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Marrickville Heritage W Society MARRICKVILLE HERITAGE W SOCIETY DULWICH HILL ENMORE LEWISHAM MARRICKVILLE PETERSHAM STANMORE ST PETERS SYDENHAM TEMPE & PARTS OF CAMPERDOWN & NEWTOWN OUR NEXT MEETING Guest Speaker: Andrew Tink Society's 30th anniversary celebration at . on William C Wentworth Petersham Park rotunda near Station Street Described by Manning Clark as Saturday 22 March 10.15 for 10.30 am 'Australia's greatest native son', William Charles Wentworth was a 10.30 Welcome to members and guests by man of rat cunning, great intelligence President Geoff Ostling; vocal quartet from and sharp wit, who wrote the first book by an Fort Street High School; snippets of Australian to be published, was joint editor and Petersham Park history (mini-talks) proprietor of the colony's first independent 11.30 Talk by Andrew Tink (details at right) newspaper, and founder of Australia's first 12.15-12.30 Picnic lunch accompanied by jazz university. With ruthless energy and a volcanic personality this 'convict brati was an uiuelenting pianist Roshan Kumaraje from Fort Street; advocate for trial by jury, self-government and an cutting of cake to foUow (dual toast) Australian Confederation. He has a strong claim to be RSVP 18 March (for catering): Mary 9560 6409 or a founding father of modern Australia, (photo online). <[email protected]>. Please advise if you Since retiring from state parliament in 2006, Andrew have to cancel. Rain, hail or shine the event is on. Tink has written William Charles Wentworth (2009); Lord Sydney's life & times (2011), subject of his MHS 'Valdemar': 396 Marrickville Rd Marrickville talk in February 2013; and Air Disaster Canberra (2013). The Society is particularly dispirited that the villa 'Valdemar' at 396 Marrickville Road has been so defaced 1892 Newtown Post Office closes by its current owner under the guise of turning it into a child care centre, that its heritage significance has been After serving Newtown since 1892 the Queen Anne 'irreversibly eroded'. 'Valdemar' was built by James Wall style Walter Liberty Vernon Newtown Post Office in 1913, and until recently was a feature of the rich closed on 1 March 2014. The writing was on the wall residential precinct of Federation villas, bungalows and for this beloved building in the 1990s when it was sold by Australia Post. The insertion of three full- period civic buildings around Livingstone and length windows at the ground floor front in 1999 Marrickville Roads, and nearby David Street, In spite of (November 1999 newsletter) failed to enhance its the Society caUing for protection of this property since appearance, despite other worthy restoration work. 2005, it was not individually listed or included in the As advised in the July 2013 newsletter the post office adjacent David Street Conservation Area. building is to be redeveloped. The post office has So apparently there was nothing Council could do to stop relocated to the former site, now redeveloped, of the the owner from rendering and painting the tuck pointed funeral directors TJ Andrews at 21-25 Enmore Road. brickwork, and replacing the original timber framed windows with aluminium. This is aU deemed to be 'Altona' 38 Gordon Crescent Stanmore on sale 'Exempt and Complying Development' under the State For over 50 years the St Vincent de Paul Society has Government's Environmental Planning Policy. It appears owned and run a boarding house named Xavier that the State Government will be extending the scope of House -'a city home for country boys' - at 38 Gordon the Exempt and Complying Development provisions as a Crescent Stanmore. They recently closed this facUity way of 'freeing up' the planning regime in the state, since and the house is about to go on sale. Built in 1886 it its proposed changes to the Planning Laws have been was named 'Altona' in 1890. Described on the thwarted in Parliament. Back in 2007, the Society called Heritage Council of NSW website as 'a classic for 'vigilance... to prevent the loss of any more of these Ita liana te important items of MarrickviUe's built heritage'. This residence of unfortunately wiU not be enough to stop the vandalism Sydney of the of 'Valdemar' being visited on all of our unprotected 1880s, "Altona" period houses - goodbye tuck pointed brickwork, timber is an excellent framed leadhght windows, slate roofs and tessellated tile example of the porches. The defilement of 'Valdemar' shows that there craftsmanship of is now a pressing need for Council to extend its the era'. It is on Conservation Areas to put a brake on the unfettered the Marrickville sterilisation of our vulnerable Federation and Victorian LEP 2011. building stock. Scott MacArthur (© Google Maps) FOUNDED 1984 PO BOX 415 MARRICKVILLE NSW 1475 VOLUME 30 NUMBER 8 MARCH 2014 Affiliated with Royal Australian Historical Society & National Trust of Australia (NSW) OUR LAST MEETING Three (or four) cheers for: Alexander Brodie & Frances Maria Spark of Lotte & Bert Ferres . Tempe House: talk by Dr Robert Brodie Spark Responding to a note enclosed with the February In the wake of Ross Berry's November talk, 'The newsletter to Lotte and Bert Ferres (both over 90), Bert works of John Verge', Society members (plus a visitor asked son Gary to ring the Society to say thanks. Gary from Chattanooga, USA), represented by Ross, did. Lotte joined the Society in 1988. In 1995, while welcomed Dr Robert Brodie Spark. Ross also assisted living at Sans Souci, Lotte wrote to MHS of happy Dr Spark in his handsomely illustrated presentation on memories visiting relatives in Marrickville and Saturday 22 February (both are MHS members). Dulwich Hill in the late 1930s. Her grandfather was John Hardy, who was a Marrickville alderman for Robert is the great, great grandson of Alexander 18 years between 1889 and 1914 and who lived in Brodie Spark, who was born in Scotland in 1792. Fairfowl Street, Dulwich Hill. Lotte and Bert (married Alexander's father, James Brodie, was the 21st Chief of for over 64 years) later moved to Branxton but now Clan Brodie. Alexander came to Australia in 1823 and both reside in a nursing home. was soon a leading businessman and active in the affairs of the Colony. As his fortunes continued to Peter FitzSimons in his 24 April 2012 Sun Herald improve in the 1830s he commissioned colonial column wrote that he'd recently visited Bert Ferres, architect John Verge to build two houses: Tusculum at who was a Rat of Tobruk. Peter wrote: 'On the night of Potts Point and Tempe House. Spark chose to live at November 29,1941, at the Battle of Ed Duda, Bert his country estate, which was named after the Vale of Eerres was strong enough to charge straight at a Tempe in Greece; the house was completed in 1836. German machinegun nest that was sending an enfilade of fire at his 2/13 Battalion and, through use Frances Maria Biddulph could trace her family back to of grenades and his Bren gun, take it out. He was the Norman invasion of 1066. Her maternal family awarded the Mihtary Cross for his efforts.' Burnet were lairds of Crathes Castle, Scotland and she had a direct line to King Edward III, who was also . and Fred Ellis & Michael Skennar Robert Spark's 16th great grandfather. Frances's family At the Addison Road Community Centre (ARCC) migrated to the Cape Colony, South Africa when she Morning Tea on 26 February following presentations was 12 years old. She married Dr Henry Radford by key staff in relation to the ARCC and their Talking before her 16th birthday and they came to Australia History Project, and a speech by Marrickville Mayor Jo settling in the Hunter Valley. Dr Radford was recalled Haylen, a number of former service personnel shared to active service in India in 1829 and the whole family some of their memories of military service and the went with him. This was a tragic time with the death former Addison Road Army Camp. of five of their children. Back in Australia, Henry died Included were two long term MHS members - firstly, in 1836 leaving Frances a widow at age 28 with three Michael Skennar, who served in World War II, post­ young children, although with assets. war Japan and the Korean War; and secondly, Fred Frances knew AB Spark from her time in the Hunter Ellis, who recalled his years of proud army service Valley in the 1820s and they moved in the same social with the 14th Battalion during World War II including circles in Sydney. This culminated in the exchange of a tours of duty in New Guinea. Fred must have spoken marriage proposal and an acceptance letter on 9 April for 15-20 minutes, and by the time he said, 'I'd better 1840. AB was a firm but fair man, described in this shut up now', it seemed he stiU had much more to say. exchange of letters as 'whimsically dignified'. They Hearing Fred talk off the cuff and with such clarity were married at St Peters Anglican Church in 1840. was one of my most moving experiences in 29-years of AB Spark had been instrumental in fund raising MHS membership. To the credit of ARCC and as part towards the building of this church. of its Talking History Project the recollections of many service veterans have been recorded for perpetuity. Frances had six more children, all reaching adulthood, Richard Blair and although the 1840s depression almost ruined Spark, they lived in reasonable comfort at Tempe Autumn Trivia Question House until his death in 1856. He was buried in What were and where in the St Peters Church graveyard.
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