Department for Environment and Heritage Heritage Newsletter

Edition 30 March 2007

In this issue: John Barton Hack & the Manning Cottages Black Hill Lodge The Lodge, Stirling George Paech’s farmhouse Steam Exchange Brewery Goolwa State Heritage Area 2006 Schools Heritage Competition Woolshed Flat Church Burra Regional Art Gallery Frederick Dancker

Heritage Southwww.environment.sa.gov.au Australia Newsletter March 2007  DEH has contributed financial support Contents to an innovative heritage project in partnership with the 3 Heritage Places City Council to conserve the former John Barton Hack & Beresford Arms Inn in Gilles Street. This the Manning Cottages important heritage building is one of the few non-government or religious 150th Anniversary-Black Hill Lodge buildings within the city remaining The Lodge, Stirling relatively intact from the earliest years George Paech’s farmhouse of settlement.

7 Adaptive Re-use On a broader scale, the practical side of heritage conservation received a Steam Exchange Brewery boost with the allocation of more than 8 State Heritage Areas $244,000 to 54 projects to repair and restore State Heritage Places across Goolwa Minister’s South Australia. Funds were directed 9 2006 Schools Heritage towards conservation and stabilisation Competition Update works, particularly where the work will enhance the financial viability of 10 Heritage Volunteers DEH is mourning the loss of a valued a place. and well-respected friend and Woolshed Flat Church colleague with the unexpected This issue also puts the spotlight on Burra Regional Art Gallery passing of Maritime Archaeologist Terry the tremendous volunteer effort that Arnott. Terry was a valued member of maintains many of our heritage places 12 Architects & Builders of SA - 3 the Heritage Branch who was held in in the best possible way – by using Frederick Dancker high regard by his colleagues across them. From a small but majestic church in a hillside paddock near Rhynie which 14 DEH Heritage News government and academia for his significant contributions to maritime hosts an annual carols by candlelight 16 Heritage Bookshelf heritage in South Australia. gathering, to the former Post and Telegraph Office at Burra which in 2006 Seeds of Change Manager Sue Averay left the Heritage celebrated its tenth anniversary as the Branch on 2 February to take up a 16 Events Burra Regional Art Gallery, I would like position in the Office of the Chief to acknowledge the efforts of people Executive. I would like to thank Sue in local communities who so generously for her leadership of the Branch give of their time and expertise to over the last two years as she has look after these places for all South set the course to achieve the goals Australians to enjoy. outlined in the Government’s Heritage Directions strategy to manage heritage Hon Gail Gago MLC in South Australia. The position has Minister for Environment been advertised nationally. In the and Conservation interim it is business as usual as the Branch continues its work under the very capable guidance of Principal Front Cover: Former Woolshed Flat Heritage Officer Brian Samuels. Wesleyan Methodist Church near Rhynie, SA (1994). Heritage South Australia Newsletter Department for Environment Heritage Directions creation of modern amenities. and Heritage Our heritage directions must … Government ISSN 1443-9719 therefore be wisely mapped and believes that heritage considerations carefully managed. Heritage March 2007 Number 30 must be an integrated part of strategies and policies must provide For further information planning the future of our urban a degree of certainty for the please contact: and rural environments. However, community, property owners and The Editor, protecting heritage does not mean developers. They must also protect Heritage South Australia Newsletter freezing the past. Nor does it mean our valuable heritage assets at GPO Box 1047, Adelaide, SA 5001 the indiscriminate conservation of the same time as promoting good Telephone: (08) 8124 4947 anything old. urban character and facilitating Facsimile: (08) 8124 4980 It is important that heritage is seen sympathetic new development. Email: [email protected] as living and constantly evolving, www.heritage.sa.gov.au Extract from Heritage Directions: A Future for co-existing with new developments, Built Heritage in South Australia (Department © Department for Environment and Heritage for Environment and Heritage, 2003) All rights reserved architectural innovation and the FIS 2716.07

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John Barton where door, window and walling units cottage, together with its distinctive Hack and were each of the same dimension. gabled roof, survive as Walkley cottage. They were locked in place as panels the Portable As its slate-clad roof indicates, the between top and bottom plates and Friends’ Meeting House was never Colonial between posts each located on a designed to be as portable as Cottages strict modular grid. The cottages were Manning’s more usual products. of Henry originally roofed in tarpaulin and the Although it is reputed to have been first only tool required was a spanner. Manning erected at London’s East India Docks Paul Stark There is little doubt that Hack’s as an advertisement by Manning to Just off Pennington testimonials from Adelaide caused intending emigrants, the qualities of its Terrace, two timber buildings continue Henry Watson, his brother-in-law, to also prefabrication were utilised more to the adjacency they have shared for bring out a Manning cottage. In June provide expedient accommodation almost one hundred and seventy years. 1839, Watson recorded putting up his than for reasons of portability. They speak volumes about the circum- house in Pennington Terrace. He was Hack was once again instrumental in its stances of procuring colonial expansion somewhat reluctant about the venture, purchase and acted as agent in South and the provisioning by some British observing that good stone and brick Australia for its receipt on site. However, emigrants for their new life. houses were to be had. Despite this, at the time of its arrival Watson and having frozen in winter and almost Both the Meeting House of the Religious recorded somewhat ruefully that the ‘broiled’ in summer, Watson still had kind Society of Friends (Quakers) and Friends had all gone up to Mount Barker words for his Manning cottage (albeit Walkley Cottage (now part of St Mark’s and that ‘…he had little expectation of encased in brick by the end of 1840). College) began life on the floors of seeing a second Pennsylvania here.’ Watson and Hack, as business partners, the workshop of Henry Manning at It was nevertheless erected on its were trying to sell the components of 251 High Holborn in London. They intended (and present) site in 1840. a portable cottage made by one of also share a common link through Hack was obviously pleased with the Manning’s rivals for the emigrant trade association with John Barton Hack, result, recording the Meeting House as in prefabricated buildings. Quaker, early South Australian a very handsome building; ‘…Manning immigrant and an enthusiastic …It is one of Thompson’s trumpery has done full justice to it².’ affairs – I never hear of any person advocate for Manning’s ‘portable bringing one of T’s houses that does The Friends’ Meeting House is one of colonial cottages’. He brought two not rue his bargain – Manning is a the most sophisticated of Manning’s cottages to South Australia in 1837 respectable tradesman and his goods products known to have survived. Even in which to more comfortably house are no take-in¹. more amazing than its survival intact his family. With the inevitable alterations and against termites or loss by fire, is the Hack would have been well aware of additions, much of Watson’s Manning survival of its prefabricated furniture. contemporary references to the ‘great beauty in their construction’. Further claims that no section of a Manning cottage was heavier than a man or boy could carry, and that the London price of 50 pounds would provide a two-roomed cottage that could be quickly built, were borne out by Hack’s experiences with his own cottages. On 19 February 1837 Hack and his family were still on board the ship from England. The materials for the two Walkley Cottage, North Adelaide (1979) cottages were off loaded and on the 21st they were hauled up the beach to a suitable site at Glenelg. On the 22nd the family spent their first night in one of the cottages. Obviously pleased with the performance of the Manning cottage, Hack proudly wrote home recording that by the 14th April he had not only dismantled the cottage, but brought the materials of both to the site of the new City and erected them together to form a four-roomed house. The key to this ‘portability’ was the essence of modern prefabrication, Quaker (Society of Friends) Meeting House, North Adelaide (2005)

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Manning genuinely endeavoured to 2. Portfolio 8.86, Friends Library, London (letters A cottage, which will be required as provide system-built accommodation of Hack to T G Darton) and SLSA PRG 456/1 a residence for the person in charge Out-letters of John Barton Hack, 1-17 of the weir and the works connected that would respond well in most (14 June 1840) therewith, has been built in the Gorge parts of the then British Empire. He 3. SLSA PRG 1044/1/3, Out-letters of G F of the Torrens, at a cost of £480, and continued to fine-tune the specification Dashwood, (1 October 1846). expected to be finally completed in of his cottages in the fifteen years a few days. of greatest demand for his products 150th Anniversary- The five-roomed stone dwelling (c1830- c1845), and also offered the was built for the weirmaster, who application of anti-combustible paints Black Hill Lodge maintained and monitored the supply to resist fire as well as washes of water from the Torrens Gorge Weir to Former Weirmaster’s House, to combat dry-rot. He did not the Thorndon Park Reservoir (and later anticipate the voracious appetite Garage, Stone Channel to Hope Valley). Initially the Gorge Road of the antipodean termite however. & Dry-stone Walling Ramp ended at this house, which was situated G F Dashwood is recorded in his out- Black Hill Conservation Park, in an isolated bushland setting. letterbook as observing Gorge Road, Montacute In 1975 the house and land were …there is an insect in this country incorporated into the Black Hill As water management dominates called the White Ant, which, once Conservation Park. The National Parks & it finds its way into wooden edifices, the political agenda and our garden Wildlife Service made some changes to literally consumes them whole in an watering regimes, it is topical to note the two-storey building in 1984-85, incredibly short space of time³. the 150th anniversary of a dwelling when part of the verandah was It is not surprising that the physical associated with the scheme that enclosed to house a laundry, toilet and remains of Dashwood’s Manning supplied Adelaide’s first reticulated bathroom, and the outdoor stairs to the cottage were never found. water supply. upper storey were also enclosed. As terrestrial instruments of settlement, The collection, storage and distribution Other significant structures include the portable colonial cottages were of fresh water to the city was a major the garage (originally a stable) with (for those who could afford them) engineering feat that included the sections of cobblestone floor remaining; a great advance over tatty and construction of the Torrens Gorge Weir a steep ramp supported by dry-stone fragile pug and calico. They occupy and the Thorndon Park Reservoir. walling; and a stone channel behind a significant place in the history of the house. prefabrication. It is testimony to the Work on the city’s first reservoir, In Adelaide, piped water to North quality of Manning’s products that a at Thorndon Park, and a masonry Terrace, Rundle, Pulteney and handful of other Manning cottages weir and headworks in the Torrens Flinders Streets was turned on during are known to exist elsewhere in South Gorge, began in 1857. These works December 1860. Australia. His goods were certainly were officially opened 4 June 1860 ‘no take in’. by the Commissioner of Public The Thorndon Park Reservoir soon became inadequate for the growing Paul B Stark Works, Alexander Hay, who laid the city, and the construction of a new foundation stone of one of the wings Principal Conservation Architect reservoir, at Hope Valley, began in 1869. of the new weir. This article was derived from research This project included raising the height undertaken in association with Professor The weirmaster’s cottage was of the Torrens Gorge Weir and the Gilbert Herbert, Technion Haifa, Israel. constructed in 1857 as a first stage construction of an open aqueduct from References: in this project. In the Report on the weir to the new reservoir. 1. State Library of SA (SLSA) PRG 456/1 Out-letters of Henry Watson, 34-56 (15-18 Public Works (to 30 June 1857), the Robyn Ashworth December 1839) Commissioner recorded: Senior Heritage Interpretation Officer

Black Hill Lodge, Montacute (1995)

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The Lodge – Stirling porous look of marble. Finally a clear varnish, rubbed down to give not only Valerie loves old things and thought the look but feel of marble, provided ‘The Lodge’ looked cute. Her husband a finish somewhere between satin thought it looked like a lot of work. and gloss. Six or so years down the track it is Local Heritage Adviser for the Adelaide difficult to imagine the original run- Hills, Michael Queale, said that it was down cottage with purple painted fortunate that the original stripping of fireplaces, ‘no power or sewerage the fireplace had been done in such a and some very suspect wiring’. way that the evidence of the marbling Built in the early 1880s,‘The Lodge’ at had not been destroyed. Stirling is designated as a local heritage ‘A less careful approach could easily ‘The Lodge’ circa 2007 place, which means that it is listed in have taken all the paint off, back to the Development Plan the original slate’ said Michael. as being of local heritage value. Local heritage places are managed through ‘Another pitfall to watch for is working the provisions of the Development from too small a scraping – sometimes Act 1993. only part of the effect has been revealed’ he cautioned. Serving as the gatehouse for the nearby ‘Thorpe’ estate, the Lodge is Michael also pointed out how it considered to be representative of was common for the times for the the variety of outbuildings associated gatekeeper’s cottage to mimic with the large summer retreats of noted the much grander main house, South Australians, in this case Dr Charles often constructed at the same time Gosse and Ernest Ayers. with good quality materials and workmanship, albeit on a much The owners have undertaken a top- smaller scale. to-toe restoration together with a The owners were lucky enough to The original marbling effect is revealed on the sensitive extension that provides them left-hand side with additional space including a new come by an 1896 photo of their house. kitchen and bathroom. All of the work This image has been used to recreate has been guided by their desire to the style of the front garden, sans ivy. be faithful to the character of the No ivy is a good thing, according original cottage. to Michael. ‘Typical for lodges, but Although they chose not to reproduce disastrous for the buildings’ he said. the unappealing original brown paint Original photos were also used to finish to the walls, they did ensure some inform the design of a new fence original paintwork was kept behind a in the original style. cupboard as an ongoing record. The next challenges for the owners This attention to detail is exemplified include lining the pointing to the in the work undertaken to reproduce external walls, installing a floor in the the original faux marbling on two of cellar and extending the garden. They the slate fireplace surrounds. Careful are also on the look out for a working stripping back of the (purple) paint Metters stove to install in the cellar. revealed remnants of a green–black Lyn Baxter Restored to former glory marble finish. Painter and decorator Public Communications Officer Gary Lancaster worked from the small scraping to achieve a striking finish close to the original. ‘It’s important to understand marble’ said Gary. ‘Each piece is unique’. Free Heritage Advice DEH Heritage website lists Council The first step was to colour match the areas with a Heritage Advisory new work to the original scraping. Heritage advisers have a lot of local Service at http://www.heritage. A glaze made to a century-old recipe knowledge and are a tremendous sa.gov.au/advisory.html. Owners was then applied; the clouds, then resource available free of charge to of State Heritage Places in council veins, were then created. Sable owners of heritage places. Contact areas without access to a heritage bushes, badger hair softeners and your Council to check whether they advisory service may get free advice goose feathers helped achieve the employ an adviser and to make and guidance by contacting the desired effect. Pure turps flicked by an appointment. Alternatively the Heritage Branch on 8124 4960. brush onto the clouds recreated the

Heritage South Australia Newsletter March 2007  Heritage Places

George Paech’s Lutheran Church on 4 January 1850, cellar would have been used to store Farmhouse c1854 with Pastor Kavel officiating. Their home the meats and smallgoods popular with is the first on the right as you enter the German families. Original racks made Paechtown community. This home now from branches are still suspended from known as ‘George Paech’s Farmhouse’ the cellar ceiling and would have been is the only original home remaining as used to hang smallgoods and cheeses. the others were destroyed in the Ash ‘Apparently George Paech kept a large Wednesday bushfires of 1983. bear trap in the cellar for many years. George and Johanna had five children Whether this is a reflection of the poor - Wilhelm, Caroline, Hermann, August relations with his neighbours or a sign of and Bertha, who with the exception of the high quality of the smallgoods that Wilhelm were all born at Paechtown needed to be protected from thieves, between 1856 and 1867. Hannah died we can only guess’ said Martin. at home in November 1898 and George died there in 1908. Their son August Current restoration

George Paech’s Farmhouse (2006) and his family continued to occupy the The house was extensively renovated house for many years. in the early 1970s but the Gares have continued restoration with painstaking Original features retained attention to the retention of original The current owners Martin and features. Even new additions, such as a Virginia Gare purchased the property double carport, have been built utilising in January 2004. traditional construction techniques ‘We were particularly attracted by the (mortise and tenon joints, scarf joints number of original and unique features and wooden dowels). that have been retained in the house, ‘We are fortunate to be able to use the for example, old German newsprint expertise of my brother Justin who is a is still stuck to the ceiling of the large Heritage Carpenter and an Objects cellar; the house retains original Conservator, as well as my father’s and unusual doors and door locks; The original outdoor oven is a feature (2006) extensive experience in renovating old individually coded red gum beams and homes - Mum and Dad own a heritage History original large slab redgum floors all help listed cottage in central Hahndorf Paechtown is a unique German the house to retain a sense of what it which they restored from a state of ruin’ settlement originally of four homes feels like to have lived in a farmhouse in said Martin. the 1850s’ said Martin. approximately three kilometres An example of the lengths Martin and southeast of Hahndorf. Johann George ‘We found it particularly quaint to Virginia have gone to in preserving the Paech and his wife and six children find the original outdoor baking oven original features include scraping back arrived in South Australia aboard still intact. We have also delighted in by hand a thick layer of shellac from the Captain Hahn’s ship the Zebra at the finding old detritus in the garden – whilst redgum floors to preserve and highlight end of 1838. They settled in Hahndorf. gardening I regularly find bits of old the original surface. crockery and even a large horseshoe The oldest son, Christian Paech, There is evidence that in the late 1800s from a draught horse’ said Virginia. discovered copper ore at Kanmantoo the house had a ‘Victorian makeover’ in 1845 which went on to become Still hidden in the garden next to the including the installation of a Victorian the SA Company’s Kanmantoo Mine. road are the remains of an old wooden front door. Hidden under the verandah The reward he was given for this find water trough that would have provided is evidence that the whole façade enabled him to purchase the land. He water for the passing horses and carts of the house including the timberwork sold part shares of this land to his father that used the Paechtown route to Mt was painted and lined to look as if and two brothers Gottlob and Johann Barker to avoid the steep incline of it had a straight brick façade. George Jnr in October 1853. This small Windmill Hill. At the same time the internal walls German family settlement came to be The house design is a typical German and timber frames were plastered known as Paechtown. The four families farmhouse design with a steep pitched and wallpapered. built a home each all within a stone’s roof with half-hip gables. There are two The roof was originally covered in throw of each other. The half-timbered lots of two rooms placed either side of thatch and then wooden shingles which construction (or fachwerk) with the a hallway kitchen. This allowed for even were later replaced with corrugated panels filled in by brick, rather than distribution of heat through the house iron. The iron was removed in the 1970s the more common wattle and daub, from the centrally placed chimneys. and replaced with cedar shingles. was a reflection of the family’s The large attic would have been increasing prosperity. originally used as a utilitarian storage The original outdoor oven is still in good Johann George Paech Jnr, (known as area, but as with most of these types of condition and is a highlight of the George), married Johanna Hartmann farmhouses has been converted into backyard. ‘I believe the English method (known as Hannah) in the Hahndorf attic bedrooms. The large two-room of cooking involved leaving the hot

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coals in whilst the food was cooking, whereas the German method entailed Adaptive Re-use heating the oven to the desired temperature and then removing the New Brewery Opens in the Railway Goods Shed coals. It would then be the radiant by the Goolwa Wharf heat stored in the stone and bricks that In early October 2006 the aptly timber sliding doors constructed to would cook the food rather than the named ‘Steam Exchange Brewery’ reflect the original design (using the direct heat from the coals’ said Martin. opened its (very large) doors in the skills of the neighbouring Goolwa One local history book quotes from newly conserved and adapted Wooden Boats), and a micro-brewery interviews with old residents: Railway Goods Shed, nestled and bar facilities installed. To heat the oven, it was filled with wood between the railway station and the With the previous adaptation of the usually collected by the boys. After all wharf shed, at the Goolwa Wharf. wharf shed, and now the goods shed, had burnt, the hot ashes were removed with a long handled timber or metal This opening was the culmination visitors to the Goolwa Wharf can scraper, and the oven floor cleaned of more than a year’s hard work to experience a unique blending of the with a wet rag attached to a stick. To convert the timber and iron building, old with the new: paddlesteamers determine the correct temperature, originally constructed in 1879, for and steam engines, boatbuilding flour was thrown in – presumably the colouration determined the desired use as a brewery. The building and brewing. had to be re-clad and cleaned temperature. This knack of determining For more information visit the correct temperature varied (imagine over 125 years of dust and http://www.steamexchange.com.au. between households. Some housewives grime!), structural timbers replaced could ‘feel it’, whereas others judged it (cockatoos had taken their toll on Sarah Laurence by the time it took for a piece of paper Senior Heritage Officer to burn. (Young G, Harmstorf I, Brasse L, one particular beam), glass and Marsden A [1981]). The Paech brothers conducted a feud over many years. The source of this conflict is not known but the fact that George and Hannah did not have a good supply of water on their block and were forced to cultivate land further up the road for the family’s vegetables may have generated tension. A court case resulted when one of the Paech brothers tied another behind a horse dragging him through the main street of Hahndorf. (Luur Fox 1977). ‘From what we have read it seems that George was the cranky one’, said Virginia. One local historian states rather simply: ‘No doubt, George Paech must have been rather a difficult man to get on with’. (Butler 1982). Martin and Virginia, their son Anton and their lovable Irish Terrier Lucy continue to enjoy not just the home and its history but the sense of community that exists in Paechtown. It seems that the current residents enjoy much more amicable relations than the original ones of the 1850s! Martin Gare Sources: Butler, R George Hartmann of the Prince George, Investigator Press Pty Ltd, 1982 Luur Fox, A Hahndorf – A Brief look at the Town and its History, Fox Publishing, 1977 Young G, Harmstorf I, Brasse L, Marsden A Hahndorf, A Survey carried out for the Australian Heritage Commission, Vol 1, page 154, Techsearch Inc, 1981 Steam Exchange Brewery, Goolwa (Oct 2006)

Heritage South Australia Newsletter March 2007  State Heritage Areas

In this extract from the State Heritage Areas of South Australia website we look at the River Murray port of Goolwa, 83 kilometres south-east of Adelaide. Located on the western shore of Lake Alexandrina, on the waterway’s last bend before it enters the Southern Ocean, the name Goolwa is thought to be an Aboriginal word meaning

‘elbow’, which describes Goolwa wharf area the river’s shape at this port that engaged in shipbuilding river trade with Victoria and New point as it curves around and repairs. Part of the Goolwa State South Wales. Hindmarsh Island towards Heritage Area’s significance relates The original wharf was extended in 1866 the Murray Mouth to the surviving buildings and other and rebuilt in 1874. Like other country elements that represent the town’s links towns, Goolwa’s industries included to inland development and maritime breweries, a sawmill and a flour mill, but Goolwa State commerce in the nineteenth century. also a shipbuilding and repair industry. Heritage Area The unique wharf and tramway The opening of a railway line from The Goolwa State Heritage Area precinct is of national significance Morgan to in 1878 led encompasses the inner part of the and is complemented by the well- to a dwindling of river trade on the Goolwa township and includes the preserved public and commercial Murray’s lower reaches. Goolwa’s wharf and tramway precinct, part of buildings and residential cottages prosperity declined slowly after the early the town’s early commercial core and of the river trade era. 1880s, when Morgan quickly eclipsed the residential area to the south, known Goolwa as the busiest river port in South as ‘Little Scotland’. Brief History Australia. By the turn of the century Goolwa’s story includes the region’s shipbuilding had virtually ceased, Significance recognised significance for the although some maintenance work was The Goolwa State Heritage Area, Ngarrindjerri people of the lower still carried out, and Goolwa’s prosperity declared on 24 September 1987, Murray, as well as associations with as a port was over. acknowledges the town’s significant explorers Charles Sturt and Collet Goolwa survived, changing from history as one of Australia’s principal Barker, but it is the town’s history as one a major river port to a popular nineteenth century river ports. of Australia’s most important river ports tourist destination. During its hey-day, from the 1850s to that is significant for its designation as the 1880s, Goolwa was one of the a State Heritage Area. Features country’s earliest and most important From the earliest days of South The Goolwa State Heritage Area River Murray ports. It was the southern Australia’s settlement, the Murray includes nine places that are State terminus for the Murray-Darling Basin, was seen potentially as Australia’s Heritage Places entered in the South and a bustling centre for transport and ‘Mississippi’, but the dangerous river Australian Heritage Register, and which trade between South Australia and the mouth handicapped the development relate to Goolwa’s activities as a eastern colonies. of this inland transport route. In the prosperous river port linked by a railway Goolwa developed as the Murray’s 1850s, following the suggestion of to Encounter Bay. link with the sea. Cargoes of wool and Governor Young, a horse-drawn railway • Shop, 2 Cadell Street was constructed from Goolwa to other produce were off-loaded at the • Railway Goods Shed river port and transported by (horse- Port Elliot. This line effectively linked river • Corio Hotel drawn) railway to be exported from port and sea port, limiting the need for • Police Station and Courthouse a seaport on Encounter Bay - initially vessels to negotiate the Murray Mouth. Port Elliot and later Victor Harbor. Public works were also carried out at • Former Australasian Hotel Supplies and passengers also travelled both locations, and included the wharf • Former Goolwa-Port Elliot this route. at Goolwa (1852). The opening of the Railway Horse Stables rail link (1854) was the stimulus for the With trade and transport came • Wharf Complex river trade that quickly developed. prosperity. Industries developed and • Former Railway the population grew. Significantly, From the 1850s to the early 1880s Superintendent’s House Goolwa was the first Australian river Goolwa monopolised South Australia’s • Cockenzie House

8 Heritage South Australia Newsletter March 2007 Other significant features within the precinct include: 2006 Schools Heritage • a section of the original Goolwa- Port Elliot tramway cutting, Competition excavated in 1852, and believed to be the oldest surviving railway Outstanding and commended entries In 2006 prizes were awarded to: artefact in Australia; in the fourth annual Schools Heritage • the Soldiers’ Memorial Gardens, Competition were celebrated at a completed in 1917 on part of the presentation ceremony held at State original tramway cutting; heritage-listed Sunnybrae Farm on 31 October. The competition again • the Goolwa Hotel, the early part of attracted impressive entries from which dates from 1853, and which is schools across the state with the 2006 adorned with the figurehead of the theme being Heritage Connections: shipwrecked Mozambique; links with our past. • the Post Office, which is reputed A condition of the competition is that to incorporate the 1854 tramway entries must be computer generated, passenger station; and each year the innovative use • the group of cottages known as of technology continues to surprise. Students from Mintaro Farrell Flat Primary School show ‘Little Scotland’, some of which Robyn Ashworth, Senior Heritage part of their award-winning entry date from the 1860s; Interpretation Officer with the Heritage Mintaro Farrell Flat • the 1859 Customs House; and Branch, assembled a panel of judges Primary School • the Council Chambers in Cadell for the difficult task of choosing the Patches Of Past And Present Street, which incorporate the most outstanding entries, which Most Outstanding Entry Year R-2 original Town Hall (1860) and which included an iMovie showing how were modernised in 1878 and 1907. the Royal Adelaide Show connects Melrose Primary School all South Australians, a podcast tour Farming ‘Then & Now’ More on State Heritage Areas of Semaphore and Largs Bay, and a Highly Commended Entry Year R-3 For more information about Powerpoint presentation where the Goolwa and the sixteen other SA images were printed on fabric Primary School State Heritage Areas see http:// to create a quilt. Clues To The Past Most Outstanding Entry Year 4-5 www.stateheritageareas.sa.gov.au In 2006 a new category was Robyn Ashworth established to recognise an Loxton Lutheran School Senior Heritage Interpretation Officer outstanding class program related The 1956 Flood In Loxton to the Schools Heritage Competition Highly Commended Entry Year 4-5 theme. The category highlights the range of educational outcomes Curramulka Primary School associated with participation in the The Old Hospital competition and acknowledges Highly Commended Entry Year 4-5 the process rather than the final product. Winners were Bev Tonkin North Haven Schools and Mike Shaw for their work with the Royal Adelaide Show & Showgrounds: Coromandel Valley Primary School Connecting All South Australians Years 1&2 to develop their Most Outstanding Entry Year 6-7 ‘Our Past’ entry. Keith Area School The winning schools and entries can AMP ‘Wiles Huts’ be viewed at http://www. Most Outstanding Entry Year 6-7 environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/ latest_news.html#2006_comp North Haven Schools Semaphore & Largs Bay Heritage Connections: A Podcast Tour Most Outstanding Entry Year 6-7

Curramulka Primary School Laighside Highly Commended Entry Year 6-7

Parndana Campus, KICE Bev Tonkin and Mike Shaw, winners of the inaugural Tilka Hut Teaching Heritage Award, with their students and SA Former Railway Superintendent’s House, Goolwa Heritage Council member Dr Judith Brine. Most Outstanding Entry Year 8-10

Heritage South Australia Newsletter March 2007  Heritage Volunteers

Woolshed Flat donated an acre of land along the Church near Rhynie, SA Rhynie – Balaklava road, and several drayloads of locally quarried stone, for ‘The church building with its a Wesleyan chapel and burial ground; graveyard, exotic trees and a significant gesture for the times. iron gate, isolated on its acre The church opened in 1859. There of ground amid wheatfields, is now no visible evidence of an adjacent school building which form an evocative group, opened in about 1864 and closed in splendidly sited on a rolling 1884 when a permanent school was hillside. Although on a little- built in Rhynie. Regular services in the used road from Rhynie to church ceased in the 1970s but families Balaklava, the church is an of people buried in the cemetery impressive landmark’. were keen to look after the church and cemetery, so they formed an (Register Assessment Report, 1988) incorporated group and purchased Brian Kemp Almost twenty years later, thanks to the property from the Uniting Church the work of a small but dedicated in the1990s. The efforts of this group of volunteers in team of volunteers, this simple little This group works without fuss to maintaining the building and grounds church continues to be ‘an impressive preserve this simple structure, while are to be commended.’ landmark’. It also acts as a significant the occasional wedding and annual Assisted by a grant from the South marker in early South Australian history. carols night serve to gather the local Australian Heritage Fund, the roof has The former Woolshed Flat Wesleyan community back to the church. ‘And been replaced and poly carbonate Methodist Church has always been a as there is no electricity, it truly is carols sheeting installed over the slender part of Brian Kemp’s life. He has lived all by candlelight’ says Brian. lancet windows to protect the clear his life in the family home minutes down lozenge-paned leadlights. Brian and the road, his parents and grandparents Stories from the past his wife Maureen keep the grass cut are buried in the church cemetery, Brian can also tell stories of much and the weeds at bay, and locals are and three of his four daughters have earlier times at the church. ‘Apparently happy to pitch in for the occasional chosen to get married in the austere pews were rented to families to help working bee. sandstone building that sits on a hillside raise funds and not surprisingly, families paddock in the mid north cropping were quite proprietal about them. A Volunteer commitment belt between and Clare. story is told about the gentlemen who Out-of-towners with relatives buried His youngest daughter’s christening decided a fist fight after church was in the church graveyard often express (she’s now 36) was the last church the best way to settle a dispute over their gratitude to the Kemps for their service held there, in 1971, 112 years sitting in someone else’s pew’. role in looking after the church and after its opening. Tales told by members of the surrounds. One person, pleased to congregation over the years include have located a long-lost cousin in Heritage significance memories of Monday night tea the cemetery and noticing that the It perhaps not surprising that Brian takes meetings, when the women would rain water tank was rusted out, an active interest in its care. Buildings bring their wicker baskets filled with contacted Brian offering to organise and structures are tangible keys that trifles and cakes and sliced mutton a replacement. can help unlock personal memories and pickles set out on their best china A niche wall for cremated remains has and community histories. And although plates. The tea would be made from been built in the grounds of the church it’s personal for the Kemps and others in water boiled in the coppers standing in more recent times, which helps to the local community, the Woolshed Flat in the yard, and games for the children keep the historic church and cemetery Church is also considered of heritage would be enjoyed before ponies were relevant and viable into the future. value to the State, as an example of reharnessed and placed in the traps Given the commitment of the an early rural Wesleyan Church sited for the return trip home. Woolshed Flat Church volunteers it amid wheat fields rather than in a town seems that the church is likely to be to serve the families on nearby farms. Heritage advice enjoyed for some time yet, and will The church was entered in the South Andrew Stevens, the Heritage Adviser continue to stand as a reminder of a Australian Heritage Register as a State for the Clare and Gilbert Valleys, has significant aspect of South Australia’s Heritage Place in 1988. been on hand to advise and guide early history. The Bakers Springs or Rhynie area was the work of the church’s volunteer Lyn Baxter taken up under occupational licence caretakers. He remarks that ‘the church Public Communications Officer from 1846 onward. At that time, church is sited in a magnificent position, and Reference: services were being held in what is now its location really brings home the ‘A little bit of the history of the Woolsheds the Kemp family home. In 1858 Brian’s struggles and commitment of the early Wesleyan Church.’ (Undated typescript held great-great-grandfather, James Kemp, settlers in the district. by B & M Kemp, Rhynie)

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Burra Regional Art Gallery ‘urbanites’ who have made a move (former Burra Post and to the town. For Peter Harvey the decision to relocate to Burra was made Telegraph Office) rather abruptly one weekend with the Driving into the main street of Burra it spontaneous purchase of a house. is obvious that this is a community that After 10 years, the instant attraction values its heritage. The vibrancy of the for Burra hasn’t waned, and Peter has township is enhanced by the heritage enjoyed his role as Chairman of the buildings, many of which have found Burra Regional Art Gallery - BRAG as ongoing uses - including the Burra Peter proudly points out. Regional Art Gallery. The Gallery is a testament to the hard The Burra Regional Art Gallery started work of the local volunteers who had life in the 1860s as a Telegraph Station the foresight to imagine a viable use and Post Office amid the usual for the neglected Post and Telegraph Office which was closed in the 1960s Peter Harvey, Chairman of the Burra Regional controversy associated with major Art Gallery after 100 years of valued service. Brian Kemp developments: Following the purchase of the building The suggestion that the offices of the They coordinate the 45 active by the Local Council, the community Telegraph and Postmaster are to be volunteers and guides who help to amalgamated is worthy of notice. has worked tirelessly to preserve and ensure that the gallery is open seven Also the most scrupulous care should restore the site. be taken in the selection of attendants. days a week. The gallery stocks In all small communities there is more The McDouall Stuart Board of the Burra works by local regional artists and in gossip than necessary, which ought Art Gallery Incorporated is named for collaboration with Country Arts SA also to be especially guarded against. John McDouall Stuart, who in 1862 Hence, in England, the boys of Rugby hosts travelling exhibitions. A highlight is telegraphed to Adelaide from the School (deaf and dumb) are sought the permanent display of four original for telegraph clerks. (Extract from a Burra Telegraph Office the news that ST Gill landscapes of mid-nineteenth letter by Colonist in the SA Register, he had completed the first crossing of century Burra retrieved from under the 22 January 1861). the continent from South to North. stage at the adjacent Town Hall and Such concerns are clearly a thing Peter and his Board aren’t daunted by restored by Artlab. of the past and the community of the huge task of running the Gallery, The former Burra Post and Telegraph Burra is benefiting from a number of staffed solely by volunteers. Office was entered in the South Australian Heritage Register as a State Heritage Place in 1981 and lies within the boundaries of the Burra State Heritage Area, declared in 1993 to acknowledge the Burra copper mine’s significant contribution to South Australia’s early prosperity and the town’s later development as a major service centre for agriculture and pastoralism in the State’s mid-north. For more information about the Burra State Heritage Area and its many historic places individually entered in the South Australian Heritage Register see the State Heritage Areas website http:// www.stateheritageareas.sa.gov.au The Burra State Heritage Area brochure produced in collaboration with DEH and the Goyder Regional Council is also available online at http://www. environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/ pub.html The Burra Regional Art Gallery is located at 5 Market Street, Burra and is open every day from 1- 4pm, or by appointment, telephone: 8892 2411 or 0428-228-955 Jane Crosby Burra Regional Art Gallery (former Burra Post and Telegraph Office), 2007 Executive Officer, SA Heritage Council

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DANCKER, Frederick design ideas. This interest culminated He also gave practical advice such William, 1852 - 1936 in the publication of his 1904 book as: ‘Sacrifice all ornament rather than Modern Dwellings: 100 Selected risk sound construction’. Frederick Dancker is probably best Designs which illustrated designs for In his early years Dancker was the known for designing large residences houses using plans, elevations and architect for much of Willyama (now in the Adelaide suburbs. The practice photographs. The book set out to Broken Hill) in New South Wales. In of Frederick Dancker continued for educate the home building public and 1888 he called for tenders for a 40 over seventy years being carried by to help them ‘in constructing an almost room hotel, a hospital and a church. his architect son, Eric. ideal plan’. Dancker waived his fee for the South Adelaide Creche (now demolished), Frederick William (Wilhelm) Dancker Design approach is presumed to have been born in which stood in Gouger Street, Dancker saw the style of a building as Macclesfield in the Adelaide Hills, as Adelaide. It opened in 1896 and it being achieved through its ‘leading were his siblings. His German father has been suggested that the building features’ of gables, towers, roof and British mother had arrived in South was designed on the lines of a doll’s treatment, bay windows, chimneys, Australia in the 1840s and were married house, especially since ‘A doll’s house and verandahs or balconies. When at Blakiston in 1850. The second of five owned by Dancker was on display at discussing walls he wrote of pleasing children, Frederick attended a private the opening of the Creche’ (AHPI). The combinations of brick and stone being school in Aldinga and, in pursuit Creche provided office space for the favoured. The designs illustrated in the of his dream of becoming a naval Secretary, living accommodation for book show houses rich with ornament architect, he sailed to England in an the Matron and a dining/play room, and detailing. Yet despite the apparent attempt to gain training in this field. dormitory and cot room below. preoccupation with ornament his Unfortunately this proved fruitless and philosophy was surprisingly modern. Dancker also designed the Our Boys he returned to Australia to undertake The book demonstrated Dancker’s Institute, 221 Wakefield St, Adelaide, architectural training in Melbourne. approach to design: the Macclesfield Institute, and the Back in Adelaide in the 1870s he was Queen’s Home maternity hospital (later Our endeavour is to produce designs articled to Daniel Garlick. Dancker renamed the Queen Victoria Hospital) whose only ornament is comprised married Clara Anne Phillipps and they in refinement of the graceful lines at Rose Park. Religious buildings had three children, Reginald Fritz of strictly utilitarian features without included St Paul’s Lutheran Church, (died aged 14), Eric Phillipps and assertive attempt at effect, but always Hahndorf, Malvern Uniting Church and Gladys Clara. pleasing in its subdued natural tones, without deception in material nor a Rectory at Mt Barker. disguise in construction, but throughout Career details honestly indicating its purpose. Dancker opened his own architectural office in 1880 and worked alone until 1905 when he took his son Eric Dancker into the practice. In 1912 one of his contemporaries described Dancker as ‘an old established steady going gentleman who has a good practice in better class residences’ (John Monash website). He admitted Eric into partnership in 1913 and from that time onwards they practised as F.W. Dancker and Son. Dancker was an inaugural member of the South Australian Institute of Architects formed in 1886 and joined the re-formed SAIA in the early 1920s. He practised until 1931 when, after being injured in an accident, he retired aged 79. Dancker died in 1936 and Eric continued the practice until his death in 1953. Dancker wrote articles on architecture for magazines such as South Australian Homes and Gardens. His book collection shows the extent to which he read and educated himself on architecture and extensive clippings files demonstrate his active interest in Former Our Boys Institute, 221 Wakefield St, Adelaide (2007)

1 2 Heritage South Australia Newsletter March 2007 ‘Adare’, Victor Harbor (1893) Image courtesy of Anthony Laube

Residential work large residences. Writing about his own ‘Death of Mr F.W. Dancker. State’s Oldest Architect’, The Advertiser 29.8.1936, p22 His house designs include Adare house at Rose Park he said: ‘For a small family the arrangement of plan has Jensen, Elfrida and Jensen, Rolf Colonial at Victor Harbor, designed for the Architecture in South Australia: a definitive Cudmore family and known for its ‘high proved most convenient, snug in winter chronicle of development 1836-1890 and the quality of design and detailing and its and easily kept cool through spells of social history of the times, Rigby Publishers Ltd., Adelaide, 1980. grand scale’. It is claimed that Dancker hot weather’. In 1929 F.W. Dancker and Son won the Adelaide Workmen’s Marsden, S., Stark, P. and Sumerling, P. Heritage was the first to introduce turret roofs of the : An illustrated guide, into South Australia (AHPI). In Modern Homes Trust competition for designs for Corporation of the City of Adelaide, Adelaide, Dwellings he suggested that ‘If possible, cottages at Hilton in 1929 in an ‘Arts 1990. have some novel and interesting and Crafts picturesque vernacular Page, Michael Sculptors in Space, RAIA, Adelaide, 1986. feature about the approach which will cottage style’. (McDougall 1998, p.256) McDougall, Katrina ‘The Commodity of individualize that particular house’. This Commercial work by Dancker included Adelaide Workmen’s Homes 1890s-1930s’ in approach can be seen in Adare and shops in Rundle Street for McDonaldson Firm(ness) commodity DE-light?: questioning Attunga, the former residence that is and Walter and the Metropolitan Hotel, the canons, papers from the 15th Annual conference of the Society of Architectural now part of Burnside Memorial Hospital, 42-46 Grote Street. It is also claimed that Historians Australia and New Zealand, which has prominent decoration Dancker was the first South Australian Melbourne, Australia, September 1998, pp.252-257. and a turret. The latter residence was architect to call for the construction of Russell, Allison Liberated: the Dancker illustrated with a photograph and plan a reinforced concrete wall in a building Collection of Architectural Books, an in Modern Dwellings. Dancker was an (Advertiser obituary). However it is exhibition produced by Flinders Art Museum advocate of terra-cotta tiles remarking probably his residential work for which and presented at the Campus Gallery 7th November to 10th February 1998, Flinders that ‘Our good friend corrugated iron he will be remembered. University of South Australia, Adelaide. has had a good innings’ and stating Julie Collins Wilkinson Sando and Wyles Ltd, Springfield: that the benefits of tiles were that they Julie Collins is Collections Manager in the A Beautiful Setting for beautiful homes were cooler, more durable and superior Architecture Museum, Louis Laybourne protected by building restrictions, no date [c.1920s]. in effect. Smith School of Architecture and Design, University of South Australia. This is a slightly Among his other residential work was condensed version of a biography of F.W. Unpublished a finely detailed and crafted English Dancker she prepared for a Database of South Australian Heritage Places Inventory (AHPI) style Tudor house at Fitzroy Terrace, Australian Architects and their Works being website - entries for Adare Conference Centre compiled through the Architecture Museum. and the South Adelaide Creche Thorngate built in 1912. The Estate The Database project is funded by the SA John Monash. Engineering enterprise prior to Department for Environment and Heritage office, stone bridges, signs and lamp http://www. home.vicnet.net.au/~aholgate/jm/ standards at Springfield were designed bldgtext/bldgs16.html Sources: by the partnership F.W. Dancker and RAIA South Australia Significant 20th Century Published Son Architects, although the designer of Architecture (1986) card index. Copy held at Dancker, F.W. Modern Dwellings: 100 Selected Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture these within the office was E.P. Dancker. Designs, Adelaide, 1904. [All quotes attributed to and Design Architecture Museum, University of Not all of Dancker’s residential work was Dancker are from this book.] South Australia.

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Farewell from Sue a place. For details about projects has recently been appointed to the Averay, Heritage supported in 2006/07 see http://www. position of Conservation Officer. She heritage.sa.gov.au/grantsawards.html. is currently completing a Graduate Branch Manager Keep an eye on this web page for Diploma in Urban and Regional As many of you will already be information about the next round of Planning at the University of SA. aware, I am leaving the Heritage SA Heritage Fund grants. Andreea has a particular interest Branch rather earlier than I thought in policy development and the would be the case in order to take Heritage South Australia provision of conservation and up an irresistible new challenge in the architectural advice in the Outback Office of the Chief Executive, DEH as E-News launched. unincorporated areas. of February 2007. A new monthly e-newsletter, launched Luigi Vitale on 8 February and published by the In 2004, when I commenced in the Previously Senior Conservation DEH Heritage Branch, aims to deliver role of Branch Manager, I identified my Architect with the Heritage Branch, news and information about events to priorities as being to review the way in Luigi has accepted a position as people involved in looking after South which the work of the Branch is done Senior Heritage Architect with the Australia’s built and maritime heritage. and to strengthen and extend the Project Services section of Building Heritage SA E-News supplements the capacity of the Branch to deliver on Management, Department of Heritage South Australia Newsletter. the initiatives of Heritage Directions. Transport, Energy and Infrastructure. Two and a half years later, I leave with To subscribe email an awareness of more yet to be done, [email protected] with New State Heritage but also with a sense of much having ‘subscribe Heritage SA E-News’ in Places been achieved since I began. the subject line. The staff are outstanding people whose diversity of experience, training and DEH Heritage Branch skills coupled with their commitment to the cause of heritage conservation staff changes is a rich resource, while the ethic of Pippa Morgan continuous improvement is reflected in their consistent evaluation of Pippa joined the Heritage Branch in the work they do and the results it Former Schmidt Farm including achieves. I have a great deal of 2004 after 5 years Houses, Barn, Oven, Well and Slab satisfaction about the role I was able to working in private Structures, Hahndorf play in fostering and supporting them. architectural These structures constitute the most practices Danvers significant surviving farm group on the Best of all, I have a far better informed Schulz Holland Architects and main street of Hahndorf – the most awareness of the passion of many Mulloway Studio. During this time she intact German settlement in Australia. owners and their contribution, which registered as an Architect (2002) and They display early German vernacular augments and complements the design and construction techniques, gained valuable experience in the work of government in protecting including pioneer stonework and conservation and adaptive re-use of the past. I also appreciate far more uncommon examples of timber-slab historic places. Pippa’s ‘new’ role of the complexity of the issues involved construction and a tunnel-shaped Senior Heritage Architect is primarily bake-oven. in heritage conservation and the concerned with the development delicacy of the negotiations required and delivery of the SA Heritage Fund in the balance between the needs of Grants Program, the co-ordination and the now and the needs of the future. monitoring of DEH-owned heritage I intend to be an advocate for this places and coordinating the Outback important work wherever I go. Heritage Advisory Service.

Funds to care for Andreea Jeleascu State’s Heritage Dwelling (former Port Adelaide and Le Andreea graduated Fevre’s Peninsula Cooperative Society In November 2006, Environment and from Adelaide Ltd Store), Exeter Conservation Minister, Gail Gago University in 2003 Built in 1884, this building is a rare announced funding of more than with a B Arch. Her example of an early cooperative store $244,000 for 54 projects across the previous experience constructed specifically for its purpose, state to repair and restore heritage in private practice in Queensland and by one of a number of such self-help places. Funds were directed towards South Australia reinforced her interest in societies established in Adelaide as conservation and stabilisation works, conservation and the adaptive re-use a means of securing a degree of particularly where the work will of significant buildings. She joined the financial or educational advancement enhance the financial viability of Heritage Branch in March 2006 and for working people.

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Heritage Surveys/PARs Park friends win for Terry’s career spanned a number of Pondanna work states and many jobs. In Victoria he The following Councils are undertaking had been a rigger, security guard, or planning Heritage Reviews/Surveys, small business owner, museum curator prior to a Heritage Plan Amendment and Ministerial adviser, but is best Report (PAR) being prepared: remembered as an outstanding •  (Onkaparinga maritime archaeologist. Amongst & Torrens Valleys only) his many achievements in this field, •  & the District he is credited with the discovery Councils of Mount Remarkable, of approximately 100 shipwrecks in Orroroo/Carrieton & Peterborough Victorian waters, including the highly (Joint Heritage Review) Friends of Gawler Ranges National Park president, significant City of Launceston wreck in Leala Hoffman, accepts the award from then Heritage Port Phillip Bay. Terry also drafted the • (1930s Heritage) Branch Manager, Sue Averay. Victorian Historic Shipwrecks legislation • Kangaroo Island The Friends of the Gawler Ranges and was a founding member of the (excluding American River, Kingscote, National Park have been presented Australasian Institute for Maritime Parndana & Penneshaw) with the DEH Heritage Branch’s award Archaeology. His diving skills, great • District Council of Kingston for ‘Best Heritage Project’ in recognition depth of knowledge and passion for • City of of their ongoing work conserving Australia’s shipwreck heritage were Pondanna Outstation. This award is recognised across Australia and • District Council of presented annually to a ‘Friends of internationally. Naracoorte Lucindale Parks’ group for their work in looking (Township of Naracoorte only) after heritage buildings in parks. • District Council of Wattle Range (Township of Penola only) • Wrecked! Exhibition goes on tour

The following Councils recently have The popular Wrecked! Tragedy and had Heritage PARs approved by the the Southern Seas exhibition, presented Minister for Urban Development & by the History Trust of South Australia Planning: at the South Australian Maritime •  Museum during 2005, is now touring Terry came to South Australia to take (Strathalbyn Township only) nationally. Artefacts from DEH’s maritime up his position in the Department for •  Environment and Heritage in July 1995, (Historic (Conservation) Zones No. 2) collection figure largely in the exhibition courtesy of a second ‘Visions of and in his time with this department • City of Campbelltown Australia’ Development Grant. DEH became highly respected and made (Local Heritage Places) Senior Maritime Archaeologist Terry friends across the State. He took every • City of Norwood Payneham & Arnott worked with the exhibition opportunity to promote and protect St Peters (2 PARs - Payneham and curator to provide objects from the DEH South Australia’s shipwreck heritage, St Peters, Kensington & Norwood) collection which includes around 2000 while at the same time widening his horizons with a passion (or should that • objects which have been recovered be ‘obsession’?) for whaling heritage (Heritage Places & Areas) from wreck sites over the last 20 years. sites and, more recently, World War Two coastal defence places. The following Councils currently Vale Terry Arnott Terry also contributed to and influenced have Heritage PARs under Interim 21 July 1953 – 27 January 2007 the projects of many other South Authorisation: The Heritage Branch is mourning the Australian Government and public • (Heritage) loss of a valued and well-respected agencies and organisations. He • District Council of Mount Barker friend and colleague, Senior Maritime established mooring buoys at key (District Wide Heritage) Archaeologist Terry Arnott, who died shipwrecks and for the protection of • District Council of Tatiara (Heritage) unexpectedly on 27 January, at the the Giant Cuttlefish, was a key organiser • Town of Walkerville (Local Heritage age of 53. and facilitator of inter-agency survey – Supplementary) Terry’s death is a sad loss for his expeditions to the offshore islands in the workmates in the Department for State’s far west, contributed to outdoor Environment and Heritage and for recreational trails and so much more. staff and members of other agencies Clearly Terry’s passing is a great loss and organisations, who had come to to his family, his chosen field and to appreciate his diversity of knowledge scores of friends and colleagues and his passion, generosity and humour. across Australia.

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the Municipal Tramways Trust and more Events recently the National Wine Centre have all impacted on the Garden over 18 – 27 May the years. Another theme is distrust SA History Week of the public. The notice in the South This will be the fourth annual SA History Australian Government Gazette in Week. The full range of History Week October 1857 advising of the opening activities will be published in the of the Adelaide Botanic Garden to Program Booklet, available late April. Venue: Across SA the public mentioned: ‘The strictest Enquiries: 08 8203 9888 propriety of behaviour, language and www.history.sa.gov.au dress is expected, and nothing must be touched’. During the 1890s there 20 May was a more relaxed approach and National Archives Open Day visitors were permitted to sit on the To celebrate SA History Week, the National Archives is opening its doors Seeds of Change: lawns and perambulators and picnics were allowed. to show you just what’s in store! An Illustrated History of Call into a Conservation Clinic for Adelaide Botanic Garden Long serving Directors - there have professional advice on caring for only been eight – are another feature by R Aitken. Board of the Botanic documents and photos, take a of the Garden’s history, although Gardens and State Herbarium in behind-the-scenes tour, learn how to in more recent years with the use the database and discover the association with Bloomings Books, development of botanic gardens on unexpected in their collection. Adelaide & Melbourne 2006. other sites there has been a Head Time: 11am to 4pm Hardbound, 213pp. of Gardens position beneath the Venue: 78 Angas St, Adelaide As one of the State’s oldest cultural Director. Foundation Director George Enquiries: 08 8409 8411 institutions, the Adelaide Botanic Francis (1855-65) has been well served 22 May Garden deserves a well-written and by great-granddaughter Barbara Adelaide Architect and extensive history and this volume Best’s biography, while that of the Pioneer Modernist - Seminar more than fits the bill. Its large format, remarkable Richard Schomburgk (1865- Russell S Ellis was one of South extensive use of illustrations, and the 91) is currently being written by his Australia’s first Modernist architects. care taken with their reproduction, great-granddaughter Pauline Payne. Louise Bird, DEH Research Fellow at the have produced a sumptuous 213 In living memory Noel Lothian, son of Architecture Museum, Louis Laybourne page book well worthy of the Melbourne publisher Thomas Lothian, Smith School of Architecture and sesquicentenary it celebrates. Author served from 1948 until 1980, while Brian Design, University of South Australia, Richard Aitken is very well qualified for will present an illustrated talk about Morley reigned between 1981-2000. his task and the quality of his writing the residential work of Ellis. The Garden’s rich history is recognised matches the book’s appearance. He Time: 12.30 to 1.30pm by several entries in the South Australian has a keen eye for telling detail and Venue: Room 15, Level 5, George Heritage Register. They include the Kingston Building (enter from George apt quotations and has also taken Palm House Conservatory, judged by St) City West Campus, University considerable care with the captions Aitken to be ‘one of the most significant of South Australia. for the illustrations, which many authors surviving prefabricated glasshouses Enquiries and bookings: (08) 8302 9235 still fail to do. An example: ‘Bright or [email protected] floral displays disguised tight budget worldwide’ (many European ones constraints as populist imperatives were destroyed in the World Wars); 24 July further diluted botanical objectives’. the main entrance gates; the North History Council of SA’s (p134) Lodge (originally the Head Gardener’s Annual Lecture cottage); the Museum of Economic Put this date in your diary – details to The Garden has a richer history than Botany; the Simpson Kiosk and the Boy be advised. See the HCSA website for many Adelaideans realise. What is and Serpent fountain. The Goodman details www.historycouncilsa.org.au now the Adelaide Zoo was originally Building and Tram Barn ‘A’ were sited within the Garden before being 3-5 August both originally built for the Municipal allocated some of Botanic Park. The ‘Country Connections’ Rustic Temple (1864) and its successor Tramways Trust and now serve as the State History Conference the Museum of Economic Botany Garden’s administrative headquarters Presented by the History Trust of SA this (1881) were two of the Colony’s earliest and the Plant Biodiversity Centre Conference will focus on the history museums. The Garden’s fine collection respectively. Yarrabee House, originally of South Australia’s country towns and of statuary began with a pair of lions the Lunatic Asylum Medical Officer’s communities, especially in the 20th century, from local, state, national and presented by Mr A H Gouge in 1861 Residence, was used by the Garden global perspectives. 30 years before the first statues for many years but is now the Venue: Tanunda Arts and Cultural appeared on Adelaide’s streets. National Wine Centre of Australia Centre/Faith Lutheran College Administration Building. Machinations over land are a recurring combined campus theme in the history. The Royal Brian Samuels Enquiries: 08 0203 9888 Adelaide Hospital, the Lunatic Asylum, Principal Heritage Officer www.history.sa.gov.au

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