NEWSLETTER MAY 2020 - Bayside Council
NEWSLETTER MAY 2020
PRESIDENT’SREPORTThe Executive had decided to add four additionalMeetings to its schedule to deal with futureHeritage-affected Development Applications.However, this is not now possible because of currentrules around COVID-19 but the Executive will bediscussing any Development Applications submittedby email and phone so as to come to a consensus andmake sure Council is aware of our views.This is the first of two Newsletters planned for 2020.Originally, this edition was to be published in Junebut with the unexpected, extraordinary and lifechanging effects of COVID-19, it was decided to bringit forward.In our recent correspondence to Members,I mentioned that the main focus of the BHT Executivefor 2020 had changed to protect the safety andpreservation of our Archives and that two Meetingsin February had been devoted to this issue. We hadalready decided to put the 2020 BHT Program “onhold” as far as excursions were concerned and to limitthe number of talks at least until June, because theExecutive was and remains very concerned about ourArchives, some of which are of incredible, historicalimportance.The Executive had decided to hold two GeneralMeetings, the first scheduled for June and anotherlater in the year, to update Members and also,hopefully to hold an interesting talk. However, in thepresent situation, that is now all but impossible butMembers will be informed of any changes.The other important issue facing the BHT is thematter of protecting our Heritage; specifically withregard to Development Applications that mightadversely affect a heritage listed property. We havealready experienced a problem, from November 2018until February this year, with 1445-1447 Botany Road,Botany where the final outcome was not as we hadwanted but better than what might have been.2 Bayside CouncilThere is an ironic coincidence between the wonderfultalk on the 1919 Pneumonic Plague given by theformer Community Librarian, Jenny MacRitchie, inMay last year and the current Pandemic. Jenny’s talk,the records and photographs she found are eerilyreminiscent of what is happening now around theworld and here at home. It is also striking that Jennytalked about the worse effects of the 1919 Plague oncertain age groups, not the very young or the very oldand that as such is the situation now.The fact that the Plague was so closely linked toWorld War I is another twist of fate as we have justexperienced another Anzac Day but one so differentfrom ever before and honoured in such a unique waywith candle vigils at dawn right across Australia.You will be pleased to learn that I laid wreaths at theBotany and Mascot War Memorials on behalf of theBotany Historical Trust.Anzac Day remembrances have been integral to thecultural and personal history of our local people.Both the Botany and Mascot War Memorials werebuilt, with community funding, in the early 1920s.The Eastlakes Memorial was constructed muchlater after the closure of Rosebery Racecourse andthe building of modern Eastlakes. There is alsothe Arthur Park Memorial, again built with localdonations, which was rededicated so beautifully lastAugust. The people of Botany raised three times theamount requested in Peace Loans after World War Iand were praised in a personal letter from the Princeof Wales, later King Edward VIII.The Eastlakes Memorial recognises the historicsignificance that the Light Horse were assembled andtrained at Eastlakes before sailing to Egypt and thenonto Gallipoli in World War I. In World War II, theHQs of the 8th Division were stationed at Eastlakesprior to departure and there is also a dedication to theheroes of Beersheba at the Memorial.
It is the Mascot War Memorial that is, however, themost poignant. Built between 1920 and 1922, thenames listed include nineteen year-old Private HectorFraser Hicks. Hector was the only son of MascotAlderman later Mayor Thomas Henry Hicks.Private Hicks enlisted just as the War was ending andnever got to fight but he did catch the “Spanish Flu”that ran rampant on HMAT “Medic” on its returnvoyage to Australia. The “Medic” became a ‘plagueship’ with 205 cases on board. It docked at the NorthHead Quarantine Station on 21 November 1919.Hector Hicks was transferred ashore on 23 Novemberand died at 1am on 30 November. He was buriedthe same day with no minister of religion present orprobably any ceremony in the Third Cemetery at theQuarantine Station. Hector Hicks’ tragedy is one ofthousands from that time. His devastated parentsnever saw him again from the time he left Sydney onthe “Medic” in October 1918 nor could they visit hisgrave.In 1929, headstones were erected by the Departmentof Defence but these have long since gone. Althoughtwo have survived, one for Hector Fraser Hicks andthat of the tragic nurse, Annie Egan from Gunnedah,who probably nursed Hector before her own death.There were erected by their grieving families almostone hundred years later.Sadly I must also advise you of the deaths of twoof our Members, since our November AGM,Mrs Joy Jarman and Mrs Edna Ennis. Our heartsand thoughts go to their husbands, Bob and Joeand their families. Joy and Edna were most valuedMembers of the BHT, involved, enthusiastic,supportive and just lovely women. We will miss them.Finally, to all Members, stay safe and stay strong.We can all draw on the history of the GreatPneumonic Plague, the Great Depression and twoWorld Wars, on the example and strength of ourforebears and the legendary Anzac spirit.Anne-Maria SlatteryBHT PresidentEXECUTIVE COMMITTEECOMMITTEE MEMBERSAnne-Maria SlatteryAlice McCannChristopher HannaRobert HannaRichard SmolenskiJacqueline MilledgePeter OrlovichBarbara KeeleyCouncillor Dorothy RapisardiCouncillor Scott MorrisseyPresidentSenior Vice-PresidentVice PresidentSecretaryTreasurerAll meetings are suspended until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemicBHT Newsletter May 2020 3
ESTATEPLANNINGBoth the State Library ofNSW and the NationalLibrary of Australia havean extensive collectionof maps and plans thatinclude a large amount ofour area.Bayside Library is in the finalstages of a project to find, collateand print all of the estate plansheld by the National Library andthe State Library of NSW that coverthe suburbs of Bayside Council.The plans, sometimes referred to assubdivision plans or sometimes asestate plans, are the advertisementsthat real estate agents producedwhen large areas of land were beingsubdivided for sale. The estateplans are a wealth of information,containing a great deal of detailthat sometimes cannot be foundelsewhere.They are also an invaluableresource for anyone interested indocumenting the changes that havetaken place in our area over thedecades.The 1918 plan of the AlicevilleEstate, Mascot, for instance, is anexample of how these estate planscan help us track changes in thearea and of the type of detail thatestate plans can provide. The planwas produced to advertise land forsale between King Street and CookStreet, now Ewan Street.The plan shows Old Botany Road,or “Mudbank Road”, which isnow O’Riordan Street as wellas including the names of manyof the houses along the streets:‘Kendall’, ‘Kent Cottage’, ‘Rosslyn’,‘Rosebank’, ‘Thurso’, ‘Grantham’,‘Ben-my-chree’, ‘Kialoa’, and‘Aliceville’. It also shows the siteof the Mascot Post Office, theTennyson Hotel, and the offices ofT. A. Hicks Ltd. It is really quitea lovely snapshot of this smallsection of Mascot in 1918.Some estate plans are much earlierand contain less detail but arenonetheless still illustrative ofthe area’s history. Berry’s Estateis advertised as being in SouthWaterloo, which is now the suburbof Rosebery. The plan dates from1884 and shows land for sale onBerry Street and Macquarie Streetas well as on three other streetslabelled as ‘Government Road’, and‘Reserved Road’. Not all of this landsold in 1884, and in 1911 anotherplan was produced advertising thesale of the remaining 29 lots.In the 1911 plan, the land isadvertised as being at NorthBotany ‘near Rosebery Park RaceCourse’ and the streets shown asGovernment Road and ReservedRoad in 1884 are named asGardeners Road, Maloney Streetand Want Street.4 Bayside Council
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For an estate to be offered for saleseveral times was not uncommon.Having several estate plans forone section of land can help withdating changes to the area andin determining when individualhouses were built. We have estateplans for the Sir Joseph BanksEstate from 1904, 1921, and 1930.The three together show how muchthat area of land changed in aquarter of a century: Smith Streetbecame Fremlin Street; ‘Avenue’was named Waratah Road; a newSir Joseph Banks Hotel was built;and you can see quite easily just bylooking at the plans what houseswere built between 1921 and 1930.Things continue to change and thestreet labelled as Boronia Street in1921 and 1930 is now Hanna Street.The estate plan collection includesmany plans that will already bewell known to anybody familiarwith the history of the Botany area:there are many plans covering thesuburb of Daceyville, often titled“Dacey Garden Suburb”.There are also many plans for whatis now the suburb of Pagewoodshowing how land in Pagewoodwas first offered for sale as land inthe “new suburb Dudley adjoiningDaceyville”. The plans for Dudleyinclude no less than seven plansfeaturing pictures of Mr H. Dudleyhimself, pointing out the land beingoffered for sale.These plans are as much apromotion for H. Dudley RealEstate Agents and Auctioneers asthey are for the land itself.Help wanted withfamily searchWe have received correspondence fromElizabeth Gysbers trying to track downinformation on someone called Eva (perhapsWeaver nee Greenfield) who lived in Mascotthrough the 1960’s and 1970’s. She lived oneither Hardie Street or Frogmore Street andhad two grandsons one possibly called Clintor Clinton.Eva had a brother called Gerry Maher whoused to visit her from time to time with hisfriend Agnes and her daughter Elizabeth.Gerry worked at Prince Henry Hospital andplayed golf at St Michaels Golf Club at LittleBay and Eastlakes Golf Course.If you have any information, please contactElizabeth on 0433 006 910 or via email toelizgysbers@hotmail.com6 Bayside CouncilThe estate plan collection alsooffers many surprises. Forexample, amongst the estate plansheld by the State Library of NSWare layout plans of PagewoodStudios and the Associated TVOffices off Wentworth Avenue.They may not be real estate agencyestate plans but they are still awonderful record of the NationalStudios that once stood near thesite of the Westfields EastgardensShopping Centre.The estate plans are thus awonderful way to rediscover thearea and its landmarks, some ofwhich still remain, some of whichhave changed drastically, andsome of which, possibly sadly, arecompletely gone.Kirsten BroderickCommunity History Librarian
BUNNERONGPower 6–1929Henry Eli White19731978–1994CONTRIBUTED BYAnne-Maria Slattery Bunnerong Power Station at Matraville was oncethe largest in the southern hemisphere.The 117 acre site was chosen in 1924, located onBunnerong and Military Roads Matraville. Bunnerong was built originally by the ElectricityDepartment of Sydney Municipal Council and wasthe largest power station in NSW. The original installation was known as BunnerongA Station and Bunnerong B Station beganoperations in 1939. After Bunnerong B began operating, 1600 peopleworked at the site. At times, output was reduced for weeks at atime because of industrial disputes caused byunsatisfactory working conditions. In 1936, the Sydney County Council took overBunnerong and had its own private railway thatconnected Bunnerong with Botany Goods Yard. In 1950, control was passed to the NSW ElectricityCommission. However, the completion of newer power stationssuch as Vales Point in 1966 saw Bunnerong A outof use by 1973. Bunnerong B was used only for emergencysupplies before it was decommissioned in 1975. Demolition took place in stages between 1978and 1994 and the 112 metre emission stack ofBunnerong B came down in 1986. Bunnerong A and Bunnerong B were finallylevelled in 1987 and the large switch house inMarch 1994. Although few traces of Bunnerong Power Stationremain, the relatively new Eastern SuburbsMemorial Park, an extension of Botany Cemetery,is built on part of the site.BHT Newsletter May 2020 7
CONTRIBUTED BYMRS MARGARET BELLDENLast year, Bayside Council was contacted by a womannamed Mrs Margaret Bellden who had lived insquatter’s accommodation in Arncliffe in the 1950s.The area where she lived has since been redevelopedas the modern and prosperous suburb of Wolli Creek,consisting almost entirely of high-rise apartments.Mrs Bellden believes that people now living in the areashould know something of the history of their suburband its former residents and hence she wanted to shareher story with Council.Mrs Margaret Bellden, now a 90 year old greatgrandmother, was born Margaret O’Shea on the 27thof November 1929, she was to be the eldest of threechildren. Her parents, Maisie and Cecil O’Shea , wouldhave two more daughters, Olive, who was born eightyears after Margaret; and Maureen, who would not beborn until 1951.8 Bayside CouncilIn 1944, when Margaret was 17 years old, she met theman whom she would marry, John Bellden. John hadenlisted in the Australian Army the year before andafter the war ended, the couple moved to Riverwoodwhere they lived with Margaret’s family.Things changed drastically for the family in 1951. Inthat eventful year, Margaret’s parents had anotherchild, Maureen, and Margaret had her first child, ason named Paul. 1951 was also the year in which thefamily lost their rental accommodation as Sydney wasstill suffering from the acute housing shortage thathad started after World War II. The family were unableto find another place to live and were faced with theprospect of becoming homeless.Mrs Bellden was familiar with the Arncliffe area andknew that there was a section of vacant land off LustyStreet, Arncliffe, near the banks of the Cooks River.Mrs Bellden knew a couple already living in squatter’saccommodation there with their son.
Maureen and PaulBellden (left) andPeter Bellden(below) in front ofthe lean-to.Unable to find alternative rental accommodation, andwith nowhere else to go, Margaret and her family madethe decision to camp on the Lusty Street site untilthey were able to find a more permanent home. Themembers of the family who lived on the Lusty Streetsite in 1951 were Margaret and John Bellden, their sonPaul, and Margaret’s younger sister, Olive. Margaret’sparents, Maisie and Cecil O’Shea, were also there withtheir baby daughter Maureen.Margaret Bellden and her family lived on this vacant lotof land for the next eight years. At first, they only hada caravan; but they soon built what they called a “leanto”. Finally Mr Jim Parry who had a car sales yard onthe Princes Highway sold them an old bus which theymoved to the site and used as additional living space.During the years they spent living in Arncliffe,Margaret and John Bellden had two more children: adaughter Anne born in 1953 and a son Peter born in1955.In 1956, Olive married Garry Coote at the ArncliffeBaptist Church. Olive and Garry Coote also had a childwhile they were living at Arncliffe: a son named Garryafter his father.The families had no electricity and no running water.When the children were old enough to enrol in school,they attended the Arncliffe West Infants School. Theyalso attended Sunday School at the Arncliffe BaptistChurch.It was May 1959 before Margaret and John Belldenwere finally able to find a home of their own. Theymoved to a house in Regents Park where Mrs Belldenhas lived ever since.Margaret’s husband, John Bellden, died in 1976. Sadly,Margaret’s daughter Anne died in 2009 of ovariancancer. Margaret now has thirteen grandchildren andtwenty-two great-grandchildren.We invite Members to submit their family storiesand photographs for future issues of the Newslettervia email to leonie.maher@bayside.nsw.gov.auBHT Newsletter May 2020 9
CaptainCook Hotelat BotanyCaptain Cook Hotel,circa 1930.COURTESY OFNSW OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAND HERITAGE Owner and publican James Devitt established theoriginal Captain Cook Inn/Hotel in September 1868. There were a few changes of ownership beforeTooth & Co purchased the hotel for 2250 poundsin July 1899. The current Captain Cook Hotel is locallysignificant for its historic and aesthetic heritagevalues. It is a local landmark. The architect was Maurice Bernard Halligan andthe builder Oscar William Nilson. The existing hotel was built in 1903 for 2345pounds. It is aesthetically distinctive, a fine,substantially intact example of a public hoteldesigned in the Federation Queen Anne style.The choice of style was unusual, evidence of theTooth Company's commitment to high quality anddistinctive design. Federation Queen Anne style architecture is rarein the Botany area and unique as a hotel design. The property is historically significant, showingthe course of Botany's development in the secondhalf of the 19th and 20th Centuries.10 Bayside Council The Hotel has operated as a local public housesince at least 1868. Local hotels formed the core of industrial andworking class communities in the 19th century. Maurice Bernard Halligan, the architect of the1906 Hotel. Halligan was a well-recognised early20th Century architect, who with partner Wiltonalso designed the Clubhouse for the Royal SydneyGolf Club at Rose Bay, the Dymock’s Building inthe Sydney CBD and the Royal British-AustralianTobacco Company's premises at Kensington. Oscar William Nilson, the builder, was aprominent local figure, a driving force inthe Incorporation of the Botany area andestablishment of the Council. Nilson was anAlderman for 35 years and Mayor for two years. The main façade extends to the south as a singlestorey parapet over an addition made in 1925.Subsequent additions have sought to retaintraditional composition and aesthetic character. The first portion was offered in 1854, a secondin 1859. The Hotel sits on Lot 45 of this secondsubdivision in 1859. This subdivision created thelayout for the Town of Botany, which already hadland reserved for a Wesleyan Chapel and burialground, St Matthew’s Anglican Church and apolice station.
The Hotel sits on land that was once part of a 600acre grant made to Simeon Lord (1770-1841) in1823. After Lord’s death in 1841, his sons George,Edward and Francis subdivided the Estate andoffered it for sale. The second subdivision was the first in the areato outline the future Botany Road, at that timenamed Banks Road. There is evidence of human occupation of theBotany Bay area for at least 5,000 years. Thetraditional owners are believed to have been theKameygal/Gameygal, people and further south,the Bidjigal people. The first European occupation of land in theBotany District, c.1815-1850 was a time of massdisruption to the traditional owners.The largest and best-known grant in the BotanyDistrict was 600 acres to Simeon Lord (1770-1841)in 1823. Later, Lord purchased another 135 acres. The other major landholder in the area was theCrown, which held 4,195 acres of land in a reserveknown as the ‘Church and School Estate’. Much of the land in the Botany District was notreleased for sale until the late 19th century. The first recorded land grants to Europeans in theBotany Bay area, near Sydney Airport, were on16 September 1809 to three ex-convicts, EdwardRedmond, Andrew Byrne and Mary Lewin.Captain Cook Hotel,circa 1980.GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEMBERSTake advantage of online books, movies and more, via Council’s library serviceeAudiobooks BorrowBox Use the RBdigital Media Manager to download eAudiobooks directly toyour computer. Stream eAudiobooks directly from the RBdigital site. Easily find best sellers – just go to ourRBdigital homepage.eBooks BorrowBoxBorrow eBooks online or with our library app.eFilm BeamafilmBeamafilm is a free film-streaming site. It features Australian documentaries and indiefeature films from around the world. Your library card number is required to access this service.eMagazines RBDigitalBayside Library members can download and keep around 100 eMagazine titlesfor free. Create a username and password, enter your name, email address and postcode.Genealogical Research Ancestry.comAncestry Library Edition is a genealogy research tool thatprovides instant access to a wide range of resources for genealogical and historical research.The login ID is IINS5JCMJL and the password is welcome.eResources State Library of NSW Your Bayside Library card provides access to the State Libraryof NSW’s online resources, including local & international newspapers, full-text journals, magazines, onlinedatabases, eBooks and eAudiobooks.Short Online Courses Future Learn Log into www.futurelearn.com and register for free shortonline courses delivered by a collective of universities. You can find some incredible and stimulating things to do.Online learning offers a new way to explore subjects you are passionate about and pursue your interests.Please contact Leonie Maher via email leonie.maher@bayside.nsw.gov.au or phone 9366 3881if you need assistance accessing any of the above sites. Please note you must be a current memberof the Library to avail of these services.BHT Newsletter May 2020 11
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