About the online Glebe Society Bulletin ... Earth v Sky launched How to view the online Bulletin We are getting used to wet weather, but the sky The pages of the online Bulletin are almost identical to In this issue ... was clear as the sun was the printed version except for the use of colour. Click on the headings below to jump to the item setting on Tuesday 24 April. From 5pm, a large You can use the index (In this issue) on this page to Earth v Sky launched 1 crowd of Glebe residents, jump to individual stories, or you can scroll through Anzac Day service 1 some with their dogs, the edition using the scroll wheel on your mouse, or started to gather near the the page-up/page-down keys on your keyboard. To How WWI changed Australians’ attitudes 2 return to the index, click on the blue triangle at the giant Moreton Bay ig trees on the foreshore at bottom of any page. The online Bulletin also has links From the terraces 3 the end of Glebe Point that take you to wbesites or email addresses when you Road. They were there click on them. The layout is optimised for wide screen Glebe irsts 4 to celebrate the launch monitors so you can read two pages together. Local residents unite over plans for John 5 by Lord Mayor Clover Do you have some pictures of Glebe that Street Reserve Moore of Earth v Sky, others should see? City prunes Murrayas in John Street Reserve 7 the dynamic artwork featuring the City of Lord Mayor Clover Moore and Allan Giddy 3/2012 April/May April/May 3/2012 2012 Sydney’s irst ever wind turbine and new unveiling the plaque. Photo: Phil Young Do you have some digital images that you believes ... and Déjà vu 7 technology that samples the colour of the others would be interested in? If so, email editor@ sky. Using this information, nine lights Anzac Day service glebesociety.org.au, and we’ll assess them for a centre Glebe apartment owners face tough decisions 8 will bathe the trees in coloured light during The barriers around Foley Park that have page spread in the Society’s online Bulletin. sunset. The story behind Elsie Walk 9 hidden the War Memorial for the past few Before the launch, we stood around sipping months have been removed, revealing a Only in Glebe … 9 coffee and meeting up with old friends. spruced up Memorial and a neat row of The children, and some adults, waved Membership of the Glebe Society Glebe Library’s 15th birthday 10 freshly planted rosemary bushes. Individual member $45 green and white windmills, representing About 75 people gathered in Glebe Point How Glebe Library moved to Benledi 10 the wind turbine. Then, as the sun was Joint (2 people, one address) $55 Road at 7.30 am on Anzac Day. Many of Household (more than 2 adults and/or setting, Clover Moore and Allan Giddy, the Letter to the editor 10 creator of Earth v Sky addressed the crowd. them had seen each other at the launch of children, one address) $60 Earth v Sky only a few hours earlier. Concession (student or pensioner) $20 Youth environmental action in Glebe 11 Clover Moore reminded us that this is the Pastor Julie Brackenreg from the Glebe Institution or corporate $110 inal installation under our Glebe Point Glebe Society events 11 Road Public Art Program, joining Nuha Community Church welcomed us on this Download a membership form from our website (www. ‘brisk’ morning. The ceremony, the 21st glebesociety.org.au, click on Membership > New member- Saad’s Skippedy Skip at Glebe Public News and Notes 12 held here since 1992 when the Memorial ship), write to the Secretary at PO Box 100, Glebe, 2037, or School, and Nigel Helyer’s Wireless House in Foley Park. All three works came out of was restored, followed the now familiar email [email protected]. For your diary 13 extensive consultation with Glebe residents order of service. Max Solling gave a mov- If you have a matter that you would like to discuss with the IETY • INC ing address which put a local human face Management Committee, please contact the Secretary. Contacting the Glebe Society and directory 13 C and businesses, which led to a call for O proposals, developed by Michael Goldberg. to the events of World War I (see page 2 of S this Bulletin and the Glebe Society Web- • The proposals were exhibited for public Community Contacts E comment in September 2009, and were site), our President Mairéad Browne laid a B GL THE E Manager-Neighbourhood Services Centre: Glebe, • then assessed by a panel comprising Leon wreath, Piper Rob McLean played the La- Forest Lodge, Camperdown, Ultimo & Pyrmont, Nick Parossien, chair of our Public Art Advisory ment and folk singer John Dengate played Hespe. Panel, and Glebe residents Sue Ingram and There’s a Long, Long Trail Awinding on his tin whistle. Office: Glebe Library 9am-5pm Monday-Friday. Janice McCulloch. Jan was the editor of Phone: 9298 3191. Sydney’s Art Almanac for over 25 years. - Edwina Doe Email: [email protected] Clover said: ‘Sadly, she died in 2009, but I am sure she would be very happy that What’s coming soon Sydney City Council Customer Service we’re here today to witness the launch of Telephone (24 hours): 9265 9333 Earth v Sky’. Email: council@cityof sydney.nsw.gov.au Sunday 29 April, 5.30-7pm - Ben- Website: www.cityof sydney.nsw.gov.au Allan Giddy explained that Earth v Sky ledi – Illustrated talk on Douglas Mawson. (Fully booked) Dumped Shopping trolleys: Trolley uses the world’s irst colour-sensitive light control system to invert the colours of the Tracker 1800 641 497 Wednesday 2 May, 9.15-11.30am sunset and project them onto the trees. The The Glebe foreshore walk in January 2008. Photo: Bruce Davis Harold Park: Mirvac hotline for residents 9080 8588 newly developed technology takes a - Blue Wrens Working Bee, Paddy Glebe Society Bulletin ISSN 1836-599X Gray Reserve. See page 11. Continued on page 4... A publication of THE GLEBE SOCIETY INC PO Box 100 GLEBE 2037 www.glebesociety.org.au Anzac Day 2012 From the terraces An extract from Max Solling’s 2012 Anzac Day address From the Terraces returns from hibernation in order to report to members on heritage matters from a newly reformed and revitalised Heritage Subcommittee. How WWI changed Australians’ attitudes Heritage – its contribution on our website has served to pro- I remember a swagged half-curtain Of all the legacies of war none is as the Neaves brothers attended Glebe the dreadful news is quite true? His vide an outlet for many of Bidura’s in the hall of my grandfather’s 1915 When next you ind yourself wres- subtle and elusive, or as important, school. On receipt of Harry's death mother and I cling to the hope that former inmates to share their har- cottage in the Sydney suburb of tling with Victorian plumbing or as the changes it brings about in certiicate early in 1918, mother there may be a mistake and that our rowing experiences in institutional Carlton. The curtain, red velvet as you can’t ind a match for a broken people's attitudes. It is from this Emma Neaves sought advice about only child and only treasure in life care. It’s a salutary experience to I recall, seemed rather exotic in a Federation era path tile, you might perspective that the First War World Erie's death: I understand he was is still alive. Please excuse this very read at http://glebesociety.org.au/ house which could not otherwise console yourself with thinking about is remembered most clearly in one of seven who were in a dug- unconventional note to a business wordpress/?p=991-comments. be described as ornamented. My the real contribution you are mak- Australia: for the profound private grandpa was an Englishman but out, ive of whom were killed, two department but I cannot write in a ing, in a micro- and macro-sense, The Heritage Subcommittee is plan- and public grief it caused; for the instantly and three died of wounds. did not stand on ceremony, so I had formal way just now. Yours truly, to Glebe’s heritage. Here is how ning two important events over the new sense of national conscious- On receipt of a cemetery book in always assumed that this decora- P. Gibbs. the Heritage Council of NSW sees next 12 months to give members ness it created among the Australian 1921 Emma enquired: We can trace tion was a vestigial trace of the Similarly Ada Welling found it dif- heritage: the opportunity to understand the population; and most signiicantly, just possibly where the two boys curtain (also called a portière) icult coming to terms with the death architectural and social history of for the legend of Anzac which it ‘… Heritage places are an irre- used inside the front door of many fell - but do not know so far whether in 1916 of son Ernest Welling, a this important house. Stay tuned. generated. ... their bodies were recovered to placeable asset – a non-renewable English homes in an attempt to stop warehouseman, who lived with her cemeteries - it may not have been resource – with beneits to society, Hall arches, curtains and draughts. ... After the war a concerted effort in Wigram Road. Two years after the environment and the economy. lourishes was made by the War Records Sec- possible.