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Heritage South Australia Newsletter

Edition 26

Issues and information on heritage conservation in

South Australia

March 2005

www.environment.sa.gov.au

Minister’s Update

Since the November 2004 Edition, significant work has been undertaken to progress the Heritage (Heritage Directions) Amendment Bill.

The amendment of the Heritage Act is an important

conservation in South Australia as articulated through Heritage Directions. Our aim is to provide an improved and integrated framework for heritage management, and to enable communities to better conserve their heritage for future generations. For a detailed update on the first stages of implementation, see the separate article this issue.

This new direction has prompted a minor restructure within the Heritage Branch to better align the group with the priorities for the next five years. The Branch is now divided into two key sections: the Heritage

Heritage Education, Assessment and Promotion

each of these teams, and staff appointed. These positions will focus respectively on the two Heritage Directions priority areas for 2005/2006: the creation of a single South Australian Heritage Register (as proposed through amendments to the Heritage Bill, and which will list both State and Local heritage

Program (which includes the expansion of the Heritage Advisory Service, and greater support for Local heritage conservation through training and other services).

heritage conservation in this State. By the year’s end, our goals are to have amended successfully the Heritage Act; established the new South Australian Heritage Council; made significant

heritage through local councils; and to have

for South Australian heritage conservation.

Heritage News

Heritage Directions Update

Contents

3 Heritage News

6 Heritage Advisory Service set to expand

7 Heritage help is at hand

8 20th Century Heritage Survey Project

10 Cover Story: The Currency Creek Viaduct

11

12 State Heritage Fund

12 Students invited to tell heritage stories

12 Discounts for heritage place owners

13 Heritage diversity and

the 2005 State History Conference

14 New on the register

15 Heritage Bookshelf

16 Events

Hon. John Hill

Legislation

The early focus is on

strengthen and streamline the State’s heritage management system. Changes outlined in the discussion paper Heritage Directions: a future for built heritage in South Australia affect both the Heritage Act 1993 and the Development Act 1993. Changes to the Heritage Act are contained in the Heritage (Heritage Directions) Amendment Bill 2005 Act in the Development (Sustainable Development) Amendment Bill 2005.

The Heritage Bill was released for public consultation in August 2004, prompting 52 submissions from industry bodies, professional organisations, community groups and individuals. They revealed widespread support for the Bill and also

Act and the functions of the new South Australian Heritage Council

•

amendments and integrating them into the existing structure of the Act

• extending the provision in the 1971for adjusting the valuation of a property on account of a heritage listing to include local as well as State places

The Heritage Bill was introduced to Parliament

contact the Heritage Branch on tel 8124 4960 or email [email protected] and ask for a copy of Heritage in a Nutshell, a summary of South Australia’s heritage protection

management programs and policies.

expansion of the Heritage Advisory Service. Also, DEH has been working with Planning SA, as part of its Better Development Plans project, to develop heritage ‘modules’ or templates. These will provide ‘plug-in’ heritage management policy to local councils for incorporation into their Development Plans, with the advantages of being consistent, comprehensive and adaptable to local

Review of Government-owned heritage buildings

Recognising that

example in the management of its heritage assets, DEH is currently reviewing the best

The last issue of this newsletter outlined the Heritage Directions strategy and the changes it will bring to heritage management in South Australia, made possible

funding over the next four years.

The Department for Environment and Heritage (DEH) is now busy with the first stages of implementation.

Hon. John Hill, MP Minister for Environment and Conservation

Welcome to the March 2005 Edition of the Heritage South Australia Newsletter.

step towards achieving the goals for heritage

Conservation and Management Team, and the

Team.

Two new senior positions have been created within

places); and the Local Government Support

2005 promises to see a major step forward for

progress towards improved support for Local

moved towards the implementation of a single South Australian Heritage Register.

I look forward to a busy and exciting year ahead

2005 Edmund Wright Heritage Awards

legislative reform to

and to the Development

put forward a number of

• refining the Objects of the

refining archaeological and civil enforcement

Valuation of Land Act

on 10 March.

For further information on the reform of heritage legislation,

and in formulating heritage

Work has begun on the

circumstances.

Government should lead by

long-term management

by the Government’s commitment of an additional $2.9 million in heritage

suggestions for refinement. framework for State and strategies for theMapping produced by:

The Department for local heritage places, and approximately 300 State-Environmental Information

Department for Environment and Heritage Environment and Heritage the changes proposed in owned heritage buildings Heritage South Australia Newsletter PO Box 550 Marleston SA 5033 (DEH) logged and analysed the two Bills. in South Australia.Department for Environment Web: www.environment.sa.gov.au/mapland the issues raised, many ofand Heritage Data Source: DCDBISSN 1443-9719 Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic

which have been Local Government The review is looking at the March 2005 Number 26 Compiled: 7 March 2005 incorporated into the final Support current use, condition and FIS 2055.04

Datum: Geocentric Datum of Australia, 1994 version of the Bill adopted by ownership of places,Products and services advertised are not necessarily endorsed by © Copyright Department for Environment and Heritage the Minister for Environment The main elements of the and will then make

2005. All Rights Reserved. All works and information the Heritage Branch displayed are subject to Copyright. For the and Conservation. Heritage Directions support recommendations about Advertising reproduction or publication beyond that permitted by

the Copyright Act 1968 (Cwlth) written permission must package for local the future management of If anyone would like to advertise be sought from the Department. The principal changes since government are the these places, in consultationin this newsletter, please contact Although every effort has been made to ensure the The Editor, accuracy of the information displayed,the Heritage South Australia Newsletter Department, its agents, officers and employees make

Front Cover: Currency Creek Viaduct. GPO Box 1047, Adelaide, SA 5001 no representations, either express or implied, that the Photo by P. Curnow. information displayed is accurate or fit for any purpose

Telephone: (08) 8124 4947 and expresslydisclaims all liability for loss or damageSee p.10 article in this issue. Facsimile: (08) 8124 4980 arising from reliance upon the information displayed.

the public consultation draft expansion of the Heritage with the Heritage Unit of the Advisory Service and Department forinclude: assistance to Councils in Administrative and undertaking heritage surveys Information Services.

2 March 2005 H e r i t a g e S o u t h A u s t r a l i a N e w s l e t t e r H e r i t a g e S o u t h A u s t r a l i a N e w s l e t t e r March 2005 3

Heritage News Heritage News

Manager’s Update

It is now six months since I took up the new two initiatives comprised and how we would challenges of my position in the Branch. implement them, before consulting more I have spent the time listening, learning broadly with other agencies and partners. and planning for the future. The accompanying photo shows us in that

pleasant environment. My first priority has been to review the way in which the work of the Branch gets done and I have been fortunate in attracting some to fill the vacancies on the staff, in order to outstanding people whose experience and develop new ways of delivering the single knowledge will extend the existing strength South Australian Heritage Register and the and capacity of the Branch. I have been

Ms Sue Averay Local Government Support Program. These equally fortunate in the support I have Manager Heritage Branch are the priorities to which we are committed received from the longer-serving members

in the coming year. of staff. I acknowledge their dedication and I look forward to working with all of them to

The Heritage Branch team spent a day in realise the vision of Heritage Directions February at DEH’s Cleland Wildlife Park, where we discussed in detail what these

Heritage Branch staff (from L to R) Back row: Duncan Ross-Watt, Principal Conservation Architect; Brian Samuels, Principal

Heritage Officer; Alison Radford, Senior Heritage Officer; Hamish Angas, Senior Heritage Officer; Rick James, Technical Officer; Deb Morgan, Project Officer; Gill Strickland, Assistant Project Officer; Chris Giovannucci, Register Clerk; Lu Vitale, Senior Conservation Architect

Centre: Lyn Baxter, Communications Officer; Anna Pope, Senior Policy/Project Officer; Peter Wells, Senior Policy/Project Officer; Sarah Laurence, Senior Heritage Officer; Sue Averay, Manager; Terry Arnott, Senior Maritime Heritage Officer

Sitting: Robyn Hartell, Senior Heritage Interpretation Officer; Pippa Morgan, Conservation Architect; Lyn Metcalf, Project/Policy Officer

Absent: Lyn McCloud, Assistant Register Clerk

Heritage Branch - Assessment,

Education and Promotion

In August last year a minor restructure brought On the educational and promotional fronts, together the Assessment, Education and planning is well under way for the Edmund Promotional functions of the Heritage Branch Wright Heritage Awards and Schools Heritage into a single section. Competition, both annual events that require

considerable effort to mount, while stage one Current preoccupations on the assessment of a major new web-site devoted to the front, in addition to our on-going work of 17 State Heritage Areas should be completed assessing places for entry in the State Heritage later this year. Register and maintaining and routinely updating the land and owner data in Branch staff are also participating in and the Register database include: presenting papers at the State History

Conference at Whyalla 28-29 May. • Preliminary planning for the single heritage

register proposed in the Heritage Directions Lastly, by the time this newsletter is distributed report. our first Heritage Planning Seminar for the year

will have been held at Kadina, with more • Upgrading the data in the current State planned for later in the year.

Heritage Register to allow maps of State places to be produced on demand Brian Samuels

Principal Heritage Officer • Linking images to the Register database

• Planning to make more information available over the Internet than we currently do via the Australian Heritage Places Inventory (AHPI) web site.

• Upgrading information on early registrations

Food for Thought

Communities and rapid change

Let us slow down. Let us really live in our places and become advocates for their conservation to preserve our own sanity, protect a sense of context and continuity for our own lives, and be good stewards of those resources that are really the property of those who will follow us. Let us not blindly oppose what is new, but instead look for a pace and quality of change that respects the fundamental human need to remember. Let us acknowledge that all of us need places of remembrance and that we need to stay in place long enough to embed memories, for only then can we truly be at home. May we all remember that our sacred obligation is to care for our places and exercise good stewardship so we will be reminded of where we came from and sometimes even discover who we are.

- R. R. Archibald ‘No Place, Any Place, Some Place, My Place’, Forum Journal vol 16 No 2 Winter 2002 [Extract from a speech at the 2001 National Preservation Conference, Providence, Rhode Island]


Heritage Advisory Service set to expand Heritage help is at hand

(Peninsular only, not whole IGA)

0 120 16020 KilometresKilometres

Scale 1 : 4200000

Adelaide Hills

Campbelltown

Adelaide Unley Burnside

Holdfast Bay Mitcham

Marion

Flinders Ranges

Goyder

Carrieton

Northern

Mt. Remarkable

Barunga

Copper Coast

Port Augusta

Port Pirie

& Gilbert

Peninsula

Mallala Light

Mid Murray

Murray Bridge East Murray

Alexandrina

Victor Harbor

Kingston

Southern Mallee

Naracoorte Lucindale

Robe

Grant Mt.

Gambier

Loxton Wai ie

Berri Barmera Renmark Paringa

Whyalla

Franklin Harbor

Kimba

Le Hunte

Ceduna

Bay

Elliston Cleve

Bay Lower

Peninsula

Port Lincoln

INSET Mallala Light

Gawler

Gully

Salisbury

Port Adelaide Enfield

Charles Sturt

Mt. Barker

Onkaparinga

Alexandrina

Norwood Paynehamand St. Peters

INSET

Areas currently participating in the Heritage Advisory Service (for state and local heritage)

Areas proposed for expansion of the Heritage Advisory Service in 2005

(Local heritage

only)

Outback

Roxby Downs

Coober Pedy

Kangaroo Island

40 80

Walkerville

West Torrens

Peterborough

Orroroo/

Areas

West Wakefield Clare

Valleys

Yorke

Barossa

Karoonda

Yankalilla

The Coorong

Tatiara

WattleRange

ker

Gerard

Streaky

Tumby Eyre

Barossa Playford

Tea Tree

Prospect

Through its Heritage Directions funding, the State Government is The Heritage Advisory Service in Contact your local Council to arrange South Australia provides professional an appointment with a heritage adviser:

committed to expanding South Australia’s heritage advisory service heritage conservation advice to local communities. The advisers are Adelaide City Council 8124 4922 Mount Gambier

across the settled areas of the State over the next five years. experienced heritage practitioners (DEH Heritage Branch) City Council 8721 2555 jointly funded by DEH and including CaveFirst established in Burra in 1987, the service now covers local councils. Adelaide Hills Council 8408 0400 Gardens & Environs

including Mount Torrens State Heritage Area23 Council areas across the State. Community services

Victor Harbor Heritage Advisers work closely with The first of the planned additions to Council across a range of community the network was in February 2005, heritage issues. with the appointment of a Heritage Advisor to Victor Harbor. Individual advice to owners

Heritage Advisers provide individual Far North advice and assistance to owners of Negotiations are also underway to heritage places. Protecting the re-establish a far northern advisory heritage significance and market service, in the wake of one that value of your heritage place depends operated briefly during 2002/2003. on making the right decisions from It is intended to replace it with minor repairs to major renovations three services covering a or re-development. significantly wider area:

Your Heritage Adviser can assist you with:

State Heritage Area and Mt Gambier

Alexandrina Council 8555 7000 Volcanic Complex including Goolwa State Heritage Area State Heritage Area

Naracoorte Lucindale Barossa Council 8563 8444 Council 8762 2133

Clare & Gilbert Onkaparinga Valleys Council 8842 6400 City Council 8384 0666 including Mintaro State Heritage Area Port Adelaide Enfield

City Council 8405 6600 Gawler Town Council 8522 9211 including Port Adelaide including Church Hill State Heritage Area State Heritage Area

Robe District Council 8768 2003 • a Flinders Ranges service to cover

the Council areas of Orroroo • planning repairs, maintenance, colour Carrieton, Peterborough, Flinders schemes and conservation work, and Ranges and possibly Mount finding suitably-skilled contractors Remarkable

Goyder Regional Council 8892 0100 including Burra Tatiara District Council 8752 1044 State Heritage Area

Tea Tree Gully Grant District Council 8721 0444 City Council 8397 7444

• avoiding potentially costly mistakes including Mount Schank • an Outback service to cater that compromise the heritage State Heritage Area Unley City Council 8372 5111

for the unincorporated (out-of- significance of your place and Councils) areas beyond possibly its market value Kingston District Council 8767 2033 Victor Harbor

City Council 8551 0500 • an Upper Spencer Gulf service to • understanding technical advice from Light Regional Council 8525 3200

cover the Council areas of contractors and tradespeople, Wattle Range Council 8737 0900 Whyalla, Port Pirie and Port Augusta particularly in cases of conflicting Mitcham City Council 8272 8888

advice including Belair National All other areas of Copper Coast Park State Heritage Area South Australia 8124 4922 Discussions have also been initiated • planning alterations, additions and and (DEH Heritage Branch) with the Copper Coast Council for renovations that are sympathetic to Colonel Light Gardens including a service to cover the Copper the heritage significance of your place State Heritage Area Arckaringa Hills Triangle region, and with several State Heritage Area, metropolitan Councils that have • reinstating missing elements such as Mount Barker District Beltana recently expressed interest. DEH will fences, landscaping and other lost Council 8391 1633 State Heritage Area, continue to identify opportunities for features and fittings that contribute to including Hahndorf Innamincka / ongoing expansion. the heritage significance of your place State Heritage Area Cooper Creek

State Heritage Area, More information • lodging Development Applications Moonta Mines For further information on the and grant applications State Heritage Area Heritage Advisory Service, or to and enquire about setting up a new No local adviser? Unincorporated regions service, please contact Peter Wells on 8124 4935 or The Heritage Branch of DEH can [email protected]. assist owners of State-listed places

where no local Heritage Advisory Service is in place.


20th Century Heritage Survey Project Redressing the imbalance in the State Heritage Register

Packed with information, the first in a planned series of Themes

Overview Histories of 20th Century South Australia covering In writing the Overview History of the Post • American influence (television) Second World War Period the consultants

1946 – 1959 is now available on the DEH website looked at a number of themes including: • The role of women in society

Background to the survey the Oodnadatta Track, number of themes or the completed in 2001, and the timespan.

Under Direction 5.2 – Establish other of the Birdsville and

a single, comprehensive Strzelecki Tracks, completed In analysing places from the

Register of the State’s in December 2002. 20th Century already entered

Heritage of Heritage in the Register, there is a

Directions: A Future for Built Register imbalance sizeable weighting towards

Heritage in South Australia the first decades of the

report, one of the strategies The present State Heritage 20th Century. Of the 400-odd

is to review the State Heritage Register has a significant 20th Century places entered

Register to ensure that there imbalance, with a far greater in the State Heritage Register,is an appropriate number of places repre- only 36 date from the post-representation of senting the history of South 1940 period. Therefore the

20th Century heritage. Australia from the 19th decision was made to

Century rather than the commence the 20th Century

Since 1981 the Heritage 20th Century. Approximately heritage survey projectBranch has been pursuing 400 places representing the concentrating on periods

The photo from the front cover a systematic program of 20th Century are entered in after the Second World War,shows four children in the regional heritage surveys in the Register, as opposed to that is, post 1945.

summer of 1954/55 in the front South Australia. The purpose 1800-odd pre-20th Century

yard at 23 East Ave, of that program was to places. In May 2003 the Branch

Northfield, enjoying a cold identify and record all the commenced Stage 1 of the

Coca-Cola, still a rare Non-Aboriginal heritage of Hence the Heritage Branch 20th Century heritage survey

American treat for any South the State, on a regional basis. decided that the first thematic project by commissioning

Australian child. The family The program was completed surveys it would commission Marsden Russell Historians

migrated from Holland in 1953 with the publication of the would be of 20th Century to write an overview history

and had moved from migrant Heritage of the Upper North heritage. However, given of the period 1946-1959.camps at Bonegilla and in December 2000. the multitude of sub-themes The historical research

Finsbury to an asbestos house Subsequently the Heritage represented throughout this associated with this projectrented from the South Branch commissioned two period, there needed to be established the principal

Australian Housing Trust. targeted area surveys, one of a reduction in either the events and themes thatcharacterised the physical,cultural and socialdevelopment of the period

1946 to 1959. This Overview

History will be the basis forassessing heritage places

throughout South Australia

that represent this period forpossible entry in the Register.

• ‘Austerity’ and ‘Modernism’ • Impact of the car (highways, motels & service stations)

• Soldier settlement These themes were further developed as

• Immigration major headings for the Overview History:

• Suburban development (and the • The South Australian environment South Australian Housing Trust)

• Peopling South Australia • Building technology & construction

techniques • Economic production and working life

• Industrial development • Developing South Australia’s services industries

• Business & commerce • Building settlements, towns and cities

• Shopping centres & department stores • Politics and government

• Space exploration & research • The social and cultural life of

• Atomic energy & testing South Australians

Top: Berri pumping station

Available online (Photo: C Cosgrove, 2003)

Above: Fibro houses at Kapunda

The Overview History of the Second World War period (1946-1959) is now available at: (Photo: S Marsden, 2003)

http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/ pdfs/surveys/20_century/stage_1.pdf

Hamish Angas Senior Heritage Officer Bottom Left: Adelaide circa 1960

(S Marden collection)

Below: War Service land settlement

Nissen hut, now at

Loxton Pioneer Village

(Photo: S Marsden, 2003)


Curramulka Primary SchoolCover Story: The Currency Creek viaduct Nominations now open 2005 Edmund Wright Heritage Awards

The Currency Creek viaduct was completed in 1867, If you would like to showcase your outstanding heritage

and the progress of works was reported to Parliament project or long-standing commitment to the conservation

by the Engineer-in-Chief in 1868: and promotion of South Australia’s heritage, or if you would

“This line is twenty-two miles in length, and the whole of the earthwork, masonry, fencing, and like to put forward another person’s work, now is the timeballasting on this line are completed…and the first section, ten and a-half miles from Middleton

[which included the Currency Creek viaduct], was opened for wheat traffic on the to nominate. Award categories include:23rd December 1868 …The contractor is now rapidly pushing on with this work…The stations,platforms and booking offices, as well as the stables at Strathalbyn, Finniss, and Middleton

Heritage Homesare completed. It is contemplated working this line by horse power, and three light

Recognises the outstanding contribution of owners to the conservation ofpassenger carriages have been constructed at the Adelaide carriage works for this purpose.

heritage homesThirty trucks for goods are also made, ten of which are delivered at Finniss Station.

Although horses may be worked at first, I do not believe that it will be found economical, Heritage Places – Non-Residential

if the traffic is of any amount; but should it be desirable to employ light engines, weighing, Recognises outstanding achievement in the conservation or sympathetic re-use

say, ten to twelve tons, every provision has been made for using them in lieu of horses.” of a non-residential place, for example; commercial, public and industrial buildings.

(Public Works Report, 1868, SA Parliamentary Paper No. 15 of 1869)

Two months later the track locomotives and on 17 Dec Supported on six masonry New Development in Heritage

from Currency Creek to 1884 the section from piers, it was 23m high, a figure Recognises outstanding achievement in sympathetic new development within

Strathalbyn was finished and Currency Creek to Middleton only rivalled by the Sleeps Hill or near a heritage area or place

the entire line was opened was closed and replaced by viaducts (built in 1882 on the

by the Governor, Sir James a new line direct to Goolwa. Adelaide Hills Line), one ofFerguson on 23 April 1869. The Currency Creek viaduct which was over 30m high.

Heritage Volunteers Many thanks to Phil Curnow for It was operated by 23 men was incorporated into the The Currency Creek viaduct

Recognises and celebrates the outstanding contribution by communityfirst finding, then allowing us to and 25 horses and it took new steam line, but required remained the longest railway

organisations to the care, promotion and interpretation of our heritage buildingsuse, his stunning original photo about three hours to travel some structural modification bridge in the Colony at over

and structuresfrom 1972 showing ex South between Victor Harbor and to sustain the weights of 85 metres until the

Australian Railways Pacific type Strathalbyn. increasingly heavier and construction of bridges onHeritage Stories -

locomotive No. 621 returning to more powerful locomotives. the line north of Port Augusta, Promotion, Education and Interpretation

Adelaide from Victor Harbor across The Strathalbyn to Middleton such as those at Black Rock Recognises outstanding achievement in interpretive, promotional and educational

the Currency Creek Viaduct. Tramway continued service With the introduction in 1926 and Bruce, and the Sleeps Hill activities associated with our built heritage

This locomotive is still active as part for 15 years, and then, as of new locomotives, the viaducts already mentioned.of the Steam Ranger fleet operating predicted by the Engineer-in- Railway Commissioner duly

Heritage Trades and Products on the South Coast tourist railway Chief in 1868, the line was authorised the strengthening Of substantial railway viaduct

Recognises excellence in trade services and products that contribute to thebased at Mt. Barker. converted for use by steam of the viaduct. The masonry structures constructed in

restoration and conservation of heritage buildings and structurespiers were encased in

concrete and seven new

steel spans were installed,

South Australia, only the Currency Creek viaduct remains. The Sleeps Hill

Planning for Heritageas were steel web girders. viaducts were superseded

Recognises outstanding achievement in heritage conservation management theorywhen the line to Belair was

and practice.The Currency Creek viaduct duplicated in 1919 to carry was one of the most larger rolling stock and the significant engineering viaducts were dismantled achievements of any type in in the following year. All nominations are assessed for their benefit to the community and excellence in work and approach. South Australia to that time.

Sarah Laurence, The Hon John Hill, Minster for Environment and Conservation, will present the Awards at a ceremony Senior Heritage Officer to be held at Edmund Wright House on 16 September 2005.

For more details see www.heritage.sa.gov.au/awards or contact the Awards Coordinator on 8124 4947 or [email protected]

Closing date for entries is 2 May 2005


Heritage Diversity and the 2005 State History Conference

Heritage Grants and Discounts Schools Heritage Competition

State Heritage Heritage Branch presenting at Whyalla State History

Fund 2005/06 Conference, 28-29 May 2005

Grants Program Students Invited to tell heritage stories In keeping with the focus of Water (or the lack of it) the conference, the branch

Applications for grants for South Australian schools will encouraged to get out into is tackling a diverse range of Our forebears really had to

Applications for a heritage conservation work once again be invited to their local community and heritage topics relevant to do some creative thinking.‘Heritage Cemeteries’ are now invited from owners participate in the annual speak to people to find the the Eyre Peninsula and This presentation explores

grant are encouraged from of places listed in the State Schools Heritage Competition stories behind their heritage Outback regions. the ingenuity and effortthose with an interest in the Heritage Register or situated from April 1 this year. Open places. For information about that contributed to a reliable

maintenance and within State Heritage Areas. to students from Reception to entering the competition, These topics include: supply of stock water in the

management of small historic Year 10, the theme of this please contact the Heritage north of this State. Granite

cemeteries or individual graves. Grants are available in two year’s competition is OUR Education Officer on tel. Industrial heritage. outcrops were used to

categories: HERITAGE – THEIR STORIES: 8124 4957 or channel water into above Telling Tales of Heritage [email protected] Too recent or too ugly; too and below-ground tanks,

• the ‘State Heritage Places’ Places. Students will be

category to assist in the

care and conservation ofplaces entered in the State Discounts for heritage place ownersHeritage Register orlocated within State In January 2000 Solver Paints We are pleased to confirm

Heritage Areas. and the Heritage Branch the ongoing support for the

announced a discount scheme by Solver Paints.

big and not easily adapted and other more complex to a new use, or just plain structures engineered to too hard - what is the future collect the run-off from for our industrial heritage? flooded creeks. The surviving Although there’s no denying structures that bear their historical significance, testament to this effort we look at those ‘difficult’ are now at risk. sites that can easily fall into

• the ‘Heritage Cemeteries’ scheme available to owners If you do not already have the unwanted or forgotten Whaling category to assist in the of State and local heritage a card, please contact the category.

Strangways Springs Cemetery maintenance and places for the purchase of Heritage Branch on 8124 Current research and field management of small Solver paints and accessories. 4960 and we’ll send you one. Birdsville and work has led to the location historic cemeteries and A Privileged Customer Card The card itself has no expiry Strzelecki Tracks of previously unknown individual graves. was included with the date, so if you still have your whaling stations and related

January 2000 edition of the original card you can Aboriginal contact, sites in the remote West Applications are open to Newsletter, valid for use at continue to use it as usual. exploration, transport and Coast. This work is part of a private and corporate owners, any Solver Paints or communications, pastoralism, project aiming to identify all local Councils, community Crowhurst Decorator Centres social life and services, South Australia’s land-based organisations, volunteer for a period of three years. geology and natural history; whaling sites for heritage groups, Church bodies and how’s that for diversity? listing and to produce cemetery trustees. All that and more was relevant management plans.

covered in the heritage The grant information survey of the Birdsville and packages contain details of Strzelecki Tracks, and we look types of priority projects and at some highlights. (Copies

Lonely grave – Peake Ruins are available from Monday of the survey are available

4th April by: on CD/ROM from the

Heritage Branch).• Contacting Heritage

Branch on 8124 4922

• Emailing

[email protected]

• Downloading from our web

site atwww.heritage.sa.gov.au

The closing date forapplications is30 June 2005.


New in the Register Heritage Bookshelf

The following places had their entries confirmed in the Harold Desbrowe-Annear A Life in Architecture

State Heritage Register in 2004 By Harriet Edquist (Melbourne University Publishing 2004, RRP $69.95)

Adelaide Born in 1865, Desbrowe- land boom in Melbourne,

Public Schools Club Building in 1915. Theirs is one of only of his tertiary education and Annear became one of the Desbrowe-Annear embraced (former residence of William two Nobel Prizes awarded to his father was undertaking most innovative architects the power of architecture to and Lawrence Bragg, a South Australian, the other the early experiments and in Australia in the first quarter improve people’s lives. sometime Sandford House) being awarded to Lord research in the field which of the twentieth century. This is a beautifully illustrated

Howard Florey. The house, was to bring them, nearly He counted among his and readable biography, This house was the family designed by William Henry two decades later, the clients some of the wealthiest which explores both the home of William Henry and Bragg, was their family home highest recognition. families in Melbourne and multi-faceted work and William Lawrence Bragg, the for nine years, during which among his friends a wide unconventional life of this father and son joint recipients time Lawrence was range of bohemian artists intriguing Australian architect. of the Nobel Prize for Physics completing the first stage and writers. Trained during

the heady days of the 1880s Hamish Angas Booborowie

Creating the Barossa in Fabric Booborowie Homestead, James and John Harris it as one of the state's prime The Making of the Barossa Valley Wall Hanging Outbuildings, Stables, Browne, who were later wool producing properties. Shearing Shed and Water credited with helping to This property formed the By Lyn Leader-Elliott, Joyce Brooker and Paddy Carter Tank establish the pastoral industry foundation for the Browne's (The Art Shop 2004, RRP $20.00)

in South Australia. The subsequent and prominent Booborowie was the first Browne's owned and 40 year association with A simple and inspiring story Adding another dimension large landholding to be occupied Booborowie for the pastoral industry in of a group of Barossa Valley is the map on the inside back taken up by brothers William over 20 years and developed South Australia. (South Australia) women cover, cross referenced to

who put their heads and the places on the wall hearts together and created hanging. It is difficult to read a textual storyboard of the this book without wanting to

Port Adelaide Barossa’s heritage. The book see the hanging for yourself – tracks the idea, the making if you get similar urges,

Former Adelaide Milling Built c. 1889, this substantial considered with the adjacent and the reflections of the this inspiring work now hangs Company Flour Mill, mill building is associated 1855 Hart's Mill, provides the makers as they look back in the Barossa Regional including southern annexe with the development of only known example of two over the experience. Colour Gallery in Tanunda. and former Motor Room, the wheat industry in South generations of flour mill illustrations show highlights Packing Shed (brick and Australia in the latter part buildings surviving on one of the wall hanging. Lyn Baxter iron facade only), stone of the 19th century and site. The Packing Shed is wall to west of Hart’s specifically with the export an uncommon surviving The Illustrated Burra Charter: (1855) Mill and remnant of flour from the state through example of an ancillary Good Practice for Heritage Places southern masonry wall Port Adelaide. It is a rare milling industry building. east of Adelaide Milling example of a purpose-built By Meredith Walker and Peter Marquis-Kyle Company Mill (the 1855 late 19th century flour mill in (Australia ICOMOS 2004, RRP $49.50) mill is at left). South Australia and, when

In 1999 the Burra Charter (the companion document picks Australia ICOMOS Charter up the new ideas in the for Places of Cultural revised Charter, and illustrates Significance) was them in 120 pages of substantially revised to reflect examples covering a wide the evolution of cultural range of places of cultural heritage conservation significance drawn from all practice since the Charter over Australia. was first adopted in 1979. This new edition of the Lyn Baxter


16 H e r i t a g e S o u t h A u s t r a l i a N e w s l e t t e r

Events Heritage related events, conferences, workshops and

Heritage Planning Seminar Kadina Aimed squarely at local

packs in all you need to know about heritage planning. The presenters are heritage experts from both

sectors and will cover legislation, processes for identifying heritage value, policy, planning and conservation. Seminar is open to anyone with a keen interest in heritage planning processes.

Kadina

9:00am – 5:00pm Cost: $75.00 Enquiries: (08) 8124 4956

Southern Seas There are 850 shipwrecks along the South Australian coast each telling a story of drama and tragedy from a time when shipping was part of daily life and immigrants came to Australia by sea. This exhibition tells some of those stories.

Maritime Museum

late August Cost: admission fees apply www.history.sa.gov.au/ maritime/exhibitions.htm

Gallipoli: The South Australian Story This exhibition marks the 90th anniversary of the 1915 Gallipoli campaign and tells the story of South Australia’s participation and response to

exhibition will also be touring some rural areas after June, sponsored by the

Affairs.

Ground Date: starts April - contact

Cost: Free Enquiries: (08) 8203 9888 or email [email protected] www.history.sa.gov.au

Heritage Friday Forum Adelaide Paul Stark from Planning SA will talk about the Association

conference he attended in Hosted by the

Heritage Branch, this regular

presentations is aimed at the heritage professional community. Includes nibbles and networking.

Keswick Date: 1 April, 4:00pm – 5.30pm Cost: Free Enquiries: (08) 8124 4947

An Historical Society of

Date: 10 April (Sunday) leaves 10:00am Bookings: (08) 8278 5370 (Non-members welcome)

It’s on again! Building on the resounding success of its

South Australia has set another date with history for 2005. An opportunity for all South Australians to explore and celebrate their past together and discover what makes us different. Contact

Activities Booklet (available April).

Dates: 21 – 29 May Enquiries: (08) 8203 9888 www.history.sa.gov.au

Whyalla The 2005 Conference will focus on the histories of South Australia’s rural and industrial communities, with

amateur and professional historians, academics, historical societies; anyone interested in history.

for details of the program.

Hotel-Motel, Whyalla Date: 28 – 29 May Enquiries: (08) 8203 9888 www.history.sa.gov.au

An Historical Society of

Date: 8 June 10:00am Bookings: (08) 8278 5370 (Non-members welcome)

Police Historical Society, Thebarton Barracks An Historical Society of

Date: 17 July 2:00pm Bookings: (08) 8278 5370 (Non-members welcome)

Artlab Australia tour An Historical Society of

Date: 8 September 10:00am Bookings: (08) 8278 5370 (Non-members welcome)

culminates in a ceremony at

recognising outstanding achievement in heritage conservation and promotion.

House, Adelaide Date: 16 September Cost: Free, by invitation only. Enquiries: (08) 8124 4947 www.heritage.sa.gov.au/

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March 2005

seminars around the State: March – September 2005

government, this full day

government and private

Venue: The Farm Shed Museum & Tourism Centre,

Date: 18 March,

Wrecked! Tragedy and the

Venue: South Australian

Date: 18 March until

this Great War event. The

Department of Veteran

Venue: History Trust Exhibition Gallery, Torrens Parade

History Trust for exact date

of Preservation Technology

Texas in 2004.

series of informal

Venue: 1 Richmond Rd

Port Wakefield day tour

South Australia Field Trip Venue: Bus trip; leaves Burnside Council car park

SA History Week 2005

inaugural SA History Week in May 2004, the History Trust of

the History Trust for an

Venue: Across SA

Blast from the Past State History Conference –

a particular focus on northern South Australia. Will interest

Contact the History Trust

Venue: Westlands

Adelaide Town Hall Heritage Tour

South Australia Field Trip Led by Glen Woodward

South Australia Field Trip

South Australia Field Trip

Edmund Wright Heritage Awards Presentation Ceremony The 2005 Awards program

Edmund Wright House with the presentation of awards

Venue: Edmund Wright

awards

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