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Manly Peace Memorial Hospital

30/8/2020

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It's 101 years since the Manly community decided to build, and pay for!, a new hospital at North Head. It was to be built on former quarantine land as 'a permanent tribute to the men who went forward and fought in the Great War', and  called the Manly Peace Memorial Hospital.

Now the hospital is closed but the land - almost a sacred site for our community - remains in public hands and will become a health and wellbeing precinct.
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Image: Construction taking place in late 1928. Source: Manly, Warringah & Pittwater Historical Society
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PictureThe facade from the old hospital will be used in the new precinct

It is perhaps not widely known that the original name for Manly Hospital - the one on Eastern Hill, not the earlier Cottage Hospital in Raglan Street - was the Manly Peace Memorial Hospital.

​At a public meeting in the Manly Town Hall in July 1919 it was resolved that a ‘Peace Memorial Hospital’ be built on the former quarantine land as ‘a permanent tribute to the men who went forward and fought in the Great War’.

​A committee was formed and fundraising commenced.

In 1924 the NSW Parliament passed an Act (No. 55) to ‘sanction the construction of a public hospital at Manly’. This Act describes the hospital as the Manly Peace Memorial Hospital (Paragraph 4). What the Act did not reveal is that the residents of Manly were required to pay two-thirds of the cost of the hospital, including fit out and furnishing.

​Construction began in 1927 with the foundation stone laid on Saturday 28 January, 1928. The residents’ main fundraising came from the annual 'Venetian Carnival', but hey struggled to raise their part of the funds. The first stage of the two-stage build cost £69,000 and the residents contributed £18,666. In today’s money the two figures are $144 million for Stage 1 with the residents providing $39 million. The new French’s Forest Hospital cost $600 million all up.


The residents still had their asset of the Cottage Hospital to liquidate but they wished to keep these funds for the fitout. Their situation was relieved a little in January 1929 when the then Minister for Health, Richard Arthur, who also happened to be a Patron of the Manly Cottage Hospital and a consulting medical officer there, agreed that the residents’ contribution could be reduced to 50%, as was the case with other local hospitals in the State, but the assets of the Cottage Hospital also had to be handed over.

There was ultimate relief in November 1929 when Arthur successfully introduced the Public Hospi tals Act. This meant that a Hospitals Commission would administer all public hospitals via local boards. The government would finance hospital construction, with local financial involvement limited to furnishings. Stage 2 commenced in June 1930 at the expense of the government (although with the passing of the Act they took over owner- ship and operation of the Cottage Hospital which was sold after the new one opened in October 1931).
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While the residents got their new hospital they lost its original name. It was now simply the Manly District Hospital.

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Manly, Warringah & Pittwater Historical Society. Newsletter Sept 2020
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Interim Heritage Order Lodged for Ivanhoe Park

7/8/2015

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An Interim Heritage Order has been sought from the Heritage Council to protect Ivanhoe Park & Manly Oval as a Heritage Item.
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Manly Oval & Ivanhoe Park is listed as an Item of Heritage in the Manly Planning Scheme and no " excavation or development work “ can be undertaken until a Heritage Report is prepared and considered. No such report or consideration has been given although Council is proceeding to call tenders.

Ivanhoe Park & Manly Oval  have significant Heritage & Historic value dating back to before Proclamation as a Park in 1887.

Many significant historical events have occurred on the Oval including the final practice match for the 
Australian Aboriginal Cricket in 1868 prior there departure for a 47 game tour of England. This is additionally significant as they were the first Australian representative team of any sport to tour overseas.

It is believed that Manly  Oval, in its natural context, is the best example in Sydney and possibly Australia of a Public Recreation Oval integrated into a "village" area. For this reason together with the rich history of recorded events which have taken place in the Park, careful preservation and celebration of this place is essential and is currently at serious risk.

Former Manly Council Town Planner and Urban Design Consultant, Rob Burgess, has headed a team of local historians  which have championed the documentation of the heritage significance of Manly Oval in the light of the proposal to build a major car park under the site.

In addition, a community working group has been formed to prepare and lodge a request to the Heritage Council of NSW for the listing of Ivanhoe Park Manly on the State Heritage Register.

This decision was made at the Ivanhoe Park Precinct Committee meeting on 29 July 2015.

The group includes representatives from Ivanhoe Park, Fairlight and North Harbour Precinct committees, Stephen Richards from St. Andrews Church Management Committee, citizens Rob Burgess, David Barr and John Steggell with technical Heritage & Historic advice from Jim Boyce, Shelagh Champion OAM & George Champion OAM. 

What are your memories of Manly Oval?
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Oval Heritage Significance ignored by Manly Council

22/3/2014

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The old grandstand at Manly Oval from 1911 which was opened on 9 April 1910 by Mayor James Bonner, and cost £780 to build. It replaced an earlier, very small building.
The entire Ivanhoe Park site including Manly Oval is listed as a Heritage item in Manly Local Environment Plan (LEP) 1988, yet this has not been considered by Manly Council as part of its Oval car park development.  This listing prohibits any excavation or development unless a proper assessment of the impact on the items Heritage significance has been carried out and yet Manly Council has made no assessment as part of its Manly2015 Plan which includes digging up Manly Oval to create a two-level car park underground.
 
According to local historians The Oval and Ivanhoe Park are of extremely high value to Manly  both in a heritage sense and in Urban Design terms as the "village green” and is an integral part  of the historic and current fabric of Manly.

It is believed that Manly  Oval, in its natural context, is the best example in Sydney and possibly Australia of a Public Recreation Oval integrated into a "village" area. For this reason together with the rich history of recorded events which have taken place in the Park, careful preservation and celebration of this place is essential and is currently at serious risk.

Former Manly Council Town Planner and Urban Design Consultant, Rob Burgess, has headed a team of local historian  which has championed the documentation of the heritage significance of Manly Oval in the light of the proposal to build a major car park under the site.

"Whilst design details on the works to the Oval are limited, a number of Architects, Planners, Engineers & Quantity Surveyors agree that the extent of building work will devastate the Park and destroy this much loved place. The structure will involve massive excavation in excess of 100,000 cubic meters of material and construction of a two level mechanically ventilated 800 space car park." he said.

"The structure will be below the water table and will interfere with the underground creek which traverses the site. Numerous exhaust stacks will extend above ground level and dewatering pumps will be used extensively. There will be three substantial vehicular ramps providing vehicular access from Sydney Road and extreme traffic disruption is predicted, with impacts to the whole of the area" Mr Burgess concluded.

Of greater concern is that inevitably due to cost, ventilation and reduction of ramp lengths issues, the concrete structure will be  above existing ground level, at least in part, and thus will destroy for all time the  historic  'village green'.

Manly resident, Jeremy Bingham , former  Lord Mayor of Sydney and eminent Local Government Lawyer and the person most responsible for the preservation and restoration of the Queen Victoria Building and Sydney's Capitol Theatre, is also seriously concerned at the ramifications of Council's destructive plans.

“The whole of Ivanhoe Park, including Manly Oval, was added by Manly Council to the heritage list in Manly LEP 1988 after a heritage report in 2010.  I am staggered that at no time in the recent debate over the Manly 2015 Plan did the General Manager draw this recent heritage listing to the attention of the Council", Mr Bingham said.

Clause 18 of Manly Council’s LEP prohibits any excavation or development of a heritage item unless a proper assessment of the impact on the item’s heritage significance has been carried out. It is essential this be done before Council proceed any further with the Oval car park plan.

"There is no doubt in my mind that the proposed Oval car park will destroy the heritage elements of Manly Oval/Village Green,” Mr Bingham concluded.

At the public meeting on Saturday 22nd February,  organiised by Good For Manly, over 400 attendees unanimously opposed the Council's  plans to build a car park under the Oval and demolish the existing Whistler Street car park and 18 year old library.

A report on the proposal  from the Office of Local Government is imminent.
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New Development Successfully Blends Old and New

14/5/2012

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Anyone who has ever looked up while walking along the Corso is familiar with the Victorian and Federation-style façades that give Manly its distinctive look. Maintaining this historic style can prove difficult, particularly when old buildings need to be redeveloped.

The Corso, pictured above in 1922, is a good case in point. One recently unveiled development is sure to put some minds at rest: Previously a dilapidated Coles Supermarket, the new building, known as “Corsoleil”, embraces both the old and the new, featuring 7 shops and 60 new apartments behind a façade that reflects the heritage of buildings around it.

The new development will still be home to Coles (set to re-open on June 30th), as well as the National Australia Bank.

What do you think? Has the developer got it right?
What can you tell us about The Corso's history? Let us know!

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    Candy Bingham, Deputy Mayor & Manly Ward Councillor on Northern Beaches Council. Background in marketing, public relations and community engagement. Author of five business books. Former Lady Mayoress of Sydney. Aka Candy Tymson. 

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