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Glebe INC Society Bulletin THE ISSN 1836-599X 4/2012 May/June Bureaucrats vsthecommunity Planning theBaysPrecinct could becomeamodelfor21 1960s. Inthefutureshehopedprecinct compared totheportthatexistedin The BaysPrecinctwasnowunrecognisable by Governmentagencies. Group (CRG)in2010,butlargely ignored the workofCommunityReference community groups,mostnotablythrough constructive visionshadbeenoffered by should notbe‘moreofthesame’.Several ney. The visionforthefutureofBays to thecentralbusinessdistrictofSyd- uniquely valuableharboursidesiteadjacent ment policyrecognisethattheBaysarea She saidthatitwasimportantGovern- the demandsofGovernmentagencies. contrasted thecommunity’s wisheswith In herpresentationProfessorMarceau seek communityviews. brief thecommunityonprogress,and of meetingscalledbythetaskforceto 23 May, theirstinGlebeofaseries 80 peopleatameetingon Wednesday the taskforce,wasspeakingtoabout representative ofthecommunityon Professor JaneMarceau,thesole ency. community, andtheirlackoftranspar- ness toconductadialoguewiththe the precinct’s future,theirunwilling- lack ofaforwardthinkingvisionfor ernment agenciesinvolvedfortheir Bays PrecincthascriticisedtheGov- planning thefutureofInner-west Government taskforcecharged with The communityrepresentativeona inevitably occur infutureyears. basis formanaging thechangethatwould and Government, andwouldprovidethe vision thatwasagreedbythe community the futuredevelopmentof the Baysitteda ter plansmustbedeveloped toensurethat A strategicframework andaseriesofmas- activities. institutions inadditiontotourismandretail the precinctwouldalsoattractinancial to theworldeconomyitwaslikelythat the city’s positionas Australia’s portal terprises suchasmediaandthearts.Given and research,ahomeforcreativeen- It couldalsobecomeahubforinnovation sustainable urbanliving. st century on 23May. Photo:JohnBrooks Professor JaneMarceauaddressingtheGlebemeeting Thursday 28June,6-7pm Bays Precinctmeetings.See pages1-3. 6-9pm –StScholastica’s SchoolHall– Monday 4June Hotel, RossStreet.Seepage11. NAIDOC Trivia Night,HaroldPark Friday 1June,7pmfor 7.30pm What’s comingsoon Benledi. – awardwinningilmanddiscussion – by theGovernmentagencies. nity’s needswithwhathadbeenproposed Professor Marceaucontrastedthecommu- said. a policyseentobepartofthefuture,’ she principles ofactionareincorporatedinto ment shouldbedeferreduntiltheagreed ‘Decisions onfurtherleasesanddevelop- the BaysPrecinctasawhole. to thecommunity’s ideasforeachbay, and ‘Proper considerationmustalsobegiven transport. nities closetohome,andbetterpublic recreation places,employmentopportu- community’s needs–notablyopenspace, ‘Proper considerationmustbegiventothe sought notpassivelyawaited,’ shesaid. ‘Opportunities forchangemustbeactively Seepage11. and Continued onnextpage... Thursday 21June, – Waste Not –

... continued from previous page ‘We now challenge the agencies seeing ad hoc decisions about de- ‘The government bureaucrats are to ensure that we are listened to velopments in the precinct? demanding a clear priority for their and are a full part of all decision- making.’ ‘We must start negotiations about activities regardless of whether the future to build an agreed frame- what they want represents the best Professor Marceau cited as an work of action – a framework which value for the State and the people of example of a lack of transparency represents the future needs and New South Wales,’ she said. by the government agencies the aspirations of all sides. The Gov- ‘ Ports Corporation is still dificulty that the community was ernment agencies cannot continue expecting to control indeinitely having in obtaining exact data on to operate as though there were the whole of Glebe Island, which is leases around the Bays. ‘Why are no dense residential areas on the the heart of the precinct. Ports also they unwilling to give us exact data foreshores.’ claims White Bay. NSW Maritime on when leases begin and end?’ she asked. ‘Nothing can be planned Professor Marceau listed the most lays claim to the other bays. important principles for the future ‘There is no dialogue between development of the Bays which had the agencies that refers to a joint Tell the Government been agreed by the great majority of venture involving more than one what you want for the community groups and both local agency. Silo thinking still prevails. Bays councils (see Lesley Lynch’s article on our Website (www.glebesociety. ‘Worse still there is no dialogue Glebe meetings: org.au/wordpress/?p=5670) for between the agencies and the com- details. munity, only monologues.’ St Scholastica’s School Hall, Avenue Road, Glebe. These and the other principles Professor Marceau questioned agreed by the CRG in 2010 should whether the current process would Monday 4 June and Thursday 21 be the basis of future planning deci- meet the aims set out by the Minis- June, 6-9pm. sions now and in the longer term. ter in May last year. Balmain meetings: A strategic plan for the Bays ‘Minister Hazzard said the Govern- Sydney Secondary College, Terry Precinct should be developed as a ment was very concerned to make Street, Balmain. result of the task force’s work. This sure there was appropriate consulta- plan should then be developed into tion between the community and Saturday 2 June and Saturday 23 a series of master plans that recog- the Government on the very chal- June, 2-5pm. Wednesday 6 June nised the rights of all stakeholders. lenging issue of the future develop- and Wednesday 20 June 6-9pm. There should be no more decisions ment of the Bays Precinct. He said For catering reasons, RSVP by about the future of the Bays until the Government was very serious calling 1800 252 040. the Government adopts these plans. about getting consultation right, Online: and would listen to the community Professor Marceau asked that the to make sure we got the best result You can also participate through Government create a special gov- for this valuable asset – 80 ha of email, online or on Facebook. ernance entity for the Bays Precinct Sydney’s best land. to oversee the long-term develop- without that information and ment of the precinct, ensuring despite repeated requests we respect for the CRG principles and don’t have it.’ the strategic plan in all development decisions, and act as the consent She also questioned whether the authority for the whole of the agencies were making plans for precinct to ensure that decisions are a future that differs signiicantly coordinated over time, that suitable from the past. She pointed to infrastructure is in place, and that the potential for employment of all stakeholders have a voice. the heritage-listed White Bay power station and asked: ‘Why The task force was set up early this are they jointly wasting a major year by the Minister for Planning, asset that belongs to the people Brad Hazzard, following lengthy of New South Wales?’ deliberations by a Community Ref- erence Group which presented its ‘Why is there no coordinated report to the Government in March transport planning to underpin 2010. Its role is to further explore Why are they wasting the White Bay new activities in the precinct, Power Station? Photo: SFHA and above all why are we still Continued on next page ...

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Ah, Japan at cherry blossom time! I University Motel, 25 Arundel it raises people’s expectations with- recommend it to everyone. Street out fulilling them, and asks them to take actions that are likely to be too Durham Court, 417 Glebe Point This long-derelict survival from early and hence ineffective. Road the ’50s was the subject of a Con- This controversial proposal has been ciliation hearing by the Land and The Society’s approach has always withdrawn. I believe this is partly Environment Court before I left. been to hold meetings as part of a a result of the changes we secured When I gave evidence I thought it campaign that take us right up to the to the new CityPlan, which reduced possible that the proposal, which time a decision is made. This is the the maximum height for the site. asked for an increase in both student wisest and most productive course, Most people also considered the and motel accommodation, would and one I think we should continue proposal an overdevelopment, and be knocked back. to observe. there were many objections. This was not the case. The Court Development Control Plan 2010 Food van in Minogue Reserve approved 48 student rooms (one Development Control Plans com- This proposal has also been with- student per room) and 32 motel plement Local Environment Plans drawn. The Society supports the rooms (two persons per room), an by including the detailed, local and principle of mobile food vans, es- increase of 12. However, the condi- environmental controls. On Monday pecially in areas near entertainment tions imposed are very strict, and all 7 May, Council’s Planning Commit- where there are no food providers commercial activity is forbidden. It tee considered a raft of amendments nearby, and no local residents to remains to be seen if the applicant, suggested by residents, and ap- be adversely affected. Minogue who has had previous approvals on proved them all, including strength- Reserve, on the corner of Glebe which he has not acted, decides to ening the Heritage controls in the Point Road and Francis Street, is proceed. bang in the middle of Glebe’s main Locality Statements for Conserva- food strip. It is a site suitable for students, just tion Areas such as Glebe. Glebe a stone’s throw from the University will beneit considerably from these Montrose, 20 Glebe Point Road of Sydney, but resident amenity amendments, which reinforce the This application for adding an addi- must be protected. LEP that council has already ap- tional loor to the stables at the rear proved. Other Developments of this Heritage Item and Medical These Plans now go to the Depart- Centre, mentioned in the February There is no further news on major ment of Planning for considera- Bulletin, has also been withdrawn. proposals, such as Harold Park or tion, and we do not know whether the Affordable Housing Project. The withdrawal of three controver- they will be further amended or Meetings were held last January, sial proposals is clearly a vindica- when they will be gazetted. In the organised (not by us) on the as- tion of the Society’s approach to meantime the City will follow up sumption the DAs were imminent. I objections, outlined in the March matters arising, such as, in the case would question the wisdom of hold- Bulletin. I would also like to take of Glebe, assessment of additional this opportunity to thank those ing meetings in January to discuss Heritage Items we have proposed members who personally objected. proposals which might not be re- for inclusion. Your support is not only deeply ported on for many months. In my appreciated, but as you can see, it is view the effect is corrosive, because - Neil Macindoe often effective. ... continued from previous page been directed to report to the Gov- ernment by 30 July this year. the issues, ideas, opportunities and More information? constraints that have emerged about The community consultation began the precinct, establish stakeholder with a meeting in Balmain on 16 Reports of the meetings will be priorities, and inalise a vision that May, repeated in Balmain (19 May) posted on the Sydney Harbour will be ‘useful for the Minister in and Glebe (23 May). This is the irst Authority Website. Visit www. future decision-making’. of three rounds of consultation. The shfa.nsw.gov.au/baysprecinct. The task force, which comprises second and third rounds, in which To participate in online forums mainly government agencies with the community will have further go to www.thebaysprecinct.net.au an interest in the Bays Precinct opportunity to present its views, will and Facebook. plus representatives of Sydney City be held in June. (See box on previ- Council and Leichardt Council, has ous page.) May/June 2012 3 the reason why people might be in- Realistically though, one would Letters terested. In suggesting that commu- have to say that the chances of a to the nity gardens are suitable for ‘bleak community garden being created Editor underutilised spaces’ and aimed at in John Street Reserve are slight providing ‘food support for people indeed. It would be an intrepid po- John Street Reserve genuinely in need’ it undersells tential gardener who would put up – not as scary as you the community garden movement their hand to be involved when so to a very large degree. The City much suspicion and hostility exists. might think! of Sydney alone currently has 15 However, for the less-than-intrepid The article in the April/May Bul- community gardens, and these are gardener all is not lost. The option letin (3/2012) concerning a pos- by no means all in ‘bleak underuti- of creating a community garden in sible community garden in John lised spaces’. And the reasons why the grassed area between Benledi Street Reserve includes a number of people may wish to be involved in and St Helen’s is currently being misunderstandings, both about what a community garden are much more explored. An initial meeting for lo- Council has proposed and what varied and positive. They include: cal residents was held on Sunday 27 community gardens are about. * an interest in gardening as May, to gauge the level of interest. If you are interested but missed the The article asserts that Council has such, for people whose small or meeting, contact me, or Nick Hespe approved a design for a ‘fenced overshadowed gardens are not in the Council’s One Stop Shop at off’ area for ‘18 large brick/timber suitable for vegetable gardening Glebe Library. plots for a community garden’. This in particular, is not correct. Council’s resolu- * participating in a healthy outdoor - Jan Macindoe tion, as part of the park upgrade, activity, suitable for is essentially a statement that this people of all ages, community land could be used as a community garden if there are local * an appreciation of people interested in that. Council freshly-picked vegeta- does not design or construct com- bles, munity gardens. Instead, a group of * a concern about ‘food interested locals forms a manage- miles’ and desire to ment group which together develops contribute to the local a design and plans the construction production of food, and management approach for a community garden. To achieve their * a wish to limit food plans they need to apply for fund- waste, for example by ing under the Council’s Matching being able to pick just the amount of herbs Woolloomooloo Community Garden - one of the Grants program. oldest in City of Sydney that one needs, There is no necessity for a commu- Community gardens nity garden to be fenced and garden * a desire to introduce children, or beds don’t have to be rectangular. grandchildren, to the pleasure It saddened me to read in the three The only necessity is that there of planting and growing, and to pages devoted to the John Street must be public access. Even more help them understand where food Reserve, that The Friends of John importantly, the community garden comes from and Street Reserve saw a community may not involve individual plots. * a desire to participate in a garden as ‘vegetable gardens of a There are many types of community community-based activity where select few’. Perhaps they should garden, as described in Council’s people work collaboratively and arrange a visit to other community policy. The option most appropri- learn from each other. gardens to see the positive impact ate to a small area such as this is they have socially for large numbers It is certainly true that Council’s ‘where the entire garden is managed of people. Surely the word commu- process in this instance was unfortu- collectively’ (Council policy), with nity indicates inclusiveness. nate, and that community consulta- participants who contribute to the tion should have taken place before, In my submission to Council I used planting and maintenance able to and not after, the proposal went to the very words ‘whole community’ harvest the vegetables and herbs that Council. However, if local residents to indicate who the beneiciaries of are grown. could contemplate getting involved, such a garden would be. The article is also unduly pessimis- they would be able to design a com- Yours sincerely, tic about the appropriate location for munity garden, and determine its community gardens generally, and operation, to suit their own needs. Karin Viles 4 Glebe Society Bulletin From the terraces

Public Consultation Paper on a how the owner perceived his or her made a strong statement on the National Heritage Strategy place in society. Thus I imagine Sir street and it could be argued that The Heritage Subcommittee is George Wigram Allen, having newly Lasswade, with its corner setting, preparing a submission on the draft inherited Toxteth Park, summoning still does. In recent years, hedges National Heritage Strategy released his architect George Mansield and and trees have lessened the impact by the omnibus Commonwealth ordering a tower, along with another of these features at Oswestry and Department of Sustainability, En- storey and other Italianate additions Hartford. to ‘enhance’ John Verge’s elegantly vironment, Water, Population and Also, we recommend you check out simple masterpiece. Communities. Allen Street and Arcadia Road on The aim of the Strategy will be to your turret hunt. highlight the importance of heritage Michael Chapman (1822-1906) to all Australians and provide a Michael Chapman, one-time Glebe common direction for the recogni- resident, has achieved an entry in the tion, protection, commemoration Dictionary of Sydney: and celebration of heritage across http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/ Australia over the next decade. chapman_michael. One of the issues the Society will be Doubtless we are all aware of Chap- addressing in its submission is the man Road (on the Annandale side of persistent reduction of funding for Bicentennial Park) and have puffed Heritage at both the Commonwealth Oswestry, 234 Glebe Point Road. Pho- our way up the curving sandstone and State level, as well as reductions tos from the Glebe Society Website. Chapman Steps, just along from in funding to community heritage Oficeworks on Parramatta Road. groups. Another domestic tower is evident These landmarks commemorate Submissions are due by mid June around the back of the Valhalla in 3 Michael Chapman, painter and 2012 and we will report more fully Hereford Street at Rosebank. Smith paperhanger, who was also a magis- when our submission is inalised. suggests that Rosebank’s owner, the merchant Walter Scott, might have trate, mayor (variously of Glebe and Skyscapes: Towers, turrets & sought to emulate the Toxteth Park Sydney) and politician. tourelles1 tower. It is on a smaller scale, with The entry in the Dictionary of Glebe, despite its lack of pretension, battlements (always handy in the Sydney notes that Michael Chap- offers some astonishing and anach- rowdy Kingdom of Middle Glebe). man resided at 55 Hereford Street, ronistic architectural sights if we are The Rosebank tower rather lacks the Glebe, in Cloyne Lodge, named for prepared to take our chances with elegant detailing of the Toxteth Park his birthplace in Ireland. We know dog poo on the footpaths and LOOK tower but both date from 1880. that Hereford Street has undergone UP! A stroll down Glebe Point Road re-numbering on several occasions and Historic Glebe notes that No.75, We are all familiar with church reveals handsome Federation turrets a detached stone farmhouse in the bell-towers that pay homage to the and/or tourelles at No 234 (Os- Victorian Regency style, is thought age-old ecclesiastical tradition of westry), No 242 (Lasswade) and No to be Michael Chapman’s house. summoning the faithful to prayer. 244 (Hartford). When irst built, Cyril Blacket’s Bell Tower beside these architectural details must have - Liz Simpson-Booker St Johns Bishopthorpe (Edmund Blacket/Horbury Hunt, 1870) dates from as recently as 1911 and Smith 1 Tourelle: A turret which is cor- describes it as beautifully related to belled out from a wall, often at the the site2. corner of a building. It is usually inished with a steep conical or But towers in a domestic setting? pyramidal roof. One would have thought that it was hardly necessary to have a tower, 2 Smith, Bernard and Kate, The conventionally deined as defen- Architectural Character of Glebe, sive, in Glebe! More likely it was Sydney University Press, 1989, p 50 a statement from another era about Lasswade, 242 Glebe Point Road 3 ibid, p 62 May/June 2012 5 Heritage conversations The Heritage subcommittee has ample by any objective meas- started the irst of a series of conver- ure the NSW Department of sations with Heritage agencies and Housing has inadequately groups. Last month we visited the maintained the fabric of the NSW Heritage Ofice, which main- Glebe Estate. The Estate tains the State Heritage Register and represents signiicant heritage is executive to the NSW Heritage stock and its rescue during Council. Buildings, sites and items the ‘age of demolition’ was must be of State signiicance for list- social history in action. ing and once listed there are beneits The Heritage Ofice execu- and duties conferred upon owners tives accepted the legitimacy and custodians. and intentions of The Glebe Bellevue, 55-57 Leichhardt Street, after being We discussed the serious decline in Society and took time to ex- restored. Since then we have worked on a heritage funding, the changed public plain the way the current heritage submission for the Australian Herit- service approach to assets, the role system actually works. They were age Strategy that incorporates the of community organisations, the surprised to note that Glebe had above, held discussions with City of process of gaining listing, ways to only 11 properties (see box) on Sydney executives and some owners improve heritage databases and the the NSW Register and agreed that of potential state heritage sites in heritage network. some of these seemed arguably Glebe. less worthy than others that do not appear. Virtu- Are you surprised that some sites ally all those currently on you thought were listed do not ap- the list were the subject pear? Let me know what they are of Permanent Conserva- and why they should be on the State tion Orders dating back Register. As always, if you have to the ’70s and ’80s. We any ideas about heritage please con- received good advice on tact me at vice-president@glebeso- how to go about identify- ciety.com.au ing and recommending - John Gray notations for the registry Hereford House, 53 Hereford Street and it was emphasised that a irst step is to gain the Glebe’s listed It is very clear that Federal funding owner’s or custodian’s agreement for heritage and related advocacy to commence any process. They properties groups has declined by tens of mil- also explained the tiered structure Bellevue, 55-57 Leichhardt lions annually. At the Street state level the Heritage Ofice has been absorbed Glebe Railway Viaduct into the Department of Hereford House, 53 Hereford Planning and staff is Street reduced by 25%. It is Lyndhurst, 61 Darghan Street too early to know how eficient this merger will Monteith, 266 Glebe Point Road be, but Peter Spearitt * Pyrmont and Glebe Railway observes that this sort of Tunnels action has historically di- Sze Yup Temple and Joss House, Edward Street. Photos from the Glebe Society Website. Reussdale, 160 Bridge Road minished inluence. This, and the lessening custodial role of Rothwell Lodge and Factory, 24 of heritage databases in Australia Ferry Road government agencies, accentuates and agreed that each tier’s qual- the need for an increased role for Sze Yup Temple and Joss House, ity can be improved by suggested community organisations. For ex- Edward Street corrections by community organi- Tranby, 13 Mansield Street * Peter Spearitt, Professor of His- sations. They helped us understand tory, University of Queensland. See the network of agencies and have University Hall and Cottages, www.environment.gov.au/heritage/ introduced us to our next conver- 281-185 Broadway strategy/documents.html sation at the City of Sydney. 6 Glebe Society Bulletin Who lived in your street?

When researching the history of Sydney New Theatre, where Les Tanner was a performer, designer, director and committee member, Lyn Collingwood was reminded of a Glebe Public School kindergarten photograph. This prompted the following article. Les Tanner (1927–2001) One of Australia’s best-known Press capital punishment and pulped the cartoonists for over 40 years, Leslie entire issue. Tanner then moved to Mervyn Tanner was born on 15 June to work as chief politi- 1927 when his parents were living cal cartoonist on , a position at 12 Reuss Street Glebe. Suffering he held until his retirement in 1997. from dysentery, he was not expected He wrote a popular weekly column to survive longer than six months. Tanner With Words. Among the il- During the Depression years he was lustrators he most admired were the educated at Glebe Public School. Australian Wep (Bill Pidgeon) and He then attended demonstration the Englishman Ronald Searle. school North Newtown Intermediate Tanner’s awards included 1960 and Randwick High. (‘I was known ‘Cartoonist of the Year’, Walkleys in as a bit of a show-off. I would il- 1962 and 1965, and a Golden Quill lustrate my compositions.’) * Les’s in 1999 for lifetime achievement in mother was a cousin of comedian the arts. A 60-a-day smoker, he had George Wallace and his ‘Uncle a laryngectomy (‘Weary Dunlop cut Billy’ a props maker for Cinesound. my throat’) and a heart transplant. Aged 12, Les was an extra in the Les Tanner, ca 1972 He died on 23 July 2001. Wallace/Cinesound feature Gone to the Dogs. He also appeared in Our Les’s parents were Lilian and ‘Jack’ never seen a naked model, but my Gang and Forty Thousand Horse- (John Cecil 1900-55) Tanner who irst life class turned out to be an In- men. met while working in a Leeton donesian seaman fully dressed’). At canning factory (where Lilian led From the age of ive Les drew cari- age 18 he was sent to Japan to work a strike) and who married at Nar- catures of his parents and visitors. on the occupation force’s newspaper randera in 1923. His paternal His parents had no artistic ability BCON as a cartoonist. On return- grandparents were Mary Ann née but he was encouraged to draw by ing to Australia he illustrated for Guest and William Edwin Tanner, Uncle Billy and there were always the magazine AM and the Daily and Protestants who wed at Blayney in papers and journals in the Tanner Sunday Telegraph. He also joined 1900. (Jack’s siblings were Doris household: Smith’s Weekly, Women’s the Communist Party and acted and Edith (1898-1970) and Arthur Leslie Weekly, Daily Telegraph and Sunday designed for Sydney’s New Theatre (1903-59). A sister Gladys died at Sun. Second cousin George Wal- (ASIO agents recorded his activi- birth in 1902.) Putting up his age lace was a talented caricaturist and ties) until 1956. He was a talented to 18 and giving his occupation as landscape painter. actor, particularly in comedy. In a carter, Jack enlisted in World War Les left school at age 15 and had 1949 he married Margaret Florence 1. He embarked in July 1917 on the several odd jobs including packing King (‘Peg’) who taught acting at Port Melbourne but was diagnosed at Woolworths and making lava- the New. In 1952 Peg was ward- with a hernia in Cairo and shipped tory seats (‘I wasn’t too keen on robe mistress and Les designer and back home three months later. Be- that because a number of men had actor in The Candy Store which fore moving to Glebe the married ingers missing’) before joining the played underground to an audience couple lived with John’s widowed Daily Telegraph as a printer’s devil of striking oil shale miners at Glen mother who ran a boarding house at in 1942. He was transferred to the Davis. 105 Pitt Street Redfern. Les’s father art department and began studying After spending 1960 in London as described himself as a ‘newspaper at the Julian Ashton School. (‘I’d a ‘joke artist’ on the Daily Sketch, publisher’ but in reality he was a * First person quotes are from a Tanner joined the Bulletin as art permanent casual labourer who bun- 1998 interview with Les Tanner, director. In 1967 Sir dled up newspapers and threw them recorded for the National Library of took umbrage against Tanner’s onto trucks for delivery to newsa- Australia’s Oral History Program. depiction of Victorian Premier gents. In 1940 he enlisted in the Sir Henry Bolte in an article on Continued on next page ... May/June 2012 7 ... continued from previous page married Catherine ‘Kate’ Archer Folk Magic army, served in the Middle East and (1843-1917) who had arrived in was discharged a lance corporal in Sydney aboard the Agincourt in Lecture 1848. Her parents Frederick Francis June 1945. At the time of his death The veil of secrecy surrounding the Archer and Mary née Marvin, like he was living at Bondi. use of folk magic to protect Austral- many of the ship’s assisted im- Les’s mother Lilian Iris (1904– ca ians and their houses in the period migrants, were lacemakers from 1788–1935 will be lifted during a 96) was born in Sydney to John Calais leeing revolutionary France. Patrick Rogan and Ethel née Scott lecture at the Museum of Sydney on Frederick Archer became police 24 June. who had married in 1898. Ethel’s commissioner in the Bathurst dis- Dr Ian Evans, a former resident of sister Catherine married George trict. Kate and William Tanner had Glebe and the author of numerous Stephenson Wallace; by the 1920s eight children whose births were books on the history and conserva- their son George was one of Aus- registered at Orange, Molong and tralia’s best known and highest paid tion of old houses, has uncovered Carcoar: William Edwin (1872- some startling new information on a vaudevillians. Convent educated 1914), Alice Mary (born 1874), and a ‘lapsed Catholic’, Lilian ritual that is thought to be thousands Bertram Frederick (1876-1917), of years old. It came to Australia was, like her husband, strongly Albert Edgar (1878-1955), Harold as part of the cultural baggage of pro-Labor and a fervent supporter Victor (1881-1956), Ada Maud convicts and settlers and survived in of Jack Lang. A voracious reader, (1884-91), Cecil Alfred (1886-1962) great secrecy into the jazz age. she belonged to the Grace Broth- and Hilda Kathleen (1888-1947). ers Lending Library and the Glebe Previously unknown to Austral- William Edwin senior died on 7 ian historians, the ritual involved School of Arts Library (a favourite May 1928, having outlived members book was Patrick White’s irst novel the concealment in sealed voids in of his immediate family. His oldest houses and other buildings of old Happy Valley). During her hus- child, Les’s grandfather, died aged shoes, worn-out garments, dead cats band’s wartime absence she worked 42 on 2 September 1914, his second and a variety of domestic artefacts. as a caterer’s waitress: ‘she’d do son Bertram aged 41 in an English anything to get out of the house’. hospital from war wounds on 15 Les’s heritage on his father’s side February 1917, and his wife aged 69 was Irish. Great-great grandfather on 11 August the same year. William Tanner (1827-1900) from - Lyn Collingwood Bandon, County Cork, was a mem- These objects, intended to decoy Sources: ber of the 11th (North Devonshire) evil spiritual beings away from peo- Regiment of Foot, the irst occupi- Australian Dictionary of Biography: ple, have been found in more than ers of Sydney’s Victoria Barracks. George Wallace entry a hundred and twenty houses and He arrived on the Castle Eden in Australian War Memorial online other buildings throughout Australia 1845 and remained in Sydney after indexes and comprise the material culture of the regiment returned home in Leader (Orange) 20 + 22 August a ritual that is nowhere recorded in 1857. He married twice and had 15 1917 the documentary archive. children. His eldest was William National Library of Australia TRC Dr Evans is the author of numerous Edwin (1850-1928) born to irst 3743: interview with Les Tanner books on the history and conserva- wife Ann née Goodfellow (1831- New Theatre Records: Mitchell tion of old Australian houses. His 58), also Irish. William senior, to- Library ML MSS 6244 folk magic research has so far taken more than six years and has resulted gether with his sons, was licensee of NSW Registry of Births, Deaths, in the award of a PhD from the Uni- several hotels in the Orange district Marriages and for a number of years a police- versity of Newcastle. NSW State Records: publican’s man at Blackheath. The family’s licences (reel 1243) His talk at the Museum of Sydney, pubs included ‘Tanner’s Telegraph on the corner of Bridge and Phillip Hotel’ in Orange, the Commercial Orange Family History Group Or- Streets, at 2pm on 24 June is free ange & District Pioneer Register to with Museum admission. Hotel in Guyong and the Club 1888 1999 House Hotel in Orange. Sands Directories For further information contact Les’s great grandfather William Sydney Morning Herald 1 August Ian Evans on 6684 7677 or via Edwin, irst mayor of Molong and 2001 email [email protected]. in 1892 mayor of Orange, in 1871 Western Advocate 23 January 1892 8 Glebe Society Bulletin Mawson Centenary Year Sir Douglas Mawson - a presentation by Grahame Budd About 50 people went Paquita: Mawson, obliged to to Benledi on Sunday remain in Antarctica for a second evening 29 April to year after he had barely survived hear Lyn Collingwood the disastrous sledging journey and Grahame Budd talk in which his two companions had about the great Antarc- died (and his own hair had fallen tic explorer Douglas out), felt it was unfair to hold his Mawson who, along with iancée Paquita to her marriage Frank Hurley, spent his commitment for an additional formative years in Glebe. year. So he radioed the following Both speakers were very message to her.: entertaining and knowl- ‘Deeply regret delay. Only just edgeable, and in addi- managed reach hut. Effects now tion Grahame’s talk was Grahame Budd pointing at the Ross Sea map. Photo: Bruce Davis gone but lost my hair. You are free accompanied by Hur- to consider your contract.’ ley’s spectacular photos, delivered by our newly acquired To his great relief, Paquita radioed data projector (which will soon be Edgeworth David’s diary, during back: ‘Deeply thankful you are paid for if we continue to attract this journey to South Magnetic Pole: safe. Warmest welcome awaiting kind of audience). ‘A three-man sleeping bag, where your hairless return. Regarding you are wedged in more or less contract, same as ever only more Lyn talked about Mawson’s family tightly against your mates, where so.’ and Grahame dealt with Mawson’s all snore and shin one another and four expeditions, including his Beau Riffenburgh: Shackleton’s each feels on waking that he is friendships and professional rela- Forgotten Expedition (2008), more shinned against than shin- tionships with Edgeworth David page 160. ning, is not conducive to real rest.’ and Shackleton, not to mention his courtship of his future wife, Paquita. Peter Fitzsimons: Mawson and Frank Hurley – a the Ice men of the Heroic Age See some of Grahame’s quotes on Lecture/Entertainment (2011), page 103. this page. by Robert Dixon. This presentation was originally in- From Antarctica to the Tropics, tended to be part of Heritage Week, Frank Hurley photographed human but we missed the deadline and al- life in extreme conditions, includ- though the National Trust said they Edgeworth David’s tribute to ing what people wore, or didn't. would advertise it on their website, I Mawson, in a reception at Sydney The shows Hurley put on at the couldn’t ind it. University: ‘In all sincerity and height of his fame in the 1910s and without the pride that apes humil- Continuing the Mawson Centenary 1920s were stage and screen per- ity, I say that Mawson was the formances exploiting a number of celebrations, Grahame will give an- real leader and was the soul of our other audio/visual presentation, Ant- media: he called them‘synchronised expedition to the magnetic pole. lecture entertainments’. arctic Adventures: from Mawson to We really have in him an Austral- present day, on a Sunday evening at ian Nansen, of ininite resource, As a part of History Week, Robert the end of October. I have no doubt splendid physique, astonishing Dixon, Professor of Australian Lit- we will attract another big crowd. indifference to frost.’ Philip Ayres: erature at the University of Sydney, - Neil Macindoe Mawson a Life (1999), page 29 who has recently published a book about Hurley's shows, will pro- vide his own 'synchronised lecture See Bulletin 3/2005, P10: Who lived in your street - Sir Douglas Maw- entertainment' in Glebe, the suburb son, by Ian Edwards. where Hurley was born in 1885. And see Bulletin 3/2008, p7: Captain James Frances Hurley, OBE, by At Benledi, Sunday 16 September, Rod Holtham. 5.30 – 7.30pm.

May/June 2012 9 Working Bee in Paddy Gray Reserve Are you good at On Wednesday 2 May, a perfect au- Rae outlined her bushcare and coast- games? tumnal day, 25 people joined forces care background in the Newcastle in Paddy Gray Reserve to plant 450 area and gave a little talk about The Wentworth Park Community locally sourced and propagated na- native grasses – their importance in Games, in which Glebe and For- tive grasses, scramblers, vines and preventing soil erosion, aerating the est Lodge face off against the old shrubs, donated by the Rozelle Bay soil, providing a home for insects enemy, Ultimo and Pyrmont, for the Community Native Nursery. The and safe foraging opportunities for honour of holding the GUP Cup will event was organised by members small birds while creating that criti- be held in the park that both divides of the Glebe Society’s Blue Wrens cal ‘third layer’ essential to habitat. and unites in October this year. Group who provided a delicious A few days later, on 7 May, when Despite the fact that Glebe has won morning tea. The team also con- the Environment and Heritage all but one of the games since their sisted of the Glebe Bushcare Group Committee of Council adopted the inception our friends from across the which works on Wednesdays on Greening Sydney Policy, Paddy park have usually carried the lion's sites in the Glebe Point area, a few Gray and Lew Hoad Reserves share of the work in organising the locals and workers from Toola Jooa, were added to a list of larger parks event. the Bushcare company working in as examples of ‘What We Have this and other parks in Glebe. Nick This year we are hoping to add some Achieved’ under the heading of Criniti, Council’s Contract Coor- fresh ideas, particularly new events ‘Habitat Creation’. This is a sig- dinator (Parks) who has seen the for young people. Although most niicant recognition for these little transformation of this park since members of the organising com- parks associated with the Blue Wren 2008 and Rae Broadfoot, Coun- mittee are young in heart, we could Corridor! cil’s newly appointed Community do with some ideas from younger Gardens and Volunteer co-ordinator - Jan Craney members of the community. also attended. We think this is an area in which Glebe could shine, and thus redress the geographic imbalance in organ- ising this popular community event. If you can help, please contact me (9660 7873 or brucejdavis@gmail. com). Of course the family pooches will remain the stars of the day, no mat- ter how good your ideas are! - Bruce Davis

Grant for Glebe PCYC Some of the Working Bee team. Photo taken by a passer-by The City has boosted youth services Bulletin Editor in Glebe with a $400,000 grant to give young people alternatives to I have been the editor of the Glebe future overall strategy including the hanging around on the streets late at Society Bulletin since February Bulletin and communication more night. 2003, and have decided that ten generally. Potential members are years is about right for the Glebe Bruce Davis, Jan Macindoe, Liz Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP Society and for me. I will continue Simpson-Booker, Bill Simpson- said the Glebe Youth Service had until Bulletin 10/2012 and then step Young, Phil Young and myself. provided casework, advocacy, edu- down. Meanwhile, I look forward cation programs and job training, to receiving and publishing your Please let me know if you would a drop-in centre and other services contributions. like to join them (editor@glebesoci- to 12-24-year-olds in Glebe for a ety.org.au). quarter of a century. A small Communications working group will be set up to deal with - Edwina Doe City of Sydney media release 10 Glebe Society Bulletin Glebe Society events ‘Welcome to New Waste Not Trivia Night Members’ evening Come along to a screening of an Fundraiser for NAIDOC Week Behind the microphone: Deborah award-winning documentary ilm Cameron tells tales about local from the Total Environment Centre radio! Thursday 28 June, 6-7.30pm, at Deborah Cameron, former ABC Benledi, next to Glebe Library. 702 Radio morning presenter and Explore how recycling will play a journalist, will talk about her work big role in transitioning Australians in radio, and her new role in ‘com- to a sustainable future. munity consultation’.

Come along to welcome our new We are setting up a Glebe Society members and listen to a fascinating Table for the Trivia Night at the talk in a ‘pub atmosphere’ on Black Harold Park Hotel, Ross Street, on Friday, enjoying drinks and hot food Friday 1 June, 7pm for 7.30pm. afterwards. The 25 minute ilm will be followed $15 a head, with proceeds to help by a talk from Mark Mckenzie, Friday 13 July 6-8pm, Harold fund NAIDOC Week events in Waste Strategy Manager for the City Park Hotel , Ross Street. (Note Glebe in July. that the date has been changed.) of Sydney. Glebe Society member Alice Simpson-Young will also say Please contact me by email (rkem- Cost: $20 per person. a few words about the Australian [email protected]) before 29 (New members - joining since Au- Youth Climate Coalition, of which May if you would like to be in- gust 2011 - no charge.) she is a member. cluded on our table. Everyone is Book online now using the Glebe welcome!

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NAIDOC Week - Dorothy Davis INC This is a free Glebe 1-8 July Society event, but dona- THE Meet the Mayoral tions at the door will be Glebe’s NAIDOC Week events Candidates welcome. Bookings essential by will include a Corroboree night, Friday 22 June. Email environ- a Family Day and the Elders It has been our practice over many [email protected] or phone Lunch. years for the Society to arrange 9660 0208. for presentations to be made to the A Turkish Experi- Glebe community by candidates go- ing forward for election at federal, Tree planting, ence: Kapadokya state and local government levels. Turkish Café The next election will be for local Saturday government and will be held on We are combining this function with Saturday 8 September. For Glebe 23 June the regular Thirsty Thursday gather- that means elections for the Lord Thankyou to those who have ing on 7 June at 7pm. Mayor and Councillors for the City contributed to the tree that we $30 per person covers shared mezze of Sydney Council. are donating in memory of David plates, traditional Turkish home- Although nominations will not be Mander-Jones. The planting will cooked dishes, sweets, tea or cof- conirmed until August 8 we have be done by Council in Paddy fee and the BYO fee. Numbers are started planning for a Glebe Soci- Gray Reserve on Saturday 23 limited, so please put your name on ety Meet the Mayoral Candidates June at 11am and will be fol- Edwina’s list now (edwinadoe@ session – we expect in the week lowed by refreshments. optusnet.com.au or 9660 7066) and commencing August 20. We will also conirm your booking by Mon- conirm details closer to the time. Please come along and share this occasion with Fay and her family. day 4 June. - Mairéad Browne - Dorothy Davis May/June 2012 11 News and Notes Thirsty Thursdays e-waste drop-off day, 3 June Members and friends are invited to meet in restaurants Do you have broken TVs, monitors, computers and mo- in and around Glebe, usually on the irst Thursday of bile phones that you no longer want or need? If you are each month at 7pm, to eat and talk with other people a City of Sydney resident, you can recycle them for free who live in Glebe. We visit a different restaurant each by dropping them off at our quarterly e-waste recycling month, varying cuisines. Put these dates in your diary days. No booking is required. now. Collection date: Sunday 3 June. Bay Street Depot, On Thursday 7 June we will go to Kapadokya Turk- Corner of Bay and Macarthur Streets Ultimo (entry ish Café, 71 Glebe Point Road. See page 11 for more through Macarthur Street only). details. For more information see: http://whatson.cityofsydney. On Thursday 5 July we will go to Fountain 77 at 77 nsw.gov.au/events/9002-e-waste-drop-off-days-recycle- Glebe Point Road. your-tvs-computers-more And on Thursday 2 August we will go to Lien Viet- Australia’s Stained Glass: the Scottish namese Malaysian Restaurant, 331 Glebe Point Road. Heritage Please email me or ring me on 9660 7066 by the Wednesday before the dinner to let me know if you are Glebe Society members who are interested in stained coming, or if you are likely to be late. glass might like to go to an illustrated talk by the author of Australia’s Historic Stained Glass, Dr Beverley - Edwina Doe Sherry. Scotland was a leader in the nineteenth-century Welcome to new members revival of stained glass, and artists who trained there, especially in the Glasgow area, emigrated to Australia The following people were accepted as members of the and established irms of their own. Glebe Society at recent Management Committee meet- ings: Friday 29 June, 1-2pm, in the John Woolley Building (near the Parramatta Road footbridge), in Room S325. * Roslyn Burge All welcome. See http://sydney.edu.au/arts/celtic_stud- * Greg Dwyer ies/about/events/index.shtml. * Cynthia Nadai - Margaret Shepphard * Gail Robertson * Jennifer Walker City of Sydney Councillors We look forward to seeing them at future Glebe Society Lord Mayor: Clover Moore MP functions. Councillors: Players in the Pub Phillip Black The next moved reading in our new home is a contem- Meredith Burgmann porary comedy Unsolicited Male by Sydney stand-up Irene Doutney comedian turned legal practitioner and playwright Tony Chris Harris Laumberg. It is directed by Richard Cotter who has Robert Kok worked with Tony on a string of theatrical hits. Shayne Mallard Tuesday 5 June,7pm, upstairs at the Harold Park Hotel, John McInerney 70A Ross Street Glebe. Free admission. Di Tornai For enquiries: Please contact the City of Sydney on Mine host Will Ryan is opening the kitchen for orders 9265 9333. from 5.30 pm. The menu includes snacks and light meals ($12-$15) and chargrilled beef, lamb or chicken ($17-$20). There is a bus stop on Wigram Road for Forest Lodge routes 433 and 370, and up the hill at the Ross Street shops for route 470. Public School Home of The Glebe Other dates for your diary are 17 July and 21 August. Society Archives - Lyn Collingwood Phone 9660 3530 12 Glebe Society Bulletin For your diary ...

Friday 1 June, 7pm for 7.30pm – NAIDOC Trivia Night, Harold Park Hotel, Ross Street. See page 11. Sunday 3 June – E-waste drop off day, Bay Street Depot, Macarthur Street. See page 12. Monday 4 June, 6-9pm – St Scholastica’s School Hall – Bays Precinct meeting. See pages 1-3. Thursday 7 June, 7pm – A Turkish Experience, Kapadokya Turkish Café, 71 Glebe Point Road. See page 11. Wednesday 13 June, 7pm – Management Committee meeting, The Old Fire Station, 115 Mitchell Street. Note change of venue. Thursday 21 June, 6-9pm – St Scholastica’s School Hall – Bays Precinct meeting. See pages 1-3. Thursday 28 June, 6-7pm – Waste Not – award winning ilm and discussion - Benledi. See page 11. Sunday 1 - Sunday 8 July – NAIDOC Week. See the Glebe Society Website for details. Thursday 5 July, 7pm – Thirsty Thursday – Fountain 77, 77 Glebe Point Road. See page 12. Wednesday 11 July, 7pm – Management Committee meeting, The Old Fire Station, 115 Mitchell Street. Friday 13 July, 6-8pm – Welcome to New Members evening, Harold Park Hotel, Ross Street. See page 11. Thursday 2 August, 7pm – Thirsty Thursday – Lien, 331 Glebe Point Road. See page 12. Wednesday 8 August, 7pm – Management Committee meeting, The Old Fire Station, 115 Mitchell Street. Sunday 26 August, 11am – Glebe Society Annual General Meeting, Benledi..

Contacting The Glebe Society Inc Established 1969 The Glebe Society Management Committee: Mail President Mairéad Browne 9552 2888 Vice President John Gray 9518 7253 All correspondence should be addressed to: Immediate Past President Liz Simpson-Booker 9518 6186 The Glebe Society Inc Secretary Vicky Marquis 9552 2592 PO Box 100, Glebe NSW 2037 Treasurer Bruce Davis 9660 7873 Website Committee members (ive elected positions): The Society has a growing Website (www. Dorothy Davis (Events coordination) 9660 7873 glebesociety.org.au) for the information Carole Herriman (Eglinton Road Project) 9571 9092 of members and anyone with an interest Murray Jewell (Assistant Treasurer) 0416 978 608 Lesley Lynch 9660 5084 in Glebe. The Website will only lourish if Bill Simpson-Young 0411 871 214 members use the site. Send contributions or Convenors (ex-oficio members of the Management Committee) comments to [email protected] Bays and Foreshores/BCC Bruce Davis 9660 7873 The Bulletin Blue Wrens Andrew Wood 9660 6104 We are glad to publish letters or articles on Bulletin Editor Edwina Doe 9660 7066 any matters of interest to Glebe, any topic Community Development Robyn Kemmis 9692 9440 Environment Jan Macindoe 9660 0208 raised in the Bulletin, or any issues relating to Heritage John Gray 9518 7253 the Glebe Society, within the Guidelines pub- History Lyn Collingwood 9660 5817 lished on our website. Write to the address History of the Glebe Society Jeanette Knox 9660 7781 above or email [email protected] Membership Cheryl & Bryan Herden 9660 7371 Disclaimer Planning Neil Macindoe 9660 0208 Views expressed in this Bulletin are not nec- Transport & Trafic Andrew Craig 9566 1746 Website coordinator Phil Young 9692 9583 essarily those of The Glebe Society Inc. Other contacts Bulletin deadline Archivist Lyn Milton 9660 7930 The next edition of the Bulletin will be pub- History of Glebe Max Solling 9660 1160 lished at the end of June. The deadline for Plaques Project Peter Robinson 9692 9995 contributions is Wednesday 20 June. Press cuttings tba

May/June 2012 13 In this issue  Planning the Bays Precinct – pages 1- 3  Planning matters – page 3  Community gardens – page 4  From the terraces – page 5  Who lived in your street? – page 7  Mawson Centenary Year – page 9  Glebe Society events – page 11

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Membership of the Glebe Society Community Contacts Individual member $45 Manager-Neighbourhood Services Centre: Glebe, Joint (2 people, one address) $55 Forest Lodge, Camperdown, Ultimo & Pyrmont: Nick Household (more than 2 adults Hespe. and/or children, one address) $60 Ofice: Glebe Library 9am-5pm Monday-Friday. Concession (student or pensioner) $20 Phone: 9298 3191. Institution or corporate $110 Email: [email protected] Download a membership form from our web- Sydney City Council Customer Service site (www.glebesociety.org.au, click on Join), Telephone (24 hours): 9265 9333 write to the Secretary at PO Box 100, Glebe, Email: council@cityof sydney.nsw.gov.au 2037, or email [email protected]. Website: www.cityof sydney.nsw.gov.au Dumped Shopping trolleys: Trolley If you have a matter that you would like to dis- Tracker 1800 641 497 cuss with the Management Committee, please Harold Park: Mirvac hotline for residents 9080 8588 contact the Secretary.

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