Task Force About the online Glebe Society Bulletin ... How to view the online Bulletin Last ditch negotiations The three rounds of com- The pages of the online Bulletin are almost identical to In this issue ... munity consultation on the the printed version except for the use of colour. Click on the headings below to jump to the item Bays Precinct are over, the You can use the index (In this issue) on this page to Bays Precinct Task Force - last ditch 1-3 penultimate Task Force jump to individual stories, or you can scroll through negotiations meeting was on 26 June and the second version of the the edition using the scroll wheel on your mouse, or OAM for Neil Macindoe 1-2 the page-up/page-down keys on your keyboard. To . draft Task Force Report has 1 return to the index, click on the blue triangle at the Planning matters 3 emerged . The Task Force bottom of any page. is now focussed on the

Foreshore walk – a mad scramble along 4 5/2012 June/July production of a report that The layout is optimised for wide screen monitors so Road? all members are prepared to you can read two pages together. Quieter cables for Bridge? 4 sign off on. The online Bulletin also features links to websites or Jane Marceau and I face From the terraces 5 email addresses referred to in the text. To follow one very intensive work over the of these links hover over the URL or email address Are you high-tech - planning the future of 5 next two weeks to ensure A view corridor from Wentworth Park to Blackwattle Bay. Good planning in the Bays Precinct will help protect valuable features of and, when the mouse pointer changes to a hand, Glebe Society communications? that the community perspec- click. A new screen will appear showing either the tive is fairly and strongly the urban environment. Photo: Bruce Davis Support for St Helen’s community garden 6 website you want to link to or an email which you can articulated in the inal report public challenge to the agencies (and the complete and send. The Glebe Society is on Facebook 6 which will go to the Minister on 30 July. Task Force process) at the irst round of the consultations and received a great deal of It has been a pretty robust and lively Membership of the Glebe Society Do you live in a lood prone area? 6 experience to date. The early meetings of community support for her insistence that Individual member $45 the Task Force were very dificult. Agency the agencies try swapping monologue for Old shoes and dead cats 6 some dialogue with the community. Joint (2 people, one address) $55 positions were presented as immutable and unchallengeable. Jane Marceau issued a Household (more than 2 adults and/or Who lived in your street? 7 Continued on next page ... children, one address) $60 Member alert – nominations invited for 8 Concession (student or pensioner) $20 Management Committee OAM for Neil Macindoe Institution or corporate $110 Australian heritage strategy 8 Neil Macindoe has been awarded the Med- Convenor for over a decade. He served as Download a membership form from our website (www. al of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s President of the Glebe Society in the mid- glebesociety.org.au, click on Membership > New member- Elsie Walk named 9 ship), write to the Secretary at PO Box 100, Glebe, 2037, or Birthday Honours. His citation reads: 1980s and was appointed an Honorary Life Member in 1991. email [email protected]. Remembering and David Mander-Jones 9 For service to the community through the If you have a matter that you would like to discuss with the preservation of local heritage in the Glebe In 1990 (to 1999), Neil became a Council- Society Bulletin Management Committee, please contact the Secretary. Help needed for Glebe youth service 9 region, and to local government. lor on Leichhardt Municipal Council and IETY • INC was involved in the acquisition of Benledi C Neil has been a member of the Glebe Soci- Glebe youth environmental action 9 to become Glebe Library, the Heritage O ety since 1978 and has served as Planning

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GL THE E Forest Lodge, Camperdown, Ultimo & Pyrmont, Nick • Glebe society events 13 toration of University Hall, the restoration Hespe. of the Walter Burley Grifin Incinerator News and Notes 12 Office: Glebe Library 9am-5pm Monday-Friday. Continued on next page ... Phone: 9298 3191. For your diary 13 Email: [email protected] City Council Customer Service Directory 13 What’s coming soon Telephone (24 hours): 9265 9333 Friday 13 July, 6-8pm – Welcome to Email: council@cityof sydney.nsw.gov.au Do you have some pictures of Glebe that new members, Harold Park Hotel, Ross Website: www.cityof sydney.nsw.gov.au others should see? Street. See page 11. Dumped Shopping trolleys: Trolley Do you have some digital images that you believes Wednesday 25 July, 2.15pm – Glebe Tracker 1800 641 497 others would be interested in? If so, email editor@ Voices, the Woolcock Building. See page 11. Harold Park: Mirvac hotline for residents 9080 8588 glebesociety.org.au, and we’ll assess them for a centre page spread in the Society’s online Bulletin Neil Macindoe on holiday in northern Sunday 26 August, 11am – Glebe Soci-

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A publication of THE GLEBE SOCIETY INC PO Box 100 GLEBE 2037 www.glebesociety.org.au ... continued from previous page leasing arrangements; identifying two of the consultation rounds. new uses and, most importantly, There was a great deal of commu- Jane and I have also met on a num- revisiting the CRG planning prin- Planning Matters nity scepticism and anger following ber of occasions with representatives ciples needed to protect the Bays the irst two community consulta- Precinct from further ad hoc and of residents groups to consolidate It has been a busy month for consul- Townhouses, which are the modern of Plans generated by Councils. tion processes - largely because they short sighted developments and to views and check our understandings tations and workshops, so perhaps it equivalent of terraces, have been Nor did the fact that such a change were experienced as too controlled. ensure that the public good is a key of what various parts of the commu- is just as well it has been a quiet one should form part of the Review of Thankfully, rather than walking our most signiicant form since the factor in deciding future uses. nity are arguing. Most recently we 1880s, and together with apartments Legislation give them a moment's away, this generated an increased for development applications. Nev- met to test our proposed recommen- ertheless, there are big ones coming have formed almost all the addi- pause. Nor that the proposal did not level of community activity: draw- As a result the process did improve. dations and this led to some robust come to our attention until after the ing together arguments and informa- shortly. The Parklands Workshop, tional housing in and around Glebe The third round of community discussion and useful reinements closing date for comment. Needless tion on community needs; research- which will be reported in the next for the last century. consultations adopted a more open of recommendations.2 We are now to say, the Society has objected to ing current land and water uses and Bulletin, is a good preparation for I have recently been writing the approach and those 60 or so resi- conident that we have a good grasp focussing members and residents making changes while the review is dents who attended asked ques- of community perspectives and a history of the Glebe Estate for our under way, and also objected to giv- ... continued from previous page generally on Harold Park. Appar- tions directly and responded to the website, and it is worth noting that ing yet another free kick to develop- fair assessment of what principles ently there has been an additional and the development of the Orphan feedback from the irst two rounds. and uses are most strongly – and while inill terraces and townhouses ers. School Creek Park. trafic study that will be available - The ongoing community input via reasonably – supported within the formed a signiicant part of its re Warehouse, 137-141 Bridge Road, with the report, which now will not habilitation in the 1970s and 1980s, Neil’s work as the Glebe Society’s Jane Marceau and direct letters, community. corner Talfourd Street be with us until July at the earliest. the main population increase, the Planning Convenor has pivoted submissions and over 7000 visits to the Bays Precinct website, made it The challenge of course is to get The Affordable Housing Project largest ever since the 1880s, resulted There has been a succession of upon his professionalism and a deep pretty clear that there is an informed as many of our recommendations at the other end of Glebe is also from extensions to existing dwell- small applications for this site as the understanding of Glebe’s social and and determined community network as possible endorsed by the Task delayed, at least partly because legal ings. use changes. However, the latest has architectural history which comple- problems need to be sorted. been quite major, involving an extra ments his pragmatic view of change. We are also waiting for the Review storey including a residence. There He acknowledges that change is You have probably read about State of State Planning Legislation that Government schemes to stimulate is clearly an impact on neighbours inevitable but argues that such we were promised we would have and on the Conservation Area, and the building industry, as well as change in Glebe should coexist with in May. In the meantime the Depart- the Society has objected on the developer schemes for its unique built environment; that its ment of Planning has come up with grounds of height, overlooking, bulk Road. The industry is certainly in impact should be contributory or at this: and density. least neutral but never detrimental. the doldrums. This is not because Draft Policy Statement - More Development Control Plan 2012 This approach has challenged and of regulation or red tape, but be- Local and Accountable Plan aided developers and architects to cause of the continuing effects of The City has notiied the approval of Making ind acceptable solutions to working the inancial crisis. You may also this DCP in the local press, making in a heritage environment. have noticed the results of the 2011 It will probably not surprise anyone it clear it does not apply to Harold Census starting to emerge, includ- used to dealing with this department Park or the Affordable Housing Neil’s role as Planning Convenor ing the move to townhouses and that it is in fact a proposal to give Project. has demonstrated integrity, vigi- apartments. This is no surprise to us. developers the right to seek a review - Neil Macindoe lance, timeliness and sustained application, attention to detail and ... continued from previous page which there is not agreement. These to community views on the future clear-sighted application of good are likely to include: exclusive ports of the Bays Precinct and that he Will the Hansons concrete batch plant move from Blackwattle Bay to Glebe Island? munity recommendations – and planning principles to a heritage or shared community uses for Glebe may be willing to accept a view of Photo: Bruce Davis with what we consider constitutes environment. Island; the demolition or re-use of the future beyond that urged by the Force. This will involve acceptance reasonable and consultation and Glebe has been largely untouched who will not go away any time Glebe Island Bridge; community operational agencies. We can only of reasonable, competing needs and community participation in planning by the red-brick facades, aluminium soon. access to the foreshore in White hope … views of all stakeholders – and the decisions about public resources. Bay; length of future leases and windows, balustrades, arches and The discussions in the Task Force very great constraints that apply be- - Lesley Lynch We are currently considering how transparency of existing and future all the other accretions of ‘low-level now allow more serious considera- cause of pre-existing long term legal Alternate Community modernisation’ which aflict sur- tion of the community perspective agreements made by the agencies we will respond to this. We are rea- lease arrangements for publicly Representative, Bays Precinct rounding suburbs. Neil’s approach alongside that of the agencies. It which effectively lock up much of sonably conident that the Premiers owned lands; processes by which Task Force to the maintenance of Glebe’s herit- has been important that the two the Bays until the mid-21st century. and Cabinet/SHFA oficers – who any outcomes from the report can age and conservation values has councils and the community repre- manage/support the Task Force – are be incorporated in binding planning 1. As is usual in such contexts, the draft Task Force Report is designated ensured that our unique environment sentative have compatible views and We have some hope that all players genuine in their effort to incorporate instruments (so something actually are collectively supportive of each on the Task Force will accept some conidential so the community will not will continue as an exemplar of into the report a fair and accurate happens!!) and, of course, adequate see the report until it is released by the give and take, and that there can be Sydney’s early development. other on the Taskforce. Outside account of the community views. transport infrastructure. Minister. the Task Force, both councils have agreement on a good proportion of In his spare time, Neil also served Whether we will agree on the con- been active in meeting with resident our principles and recommended Then we will be in the hands of the 2. The community representative rec- as Inaugural President of City U3A tent of this is to be tested. groups to canvass approaches. Clo- uses. But we expect the Task Force Minister and the Government. To ommendations are still being amended. (University of the Third Age), 2009- The current version is on the Glebe ver Moore has met twice with repre- to disagree with many of the com- It is our expectation that the report date it seems reasonable to assume Society website, but it may not be the 2010. sentatives of active groups – includ- will include alternative views and that Minister Hazzard is serious in recommendations for those areas on inal versions that go into the report. Congratulations, Neil! ing the Glebe Society – and attended Continued on next page ... his commitment to hear and respond

Go to Page 2 Glebe Society Bulletin Go to June/July 2012 Page 3 Go to index index index Foreshore Walk or a mad scramble Quieter cables? From the terraces along Pyrmont Bridge Road? It is ifteen years since the opened to trafic and the The Sydney Morning Herald on 7 for a month. The Elias bid, for an Setting Glebe alight itself slowly replaced by electric- that ‘many a new building replaces June 2012 published an article by 18-berth marina, was higher than its bridge is now undergoing its irst ity provided by Sydney Council. 3 an existing building, the discarded major program of maintenance ... Elizabeth Farrelly (page 15) about competitors, but partly because it Imagine Glebe in the year 1860, Street lamps using electricity were materials of which contribute to the Sydney’s developers and the State included a non-conforming function ... Ever since it opened, the giant with a population of about 3000 installed in Glebe in 1911. Evans solid construction waste that rep- Government’s planning system. centre. cables that support the deck of people, no town water (still two states that many Australian houses resents 30-40% of the one tonne of For three years the site has been the Anzac Bridge have vibrated years away), its school only recently continued to be lit by gas until well waste per person per year that Aus- An extract from the article and the used for commercial boating as the in heavy weather despite repeated established and the building of into the 1920s and 1930s, as electric tralia produces. The older building text of the letter to the editor that it 2002 masterplan intended. Now, attempts to stop them. Now, in Bidura (357 Glebe Point Road) just light was ‘prohibitively expensive’ may not have been air conditioned, elicited from the Society’s Bays and the function centre has reared again, what is said to be a world irst, completed … may have had smaller windows, Foreshores convenor, Bruce Davis, Embodied energy: old perhaps deep verandahs and almost contradicting the plan by block- a small German-made robot has At this point, gas lighting came to are reproduced below. buildings are green certainly a larger ratio of garden ing views from Wentworth Park been adapted to make the cables Glebe. Within seven years, virtually more aerodynamic in storms, to building footprint. Taking this ... The sale of the Tigers’ site to and inhibiting public access to the all street lighting was gas. Imagine The Historic Houses Trust (HHT) especially when the cables can into account alongside the energy Village ... was packaged by waterfront ... also, as Max Solling tells it ‘The reports that the Scottish Government sway upwards of 300 mm and used to build and air condition the Benny Elias, board member of both Letter to the Editor, Sydney Morn- familiar igure of agency His- new building, it is hard to see how potentially cause fatigue at their Glebe’s Jamai- the Tigers and Rozelle Village (from ing Herald, 9 June 2012 toric Scotland even the most energy-eficient new anchor points. Each morning the can lamplighter, which he resigned before the sale). set out to test house or appliance will go anywhere It is ironic that the current Govern- robot climbs one of the cables, Mr Lewis, using the widespread towards offsetting the carbon used The project manager is Kym Len- ment has, perhaps inadvertently, lights a little gas burner and while a long pole to perception that to create it.’ nox, a former RTA bureaucrat who contributed to the development descending welds a high density switch on the gas old buildings are has worked for the Obeid family. proposed for Blackwattle Bay that polyethylene rib around the cable in the evening ‘carbon villains’. - Liz Simpson-Booker could compro- casing to make them like new and extinguish The agency Endnotes: mise a signii- wind-cheating cables used on the lame at cant section of the latest cable-stayed bridges. dawn…’ 1 ‘took a modest 1. Max Solling, Grandeur and Grit: a history of Glebe, Halstead Press, 2007, the Sydney If it works, the cables should be terrace house in In the domestic p 90. Harbour Fore- good for another 35 years and the poor condition setting, gas light- shore Walk. bridge should easily last into the and looked at 2. Ian Evans, The Federation House: a ing supplanted restoration guide, Flannel Flower Press, next century. the amount of It has always candles and carbon emitted 1999, p 97. been under- From Sydney Morning Herald kerosene lamps. under three dif- 3. Sydney Council’s Electricity Depart- stood that the June 23-23, page 11 Many Glebe ferent scenarios: ment eventually became Sydney County Foreshore To see an animation of the natty houses may have doing nothing, Council and inally the NSW Electricity Commission. Walk would process they will be using on the gas light brack- retroitting the be part of any cables, go to http://www.rta.nsw. ets (or remnant Lamplighter University of Sydney building with 4. Insites, Historic Houses Trust, Winter ca. 1939. Photo: Lloyd Sommerlad future devel- gov.au/roadprojects/projects/ bases or mounting more energy- 2012, p 8. opment of the sydney_region/southern_sydney/ blocks) still in situ eficient features such as insulation, Pyrmont Bridge Road footpath on a quiet Saturday morning. Blackwattle anzac_bridge/index.html in entrance halls, dining rooms and/ and demolishing it and replacing it Are you hi-tech? Will it be the foreshore walk in this section of the Bays Precinct? or drawing rooms. With only a little Photo: Bruce Davis Bay wharves with a new energy-eficient house. and this was may rein in some of the developer’s light of fancy, these could conjure As expected, the worst option was A Communications working group up an era when, as Ian Evans says, is being set up to deal with future Lennox is also project managing the included in the master plan for the more ambitious plans, the new rules to do nothing; heating a leaky old ‘the gentle hiss of burning gas pro- overall strategy including the Bul- function centre application for the area (‘Developers show their stripes call into question the continued building was ineficient. Reitting SMH vided a soft background accompani- letin, website and communication concrete batching sites at Black- all over town’ ( 7 June). development of the Foreshore Walk, the building would result in 8 Mega- ment to family life…’2 Joules (MJ) of carbon emissions, more generally. wattle Bay in Ultimo. Ben Elias's Unfortunately, in September last as the developer is merely required to ‘Provide an ... opportunity to but this would be saved over 20 to brother Joe - sole director of All year, the current Government intro- Gas, however, offered some of the Members so far include Edwina duced a State Environmental Plan- connect [the site] to the Harbour same disadvantages as the candles 30 years by its improved eficiency. Doe, Bill Simpson-Young, Jan Mac- Occasion Cruises (known for their Demolishing the old building and ning Policy that exempted the ‘Bays Foreshore walk’. and kerosene lamps it replaced. indoe, Phil Young, Bruce Davis and raunchy strip shows) - is the named replacing it would result in 80 MJ of Precinct’, of which Blackwattle Bay Heat and the risk of ire were obvi- Carole Herriman, but we would wel- proponent, but Ben was reportedly Thus it seems that our hoped-for carbon emissions, and it would take is a part, from previous Develop- ous; one shudders at the thought of come a younger member with some involved in the early stages, along pleasant stroll across the head of nearly a century to catch up with the ment Control Plans. Blackwattle Bay is likely to be the air quality. Gas also discoloured appropriate technological expertise. with Eddie Obeid's son Eddie Jr. advantage of retroitting. Investing reduced to a mad scramble along ceilings and increased the rate of de- I am convening the group to get In April this year the Director- in energy-eficient new homes was The lease was controversially won the footpath that clings to the edge cay of fabrics, paint and wallpaper. business under way, so please con- General of Planning issued ‘require- shown to be a very ineficient (and in 2009, when Joe Tripodi was the ments’ for the development of the of the heavily traficked Pyrmont But gas lighting (provided by the expensive) way of saving carbon.’ 4 tact me at [email protected]. Minister for Waterways and Sydney Bridge Road. Australian Gaslight Co) had a rela- au if you would like to join it. site which presumably override the HHT Director Kate Clark writes Maritime had an acting chairman previous master plan. While they Bruce Davis, Glebe tively brief supremacy before it was - Edwina Doe

Go to Page 4 Glebe Society Bulletin Go to June/July 2012 Page 5 Go to index index index Support for St The Glebe comment in the near future. How- ever, if people who know they live Helen's Society is on in lood prone areas are not aware Who lived in your street? of a survey of their area and want to community garden Facebook draw the Council’s attention to the Lyn Collingwood spent hours deciphering some scrawled, badly spelt letters sent from Australia to England in the 1850s-70s. The light they shed on one of Glebe’s most eccentric families was worth the effort. There has been a very enthusiastic The Glebe Society now has a area and houses in it they should ei- response to the proposal to establish Facebook page. This page will ther approach Myl Senthilvasan, the a community garden in the space be- be used to promote Glebe Society city’s engineer, direct or one of the Jane Ann Suggate (1847-1910) tween St Helen's Community Centre Glebe community representatives on events and calls-to-action to the and Benledi. A lealet introducing the committee – Sybil Jack Ungar, Jane Suggate lived her adult Suggate (assistant superinten- wide community of Facebook users. the proposal was distributed to about Anton Crouch, Peter Geelan-Small life in a street but her child- dent Military Store Depart- This is not an alternative to the 1000 households in a radius of just or Megan Petrass. A useful work hood was spent, like David ment) in 1853 lent their sister Glebe Society web site; information over 300m around the site, and over now on the web that gives some Copperield’s Peggottys, Sarah and her husband Robert 20 people contacted us with interest, on the Facebook page will refer aboard a house built on top idea of where looding might occur Balls their £10 passage money with most able to attend the initial back to more detailed information and what changes have taken place of a boat. Saving the cost of to Australia. After Sarah’s meeting on Sunday 27 May. on the main website. since European settlement is State- construction materials and death in 1859 her widower Several meetings of the group have possibly in an effort to avoid soon remarried and set up a If you use Facebook, visit http:// ment of Heritage Impact: Johnston’s been held since then, and the en- Stormwater Canal: Shared Pathway paying land rates, her ferryman tailor’s shop in Park Street in facebook.com/TheGlebeSociety. father had converted an iron thusiasm of the members has been Project by Tony Stening February the city. amazing to those of us who tenta- Please feel free to ‘like’ Glebe steamer into his own ‘Noah’s The Suggate family's 'Noah's Ark', sketched in the 2011. Jane’s paternal grandfather tively suggested the idea. We are Society postings on the site or ‘join’ Ark’ on the water’s edge at 1860s. - Sybil Jack Ungar was Henry Ezra Suggate (ca aiming to submit an application events – doing this will promote the Glebe Point. The Rapid, Syd- judged ilthy and the children ill- 1780-1858), a surgeon who to Council for funding through a postings and events to your Face- ney’s irst double-ender ferry, was clothed and undernourished, rely- had joined the Royal Navy in 1800 Matching Grant, with the deadline book ‘friends’. You can also ‘invite brought out in parts from England in Old shoes and ing on neighbours for food. At the and who died at Greenwich, the for submission on 4 July. Small 1837 and used on the Sydney to Par- friends’ to events which will allow - groups of members are working on dead cats ramatta run until it ran aground in time of Jane’s death at 97 Mitchell burial place also of his widow Ma you to choose to notify selected Street, her given occupation was tilda (ca 1793-1860). The Austral- a Plan of Management, costing the Johnston’s Bay. In the early days of construction and establishment of the Facebook friends of the event. ‘seamstress’. No death notice was ian Suggates made much of their If you are renovating one of Glebe’s the colony river transport was safer garden, and garden design. We are published. English naval heritage. We hope that by promoting events older houses, look out for evidence than risking ambush by bushrangers aiming to build and plant the garden and calls-to-action through Face- of ‘folk magic’, hidden under the on the roads. in Spring. Politically, Jane supported John Jane’s oldest sibling, William book, we will broaden the involve- loorboards or up the chimney. Meeks, MLA for Glebe 1885-7 and George (1844-1923), was baptised The third child of Jane and William Our vision for the St Helen's Com- ment of Glebe residents and others Dr Ian Evans, a former Glebe Suggate, Jane, was born on 5 No- a Glebe and City alderman. Meeks in the Pitt Street Congregational munity Garden has been developed in the activities of the society. was a Methodist, a freetrader and a Chapel but the family had moved resident and Glebe Society member, vember 1847 at Glebe. By 1877 she as a collaborative effort, and envis- Freemason. One of her nephews, to Glebe by the time Henry Ezra If you want to discuss the Glebe gave a talk at the Museum of Syd- was living in Campbell Street near ages a shared garden where par- William Thomas Suggate, became was baptised in February 1847. ticipants work together, and share Society’s Facebook page, email me ney on Sunday 24 June about the its intersection with Norton Street. Grand Secretary of the National In- The Rapid by now may have been both the gardening and the harvest. Here she conducted the Ebenezer at [email protected]. Feedback is little known practice of hiding old dependent Order of Oddfellows and in use as a dwelling: 18-month-old Together we grow vegetables and night school for fee-paying ‘work- welcome. shoes, clothing and even dead cats on retirement was presented with a Henry died in January 1848 after herbs, using organic gardening ing boys and girls’. Although she - Bill Simpson-Young (recently deceased, Ian assured us) cheque and gold watch, and a set of falling onto rocks from its deck (the methods. We aim to minimise our tried to sell the school in 1878, she in secret places to ward off evil spir- cutlery for his wife. inquest was held at the White Hart impact on the environment by using took her pupils to the Sydney Inter- itual beings. The practice is known Inn on ). At Glebe tank water, reusing and recycling Do you live in a national Exhibition at the Garden Jane’s parents William Jackman to have existed in the UK since the Point the Suggates raised goats and organic material by composting and Palace two years later and appears to Suggate (ca 1818-82) and Jane née flood prone area? 15th century. It came to Australia worm farming, and using mulch and have persevered with the enterprise Goodchild (1819-77) sailed cabin their surviving children: William, as part of the cultural baggage of Jane, Edward Pellew (ca 1850-83), recycled materials. The Floodplain Risk into the 1890s. By 1895 she had left class from London aboard the Clara Matilda Eliza (died 1929), Elizabeth It is central to our vision for the gar- Management Committee met on convicts and settlers and survived 68 Campbell Street and was trying a which docked in Sydney in Novem- Sarah (died 1938), Randle/ Randall den that this is a welcoming place, June 6. It heard the draft reports until about 1935. new way to make some money. ber 1843. Fellow cabin passengers Charles (1856-1924) and Mary open to any community members from WMAwater consulting engi- were William’s sister Jane Smith Relics have now been found in In Glebe Police Court in 1898 Mille (1860-95). Their ‘ark’ was who share our ideals. We learn neers on Johnston’s creek catchment and her husband. In steerage was about 200 houses and other build- Jane Suggate was convicted of the eventually removed by Council so together how to grow food, and see area and Blackwattle bay catch- William’s brother-in-law James ings in Australia, including a house neglect of four children she had that the sea wall could be complet- ourselves as part of an expanding ment area. There have been various Goodchild who was admitted in in Glebe. Judging by some of the taken into care: Frank and Harry ed. In August 1883 Edward, who network of community gardeners surveys of house levels in known 1845 to the Parramatta Lunatic Asy- comments in the Q&A session after Woods who had lived with her for had set up a separate household at contributing to the local production lood-prone areas that are included lum where he died 28 years later. Ian’s talk, people have already ive years, seven-year-old Mary the end of Glebe Road, was pulled of food and promoting interaction in the drafts. It is still possible for The Goodchilds were from West between local residents. thrown away possible folk magic Kelly and Sydney Roy Cramp, a unconscious from the Johnston’s committee members to make sug- Smithield, London; the Suggates baby. Also in the household at 110 Bay shallows by St Johns Road For more information, contact me at gestions for changes. The detail is objects found during renovations from Beccles, Suffolk. William’s Mitchell Street was another child, Wesleyan lay preacher George [email protected] not yet publicly available but the without realising their signiicance. younger brother Edward Pellew Arthur Croft. The premises were Continued on next page ... - Jan Macindoe reports will be on display for public - Edwina Doe

Go to Page 6 Glebe Society Bulletin Go to June/July 2012 Page 7 Go to index index index ... continued from previous page usually when a death had occurred Elsie Walk named regarding the nature of a tree, from and there was the likelihood of an Member alert! Remembering root to top branch. Family and Wells, leaving a widow (Mary née inheritance. According to him, Nominations for the Management A tiny, nameless laneway in Glebe David Mander- friends then completed illing in Holmes) and a four-year-old son, his wife on her 52nd birthday was has been oficially christened Elsie Committee 2012/2013 opening the hole in which David’s tree was Edward Charles. In the 1880s a ‘short, stout, in good health’ and life Walk in a tribute to Australia’s irst now! Jones sitting before adjourning to Jan waterman Richard Suggate, his clos- at Glebe Point was good: ‘my dear women’s refuge for victims of do- Some thirty-ive people gathered in Craney’s home for tea, coffee and est neighbour being George Wells girl and myself are very happy, with Each year in the lead up to the mestic violence. Paddy Gray Reserve on Saturday refreshments. Chat continued there in Bayview, was living between our dear ones’. However, William’s AGM, there is a call to members On Monday 28 May Lord Mayor morning, 23 June to celebrate the for a long time with everyone enjoy- the steam ferry jetty and Whatley’s sister Jane Smith, who lived in to nominate for membership of the Clover Moore, watched by a mixed planting of an angophora in memory ing the bright winter sunshine in her Wharf, and at the time of the 1901 Maitland, painted a different picture Management Committee. The posi- crowd of Glebe residents, unveiled of David Mander-Jones, one time courtyard. census there was still a Suggate (W in her letters home. She pitied her tions open for election are: Presi- new signs in the laneway as a lasting convenor of the Blue Wrens group - J) whose home was a boatshed at the sister-in-law who ‘lyes to the drink’ dent; Vice-President; Treasurer; and reminder of the refuge, its place in All in all it was a lovely relaxed oc end of Glebe Point Road. (This was when in trouble and whose inherit- Secretary as well ive other member history and its ongoing legacy. of the Glebe Society and the major casion, which we feel David would probably the William Suggate who mover behind the production of have appreciated very much. ance was ‘squandered’ away by her positions. The laneway, beside Glebe Public in 1902 fell 12 feet off a Balmain husband, a drunkard ‘so violent a Nominations will close seven days School, is near Westmoreland Street - Jeanette Knox roof he was repairing.) terror to his family’. In 1874 Jane before the AGM to be held on Sun- where a group of feminist activists William Jackman, who gave his Smith stayed at Glebe Point and day 26 August. Please get in touch squatted at a housing commission H occupation as ‘waterman’ or ‘boat- penned her observations. Willie, to discuss your interest in joining property. elp needed a ‘nice genteel young man’, had man’, participated regularly in the Management Committee and to Writer, journalist and author Anne I am on the Glebe Youth Service married and moved to Camperdown; Anniversary harbour regattas on the learn more about what is involved. Summers was one of the women Management Committee and we’d Jane was ‘a very nice godly girl’ and instrumental in setting up the refuge round trip race from Sydney Cove to Contact me President@Glebesoci- really like to have some new people Matilda ‘in service’. But both Ed- in 1974. Lavender Bay around Pinchgut and to help us move the service along as ward (he ‘dare not show his face’) ety.org.au or Vicky Marquis Secre- Shark Island. In 1854 his under- [email protected]. We will ‘We were highly motivated to do we’ve been going through a strate- and Randle (‘a good scholar’) had 13-footer Ariel was unplaced, as be happy to provide information on something about domestic violence gic planning process. been ‘driven from home’ by their was his gig Daisy (‘a long unwieldy the Management Committee and on so we moved into two cottages in father. Whether the pious teetotal It would be fantastic to have some boat quite unit for the contest’) in our very active subcommittees that Glebe and claimed squatters’ rights’, George Allen knew of the drinking local community people and it is a 1865. William rowed passengers are open to any member to join. she said. habits of the local boatman is a mat- good opportunity for Glebe Society from Glebe Point across the shark- The Elsie Refuge for Women and ter for conjecture. - Mairéad Browne infested bay to Balmain and brought Children has since moved to another members to be more involved with back offal from the Glebe Island - Lyn Collingwood President location in Glebe. Assistant man- the community. abattoirs to sell to Glebe residents. ager Hazell Cowen said since Elsie Please contact me at rosalindh@ In 1859, after admitting his son Sources: David’s daughter Zoe reads from Australian Michael Leunig; the newly planted alpha.net.au, 9660 7056 or 0400 112 sometimes used his boat, he was British Medical Journal 14 April 1860 angophora stands behind. Photo: Bruce 610 if you would like more informa- cautioned for allowing 15-year-old heritage strategy NSW births, deaths and marriages Davis tion. William junior to ply for hire on registry. The Glebe Society has responded - Rosalind Hecker Superb Fairy-Wren Habitat in Glebe Johnston’s Bay without a licence. In NSW cemetery records. to the Federal Government’s call another brush with the law 13-year- & Forest Lodge by consultant Sue NSW State Records. for proposals about an Australian old Randle was sentenced in 1869 to Stevens, presented to the City of Glebe youth Royal Australian Historical Society Heritage Strategy with a submission three days’ gaol or a ine of 1/6d, the that argues for an expanded role Sydney Council in 2008. value of a bullock’s tongue stolen Journal Vol. XX1 1935. environmental for community. It used the Glebe President Mairéad Browne spoke from Balmain butcher Peter Han- Sands directories. Society as a case of what could be about David, his work for improv- action cock. Suffolk Record Ofice: collections of done and shows how this might be ing habitat for small birds in the Lowestoft branch. Correspondence Ed- In Bulletin 3/2012 there was a report Methodists, the Suggates attached arranged. area and his broader contribution to ward Pellew Suggate 1855-66 and Eliza on an event at Sappho Books, Café themselves to the owners of Toxteth our community. Following this, Pat Suggate 1853-77. Mitchell Library/State The fundamental basis of our case and Wine Bar in Glebe organised Park. The Toxteth Park Chapel was Library NSW: M2502. Houlcroft, from Sydney Council, was that, ‘The Australian Heritage Clover Moore (left) and Anne by local members of the Australian the venue for the baptisms of Henry Summers. Photo: Phil Young spoke about his own work, recalling Sydney Morning Herald various is- Strategy must … recognise commu- Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC). and Jane (by William Binnington sues including 29.1.1838, 14.3.1838, nity and heritage as intertwined; de- some of his early visits to Glebe as opened it had helped thousands of The event raised funds for helping Boyce after whom Boyce Street is 6.8.1839, 21.10.1842, 15.1.1848, clining heritage diminishes commu- an apprentice, which included the women and children escape domestic the café reduce their carbon named) and of Randle in 1856, and 27.1.1854, 15.8.1855, 19.8.1859, nity; engaging community enhances violence. collecting of manure from stables emissions with a small portion the marriage of Matilda in 1885. 27.1.1865, 6.10.1865, 23.11.1866, heritage.’ Thus we pointed to Glebe that were still active at the time. He The Glebe Community Action Group going to AYCC for continuing their When William Jackman inherited 19.2.1868, 3.4.1869, 18.5.1869, Walks as an example of a commu- also talked about the features of the 3.12.1869, 30.9.1873, 17.10.1876, came up with the laneway’s name. campaign. There is now a video his father’s gold watch he sought nity working at grassroots level ‘to tree that was being planted 26.3.1878, 23.4.1878, 13.4.1880, Long-term residents of a nearby showing highlights of the evening the advice of George Allen on how infect the residents and visitors’ with - 7.8.1883, 28.2.1885, 27.7.1898, housing estate wanted to acknowl Finally David and Fay’s daughter and interviews explaining the AYCC it should be safely transported from heritage. edge important events in the area’s England (in a small box and via 14.3.1921. Zoe shared memories of her father, Repower campaign. See it at http:// You can read the full text of our sub- history. P&O, Allen advised). Toxteth Park register of baptisms. of his love for the natural world and www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSb- Mitchell Library/State Library NSW: mission on the Society’s website. See ‘The story behind Elsie Walk’ read an extract from the family’s 6gYKF1A William occasionally corresponded MLMSS477/5. on page 9 of Bulletin 3/2012. favourite writer, Michael Leunig, - Alice Simpson-Young with relatives back in England, - John Gray

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NAIDOC Week, 1-8 July, celebrates the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee, which grew from the irst Aboriginal political groups of the 1920s. A fun night to Belly dancing at Kapadokya The theme for NAIDOC 2012 was selected by the National NAIDOC Committee to celebrate the 40th welcome new Everyone who was there can rec- anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and to acknowledge the key contributors to its long history. A Glebe ommend an evening at Kapadokya, NAIDOC Committee, made up of many Glebe groups and individuals (including the Glebe Society) is inviting the the small Turkish restaurant at 71 community to honour Aboriginal culture. members Glebe Point Road. The walls were Enjoy drinks and light food and covered with brightly coloured NAIDOC Trivia Night NAIDOC Week Events in Glebe some fun entertainment in a pub fabrics and plates, the service was atmosphere on Black Friday! Glebe good and the food delicious. Three kids at Centipede after The Glebe NAIDOC Trivia Night Sunday 1 July, 11am- Society member and ‘soap opera’ of our group, Prue Page, Marga- - school group, will move fundraiser was held this year on Fri 5pm - Family Day at stalwart’ Lyn Collingwood, Home ret Sheppard and Ted McKeown, day 1 June at the Harold Park Hotel. Tranby Tranby Abo- from place to place in showed off their belly-dancing and Away cast member for the past Ted McKeown was the only male Feedback from the night indicates riginal College at 13 Glebe. skills but failed to match Duygu, 25 years, will put on a short ‘party diner brave enough to accept Duygu’s that fun was had by all. In terms of Mansield Street, will the multi-talented waitress. For questions and book- piece’ based on her character as the invitation to take to the dance floor. fundraising it was the most successful have didge, arts, face Photo: Sybil Jack Ungar - Edwina Doe ings, contact the Glebe local gossip! NAIDOC Trivia night yet, raising a painting, hip hop work- Committee Convener little over $3 000! This money will shop and much more, Meet our new members and catch solo recital at the same venue that 341 Glebe Point Road (cnr. Leich- Kate Brennan (kate- be used to put on events, which all including a live perfor- up with old friends! evening at 8pm. The Emerald City hardt Street) at 2.15pm for a 2.30pm [email protected]. of the community are invited to, that mance by the wonderful Viols concert can be heard at St start. celebrate and show support for the In- Stiff Gins. edu.au, phone: 9566 1285) or for Book now! Scholastica’s on Sunday afternoon Following the discussion, coffee, tea digenous community in Glebe during more details check the full brochure 18 November at 3pm. Sunday 1 July - Glebe Aboriginal Friday 13 July, 6-8 pm. and biscuits will be provided by the NAIDOC week, 1-8 July. on the Glebe Society website www. History Ride visiting sites in Glebe glebesociety.org.au /NAIDOC Week Harold Park Hotel, cnr Wigram and See www.glebemusicfestival.com Institute. of signiicance to Indigenous people for more details. We would like to congratulate this events in Glebe 1st to 7th July. Ross Streets, Glebe. - Carole Herriman – bus departing from Tranby at 12 year’s winner, the Glebe Youth Cost: $20. (Free for new members - David McIntosh and 2pm – book a place! Centre. Team Captain Keiran Kevans joining since mid-July 2011). Musical director More events to looked particularly proud on the night Black Screen - Tuesday 3 July, starting at 6.30pm Bookings by 6 July (see lyer). and said he ‘was delighted to take part - screening of the ilm Ningla A-NA look forward to Our Generation Note: Unfortunately Deborah Cam- Glebe Voices in what is becoming an iconic Glebe (Hungry for our Land) and con- eron is not able to be the speaker at Frank Hurley talk event and is for such a good cause’. * versation with Paul Coe and Aunty Told through the eyes of the Yolngu, Breathing – it’s not this event, as previously advised. Sunday 16 September 5.30- The Centipede ‘Tent Embassy’ instal- Norma Ingram at the Koori Centre, Our Generation is an unforgetta- optional 7.30pm, venue to be advised. lation artwork which will travel to all Sydney University. Bookings are ble journey deep into the heart of - Dorothy Davis As a part of History Week, Robert NAIDOC Week events in Glebe and necessary for this free event - email remote Aboriginal Australia, where For our next Glebe Voices, we have Dixon, Professor of Australian Lit- then down to the real Tent Embassy ([email protected]). the pride of an ancient culture is 23rd annual been invited to the Woolcock In- erature at the University of Sydney, in Canberra, kicked off its tour that entrapped by third world conditions stitute for Medical Research where Wednesday 4 July - Open Day at who has recently published a book night too. Well done to all the kids Glebe Music current researchers will talk about Tranby College – for details phone and ongoing violation of human about Hurley's shows, will provide involved, everyone was very im- - the work they and their teams are the College on 9660 3444. rights. Carrying the lame of resist Festival his own 'synchronised lecture enter- pressed! ance and justice for Australia’s undertaking in diseases of the lungs Thursday 5 July - Tranby is host- This year’s Annual Glebe Music tainment' in Glebe, the suburb where First Peoples, Our Generation is and airways. Also a big thank you to renowned ing an informal lunch honouring lo- Festival will take place from 9 to 25 Hurley was born in 1885. local artist Aunty Kathy Farrawell a fresh and contemporary look at After an introduction to the work cal Elders from both the Aboriginal November. Mawson and the for the donation of two of her paint- and white Glebe communities. issues that remain unresolved. It is of the Institute by the new Direc- Highlights will be the astonishingly ings Lost and Remember which were a rallying call for understanding and tor Professor Carol Armour we will Antarctic Saturday 7 July, 6.30-10.30pm.- to talented young Bulgarian pianist auctioned on the night. action, so that Australia can inally hear from Professor Judy Black AO Sunday 21 October, 5.30 – 7.30 inish off the week the Glebe Youth Evgeny Genchev (http://evgeny- proceed with dignity and respect for pm, at Benledi - a second audio/ The NAIDOC committee would like Service, 84 Glebe Point Road, is or- genchev.com/) now completing his and Associate Professor Euan Tovey. its Indigenous people. visual presentation by Dr Grahame to extend an invitation to the whole of ganising a Corroboree Night featur- studies at the Royal Academy of The discussions will range from Budd the community to the various events ing traditional dance to disco, bush A NAIDOC Week event, supported Music in London and the return of biology underlying chronic diseases happening in Glebe during NAIDOC tucker to biscuits, and dreamtime by City of Sydney. Josie and the Emerald City Viols to the role played by allergens and Cockatoo Island tour week. stories to contemporary politics. under the directorship of Brooke viruses. Questions will be welcome. - Kate Brennan Wednesday 4 July, 5.30–7pm, for a Glebe Society group – provi- Come and join in! Green. Evgeny will perform with Glebe Library. Free, but book on- This presentation will be on sional dates: Sunday 28 October or * The Glebe Society table with 12 the cellist Sam Lucas at Margaretta Throughout the week - A Tent Em- line http://www.cityofsydney.nsw. Wednesday July 25. Meet in the Sunday 4 November. Details to be people did quite well. We didn’t Cottage on Saturday afternoon 10 bassy Art Installation, made by the gov.au/library or call 9298 3060. lobby of the Woolcock Building, advised. come last. November at 3pm followed by a

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Thirsty Thursdays Players in the Pub Sunday 1 - Saturday 7 July – NAIDOC Week. See page 8 for Glebe events. Members and friends are invited to meet in restaurants As the Sydney Comedy Festival is now booked for Thursday 5 July, 7pm – Thirsty Thursday, Fountain 77, 77 Glebe Point Road. See page 12. in and around Glebe, usually on the irst Thursday of Tuesday nights at the Harold Park, for the foreseeable Wednesday 11 July, 7pm – Management Committee meeting, The Old Fire Station, 115 Mitchell Street. each month at 7pm, to eat and talk with other people future our moved readings will be staged on a Wednes- Friday 13 July, 6-8pm – Welcome to New Members evening, Harold Park Hotel, Ross Street. See page 11. who live in Glebe. We visit a different restaurant each day or Thursday evening. Next up is a double bill of month, varying cuisines. Put these dates in your diary one-act domestic comedies by two forgotten masters of Wednesday 25 July, 2.15pm – Glebe Voices, the Woolcock Building, 341 Glebe Point Road. See page 11. now. English theatre: The Dumb and the Blind (1911) by Har- Thursday 2 August, 7pm – Thirsty Thursday, Lien, 331 Glebe Point Road. See page 12. On Thursday 5 July we will go to Fountain 77 at 77 old Chapin and The Dear Departed (1908) by Stanley Sunday 26 August, 11am – Glebe Society Annual General Meeting, Benledi. Glebe Point Road. Houghton. Directed by Lyn Collingwood. Thursday 6 September, 7pm – Thirsty Thursday, The Mixing Pot, 178 St Johns Road. See page 12. On Thursday 2 August we will go to Lien Vietnamese 7pm Thursday, 19 July upstairs at the Harold Park Malaysian Restaurant, 331 Glebe Point Road. Hotel 70A Ross Street Glebe. Free admission. Friday 7 September, 6-8pm – Glebe Art Show opening, Benledi. Show open 7-16 September. And on Thursday 6 September we will go to the re- Mine host Will Ryan is opening the kitchen for orders Wednesday 12 September, 7pm – Management Committee meeting, The Old Fire Station, 115 Mitchell Street. opened Mixing Pot,178 St Johns Road. from 5.30 pm. The menu includes snacks and light Sunday 16 September, 5.30pm – Frank Hurley talk. Venue to be advised. meals ($12-$15) and chargrilled beef, lamb or chicken Please email me or ring me on 9660 7066 by the 9 – 25 November – the 23rd Annual Glebe Music Festival Wednesday before the dinner to let me know if you are ($17-$20). There is a bus stop on Wigram Road for coming, or if you are likely to be late. routes 433 and 370, and up the hill at the Ross Street Sunday 18 November, Glebe Street Fair shops for route 470. - Edwina Doe A theatrical tribute to Peter Finch is planned for Welcome to new members Wednesday, 22 August. The following people were accepted as members of the Contacting The Glebe Society Inc Glebe Society the June Management Committee meet- Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road ing: Established 1969 If the Glebe Society doesn’t keep you suficiently busy, The Glebe Society Management Committee: • Alister Barrett President Mairéad Browne 9552 2888 there are nine varied events at Gleebooks in July. That’s • Rhondda McMurray Vice President John Gray 9518 7253 far too many to list here, so Google ‘Gleebooks’ for Mail Immediate Past President Liz Simpson-Booker 9518 6186 • Frank Navin details. All correspondence should be addressed to: Secretary Vicky Marquis 9552 2592 • Jamie Parker MP The Glebe Society Inc Treasurer Bruce Davis 9660 7873 PO Box 100, Glebe NSW 2037 We look forward to seeing them at future Glebe Society Committee members (ive elected positions): functions. City of Sydney Councillors Website Dorothy Davis (Events coordination) 9660 7873 Lord Mayor: Clover Moore MP The Society has a growing Website (www. Carole Herriman (Eglinton Road Project) 9571 9092 Membership renewals now due glebesociety.org.au) for the information of Murray Jewell (Assistant Treasurer) 0416 978 608 Councillors: members and anyone with an interest in Lesley Lynch 9660 5084 Members will have received a membership renewal Phillip Black Bill Simpson-Young 0411 871 214 Glebe. The Website will only lourish if mem- form in the mail recently. Payments can be made in a Convenors Meredith Burgmann bers use the site. Send contributions or com- variety of ways and should be made by the end of July. Irene Doutney Bays and Foreshores Bruce Davis 9660 7873 ments to [email protected] Blue Wrens Andrew Wood 9660 6104 An increasing number of members are now paying Chris Harris The Bulletin Community Development Robyn Kemmis 9692 9440 electronically, either by direct credit to our bank account Robert Kok We are glad to publish letters or articles on Environment Jan Macindoe 9660 0208 or by using PayPal. You can ind out about the different Shayne Mallard any matters of interest to Glebe, any topic Heritage John Gray 9518 7253 Planning Neil Macindoe 9660 0208 options by browsing to the Society’s website and click- John McInerney raised in the Bulletin, or any issues relating to 9566 1746 ing on Membership > Membership renewal. Di Tornai Transport & Trafic Andrew Craig the Glebe Society, within the Guidelines pub- Comunication For enquiries: Please contact the City of Sydney on lished on our website. Write to the address Bulletin Editor Edwina Doe 9660 7066 Glebe Art Show 2012 9265 9333. above or email [email protected] Website Coordinator Phil Young 9692 9583 This year’s Glebe Art Show will be held between Fri- Disclaimer Working Groups and contacts day 7 and Sunday 16 September at Benledi, next door to Views expressed in this Bulletin are not nec- Archivist Lyn Milton 9660 7930 Forest Lodge History Lyn Collingwood 9660 5817 the Glebe Library. Entries should be delivered to recep- essarily those of The Glebe Society Inc. History of Glebe Max Solling 9660 1160 tion at Benledi on Monday 3 September. Unsold works Public School Bulletin deadline Home of The Glebe History of the Glebe Society Jeanette Knox 9660 7781 should be collected on Monday 17 September. Prize The next edition of the Bulletin will be Membership Cheryl & Bryan Herden 9660 7371 winners will be announced on opening night, Friday 7 Society Archives published at the end of July. The deadline for Plaques Project Peter Robinson 9692 9995 September, 6-8pm. Phone 9660 3530 contributions is Wednesday 18 July. Press cuttings tba

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