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Message from the Chair

The honour fell to Liverpool

Listing highlights Aboriginal experience

Bushranger Ben Hall

Refurbishment breathes new life

Colony’s finest vineyard /Albury, All Change! / Restoring dignity

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Newslet ter of the heritAge CouNCil of Nsw AND the offiCe of eNViroNmeNt AND heritAge

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Cover: The Olympic Cauldron was listed on the State Heritage Register (see p. 18).

Photo by stewart watters

A visit to Eurobodalla

Heritage heroes

Recently listed

Heritage news

new publications, courses and events

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Message from the Chairgabrielle Kibble Ao

Chair of the heritage Council

welcome to the first edition of Heritage NSW for 2011. Last year saw state-wide celebrations on the achievements of Lachlan Macquarie during his time as Governor of nsw. Through its innovative Thematic Listings Program, the Heritage Council has been examining Macquarie-era places for listing on the state Heritage Register. To date, nine sites have been added – the most recent is the Conservatorium of Music in sydney.

I was delighted that the Governor of nsw Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO agreed to launch the Heritage Council’s book of Macquarie’s town planning achievements Macquarie’s Towns late last year. The book fills a gap in the public understanding of the significant role Macquarie played in the origins of several important towns in new south wales – one of these towns, Liverpool, is featured in this issue (p.4)

Another highlight of this issue is the story on the serial heritage listing of sites associated with bushranger Ben Hall and his gang (p.8), reacquainting us with this colourful period of frontier life in mid nineteenth century nsw. working with the owners of properties linked to Ben Hall to attain the heritage listing was a significant achievement.

In 2010, a record 34 sites were added to the state Heritage Register. A further fif teen sites have been added in the first few months of this year alone.

It showcases the methodical approach advocated by the Heritage Council through its thematic assessment and listing of sites in accordance with priority themes.

work has also proceeded on the listing of a range of sites outside these categories through the ongoing Priority Places Listing Program. In January, the saint Patrick’s Estate at Manly, sydney was listed on the state Heritage Register. I congratulate the Catholic Church for its efforts to celebrate the truly remarkable heritage of Australia’s first national Catholic ecclesiastical seminary, the largest in the southern hemisphere at the time of its construction in 1885, and the official national residence for the Archbishop for nearly a century. saint Patrick’s is unrivalled nationally for its completeness, grandeur and extraordinary siting.

I am pleased that we can also report on some major CBD projects, both in the city and a regional centre, which have profited from cooperation and collaboration with the Heritage Council of nsw. The former Perpetual Trustees building in the sydney CBD is a case in point, and so too the saraton Theatre in Grafton, which has been lovingly restored by its family owners. These projects demonstrate that by working with owners we can successfully breathe new life into our heritage icons.

I hope you enjoy this edition of Heritage NSW.

The Heritage Council of nsw is a statutory body established under the Heritage Act 1977 (NSW) to administer the Act. It is an independent advisory body that includes members of the community, the nsw Government, the conservation profession and representatives of various organisations. The Heritage Council makes decisions about the care and protection of places and items that have been identified as being of heritage significance to the people of nsw. For more information, visit: http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au.

The Conservatorium of Music is one of nine Macquarie-era items listed on the State Heritage Register.

Photo by Mary Ann Hamilton

Governor of NSW Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO at the launch of Macquarie’s Towns at Government House.

Photo by Damien Bennett

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the honour of being the first town sited in the colony by

the new governor, lachlan macquarie, fell to liverpool on

6 November 1810. macquarie declares on the first page of

his first Australian journal:

‘… having surveyed the ground and found it in

every respect eligible and fit for the purpose, i

determined to erect a township on it, and named

it liverpool in honor of the earl of that title, now

the secretary of state for the Colonies.’

The town was sited close to the junction of Georges River and Cabramatta Creek, in an area where land had been surveyed and grants had been taken up, particularly along the water frontages. Macquarie was mindful of his instructions to site his new towns close to navigable water, but not so close that they would be vulnerable to flood.

surveyor James Meehan began to mark out the town on 9 november under the watchful gaze of the Governor, who had clear expectations of the town. Properties were to be leasehold for a term of 21 years, and houses were to be either one or two storied, brick or weatherboard with brick chimneys, and roofed with shingles.

Double-storey houses were to be at least 35 feet by 16 feet, with minimum heights for the lower and upper storeys. They had to contain four rooms and a hall, with a window in every room and at least two fireplaces. single-storey houses were to be of similar dimensions, containing two rooms, a hall and one fireplace. The garden and out-buildings were to lie to the rear.

‘Free Mechanics and Tradesmen’ were offered the chance to acquire leases of town allotments for houses and gardens, with the right to graze their animals on the adjacent common. As an added incentive, a cow from the government herd was promised to each ‘industrious honest tradesman who has a family to maintain’.

The honour fell to Liverpoolwork began in 1811 on the construction of soldiers’ barracks, a school-church and a cemetery, consistent with Macquarie’s Commission from the King which required him to erect fortifications and barracks, a town hall, a Church, and to provide allotments for a minister and a schoolmaster.

James Meehan’s surviving field books indicate he was surveying the town in 1814 and 1815, but a detailed plan of the town was not presented to the Governor for approval until 1819.

It was laid out in 36 long rectangles, arranged in three groups of twelve. As with the other Macquarie towns there was, of course, a George street, named for the King, and many Macquarie family names: Elizabeth, Campbell, Lachlan and Macquarie. British politicians were honoured with Castlereagh, Bathurst, northumberland and

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Surveyor Robert Hoddle’s map of Liverpool, drawn in 1827.

The central part of Liverpool today with the schematic plan of Macquarie’s 1819 town superimposed.

Goulburn streets. Thomas Moore, the magistrate, was the only local man to be commemorated in a street name. Moore had helped to choose the site for the town and had supervised its growth. There was even a Bigges street and Bigges square, named after the commissioner who proved so unsympathetic to many of Macquarie’s policies.

The first map to show the footprints of buildings and their occupants, including the public buildings which had been erected or planned in Macquarie’s time, was drawn in 1827 by Robert Hoddle.

Peter Cunningham, a well connected medical man in the colony, observed of Liverpool in 1825 or 1826:

‘… Liverpool is the next town in importance to windsor … Liverpool is a place of considerable bustle, on account of being the high road to the fertile districts of Airds and Appin, to Illawarra, and to the counties of Camden and Argyle to the south.’

The development of the road system to the south of Liverpool and the expansion of settlement into the southern Highlands and the Illawarra consolidated Liverpool’s strategic position and contributed to its growth. And now, nearly 200 years later, the core of Macquarie’s town is still visible in the modern city of Liverpool.

A treasure trove of maps, images and other artefacts were

unearthed during the compilation of Macquarie’s Towns.

Treasure trove revealed

while in the safe hands of state Records nsw, the state Library of nsw and the former Land and Property Management Authority of nsw, they may well have remained hidden from public gaze for some years to come without Macquarie’s bicentenary and the Chair of the Heritage Council’s initiative to examine Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s original town plans.

As commissioned author Ian Jack went in search of the surviving early plans for Liverpool, windsor, Richmond, wilberforce, Pitt Town, Castlereagh, Campbelltown, Bathurst, sydney, Parramatta and newcastle, he became more and more excited. Two fine maps of the whole Cumberland Plain stood out as essential context: the rare J Burr and G Ballisat Plan of the

Allotments of Ground Granted from the Crown in New South Wales, printed in London in 1814, held in the Dixson Library, state Library of nsw and the 1822 manuscript ‘Map of the County of Cumberland’ by GC stewart at state Records nsw.

At state Records he also found the instructions Macquarie gave to his surveyors, as well as the fieldbooks and sketches of surveyors James Meehan, James McBrien, Felton Mathew, JJ Galloway and others.

Together these maps reveal Macquarie’s rationale for laying out eight of the towns and the extent to which he enhanced three: sydney, Parramatta and newcastle. when the early maps are superimposed on the towns today, the road patterns and the

streetscapes of Macquarie’s time are still visible.

You can see an online exhibition of Macquarie’s Towns on the Baseline website at: http://www.baseline.nsw.gov.au

McQuade Park, Windsor listedMcQuade Park, the site of a former town square in George street, windsor, has been listed on the state Heritage Register as an outstanding and rare feature of Governor Macquarie’s concept of a planned country town in 1810.

A central square played a pivotal role in Macquarie’s towns at windsor, Richmond and wilberforce.

Photo by Ian Jack

Edited extract from Macquarie’s Towns, available for $30.00 plus postage from: http://www.baseline.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/macquaries-towns

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Listing highlights Aboriginal experience

Interior of the Wooleybah sawmill.

Photos by Tanya Koeneman

Patricia Madden, Don Sutherland and Robyn Ruttley participating in the oral history project on Wooleybah.

three significant Aboriginal

heritage sites were added to

the state heritage register

late last year as a result

of the Aboriginal heritage

thematic listing Program,

joining ferguson’s Cottage

at Coffs harbour and the

Aboriginal art and midden

site at earlwood. these new

sites highlight the starkly

different experiences of

Aboriginal people in Nsw in

the nineteenth and twentieth

centuries.

wooleybah sawmill and settlement

Aboriginal links to the Pilliga scrub go back thousands of years. The Gamilaroi people had strong spiritual and social ties to the land and they relied on it for food and medicine. They maintained most of the region as grassland through the practice of ‘fire-stick farming’.

non-Aboriginal settlers arrived at the Pilliga in the 1830s. By the 1870s, their impact, coupled with drought and floods, had transformed it into a dense scrub of ironbark and cypress trees. The settlers used the ironbark trees for sleepers for the construction of the railway line to narrabri in 1882.

In 1917, the area known as the Pilliga west state Forest was dedicated. Efforts to settle returning soldiers from world war I in farming communities in the forest were largely unsuccessful. It wasn’t until the construction of the railway line to Coonabarabran in 1917 and the extension of the line to Gwabegar in 1923 that a number of small, independent milling operations commenced in the forest and infrastructure followed.

Mervyn Donald (Don) sutherland visited his uncles at wooleybah when he was a child. Don, Pat and Robyn all remember playing in the forest as children. They describe the freedom they felt and the games they played, which included building ‘bush humpies’, and collecting bush tucker.

The association of Aboriginal people with the mill and the timber industry in the Pilliga, and the fact that the wooleybah sawmill and settlement is the only one of its type still intact in nsw, are the primary reasons for its listing on the state Heritage Register.

The settlement comprises more than 10 small huts, a school (which operated until 1967) and a teacher’s house, bore, and a road. All of the buildings are still standing and vacant, except for the former Forester’s house and a house near the old mill. The Underwood family continue to live at the site.

The heritage listing applies to all the buildings located within the clearing, but not to the surrounding cypress pine forest.

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In January 1935, the nsw Forestry Commission gave the Underwood family an occupation permit to set up a mill at wooleybah. They brought an English steam engine with them to power the mill. soon a small forest sawmilling community developed.

For the life of the wooleybah Mill (over 50 years) the work force comprised equal numbers of Aboriginal workers and non-Aboriginal workers – most living around the mill in small timber houses on the fringes of the clearing.

Robyn Ruttley remembers going to wooleybah when she was a child in the 1950s. ‘It was like a village. The Underwoods treated their workers like a family. They took them under their wing. It was a comforting place.’

Patricia Madden (nee Kinchela) remembers wooleybah from when she lived there as a young woman in the 1960s. she describes it as a ‘good place to work, there were never any fights – everyone wanted to be there’.

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One of two burial sites at Warangesda.

Photos by Tanya Koeneman

The plaque (top) on the memorial stone (below) at Myall Creek.

Photos by Tanya Koeneman

Wooleybah settlement.

warangesda mission

The Mission was built by Reverend John Brown Gribble and his wife with the help of the local wiradjuri people between 1879 and 1884, on 600 acres provided by the Government.

At its peak warangesda was home to as many as 200 Aboriginal residents.

The site of the Mission has been listed for many reasons – it is the only mission left in nsw with original buildings still intact; it’s association with the last great inter-group burbung (initiation) in wiradjuri country, which was held at or near warangesda in the 1870s; it was a hub for early Aboriginal political activism, including the site of a community strike in 1883, and it was the foundation for Aboriginal communities and townships elsewhere in the state. It is highly significant to thousands of warangesda descendents as the heartland for important Aboriginal family networks in south-eastern Australia.

The layout of the mission was typical of the period. A church and assembly ground in the centre were surrounded by the manager’s house, teacher’s house, school room, ration store and fences. There were also dormitories for single girls and boys. Rows of small timber-frame houses marked the edges of the settlement.

In 1924, when the Mission was closed down, residents went on to establish well known Aboriginal communities at narrandera, Darling Point and Cowra.

The listing covers original nineteenth century building ruins and archaeological relics, including a highly intact school teacher’s cottage, ruins of the school house, girls’ dormitory and ration shed, as well as the remains of two burial sites.

myall Creek

The murder of about 30 Aboriginal men, women and children, who were camped peacefully at Myall Creek station near Bingara in June 1838, is one of only a few such atrocities on Aboriginal people that have been well documented.

seven stockmen were hanged for their role in the crime, which followed tension and fighting between the wirrayaraa and Gamilaroi Aboriginal peoples and settlers in need of more pasture for their stock. It is the first and last time that settlers were found guilty of, and hanged for the killing of Aboriginal people on the frontier. It is the last time the Colonial Administration intervened to ensure the laws of the colony were applied equally to Aboriginal people and settlers involved in frontier killings.

Myall Creek has now become a place for reconciliation for the descendants of both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people involved in the massacre. They are represented on the Myall Creek Memorial Committee, which co-manages the site along with Gwydir shire Council. District schools and representatives of the local community participate in an annual service held at the site.

The site has been listed on the state Heritage Register because of its importance in the state’s social and cultural history, and its strong association with Aboriginal people whose ancestors were victims of the attack.

The listing applies to the site of the massacre and an interpretive memorial walk that tells the story of the event and the aftermath of the court cases and executions.

The teacher’s cottage at Warangesda.

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time ran out for Ben hall

– robber, horse thief and

outlaw in the early hours of

the morning of 5 may, 1865.

surrounded by police on the

banks of Billabong Creek

11 miles from forbes and

called upon to surrender, he

turned, and as he did so the

police opened fire.

His death came as the result of betrayal – a former friend lured by a hefty reward had given him up.

Hall had managed to elude police for three years, but when they caught up with him they finally had the advantage. The law had been changed to enable them to shoot on sight and ask questions later. In fact, as it became clear later, the law was not actually enacted until a few days after his death.

Ben Hall, dubbed the ‘Gentleman Bushranger’, was just a few days short of his 28th birthday when he died. He had been born in Maitland and after a stint as a stockman took over the lease of a run at sandy Creek near wheogo. In 1856 he married Bridget walsh of wheogo.

what prompted him to begin a life of crime has been debated for over 150 years. some say it came about after his wife left him and he became involved with charismatic Frank Gardiner, whom he joined in the daring robbery of the gold coach at Escort Rock on 15 June 1862.

But it is also possible that his arrest and release twice, and the burning down of his home, reputedly by Police Inspector Frederick Pottinger, may have had something to do with it.

Throughout 1863, Ben Hall together with John Gilbert, John Vane and John O’Mealley committed 20 raids and robberies on stores, hotels, houses, rural properties and travelers. At one point they even held up the town of Bathurst.

Other notable raids were made on stations – Cliefden, Grubbengong, Goimbla and Dunns Plains. Dressed in stolen police uniforms the gang raided Cliefden on 26 september, 1863. They tied up william Rothery, ate his dinner, stole his boots and spent three hours mustering horses and putting them through their paces.

Cliefden homestead was subsequently fortified against bushrangers. The original 1840s building was enclosed by a courtyard addition and a

specially designed gun slot was built into the wall by the door.

Ben Hall and the gang twice raided Robinson’s Hotel in Canowindra, where they bailed up and took the sole police constable captive. They are said to have entertained their hostages with drinks and music, which is thought to have contributed in later years to Hall’s ‘gentlemanly’ reputation.

Hall certainly never killed anyone but his gang was responsible for a number of deaths. During the hold-up of Kimberley’s Commercial Hotel (Bushranger Hotel) at Collector, gang member John Dunn killed Constable samuel nelson.

In most instances the bushrangers went unchallenged so when The Hon. william Macleay, MP who was attending a wedding at Plumbs Inn (wandi) held off an attempted raid by Hall’s gang, he earned widespread admiration.

Bushranger Ben Hall

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Hall and his gang remained at large because they raided homesteads where they stole thoroughbred horses which could outrun the police, and because of their knowledge of the Australian bush.

Their audacity took the community by surprise and the police were criticised for their failure to apprehend the gang. On 26 October 1863, the police issued a 1000 pound reward for Hall’s capture. It was to lead to his undoing. His funeral was reported to have been well attended and he was buried in Forbes Cemetery.

Hall’s place in the story of nsw is a colourful blend of fact and fiction. At the time of his misdeeds he was regarded as a criminal. A large man and standing six feet tall he could be frightening and intimidating. Only a decade or so later, however, bushrangers were popularised in the colony’s illustrated newspapers. The negative

emotional memories had faded and there was a search for a uniquely Australian identity.

At the time of Federation the larrikin outlaw bushranger became a romantic popularised figure. Today, Hall is still remembered in festivals, folk songs, art and monuments throughout nsw.

six sites associated with Ben Hall have been listed on the state Heritage Register. Actual events occurred at these sites so they are an important part of his story. They provide physical evidence of Hall’s bushranging activities and contribute to an understanding of his life as a bushranger. Other sites associated with Hall were not included in the listing because the link was too tenuous; the association could not be verified or the physical evidence had been removed.

Six sites associated with Ben Hall have been listed on the State Heritage Register: the site of his demise at Billabong Creek (top); his grave at Forbes (below); the Bushranger Hotel (opposite); Cliefden barn and homestead (above left); and Escort Rock (above right). Photos by Lucy Moore

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three major development

projects, two in sydney and

one in grafton (see right), all

listed on the state heritage

register, have been given

a new lease of life, but

without impinging on their

heritage significance.

39 Hunter Street, was purpose-built c.1916 for Perpetual Trustees – the first corporate trustee organisation to be established in new south wales. They occupied it until its sale in 2006.

The building’s architectural style is described as Inter-war Beaux Arts. The interior was modernised in the 1960s.

when Kamirice Pty Ltd acquired the building, they commissioned Jackson Teece to refurbish it for contemporary office uses. Jackson Teece had previously conserved its facades and prepared a Conservation Management Plan.

Peter McKenzie, Principal of Jackson Teece, said that the owner appreciated the heritage qualities of the building and was committed to marketing it as a high quality, contemporary office space, with the added value of a five star sustainability rating.

‘The owner had already achieved this level of sustainability through refurbishment of their offices in Melbourne,’ he said.

Peter managed the heritage aspects of the work in collaboration with Damian Barker, Jackson Teece’s Design Director.

Their proposals involved major structural changes to the building, which they believed were merited in order to meet the owner’s objectives.

‘we had debates in-house about how to make the changes more acceptable from a heritage conservation perspective before we finalised the design,’ Peter said.

The proposals included enlargement of a lightwell to create an atrium through the

full height of the building to overcome major shortcomings in light access; the relocation of lif ts and toilets; construction of an accessible entrance, the addition of new plant rooms; the installation of under-floor air conditioning; removal of suspended ceilings to expose original plaster cornices and beams; and reconstruction of an original Juliet balcony on the eastern end of the building, demolished as part of the 1960’s modernisation.

Peter believed the works would deliver good heritage outcomes and he consulted the Heritage Council early in the process with the firm’s proposals.

‘we had the experience we usually do with the Heritage Council – they were very positive.’

‘we had minor disagreements over issues, but we took the time and effort to come up with solutions that respected the heritage significance of the building. There were no fundamental dif ferences between us,’ Peter said.

Building work was completed in early 2010 and a fit-out is currently taking place for the sole tenant. Refurbishment of the building has earned it a six star sustainability rating.

Refurbishment breathes new life

39 Hunter Street, Sydney.

The south elevation of the mansard roof is original including the large white framed opening on the right hand side.

Photos by Peter McKenzie

The former lightwell (left) was enlarged to accommodate a new atrium (right).

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341 George Street Sydney is listed on the state Heritage Register, the Register of the national Estate and the national Trust Register.

The building was completed in 1932 and was the head office of the former Bank of nsw from 1953. It is a substantially intact building of the Inter-war Commercial Palazzo style. It features a richly detailed banking chamber, with original fittings, furniture, and extensive marble, scagliola (plasterwork in imitation of ornamental marble) and pressed metal finishes.

The current owner of the building, nGI Investments, purchased the building from westpac and commissioned Tanner Architects to upgrade and refurbish the nine floors of office space above.

A development application was lodged in 2006 and work was completed in 2009. Because of its heritage significance, building works required the approval of the Heritage Council of nsw.

The primary objectives of the refurbishment were to retain as much original fabric as possible, to use materials and finishes that

Lambrinos worked in a restaurant for a short time and then moved to Grafton, where his two sons, Anthony and Ioannis, joined him. Together they opened and ran a café in Prince street. Lambrinos returned to Greece permanently in 1912 but his sons remained and continued to run the café. In 1925, they decided to build a theatre to capitalise on the popularity of cinemas at the time, and the following year the saraton Theatre opened.

Over the next 70 or so years it was remodelled and refurbished at least twice, but also experienced three fires, floods, the Great Depression, and closure for several years. A conservation order was placed on the building in 1999 when it was earmarked for demolition for a car park. In 2000, it was listed on the state Heritage Register as one of only a few surviving picture theatres built in a small country town in the heyday of cinema in the early twentieth century.

Angelo notaras, grandson of Lambrinos, says it was only after

Angelo Notaras.

One of the new lights in the Saraton Theatre.

Photos by Gary Estcourt

Clockwise from left: Refurbished foyer, decorative cornices and 341 George Street, Sydney, c. 1960s.

Images courtesy Tanner Architects

he read Professor Ross Thorne’s account of the theatre’s heritage significance that he thought it should be restored.

‘The problem was that we required an “open cheque book” and we also had family issues. There were eight brothers, sisters and cousins involved.’

In 2008, Angelo and his brothers, Mitchell and John, and his cousin spiro, purchased the theatre from the family and restoration work began in earnest. Fire safety was a critical issue but was resolved with the help of the Heritage Council’s Fire, Access and services Advisory Panel (FAsAP).

The family has had an ongoing relationship with the Heritage Council, which has had to approve all works, and also administer nsw Government grants to the theatre of over $300,000. The total cost of work is in excess of $3.5 million, which the family has borne.

All parties agree there have been few issues and all have been resolved amicably.

‘The Heritage Council had faith in us to do the job properly,’ Angelo said. ‘we had a great builder and we didn’t skimp on costs. we also had the support of the Clarence Valley Council and the community.’

In november 2010 the local community celebrated the grand opening of the newly restored saraton Theatre, and in April this year, the restoration work on the theatre received an award at the 2011 national Trust Heritage Awards.

were consistent with the heritage significance of the building, and to incorporate new services, such as air conditioning and electrical work, as sensitively as possible.

Paul Dyson, Project Architect for Tanner Architects says the project delivered a good outcome.

Before work on the building was completed, half the building was already leased and upon its completion westpac decided to return banking operations to the ground floor banking chamber.

The newly reopened Saraton Theatre, Prince Street Grafton.

Saraton shines againwhen lambrinos Notaras left the island of Kythera in greece to come to sydney in

1900 he had no idea that he would be the forerunner of an entertainment family

dynasty in grafton.

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NSW Heritage GrantsThe NSW Government provided $5.458 million funding to the

2011-13 NSW Heritage Grants program and a further $2 million for the Hunter Region Heritage Grants program.

Successful projects were announced in March 2011 and are posted on the Heritage website

www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/funding

For further information visit the website or contact: Victoria Throp on telephone 02 9873 8577 or

email: victoria.throp@planning.nsw.gov.au

Brush farm at eastwood once included the colony’s finest vineyard. originally about 450 acres in size, it is a rare remnant of a colonial farm.

Brush Farm House.

Photo by stuart Read

Colony’s finest vineyard

The farm house was built by Gregory Blaxland from 1819 to 1820. Its later wings, stables, outbuildings, landscaped grounds and carriage loop demonstrated his position and status. Gregory and brother, John, were involved in a wide variety of agricultural pursuits and experimentation, one of which was the establishment of Australia’s first commercial vineyard.

Gregory Blaxland, a founding member of the 1822 Agricultural society of nsw, planted two vineyards at the farm. His efforts were rewarded when the Royal society of Arts in London awarded his wine a silver medal in 1823 and a gold in 1828. Brush Farm’s vineyards were considered the finest in nsw.

The farm remained in the family until 1881 when it was mortgaged to Lancelot Trekeld and John Bennett, who subdivided and sold it. Bennet saw an opportunity in Brush Farm’s proximity to the new northern Railway Line. The subdivision left about 1000 square metres around the farm house. In 1894, this was leased to (later resumed by) the Crown and run as the Carpentarian Reformatory for Boys. From 1911 to 1921 it housed wayward girls, then mothers and babies and later intellectually disadvantaged children. It was transferred to the Department of Corrective services (DOCs) in 1988 and used as a training academy – a use which continues on the site today.

In 1989, the farm house and its curtilage were listed on the state Heritage Register. Ryde Council acquired the house and core curtilage in 1990 and around the same time the Heritage Council provided a grant for a conservation plan and garden study.

In 2004, Council secured $800,000 from DOCs to partly-fund adaptation works, dependent on DOCs’ ongoing use of the house for training. In 2005, the Heritage Council approved its adaptation as a public arts and heritage facility, and works were undertaken to allow for start-up small businesses, public meetings, exhibitions and functions.

Council received another heritage grant in 2007 of $69,000 for landscaping and interpretation and contributed $1.2 million itself for works such as fencing,

footpaths, a reinstated pleasure garden, driveway and carriage loop, and the maintenance of exotic plantings and native flora. In the same year the house was reopened to the community.

Last year Council gained approval for more landscaping to enable the homestead and garden to host community events and activities.

The Heritage Council is pleased to have played a part in reviving such a highly prized community asset.

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Restoring dignity at BarrunbatayiA heritage Council grant has enabled plaques to be erected on a special memorial in the east Kempsey cemetery, to mark the burial sites of Aboriginal people buried there as early as the 1940s.

mark twain could not

understand why passengers

from sydney had to change

trains at the Albury railway

station before they could

proceed to melbourne. he

complained that passengers

were ‘routed out of their

snug beds by lantern-

light’ and had to wait on

a long draughty platform

in the biting cold before

they could board a second

train on the Victorian broad

gauge’. generations of train

travellers share memories of

similar inconvenience.

Albury City Council’s new visitor information centre in the former stationmaster’s residence and a sculptural adjunct in its forecourt, invite modern-day visitors to Albury to pause and consider that ‘change of train’ experience.

The former stationmaster’s residence has been sympathetically and carefully converted into a well-equipped information centre. Inside there are sketches of the original station plan. An etched glass hall divider shows lady passengers of the mid-1880s. simple clothing

Albury, All Change!

The railway precinct, including the stationmaster’s residence, is on the state Heritage Register. The sculpture was funded in part by the Heritage Grants program and it is an exemplar interpretation project.

Article and photos by Dr Bruce Pennay, a heritage historian based at Charles sturt University.

items hanging on pegs, and a child’s toy, remind us of its former use as a family residence.

Alex seton’s ‘Lost and found’ marble pieces stand on a railway trolley. They depict the items passengers would have encountered as they waited on the long Albury platform. There is a battered suitcase, soldiers’ kitbags, bedrolls and modern

backpacks. There are bundles of sydney and Melbourne newspapers, indicating the kinds of interchange that went on at this busy inter-state transfer point.

Visit the Albury rail station today and you still get a sense of the thriving theatre of railway station life, as it once was.

Family members inspect the plaques unveiled on the memorial at East

Kempsey cemetery.

Photo courtesy Kempsey shire Council

Over time, the grave markers, often made of wood, had perished or become lost leaving many in the Kempsey community not knowing where their ancestors were buried.

Kempsey shire Council located many unmarked graves after prompting by family members from the local Aboriginal community.

since then, Council, with the support and assistance of many local businesses and organisations, has instituted major works at the cemetery,

including construction of a black granite wall with the praying mantis totem of the Dunghutti people.

The plaques are another step in the process of restoring some dignity to the people buried at the cemetery and provide a place for family members to visit and learn more about their links with their past.

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the heritage Council visited the eurobodalla region over two days in late 2010, as part of its program

of regional visits and received a warm welcome from eurobodalla shire Council.

A visit to Eurobodalla

Heritage Council members at Comerang Dairy Farm

Regional visits are an important vehicle for the Heritage Council to hear first-hand about issues impacting on coastal and rural councils and as Eurobodalla Council’s stephen Halicki says ‘to take those issues back to sydney’.

stephen is Council’s strategy and Heritage Planner and accompanied the Heritage Council on their visit.

‘One of the most important outcomes of the Heritage Council visit to our region was the chance to brief members on our concerns about proposals in late 2010 to amend the sEPP (Infrastructure) 2007.’

Council was particularly concerned with proposals to list certain development as exempt, for example, the removal of garages, alterations to the heritage fabric of buildings and the installation of solar systems on buildings without adequate opportunity for Council to assess their impact on the heritage significance of an item or area.

‘In metropolitan settings the impact of this type of development may be minimal, but in the rural environment these changes can have significant consequences, he said.

‘For example, in a metropolitan area you may not be able to see all sides of a building, so changes to the rear of a building might not be an issue, but in a rural village like Tilba, it is entirely possible to appreciate views of all sides of a building.

‘In a historic town like Central Tilba, which you approach from above, you can see how altering certain features of a building might have a major impact on the heritage value of the town.’

Recognising the legitimacy of the issue, the Heritage Council established a Policy sub-committee on its return to sydney to consider the proposed changes to the exempt and complying codes in the Infrastructure sEPP. It subsequently provided a submission to the Department of Planning and Infrastructure highlighting the implications of the proposed amendments on heritage values.

‘while the final sEPP did not incorporate all our concerns, the fact that heritage items will be subject to assessment is a very positive outcome,’ stephen says.

Council staff were also able to take advantage of the visit to raise another issue to do with funding.

‘Council has submitted a grant application for a study into the cultural heritage significance of the landscape taking in the vista west from All saints Church at Bodalla.

‘It was particularly useful to show Heritage Council members the area we are proposing for the study.’

And putting names to faces was another advantage of the visit.

‘I was able to introduce the Manager of the Heritage Branch’s listing team to some of the people driving the proposal to list the Tilba Conservation Area on the state Heritage Register.

‘These personal contacts are very useful,’ he said.

Comerang Dairy Farm.

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Tourism has helped secure Central Tilba’s future.

tilba tilba

The significance of Tilba Tilba village derives from the sum of its homogenous built form, its landscape and the clustered nature of the villages and farm buildings. when the dairy industry which had been the driving force behind the growth of the village began to wane in the 1930s, the community focused on the tourism potential of the area’s unique heritage as a way of securing its future.

Eurobodalla shire Council and community representatives are discussing a proposal to nominate the village for listing on the state Heritage Register. Aunty Mary Duroux welcomed Heritage Council members to Tilba.

Comerang Dairy farm

Thomas sutclif fe Mort’s Bodalla Estate was the high point of the private dairy industry that established within the Eurobodalla area. It was acquired in 1860 and over its life set standards for dairy efficiency and cheese making. It was the forerunner of the Bodalla Company.

Gulaga (Mount Dromedary).

Barangooba (Montague Island).

Barangooba (montague island) & gulaga (mount Dromedary)

On their tour Heritage Council members heard about the creation stories associated with Barangooba (Montague Island) & Gulaga (Mount Dromedary).

Heritage Council Chair Gabrielle Kibble with Carol Redshaw inside the 1880 Edmund Blacket designed All Saints Anglican Church at Bodalla.

All saints Anglican Church, Bodalla

Heritage Council Chair Gabrielle Kibble with Michael Gold, Moruya District Historical Society at the handover of title deeds to the Abernethy & Co. Stonemason’s Lathe.

Abernethy & Co. stonemason’s lathe

The title deeds to the state Heritage listed Abernethy & Co. stonemason’s Lathe was formally handed to Eurobodalla shire Council during the Heritage Council visit, along with certificates for the custodians of the Lathe.

The Lathe, which recently relocated from Forbes to Moruya, was associated with turning the granite columns of many of sydney’s finest buildings including the Queen Victoria Building and the General Post Office.

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heritage Council Chair gabrielle Kibble expressed

her appreciation for the tireless work of 17 volunteers

honoured at the 2010 heritage Volunteers Awards,

late last year.

‘Volunteering makes a significant contribution and the work being done by community members is so important in helping to protect, preserve and bring to life our heritage places and stories.

‘Our 2010 award winners have been working on a range of fascinating heritage projects, all voluntarily, using their drive and enthusiasm to bring the broader community in touch with its local heritage,’ Ms Kibble said.

The 2010 Heritage Volunteer Award recipients were:

Arnold and Mary Vayo for their unwavering commitment to recapture the heritage significance of their property, ‘Vineyard Haven’ near woodburn in the Richmond shire valley.

Marianne Nestor, Margot McKay and Helen Wheeler from The Heritage Committee of the Artarmon Progress Association for their promotion and preservation of the unique heritage of Artarmon in sydney.

Bob and Gloria Williams who have been dedicated volunteers of the Berrima District Museum since 1993.

Bodalla 150 Committee for their promotional efforts around the 150 year anniversary of Thomas sutclif fe Mort’s dairy farm and village in Bodalla.

Bryan Baker for his tireless efforts in the Merriwa Historical society.

John and Patricia Bradley for their restoration of Carrum Carrum, one of the original houses of Longueville.

Emma Brooks-Maher for her tireless work recognising and protecting Haberfield, Australia’s seminal ‘garden suburb’.

Gioni Di Gravio – a champion of research into the indigenous and non-indigenous cultural heritage of the Hunter region.

Dr James Broadbent who at least twice has saved the state heritage listed 1810 Cox’s Cottage in Mulgoa from ruin.

John Williams for raising community awareness of the plight of sydney’s decommissioned Glebe trams.

Kath Smith – a dedicated member of the Friends of Fagan Park who has committed her time and talents to the Fagan Park Rural Museum, and the historic netherby Homestead.

Leeton Family & Local Historical Society for their tireless efforts researching and promoting family and local histories in Leeton.

Heritage heroes

Heritage heroes Margaret Webber and Jane Wesley.

Long Swamp Cemetery Volunteers – dedicated local residents who have transformed a once neglected cemetery in Bathurst to the pride of the community.

Margaret Webber for the planning and execution of the refurbishment of the former walgett shire Council Offices, now used as the walgett Museum.

Penelope Pike – a deeply committed and active volunteer at the state heritage listed 1913 Eryldene house and gardens at Gordon.

Queenbeyan & District Historical Society Museum whose volunteers make a unique and invaluable contribution to the preservation and promotion of their local history.

Queanbeyan Printing Museum whose small team of committed volunteers have carefully and lovingly restored the print machinery to full-operating condition.

Marianne Nestor, Dale McKay, Peter Nestor, Helen Wheeler, Margot McKay, Heritage Committee of Artarmon Progress Association.

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Recent listings

A Heritage Hero asks why do we keep doing it?Penny Pike, a dedicated volunteer at eryldene, the historic house and garden at gordon, posed this rhetorical question to the gathering of 2010 volunteer award recipients.

Here is an edited transcript of her answer.

‘simply because it needs to be done: Things that matter need to be cared for, or we just won’t have them.

And why do these landscapes, streets, trees, monuments, buildings, archives, photographs, machinery, matter?

Because they are part of our community memory and identity and we all know that if we lose our memory and do not understand our past, then we cannot make sensible decisions about our future.

And the landscapes and buildings, the artefacts, photographs and machinery tell us as much about our past as do the documents and diaries in libraries. so they all need care.

Conservation simply means ‘caring for’. From time to time, large restoration /conservation work might need to be done as fabric wears out or as years of unmitigated neglect make some renewal necessary. But conservation is also about having the skills and the knowledge to know when to stop, when to let things be graciously old, and how to live by the maxim of only doing as much as is necessary and as little as possible.

Real conservation is an ongoing process. It’s about dusting and cleaning, checking for borers, and vacuuming up case moths. It’s about clearing gutters and putting down rat bait. It’s about oiling machinery; continuing research and updating material. It’s the continuous weeding in historic cemeteries and the weeding and pruning of gardens and landscapes. It’s filing and hunting down silverfish. It’s keeping artefacts clean and dry, arresting rust when it appears, and making the history of the place more accessible and understandable to the public.’

st. Ambrose Church, gilgandra

st Ambrose Church remains a focal point for commemoration of the ‘Coo-ee March’ which occurred on 10 October 1915, when about 35 local men who wanted to enlist in world war 1 undertook the 515 kilometre march to sydney, gathering other recruits along the way. By the time they arrived in sydney, to huge welcoming crowds, they numbered 263 men.

Photo by Ray Christison

tomaree head fortifications

The fortifications on Tomaree Headland at shoal Bay were important parts of the world war II coastal defence network that extended from Port stephens to Jervis Bay. The fortifications were designed to protect strategic rivers and watercourses around Port stephens, the industrial installations located at newcastle, and the RAAF Base at williamtown.

Photo by Dr Eric Manning

st Patrick’s seminary, manly

st Patrick’s seminary was Australia’s first national ecclesiastical training college for Catholic priests. It was the largest Catholic seminary in the southern hemisphere, the first national Catholic seminary, and located on one of the oldest and largest ecclesiastical estates in Australia at the time of its construction in the mid 1880s. some of Australia’s most notable Catholic personalities and leaders, including writers Thomas Keneally and Father Edmund Campion, as well four Cardinals – Gilroy, Freeman, Cassidy and Clancy were seminary students at st Patrick’s.

Photo by Claudine Loffi

military station Archaeological site and Burial, glenroy

A government provision depot was established at Glenroy (now on the Jenolan Caves Road at Hartley) in 1815 for the benefit of stock grazing and to control settlement expansion. Its role extended to include surveillance of the Aboriginal community and the safeguarding of communication between Bathurst and the coast.

The area around the site of the depot has important associations. It was the main stopping ground for all travelers who had just descended or were about to ascend Cox’s Pass. Governor Macquarie, his wife, and his party stopped to rest there in 1815 and it was also the location of the first Divine service (Anglican), demonstrating the importance given to religious observance away from the colony’s civilising influences.

The gravesite of Eliza Rodd, the daughter of one of the soldiers stationed at Glenroy.

Photo by nicole secomb

The Conservatorium of Music

The Conservatorium of Music, formerly the Government House stables is a notable example of Old Colonial Gothick architecture. It is a rare surviving example of the work of noted ex-convict architect Francis Greenway who was instrumental in helping Governor Lachaln Macquarie to transform the fledgling colony into an orderly, well mannered society and environment. It is the only example of a gothic building designed by Greenway still standing.

Photo by Mary Ann Hamilton

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olympic Cauldron

Australian Aboriginal athlete Cathy Freeman was given the honour of lighting the Olympic Cauldron for the opening of sydney’s hugely successful Olympic Games in 2000. The image of the lit cauldron flowing with fire and water is one of the most memorable images of the sydney Olympic Games. The Olympic Cauldron is enclosed by a ‘Roll of Honour’ pavement, which lists the names of the athletes who won a medal at the sydney 2000 Olympics.

Photo by stewart watters

holy trinity Anglican Church group, Kelso

Holy Trinity, built in 1835, is the first church built west of the Great Dividing Range. Although the design of the original church building is naive and its author unknown, its rectory was designed by the renowned ecclesiastic architect Edmund Blacket. The site has been in continuous use as a place of worship and burial since 1826 until the present day.

Photo by Bronwyn Hanna

mort’s Dock, Balmain

Mort’s Dock, a roughly three hectare site bounded by Thames, Mort, College, McKell, Cameron, and Yeend streets, Balmain, was the first dry dock of its size in Australia – opening one year before Cockatoo Island. It was the largest shipyard and engineering workshop in the colony in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and for many years the colony’s largest private enterprise.

Photo by sarah ward

el Alamein memorial fountain, sydney

The El Alamein Memorial Fountain at Kings Cross is a sculptural memorial to the Australian soldiers of the 9th Division who fought near the Egyptian town of El Alamein in two battles which helped turn the course of world war II. It is an outstanding work of modernist design by Bob woodward, a world war II veteran and was constructed between 1959 and 1961.

Photo courtesy City of sydneyNewington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve

The newington Armament Depot and nature Reserve has significant natural value as an intact and diverse estuarine wetland system comprising significant areas of remnant saltmarsh and mangroves. The site’s cultural value is reflected in its ability to demonstrate the historical and technical development of systems and regulations of explosives handling and storage for over a century.

Photo by Louise Thom

Cumberland street Archaeological site

This archaeological site has rare surviving evidence of the mostly convict and ex-convict community established in the Rocks from the time of Australia’s first European settlement. The remains of the huts and scattered houses which were built on and carved into the sandstone outcrops gave The Rocks its name. The site has been adapted as a youth hostel and relics from it have been conserved and interpreted.

Photo by Claudine Loffi

hmAs Sydney 1 memorial mast and Bradley’s head fort

The HMAs Sydney 1 Memorial Mast and Bradley’s Head Fort at Mosman, has great historical and social significance to all Australians. Together they serve as reminders of Australia’s perceived wartime threats up to the end of world war II, and of all the Australian officers, sailors and ships lost at sea. Australian and international naval vessels must render ceremonial honours to the Mast upon entering sydney Harbour.

Photo by Tim smith

Berrima internment group

German mariners were interned at Berrima from 1915-1919. The Berrima Internment Group precinct contains the archaeological remains of huts, recreation facilities, submerged watercraft and moveable heritage built and used by the internees during their captivity. The remains tell the story of the lives of those internees and their efforts to retain a cultural identity during confinement. An exhibition Prisoners in Arcady, German Mariners in Berrima, 1915–1919 can be seen at The Berrima District Museum, Market Place, Berrima.

Photo courtesy Berrima District Historical & Family History society Inc

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fire safety

A recent case study at Parramatta Town Hall provides another example where fire safety standards have been achieved in a heritage building with no impact to the heritage fabric.

Arup Partners were engaged to find a more sensitive solution to dealing with fire safety at the Town Hall after the Heritage Council’s Fire Access and services Advisory Panel expressed concern at an earlier proposal to use a mechanical smoke extraction system for the building’s hall and stage areas. They felt it would impact too much on the heritage fabric of the building.

Arup managed to come up with a fire safety design which preserved the heritage fabric, reduced the timeline for the work and also the budget, and as well conformed to fire safety standards in the current BCA Performance Requirements.

They worked closely with council’s building control and asset management departments to establish how the building is used and the proposed upgrade works. This helped identify the primary focus of the fire engineering strategy as the main auditorium and specifically the gallery space, where patrons could be more prone to the effects of potential smoke from a fire.

An experienced fire engineer did a review of the need for a smoke hazard management system and canvassed a range of options with the council. Most building designs use a combination of technology and systems and passive measures, designed to limit the fuel loading, the potential for ignition, and smoke and fire spread. Arup decided to make the best use of the existing form of the building because the introduction of sprinklers and smoke control devices would have been extremely detrimental to the building fabric.

Heritage News

gallipoli awash

Heritage Deputy Director Tim smith led a unique survey last June to Gallipoli, Turkey, where his team undertook the first scientific survey of the underwater cultural landscape between Anzac Cove and suvla Bay.

The April edition of Australian Geographic magazine features a lead article on the success of Project Beneath Gallipoli. The joint volunteer Australia-Turkish team documented three new shipwrecks, the remains of shore-based infrastructure such as jetties and piers, and some poignant reminders of the 1915 conflict, such as lead shrapnel balls.

The underwater battlefield still holds many secrets with preserved cultural remains offshore amongst the most intact across the Dardanelles peninsula. Tim hopes to extend the pivotal survey to other parts of the battlefield such as the southern

Australian heritage weekfederal heritage minister, tony Burke, recently announced a new national annual celebration of heritage.

Australian heritage week will feature from now on in April.

the minister urged all Australians to come together to ‘celebrate our shared and special heritage’, through a mix of events and exhibitions.

the Department of sustainability, environment, water, Population and Communities will be working with state and territory heritage agencies and community heritage organisations to put together a calendar of events.

Main auditorium Parramatta Town Hall.

Photo courtesy Parramatta City Council.

Big Dig Education Centre.

Photo by Claudine Loffi

Tim Smith at ANZAC Cove.

Photo www.markspencer.com.au

Cape Helles sector in the lead-up to the 2015 centenary of the infamous campaign.

Visit www.beneathgallipoli.org.au for more details of the sensational discoveries.

Using a mix of modelling, fire simulation and analysis of evacuation times they concluded that adequate safety could be achieved without the need for mechanical smoke exhaust.

They suggest that getting the best project outcomes is not just about doing analysis, but allowing the fire engineer to better understand the broader objectives and design limitations.

in-situ archaeology workshop

Following a workshop in late 2010, the Heritage Council’s Archaeology Advisory Panel has gone away to develop a strategic approach to in situ conservation of archaeological sites, with a view to putting some key initiatives to the Heritage Council for consideration.

The Panel convened the workshop after the Heritage Council raised the issue, noting that as our cities continue to develop there is an ongoing challenge to maintain a physical connection to the past.

Participants, who attended from the Heritage Council, the Archaeology Panel, other government agencies and the private sector canvassed a wide range of issues including archaeological management policy and practice, the UK experience; technical issues, the technical expertise required; case studies with a large-scale in situ outcome; expectations for in situ outcomes, and opportunities through state Heritage Register listing and resulting approvals processes.

The workshop was held at the ‘Big Dig Education Centre’ between Cumberland and Gloucester streets in The Rocks (sydney).

www.heritage.nsw.gov.au

New publications, courses and eventsBeneath gallipoli – an evening beneath the waves at anzac coveHeritage Deputy Director Tim Smith, and renowned underwater photographer Mark Spencer present the findings from their independent project to survey, map and document the underwater heritage of the Anzac landings at Gallipoli, Turkey.

When: Tuesday 3 May, 2011: 5.15 pm evening begins with a tour of the ANZAC Memorial; 6.30 pm lecture commences.

Where: ANZAC Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney

Presented by the Australian Geographic Society

Bookings essential

records of a saint The former Land and Property Management Authority produced a commemorative booklet, which reveals the extensive property interests that Mary MacKillop, now Saint Mary of the Cross, managed on behalf of the Sisters of St Joseph Sacred Heart Order.

To carry out good works the Order needed to acquire property for convents, schools and orphanages. Property often had to be mortgaged and then re-financed a number of times before the Sisters of St Joseph could finally own it outright.

Mary MacKillop’s involvement in this area is highlighted in ‘old system deeds’, which were unearthed last year by the former Land and Property Management Authority (LPMA).

Eleven Old System deed records bear her signature and another 18 are signed on her behalf. They apply to some iconic Sydney sites, including the Catholic Church in Mount Street North Sydney, which became the headquarters of the Order and is now home to a Memorial Chapel and Mary’s remains.

Mary MacKillop worked tirelessly as Superior General of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart Order in the late nineteenth century. She was canonised by the Catholic Church in October last year.

Both the deeds and the commemorative booklet are available for purchase online at: https:/shop.lands.nsw.gov.au/ and click on online shop.

National Archaeology week 15-21 May:Take a walk around Birchgrove and discover two contrasting modern harbour-side parks, Mort Park and Ballast Point Park (formerly ex industrial sites) and a couple of enchanting private gardens in very diverse locations.

Date: Saturday 21 May, 2-5 pm

Cost: $25/15 AGHS members

Location to meet: advised upon booking

Bookings essential: To make a booking telephone: (02) 9997 5995 or email: Jeanne@Villani.com

Various venues in nswContact: www.archaeologyweek.com/states/nsw.php

Diving into archaeology – Heritage Branch free seminarTake a walk underwater and experience some of our amazing maritime heritage sites, cutting edge research and spectacular images.

Date: 18 May, 6.00 pm-8.30 pm

Location: Heritage Branch, 3 Marist Place, Parramatta

Cost: Free

Bookings essential: Contact: sarah.ward@planning.nsw.gov.au

For other National Archaeology Week lectures see: www.archaeologyweek.com/states/nsw.php

AimA NAs trainingPart 1 Certificate in foreshore and underwater archaeologyA two-day course covering project planning, logistics and 3D survey

Ballina: 14-15 May; Bateman’s Bay: 13-14 August; Parramatta: 12-13 November

Cost: $220

For more information on AIMA NAS training visit www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/09_subnav_04.htm#mat

southern latitudes – 2011 AnZMaps conferenceFor map enthusiasts and collectors this year’s conference of the Australian and New Zealand Map society will explore the naming and charting of the South Pacific, Indian and Southern oceans, and will acknowledge the bicentenary of the publication of the first complete map of Australia by cartographer, Louis de Freycinet in 1811.

On Tuesday, 24 May you can bring in a map and seek an expert opinion on its significance and value.

Date: 24 -27 May 2011

Location: State Library of NSW

Cost: $350 (includes attendance at all conference sessions, lunch, morning and afternoon teas, conference dinner (26 May) and behind the scenes tours)

Further information: Maggie Patton, State Library of NSW; Telephone (02) 9273 1709, fax (02) 9273 1267 or email mpatton@sl.nsw.gov.au

inaugural Asian Academy for Heritage Management (AAHM) Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural HeritagePlease register your interest in the Inaugural Asian Academy for Heritage Management (AAHM) Asia-Pacific Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage in Manila in November 2011 at: www.apconf.org/timetable/register/