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MARRICKVILLE ~ HERITAGE SOCIETY Covering Dulwich Hill, Enmore, Lewisham, Marrickville, Petersham, St Peters, Stanmore Sydenham, tempe, & parts of Newt’own, Camperdown & Hurlstone Park OUR NEXT MEETING CLEMENCY FOR A SPIRE! If you've lived around Marrickville for long MUSEUM OF SYDNEY ON THE SITE you would have seen the St Clement's Anglican OF OLD GOVERNMENT HOUSE Church spire countless times, but alas, maybe for Saturday May 27 10.30 am not much longer. There is a rich irony that the lofty spire on St Clement's is facing possible Meet at MOS on the comer of Bridge & Phillip removal when the new Parish Centre attached to Streets at 10.15 for 10.30 entry. Admission $4.50, this church was recently the proud recipient of the $4 concession (latecomers may have to pay full inaugural Marrickville Medal. Trevor Howells, admission of $6 as above figure is for a group). chairman of the award jury, noted that the new Tour is self-guided. Opening hours are 10 to 5. Centre stood out like a beacon on a moonless night The foundation plate for The House That Phillip and is a contemporary building sensitive in its Built was laid by Governor Phillip in May 1788 and relationship to an adjacent building of high the house was built by James Bloodworth and his architectural quality. convict band. Nine governors lived there before its St Clement's Church, which is classified by the demolition in 1846. The museum, evoking a sense National Tmst and listed under State Heritage, of place focusses on the first 60 years of settlement was built in 1898 and the spire has stood tall for with archeology in situ, artefacts found during 81 years, visible from afar. In 1922, after excavations such as plates, bottles and tools, re­ installation of the Bells of St Clements, and creations of colonial life, stories of the indigenous following the recent erection of the new Town people (the Eora) and a collector's chest. Hall and the Winged Victory, the church was described in the Sunday Telegraph as the -A- Cathedral of the Western Suburbs (see Heritage 0 a a 3). Will the high architectural quality of St T51 Clement's be retained if the church loses its i n lifUinnnmifciinng spire? Rector's story on back page. Old Government House (1840s) Members may recall coverage of this museum in the December and February newsletters. The plaza was officially opened on Australia Day and Premier Bob Carr will cut the ribbon on the museum later this month, so there is nothing like getting in early to see this important link with Australia's colonial heritage and exciting new addition to Sydney's cultural scene. ENMORE POST OFFICE This year marks the centenary of this charming St Clement's Church heritage listed Queen Anne style brick and sandstone building on the comer of Enmore and Stanmore Roads. Australia Post has celebrated the HERITAGE 1 TO 7 INDEX occasion by closing the post office with the probable view to selling the building. On April 7 The index to issues 1 to 7 of the MHS Journal the beautiful original cast metal lettering set on Heritage is now available for a nominal fee of two sandstone was removed. The legality of this action dollars (extra if posted). The index was compiled is in question and Marrickville Council has been by Lynn Beauregard; cover design and layout by approached with the view to having the metal Mark Matheson. Ring Harold 569 5183 if you wish letters restored and a conservation plan drawn up. to have one posted. PO BOX 415 MARRICKVILLE 2204 ISSN 0818-0695 VOLUME II NUMBER 10 MAY 1995 HERITAGE WEEK APRIL 2 - 9 Studies Librarian Cheryl Flynn on 335 2170. Our thanks to Cheryl for organising this visit. If you were in any doubt that the notion of Heritage is still only a buzzword, you would have been Saturday the 8th was a busy day and local activities dissuaded by picking up a newspaper and seeing included a heritage discussion in Newtown Square the many notices of What's On during Heritage of King Street and Enmore Road urban design Week. Trying to dovetail the activities of MHS, study issues, a tour of the Mastertouch Piano Roll Council's Heritage Promotions and the National Company in Petersham and a Newtown Heritage Trust took some juggling, but here were some of Walk conducted by Bruce Baskerville whilst MHS our highlights! stalwart Geoff Ostling led two identical walks around the Petersham North Heritage Precinct On Sunday the 2nd, Jennifer Hill, conservation (see separate report). architect showed what is planned for restoration, in stages, of the Old Marrickville Town Hall for its That evening about 30 members attended reincarnation as the Jessie Street Library. Marrickville Town Hall for the inaugural presentation of the Marrickville Medal. Trevor On Wednesday the 5th the Museum of Howells, senior lecturer in conservation Contemporary Art was the venue for the second architecture and chairman of the award jury said annual Sydney Electricity National Trust Heritage these azvards are about excellence in the conservation of, Awards. In the community group category MHS or additions to, old buildings or in new buildings set in entered with its publications for 1994 - the an historic context. The 1995 Medal went to a new newsletters and Heritage 8, the journal. We were building, St Clement's Parish Centre (architect Peter not successful, however congratulations go to Armstrong) in Marrickville Road adjoining the 1898 Professor Joan Kerr (former MHS speaker) and her church. Trevor described it as a fine example of how husband. Dr James Kerr who won the major award new, good quality buildings can make a very important for their role in the conservation movement in contribution to the cultural heritage of Marrickville. Australia. Who will ever forget Joan Kerr as she spoke so fervently from the pulpit of St. Stephen's, Two commendations were made, firstly for the Newtown on E T Blacket and his masterpiece? restoration of Petersham Park Bandstand where the original fabric was retained, missing brackets The government category went to the Heritage reconstructed and the original colour scheme re­ Group of the Public Works Department of NSW for established; secondly to Beauchamp Villa, private the conservation of St George's Hall in Newtown. home of MHS members Tony and Judy Deguara, The restoration work on the building was who did all their own restoration work and demonstrated recognised as an adaptive reuse for the building in an extraordinary commitment, energy and respect for the eminently useable and sophisticated approach to original. (Coincidentally sketches, by Tony Deguara, conservation. Anne Morris, sandstone expert and a of both these structures appear on the MHS member of that group, spoke to MHS at our application brochure). Other finalists were Catherine meeting last October. House, a new addition to the Salvation Army's hostel in Frazer Street, Marrickville; conversion of federation warehouse to Brianna Apartments in Camperdown; and restoration of Gates House in Petersham by Peter Graves. On Sunday the 9th Council Archivist Rhona Clement and Local Studies Librarian Cheryl Flynn led about 40 people on a walking tour of the Abergeldie Estate in Dulwich Hill. Formerly the site of an imposing Italianate two storey mansion owned by Sir Hugh Dixson and demolished in the late 1920s, the Estate provides a wonderful example of housing styles and trends of the 1920s and 1930s. Marrickville Council has a Development Control Plan for the Estate which is a Heritage Conservation Area. On Tuesday the 11th some MHS members went to the marvellous MacLaurin Hall at Sydney University for the inaugural National Trust St George's Hall, King Street, Neu’town Lecture delivered by Justice Michael Kirby. He (in early times) said that worldwide there was a revival of concern On Thursday the 6th several MHS members about the right to conserve, develop and share the viewed the range of historic material comprising culture -which we have inherited... In NSW stronger the Ray Sowden Series donated to Marrickville planning controls and more sympathetic laws were still Library by the Sowden family in 1994. The needed... The State urns fortunate to have as Premier collection is a valuable researcher's tool and and as Leader of the Opposition two politicians who members were impressed with the scope of each have a deep and sincere commitment to the broad material and dedication obviously involved in objectives of the National Trust and its members. acquiring it. Access can be arranged through Local Richard Blair VOLUME II NUMBER 10 May 1995 OUR LAST MEETING PETERSHAM NORTH HERITAGE WALK THE RISE AND RISE OF MARY REIBEY AEROPLANES & PONIES AS TOLD BY NANCE IRVINE The first gusts of autumn wind failed to cool the enthusiasm of the 60 members and visitors who, On Saturday 22 April historian and author Nance ably led by Geoff Ostling, enjoyed an interesting Irvine, OAM addressed about 60 members and and informative walk on Saturday, 8 April (the friends about the woman on the twenty dollar note, walk was repeated for another 20 after lunch). Mary Reibey (as in maybe and you're in big trouble Armed with detailed sheets on the history of the with Nance if you pronounce it in any other way!). area we set off from Petersham Town Hall, our first Nance related the story of Molly Haydock (born stop being an unexpected invitation from the 1777) in her early teens disguising herself as a boy owner of an 1870s house in Crystal Street, whose named James Borrow and in 1791 stealing a unusually painted walls and ceilings are being thoroughbread horse which Nance likened to restored.
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