Blockbuster Theatre entrance in Rowntree St which Revues. It was last used as a roller has been retained. skating rink. Let us all wish the Wednesday evening was vaudeville phantom of the theatre a renewed life in night with entertainers such as Harry the Bijou complex. "Peanuts and Clay's Revue Company, the lollies!" sez a boy upstairs. Manchurians (Chinese jugglers), Source: "Brilliant Careers" by Slavin and Thompson (smart Andrea Wright. The Association Hist pattcrists), the Saldines (specialty act) ory Committee requests further and the comedian, Roy Rene. Silent information on the picture theatres of movies shown on other nights starring Balmain and Rozelle. naval and merchant vessels were built or Cockatoo Island refitted, including the Tribal class destroyers during World War II, the Annuat Subscriptions F^orArchives most ofhas this been year, theInvolvedAustralian in a passenger ship Empress of Australia and the are now due. project aimed at the preservation of the replenishment ship HMAS Success. records of Cockatoo Island Dockyard. The project, undertaken with extensive Work on the dock began in 1851 and the assistance from the company and the Please send your Dockyard was used for shipbuilding and Department of Defence, has resulted in the contributions as early as refitting until this year. identification and transfer to the Archives' possible. It was operated by the NSW Government custody of some 580 series of records. These until 1913, when it was transferred to the represent a most important resource for the Commonwealth. From 1933 it was leased to study of maritime, industrial and social Turn to back page for the Cockatoo Docks & Engineering Co history. important details. (now called Cockatoo Dockyard Pty Ltd). The Australian Archives NSW Regional During its long history a wide variety of Office is located at 24 Market St Sydney. V J Wee Georgie Robinson McGoogan. The lightweight hollow spars memorabilia should be a mecca for anyone were fashioned from oregon pine by with a few drops of salt water in their veins. Michael Staples. The Maritime Museum opened to the Australian National Maritime One of the outstanding displays at the Britannia is now suspended majestically Museum in Darling Harbour, is the public on 30 November 1991 and I was as a fully rigged sailing vessel from the ticket holder No 1. Admission costs $7 for BritanniOy an 18 footer built in 1919 and centre of the Museum's main gallery (see adults, concession $4.50, children $3.50 sailed by noted Balmain shipwright, picture below) alongside another favourite, and families $17. Open 7 days 10am to *Wee" Georgie Robinson. With a crew of Australia II with its revolutionary winged 11 he raced Britannia on Sydney Harbour 5pm. Congratulations to the Australian keel. A video made by the late George National Maritime Museum. and interstate for 26 years. Cheered by Robinson and a display cabinet of Kath Harney ferry loads of spectators and punters, the crew of up to 16 sailed, bailed and b r a w l e d t h e i r t i m b e r b o a t s a r o u n d t h e harbour. George's father started the Sydney Fly ing Squadron in 1890 and George sailed the 6 flEdna, 8 footers, 10 footers, 12 footers, 16 footers and finally 18 footers, winning a race in every class.