Department for Environment and Heritage Heritage Newsletter

Edition 27 October 2005

In this issue: Schubert House Researching your property Free publication and heritage advice for owners The new Heritage Places Act 1993 Aeolus bell returns to South East Historic shipwrecks protected Edmund Wright Heritage Awards 2005 The dilemmas of industrial heritage Conservation work on former Savings Bank of South Australia

www.environment.sa.gov.au1 Contents Minister’s 3 Schubert House turns 150 4 Researching your property Update 5 Painting of Older Buildings Welcome to the September 2005 The Government has suggested that edition of the Heritage South Australia 5 Need heritage advice? the Commonwealth Government Newsletter. should consider the following forms 6 Getting into the Act Since my last update in March of this of investment in historic heritage 7 Historic bell returns year, a significant milestone has been conservation: to South East reached in heritage reform with the • strategic Commonwealth 7 Historic shipwrecks protected passage of the Heritage (Heritage investment in the heritage assets 8 Edmund Wright Heritage Directions) Amendment Bill 2005 through that underpin heritage tourism and Awards 2005 Parliament. The Bill has now received social capital throughout Australia, 10 From bakery to blast furnace Royal Assent, thereby becoming an including matching dollar-for-dollar - the dilemmas of industrial Act of Parliament to amend the the funding made available to local heritage Heritage Act 1993. I am hopeful that the governments and their constituents new Heritage Places Act 1993 will come for heritage conservation through 12 Former Dunn Memorial Church into operation in November 2005. State Government grants programs; entered in State Heritage Register The changes bring about some • implementation of a heritage loan of the principal objectives of the scheme at a national level, 13 New website: State Heritage Government’s Heritage Directions to attract economies of scale; Areas of South Australia strategy, which was aimed at providing • delivering national TAFE-level 13 Conservation work revitalises an improved and integrated framework heritage conservation skills bank building for heritage management in South development training programs; 14 Heritage Branch news Australia, and enabling communities to • introducing taxation-based 15 Heritage seminars conserve their heritage better for future incentives for private investment generations. Local heritage reforms 16 Events in heritage conservation of State incorporated into the Development and local heritage listed places. (Sustainable Development) Amendment Bill 2005 have likewise resulted from the Pursuit of the optimal allocation Heritage Directions review. of resources to the management of heritage assets is a priority for the South The passage of the Heritage Bill clears Australian Government. The submission the way for important reforms including; and others can be read in full on the a new strategic Council - the South Productivity Commission’s website at Australian Heritage Council - to replace http://www.pc.gov.au/inquiry/heritage/ the former State Heritage Authority; index.html protection for movable objects associated with State Heritage places; Recently, I had the great pleasure centralising all information about local, of recognising more outstanding South state and national heritage listings; Australian achievement in heritage measures to deal with intentional conservation, management and neglect and increased penalties for promotion through announcing the 2005 breaches of the Act. The revised Act Edmund Wright Heritage Awards. The Heritage South Australia Newsletter will promote a better understanding scale of the winning and commended Department for Environment projects varied from small, lower and Heritage of the State’s heritage, recognise the importance of South Australia’s heritage budget to large, complex commercial ISSN 1443-9719 places and objects in understanding our projects, but the common link was a October 2005 Number 27 history, and encourage the sustainable commitment to ‘getting it right’ with For further information use and adaptation of heritage places regard to respecting heritage value. please contact: while ensuring their conservation. Details on this year’s winners are page 8. The Editor, Heritage South Australia Newsletter For more information on the changes GPO Box 1047, , SA 5001 to come into effect under the Heritage Telephone: (08) 8124 4947 Places Act 1993, see the separate Facsimile: (08) 8124 4980 article in this issue. Hon. John Hill, MP Email: [email protected] The South Australian Government Minister for Environment www.heritage.sa.gov.au has prepared a submission to the Front Cover: City Hall and Cave Garden Stage II and Conservation Redevelopment. See p.8 article in this issue. Productivity Commission Inquiry into © Department for Environment and Heritage the Conservation of Historic Heritage All rights reserved in Australia. FIS 2263.05 ISBN: 1 9210 1831 3 Hon. John Hill

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Schubert House turns 150 Stephanie Walker is giving her house a party. State heritage-listed Schubert House, at Springhead near Mt Torrens, turns 150 this year, and the occasion has been planned down to the last detail. Guests will receive recipes with their invitations, asking that they bring German food reminiscent of the era. A musicologist friend will plan the music program for the event but no prizes for guessing the theme. Christian Schubert himself is expected to attend, complete with costume and accent, courtesy of an actor-friend. Johann Christian Schubert arrived in South Australia from Germany in the mid-1840s, marrying Eleanore Zeunert in about 1847 and buying land in the Springhead district for the standard price of one Pound per acre. Built in 1855, Schubert House is a substantial German-style dwelling Stephanie Walker, front garden, Schubert House which has most of its original 1850s features intact, most notably its She also had a friend who had broken Flurkuchenhaus or passage kitchen her leg who needed an outing so house; a large central cooking hall decided to combine the two. with its substantial fireplace located “The house broke all the rules for just inside the front door of the house. presentation for sale,” Stephanie Although the house’s previous owners recalls. “It was freezing cold and quite were responsible for much of the uninviting.” conservation work on the house, It’s hard to picture now. On a cold Stephanie is the one who now breathes winter’s day, even without the fires lit, life into the place. The party is one Schubert House exudes the warmth example, another is her determined of its current custodian. The smell of digging into the lives of the original fresh coffee, the accumulated owners. treasures from a life lived around the She is sceptical but happy to accept globe, stacks of books and a sense the claim that Christian Schubert was of life permeate the house. a first cousin of the famous German In late November the pear tree will be composer Franz Schubert. in blossom and the strains of Schubert’s “Many bearing the Schubert name music and the aromas of 1850s German profess similar claims,” smiles Stephanie. cooking will fill the air. One gets the idea that for Schubert House turning “Most frustrating has been the lack 150 is only the beginning. of personal information or anecdotes about Christian.” Lyn Baxter “The only sense I get is of quite a Communications Officer dour man, one who insisted that only Schubert House “Flurkuchenhaus” or passage kitchen house German be spoken in the school and church.” Not so its current owner. It was 1994 when Stephanie saw the house advertised and thought it a great chance to have a peek inside a slice of South Australian history.

3 Researching Your Property Ever wondered when your property was built? How many owners it has had? There is a wide range of resources available to help you find out.

A good starting point for all properties is the Lands Titles Office (LTO). Although Certificates of Title indicate ownership of land and not the existence of structures on it, they may help narrow down a date of construction or establish the history of ownership of your property. Starting with your current Certificate of Title, you will be able to trace back through all the previous Titles for the property to find out who previous owners were. This task may also give clues as to when the house was constructed: a real estate agent may sell one of a number of allotments to an individual owner, suggesting a construction date after this time. The South Australian Directories or Almanacs, published between 1839 and 1973, are held by the State Library and State Records, and are useful for listing occupiers of buildings and residents of localities. They evolved to Dwelling (‘Vale House’), Levi park, 69 Landsdowne Terrace, Vale Park. Built in the early years of the settlement of South contain an alphabetical listing of the Australia, ‘Vale House’ has been associated with several of the State’s more notable residents, including William Henry Clark, founder of the West End Brewery and Philip Levi, who was influential in the development of the State’s pastoral State’s residents and their addresses, industry in the mid-nineteenth century. as well as street by street listings of buildings and their principal tenants State Government archives are More detailed local history collections in the metropolitan area and some managed by State Records. If your are often held by the local historical country localities. When using the house was once owned or managed society or in the local library or council Directories, however, remember that by a Government agency, they may office. Information may include they record occupiers (rather than hold some information in Government ownership details, photographs owners) and they are not completely Record Groups and Series (GRG and general history of the area. reliable: omissions, reliability of updates and GRS), which may include plans, Various agencies hold maps and and date of collection of information specifications and architects’ aerial photographs that may reveal are some ‘hazards’ to be aware of. and contractors’ details as well as the early settlement of your area. On Otherwise they can be a wonderful information on subsequent alterations some more detailed maps your house resource. or additions. may actually appear as a ‘dot’. The Council assessment (rate) books The Heritage Branch holds a number old Fullers maps held at the LTO give contain information relating to the of heritage surveys, which are useful information relating to the subdivision assessment of rateable value of for gleaning information about more of the Adelaide Metropolitan area. properties within local Councils. The notable places, and these surveys Official aerial photography generally rate assessment books may provide cover most of the settled areas of dates only from the late 1940s. descriptions of buildings and when the state. They may be a good starting References for further reading and compared over time can indicate point for your research. helpful websites can be found in the that a structure has been erected The State Library of South Australia more detailed version of this article through a sudden increase in the holds local histories, commercial on the DEH website at http://www. rateable value of that property. If rate histories, archival photographs, family environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/leaf1_ books have survived they are usually history material, architectural style 11.html held by either the relevant Council manuals, heritage surveys, magazines, One final word of warning - you may or State Records. Councils may also journals and newspapers which may find that your research may become have information regarding the date all be useful to you. addictive! Happy hunting! of construction and subsequent Local histories will give at least a alterations and additions to the house. general background of the history Sarah Laurence of the area in which your property is Senior Heritage Officer located and may even have some information on the house itself.

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Painting of Older Buildings The booklet outlines the historical use It also includes details of some early in South Australia - of colour and building materials in Adelaide painting specifications as South Australia. It also provides well as recipes for limewash, chocolate free to owners of State excellent background information on paint, size and copal varnish. While it heritage-listed places colour theory and the history of paint. focuses on South Australia, the booklet in South Australia. It is full of practical advice, not just on contains a lot of general information and specific references for other areas. Painting of Older Buildings in South how to choose the right colour scheme Australia is essential reading for but on what type of paint to use, how This publication is available for anyone serious about painting an to apply it, what problems can arise purchase for $27.50 by contacting the older building. It aims to redress the and how to solve them. Chapter DEH Information Line (08) 8204 1910, many misconceptions which abound, headings include Colour Scheme or is free to owners of State heritage- and to assist in the confident use of Selection (this chapter contains a very listed places in South Australia by appropriate colours - it even points out useful design checklist), Contemporary contacting the DEH Heritage Branch that a contemporary colour scheme Paint Products, Paint Application, and on (08) 8124 4960 or may be more respectful to an older Quality and Standards. [email protected] building than an inappropriate “heritage” colour scheme.

Need Heritage Advice? The Heritage Advisory Service in South Australia provides professional heritage conservation advice to local communities. Contact your local council to arrange an appointment with a Heritage Adviser.

Adelaide City Council Enfield City Upper Contact DEH Heritage Branch Council City of Pt. Augusta 8124 4960 8405 6600 8641 9100

Adelaide Hills Council Tea Tree Gully City Council Regional Council 8408 1400 8397 7444 8632 1222

Alexandrina Council Unley City Council City Council 8555 7000 8372 5111 8640 3444 Victor Harbor City Council Barossa Council Outback 8551 0500 8563 8444 (unincorporated areas) Clare & Gilbert Valleys Council South East Contact DEH Heritage Branch 8842 6400 Kingston District Council 8124 4960 Gawler Town Council 8767 2033 All other areas of State 8522 9211 Light Regional Council Contact DEH Heritage Branch Goyder Regional Council 8525 3200 8124 4960 8892 0100 Mount Gambier City Council Grant District Council 8721 2555 8721 0444 Naracoorte Lucindale Council Mitcham City Council 8762 2133 8372 8888 Robe District Council Mount Barker District Council 8768 2003 8391 1633 Tatiara District Council Onkaparinga City Council 8752 1044 8364 0666 Wattle Range Council 8737 0900

5 Getting into the Act Heritage legislation in South Australia is about to change. The Heritage Act 1993 is in the process of being amended, and will in future be known as the Heritage Places Act 1993.

The changes will be brought about • a general increase in fines for In this case, the object might have by the Heritage (Heritage Directions) breaches of the Act, with the a different owner, who would be Amendment Bill 2005, which gained highest penalties doubling separately consulted on the potential Royal Assent on 14 July 2005. The to $120,000 listing of the object. amended Act is expected to come • the introduction of civil Damage and neglect into operation in November 2005. enforcement as an alternative The ability of the Heritage Act to deal So what are the changes, and how to criminal prosecution with damage of a heritage place is will they affect those concerned with • greater flexibility in dealing with limited - and in cases of gross neglect, heritage places? damage and neglect of heritage non-existent. In pursuing instances State and local heritage - places of damage, it is necessary to prove a double Bill • extended protection for in Court that it was done intentionally, Improvements to heritage archaeological sites and artefacts bringing into question the state of mind management in South Australia So what are the changes that might of the perpetrator. This is a major are articulated in the Government’s have some direct impact for heritage stumbling block in most cases. To August 2003 discussion paper entitled owners and practitioners? address this inadequacy, a second Heritage Directions: a future for built level of offence will be introduced, A new single heritage Register heritage in South Australia. One of for which the proof of intent will not the targets contained in the Heritage The new South Australian Heritage be required. Directions strategy is legislative reform, Register will centralise all information New provisions will also apply to owners and this has seen the introduction concerning heritage listings and who neglect a State heritage place of two Bills into Parliament - namely zonings within SA. Any member to the extent that its significance the Heritage Bill as mentioned above of the public will be able to access is threatened. This measure is not concerning State heritage, and the information about their property in one intended to be punitive or to apply Development (Sustainable place - including any national, State to general maintenance tasks, but can Development) Amendment Bill 2005 or local listing it may have, or whether be used where the basic integrity of which incorporates changes to local it falls within a State Heritage Area or the place is compromised, such as heritage management. The two Bills are an Historic (Conservation) Zone/policy major structural distress left unattended complementary and integrated in their area. or a vacant building being left open approach to heritage reform. Protecting movable objects to the weather, theft of fixtures, The Heritage Places Act 1993 Until now, the Heritage Act has only occupation by squatters and so on. Many of the changes being made to been able to protect significant Financial incentives the Heritage Act will be largely invisible elements of a place that are legally A related amendment to another Act to those involved in the day-to-day part of the place, such as buildings, is set to benefit owners of local heritage care of State heritage places, but are fences and fixtures - but not movable places. The Valuation of Land Act 1971 nevertheless important in securing objects such as furniture. This means has provision for reduced property a better, more responsive framework. for instance that important items such valuations for State heritage places, These changes include: as the historic table around which the and this is to be extended to include State’s Premiers and Cabinet Ministers • a new South Australian Heritage local heritage places. The valuation met from 1876 to the late 1960s cannot Council to replace the State must take the heritage listing into currently be protected by the Heritage Heritage Authority, its role elevated account and ignore any potential use Act, even though the Cabinet Room to a higher strategic level of the place that is inconsistent with the in which it sits is covered by the State preservation of its heritage significance. • renaming of the State Heritage heritage listing of the former Treasury The benefit of a reduced valuation Register and the State Heritage Building (now the Medina Grand flows on to any valuation-based rate Fund as the South Australian Treasury Hotel). The new Heritage or tax - including water and sewer Heritage Register and South Places Act will now allow such objects rates, council rates and land tax Australian Heritage Fund - where they can be shown to have - meaning a real and ongoing financial • a simpler process for transferring an intrinsic relationship with the benefit to the owner. places from State to local listing significance of a listed State heritage where appropriate place - to be protected as part of that place, even if they are located elsewhere.

6 Archaeological protection Historic bell returns Historic shipwrecks The protection of archaeological sites to South-East protected and artefacts is currently limited to Almost 111 years ago, the Scottish New legislation proclaimed in June listed State heritage places, but under merchant ship the Aeolus, enroute from has extended protection for South the new Act this will be extended Cape Town to Melbourne, sailed on to Australian shipwrecks by ensuring across the whole State. A permit treacherous reefs off South Australia’s all wrecks are regarded as ‘historic’ will be required for undertaking . and are protected when 75 years have an archaeological investigation elapsed since the wrecking. The crew abandoned the listing ship, anywhere in South Australia, and there managing to retrieve most of their Shipwrecks in State waters were will be new reporting requirements if personal effects, landing in two previously assessed on a case by case significant artefacts are encountered lifeboats near Cape Banks Lighthouse. basis to determine whether they were during routine non-archaeological The ship remained wedged on the of historic significance. Many wrecks excavation, such as construction work, rocky reef, breaking up in stormy were left vulnerable without legal trenching for services and so on. weather. protection. New measures will also prohibit trade in artefacts - including geological, Abalone diver Darcy Eldridge “We have a very rich maritime history palaeontological or speleological discovered the bell diving on the in Australia, and certainly in South specimens - that have been illegally wreck many years ago. The bell was Australia. Our coastline evokes stories removed. handed over to the then Department of tragedy, of hardship and of disaster, of Environment and Natural Resources with ships foundering on reefs and Recognition of by Mr Eldridge in 1996. rocks or lashed by storms and wrecked. heritage practitioners These ships were often bringing new Its conservation began with the bell The new South Australian Heritage settlers, or important cargo and immersed in a water and citric acid Council will ensure that appropriate supplies for our fledgling colony… solution to remove chlorides. The bell skills and expertise are brought to South Australia’s start to life was very was then cleaned and coated with the preparation of heritage surveys, much dependent on the ships for a clear lacquer to protect it from conservation management plans transportation of people and goods,” corrosion. and heritage policy by maintaining said Environment and Conservation The Minister for Environment and a register of recognised heritage Minister John Hill. Conservation John Hill was pleased practitioners. Recognition criteria will The legislation brings South Australia to hand over the Aeolus bell to the be broadly-based, encompassing into line with other state and Port MacDonnell and District Maritime qualifications, acquired skills and Commonwealth laws. The penalties Museum in May. Both the shipwreck experience. for interfering, damaging, disposing and the bell are protected under the For further information on the changes of or removing a shipwreck are $5000 Commonwealth Historic Shipwrecks being introduced in the new Heritage and/or five year’s imprisonment. There Act 1976. Places Act 1993, contact Peter Wells are up to 800 shipwrecks recorded in on 8124 4935 or South Australian waters, including the [email protected]. River Murray.

Port MacDonnell and District Maritime Museum secretary Veronica Jenkin is presented with the Aeolus bell by Environment and Conservation Minister John Hill. Image courtesy of The Border Watch, Mt Gambier.

7 Edmund Wright Heritage Awards 2005 A project which has revitalised the heritage heart of Mt Gambier by redeveloping the City Hall and adjacent Cave Garden Reserve has taken out the major award in the 2005 Edmund Wright Heritage Awards.

Minister for Environment and Winners and commended entries in the Conservation John Hill presented 2005 Edmund Wright Heritage Awards the Minister’s Award for Outstanding were: Contribution to the team responsible for the redevelopment at a ceremony held at Edmund Wright House on September 16. The award-winning entry for the City Hall and Cave Garden Stage II redevelopment acknowledged the following contributors: The City of Mount Gambier; Chapman Herbert Architects; the South East Heritage Mt Gambier City Hall Advisory Service; landscape architects Fifth Studio; civic/structural engineers Former Megaw & Hogg building, new offices; view Jones Tonkin; electrical/mechanical between the spaces engineers SECON and construction manager SJ Weir. Heritage The judges were impressed with Homes how the redevelopment has helped Winner: Brock House - Conservation to create a civic precinct and a • Kevin & Mardi Verrion major focus for the town, praising The Cave Garden and Civic Buildings Precinct, Mount Commended: Amande - Conservation the project’s sound research and Gambier. The Town Hall with clock tower is rear right, understanding of the heritage value City Hall is in the middle, with the Riddoch Art Gallery • Ann Marie Creighton on the left. of the property and its locality. & Pierre Verlinden They commented that excellent conservation work and the sensitive Minister’s Award for combination of old and new had Outstanding Contribution achieved outstanding results. Winner: City Hall and Cave Garden The redevelopment provides a much- Stage II Redevelopment – Mt Gambier need overhaul of the City Hall building • City of Mt Gambier and reorganises existing facilities to • Chapman Herbert Architects make the best use of available space. • Department for Environment Brock House, Greenock Sympathetic architectural design & Heritage - South East Heritage ensures that the building maintains its Advisory Service historic character while incorporating a new contemporary multi-purpose • Fifth Creek Studio space. • Jones Tonkin The Cave Garden Reserve, which • SECON separates the City Hall from the Civic • SJ Weir Centre, has been meticulously Amande, McLaren Vale redeveloped. A previous winner of an Edmund Wright Heritage Award, Stage Heritage Places (Non-Residential) I of this unique garden was completed Heritage Trades in 2002, while Stage II completes the Winner: City Hall and Cave Garden And Products Stage II Redevelopment – Mt Gambier effective transition between the built Winner: Scotch College Front Gates form of the City Hall and the Commended: Former Megaw & Hogg - Reconstruction surrounding landscape. Building: New Offices – Adaptive Reuse • David Johnson Award winners and commended • Woodhead International Commended: Reinstatement of original entries in other categories showed wall decoration of the Summer Sitting how much outstanding work is being Room, Ayers House – Restoration done in this State to conserve, restore, • DAIS Building Management promote and celebrate heritage. • McDougall & Vines • James Kergon Decorations

8 View winning and commended entries at www.heritage.sa.gov.au/awards • Andrew Steinkopf • City of Onkaparinga • National Trust of SA • Malcolm Harrington Commended: Conservation works to Commended: Journal of the Historical the ceiling and frieze of the Summer Society of South Australia Sitting Room, Ayers House • Historical Society of South Australia • National Trust of SA Commended: Heritage Fencing • DAIS Building Management – Multiple Projects • Artlab Australia • Matthew Portus • Alan Williams Waite Volunteers attending a University appreciation event at Bonython Hall, Dec. 2004

Reconstructed front gates, Scotch College. John Reynell Heritage Park Mt Gambier courtroom

Planning for Heritage Winner: Colonel Light Gardens Conservation Management Plan • Robyn Taylor • Simon Weidenhofer Conserving the ceiling of the Summer Sitting Room, Ayers House.

New Development in Heritage Commended: Sturt Street Community School – Conservation and Reuse • Woodhead International The Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia

Colonel Light Gardens Conservation Management Plan.

North Adelaide Primary School, fence designed by Heritage Fencing in conjunction with Swanbury Penglase Architects. The Edmund Wright Heritage Heritage Awards Volunteers Judges for 2005 Winner: Urrbrae House Historic Julie Blackmore, Masterplan Precinct - Conservation Christine Garnaut, Director, Sturt Street Community School • Urrbrae House Historic Precinct Architecture Museum, UniSA Volunteers Alan Graham, Chief Executive Heritage Stories – Commended: National Trust SA Mount Officer, National Trust of SA Promotion, Education And Interpretation Gambier Branch - Restoration of Steve Grieve, Grieve-Gillett Commended: John Reynell Courtroom, Mt Gambier Courthouse Michael Harbison, Lord Mayor, City Heritage Park • National Trust SA - Mount Gambier of Adelaide • Reynell Business & Tourism Branch George Kambitsis, Kambitsis Group Association Inc. • Green Corps Tim Lloyd, The Advertiser Kate Walsh, History Trust of SA

View winning and commended entries at www.heritage.sa.gov.au/awards 9 From Bakery to Blast Furnace – the dilemmas of industrial heritage If you are the owner of a heritage-listed house, the issues regarding its maintenance and conservation may seem overwhelming. But have you ever thought about the extent of problems associated with the conservation and maintenance of industrial sites?

The heritage of our industry is as much Conservation a part of our history and our past as One of the main reasons that attitudes our more domestic relics, but has towards later industrial sites tend to long been seen as the poor relation be cold or at best lukewarm lies within of heritage - the ‘black sheep’ of the their very fabric. heritage family. Industrial sites, and in The use of materials such as brick particular later 20th century sites, are and stone in earlier 19th century arguably the most difficult reminders industrial buildings engenders these of our past to deal with in terms of sites with a certain presence, a sense conservation and preservation as well of longevity and solidity that the iron as public acceptance. These places and glass of later industrial buildings are also often difficult to assess, their does not. Although both have played design and construction is considered a significant role in South Australia’s too ugly or utilitarian to be of any history, the detailed masonry of the significance, and they are often Modern winery storage facillity, Lyndoch railway workshops at Islington are likely daunting in their complexity and size. to pose fewer conservation issues than Assessment the corrugated iron sheds of the former The process of assessing industrial Holden factory at Woodville. sites is often ‘clouded’ by issues of By their very nature industrial and technological change (the rapid engineering sites are built for a very increase in the rate of technological specific function or purpose. Once development in the latter half of the that function or purpose ceases 20th century means that the age of to exist, there may be little other use an item may have little relevance to for the place: a bridge can be used its significance) or of complexity (how for little else apart from a bridge; do you decide which bits of a large a power station for little other than industrial site are the most relevant the generation of power. to the heritage value of that site and As many such sites were built for therefore worth preserving?) or even a financial gain, so their ongoing Distillery and Charger Shed, Seppeltsfield Winery, of social attitude. Seppeltsfield, maintenance was covered by that It is easy to assess the winery buildings gain. Once they are no longer at Seppeltsfield, for example, as being economically viable, there is little to of importance to the early winemaking support their ongoing maintenance, industry in South Australia, which let alone conservation. demonstrates early use of gravity feed The brick kilns at Nuriootpa are an in the wine making process on a large example of this. Regular firing for the scale and marking the beginning of production of bricks and terracotta industrial looking wineries. But will it be products ensured that the kilns as easy to assess the modern wineries were well maintained during their - the stainless steel and ‘pseudo- operational life. Now that they are petrochemical plants’ of the newer no longer used, these kilns have wineries scattered about the Barossa? undergone an alarming decline - the fabric is no longer dried out by the firing and this, combined with the previous Three original Down-Draught Brick Kilns and Chimney, effects of the heat, has meant that the Krieg’s (previously Nuriootpa) Brickyard, Murray Street, kilns are now on the verge of collapse, Nuriootpa. virtually beyond repair.

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Scale One particularly topical issue regarding The sheer size and complexity of some re-use of industrial sites is that of industrial sites is daunting, posing some contamination. The Whyalla Steelworks interesting challenges. continues to pump its red dust across that town, Port Pirie has the highest The remains of the Wallaroo smelters, rates of lead contamination in the including the Hughes chimney stack state and of course, the ‘mother’ of (36m high), represent what was once them all, Maralinga, continues to make the largest smelter site in South headlines, more than 45 years after the Australia, producing about 5,300 nuclear tests undertaken there. tonnes of copper a year between 1860 and 1913. On the other hand, Conclusion Petaluma’s Bridgewater Mill (former Dunn’s Flour Mill), the Pasminco Smelters at Port Pirie, Although there are many seemingly Mount Barker Road, Bridgewater towered over by the 205m high insurmountable difficulties, and only chimney, has a total annual output of so many museums, trendy apartments lead, zinc and silver of 740,000 tonnes. and art galleries that can be absorbed Apart from the obvious differences in by the re-use of industrial sites, we the complexity and technology of the must try to retain what is left of our two sites, you can imagine that if there later and less appealing industrial are considerable issues associated with heritage and to engender a greater conserving a 36 metre high chimney, public and corporate awareness and there would certainly be some relating appreciation of the physical remains of Modern winery storage facillity, Lyndoch to a chimney 205 metres high! our significant industrial achievements. Re-use This article is the text of a paper presented at the State History Even the application of the long- Conference, held at Whyalla held heritage conservation ethos of in May 2005. Former Hoffman Brick Kiln, Brickworks Market adaptive re-use is not easily applied (former Hallett Brickworks), South Road, Torrensville to industrial sites. Sarah Laurence In the case of industrial sites, it tends Senior Heritage Officer to be the earlier places that have fared better in this way. The 1859 Bridgewater Mill has been successfully adapted for re-use as a restaurant and cellar door facility for Petaluma, but the Hoffman Brick kiln on South Road at Torrensville, a significant Distillery and Charger Shed, Seppeltsfield Winery, Seppeltsfield, Barossa Valley and rare example of its type, is now only used as a covered area for the Brickworks Market. Some ‘new’ uses perhaps don’t really do the place justice! The general problem with Three original Down-Draught Brick Kilns and Chimney, Krieg’s (previously Nuriootpa) Brickyard, Murray Street, most industrial sites is that they are Nuriootpa. purpose built. This is more of a problem with some places than others. It would be easier to re-use a structure like the Adelaide Milling Company Mill at Port Adelaide than the Playford power station at or a smelter such as that at Whyalla … and what do you do with the killing and processing rooms of an abattoir, or the workings of a blast furnace?

Wallaroo Smelters Site, Wallaroo.

11 Former Dunn Memorial Church entered in State Heritage Register The Mount Barker Uniting Church (former Dunn Memorial Church) is a recent addition to the State Heritage Register and was judged to meet criterion ‘g’ – ‘it has a special association with the life or work of a person or organisation or an event of historical importance’.

John Dunn, sometimes described Dunn made an even more substantial as the ‘father of Mount Barker’, had contribution to the building of the a lifetime of commitment to the second church, providing over £4,000 Wesleyans in that town. - the total cost of construction and He arrived in South Australia in 1840 all the fixtures and fittings. Dunn left as an experienced flour miller and many other legacies to the community, established a mill (1844) and business particularly in Mount Barker itself. He in Mount Barker, the beginnings of a gave the land and a gift of £300 for the milling enterprise which was to make Dunn Park Oval; donated £400 towards Dunn one of South Australia’s most the showground and also gave noted and successful flour millers. generously to the Institute committee. He had constructed twelve cottages Dunn’s enterprise and influence spread in Mount Barker, known as the Salem across the state. He had mills operating Cottages, ‘for indigent widows and in an area from the Flinders Ranges spinsters’. He also left £15,000 in his will through the mid-North to the Adelaide to various institutions and charities. Hills over a period that spanned more Of all his gifts, however, the Dunn than fifty years. Three of Dunn’s mills Memorial Church was the most are represented in the State Heritage generous. At the time it was made the Register: his first at Mount Barker (1844), gift of the church building was believed the Bridgewater Mill (1859) and one at to be ‘the largest individual donation Quorn (1879). The cottage that he built which has been conferred on a for himself and his family at Mount religious denomination in this colony’ Barker in 1844 is also entered in (Mount Barker Courier, 12 September the Register. 1884, 2g). Dunn was a very religious man who Details of Dunn’s life and work can believed strongly that the work of be found in A. Stuart (ed) A Miller’s God was performed through ordinary Tale: the memoirs of John Dunn of people. From the early days of his Mount Barker, Waterwheel Books, arrival in Mount Barker he was Kingswood, 1991 and A. R. Mills Fixed engaged in church activities there, Mount Barker Uniting Church (former Dunn to the Wind: A history of the pioneer providing the venue for the first religious Memorial Church) flour miller and Wesleyan: John Dunn services and Sunday school in the town of Mount Barker, The author, and being involved in the building Kanmantoo, 1984. of the first church (for multi- denominational use). He participated actively in the establishment of the first Sarah Laurence Wesleyan church in Mount Barker Senior Heritage Officer (the current Church Hall), assisting with the cost of purchasing the land as well as the construction of the church by quarrying the stone.

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New website-State Conservation work Heritage Areas revitalises bank building of South Australia The former Savings Bank building, www.stateheritageareas.sa.gov.au colloquially referred to as the ‘Radio Cabinet’ for its smoothly curved and Expected to ‘go live’ before the end stepped ‘moderne’ facades, has been of the year, this new DEH website will returned successfully to its former glory hold a wealth of information about our after an extensive year long $1.3 million State’s built heritage, particularly the 17 project. State Heritage Areas. Built in 1945, the building, now the State These are a diverse group of regions Several stones were removed from under the northern Bank of South Australia, was entered representing unique aspects of projecting abutments prior to new replacement stone in the State Heritage Register in 1986. being installed. the State’s natural and cultural Architecturally, it is considered a heritage. Some are recognised for precursor to the high- rise buildings their architectural merits, layout or of post World War II. Historically, the contributions to South Australia’s building is significant because it development, while others are represents a wholly South Australian predominantly natural areas of scenic Bank established in the early years or geological importance. No two of the colony. State Heritage Areas are alike, differing not only in significance, but also in size Sydney firm Hyder Consulting, and location across the State. in association with local heritage architects and consultants Bruce Harry The State Heritage Areas of South and Associates, has guided the Australia website will provide extensive conservation works. These comprehensive information about included the cleaning and repair of the each of these regions. It will feature: entire east façade including the returns The completed façade following completion of • detailed descriptions and images extensive conservation works. to the north. of the 17 State Heritage Areas The central carved feature entitled • fact sheets for significant places ‘Prosperity through Thrift’ was removed within each Area from the building to be restored, • location maps and aerial cleaned and its mounting photographs re-engineered prior to refitting. • visitor and access advice Limestone required for repair of the • information about protection, building’s facades has been obtained conservation and legislation by reopening a quarry at Waikerie in • publications and links for additional the area of South Australia. research and information The quarry was one of several which began operation in the 1930s and For further information contact the which provided stone for several King DEH Heritage Branch on 8124 4960. William Street buildings and many of The carved feature ‘Prosperity through Thrift’ which was Adelaide’s memorials of the period. removed for cleaning and re-fixing of a new frame prior The last of the quarries in the Waikerie to refitting to the building. area closed in 1982.

Moonta Mines State Heritage Area.

13 Heritage Branch News

Audit of State Heritage South Australian Heritage Heritage Friday Forum Places (the ‘fieldwork Database (SAHD) The Heritage Branch hosts a regular series of Heritage Friday Forums project’) We have a dream... by the end of next presenting short, informal talks on an The State Heritage Register is now year, we hope to have a database interesting aspect of heritage - usually 26 years old and contains almost 2200 that is easily accessible and searchable held at Keswick or a convenient city entries. Some of these places have not via the web. (Currently only selected location. Invitations are by email a been visited since they were originally fields from our database are released couple of weeks before the event. If listed, and in many cases our records to the Australian Heritage Places you would like to be included on the are out-of-date and incomplete. The Inventory web site.) This involves a lot invitation list, send your email address time has come for a comprehensive of work because our current database to [email protected]. If audit of our State Heritage Places! is over eight years old; is not very user- you don’t have an email address, but Over the next two to three years, friendly or easy to search; and needs would still like to know when the next Branch staff and fieldwork contractors many modifications before it can take Forum is on, contact Lyn Baxter on 8124 will be carrying out a systematic all of the data we should have in our 4947 to be added to the snail mail list! survey of all places to collect the “Single Heritage Register”. Our missing data. Products of the fieldwork database currently has almost 2,200 If you haven’t been to a Heritage project will include current external State heritage places in it as well as Friday Forum lately, you’ve missed: photographs, a site plan showing over 4,000 local heritage places. During • Paul Stark: Athens, Venice exactly which components are the next few years, we anticipate and Burra, equated?? significant, descriptions of significant these entries will be considerably • Professor Donald Langmead: fabric, a condition and risk assessment, augmented as local Councils review The Planning of Adelaide and an initial review of the place’s their Development Plans and add local • Patricia Sumerling: Adelaide pubs comparative heritage value. The heritage places and areas. Eventually, fieldwork project will help us to update the SA Heritage Database will be a Coming up on 4 November: our database records, identify places one-stop-shop where you can type John Dallwitz speaking about and that are potentially at risk, and review in an address and find out whether a demonstrating his work on the Ara the range of places in the Register. place is individually listed and/or within Irititja Project – a multi-media digital a heritage area. If it is in the database, archive of the Pitjantjatjara people. you will then be able to find out what Upper Spencer Gulf we know about it, including where Heritage Advice you should look for further information. Heritage SA Newsletter This is a service that will help to make Port Pirie, Whyalla and Port Augusta available online heritage information more accessible can now also access heritage advice If you prefer to get your heritage news to anyone who needs to know. It would through the new appointed Upper online rather than in print please let us be helpful to get some idea of just how Spencer Gulf Heritage Advisory Service. know and we will put you on our email many people would like to use this This service is administered by the distribution list. Contact Lyn Baxter on database via the web, so please email Northern Regional Development [email protected] or by Anna Pope on pope.anna@saugov. Board and jointly funded by the three phone on 8124 4947. sa.gov.au putting “Yes, tell me when I councils and DEH. For information can access the SAHD” in the subject contact your relevant Council: heading. City of Pt. Augusta New Heritage 8641 9100 Branch Staff Port Pirie Regional Council State Heritage Welcome Bernadette Irwin, 8632 1222 Conservation Project Officer Fund - Grants and Heritage Officer Deb Morgan. Whyalla City Council Applications for grants from the State 8640 3444 Heritage Fund for 2005 closed at the end of June. The next round of grants will be advertised early in 2006. Outback Heritage Advice The Outback Heritage Advisory Service commenced 1 July, providing heritage Blast from the Past advice to the unincorporated outback 2005 State History Conference areas of South Australia. Contact the - Whyalla DEH Heritage Branch for information Bernadette Irwin Deb Morgan on 8124 4960. Papers from this successful Conference held in May are now available online at the History Trust website http://www.history.sa.gov.au/chu/ programs/history_conference.htm

14 Heritage Seminars

Help for Local Councils to More information about Heritage Planning Seminars and the Heritage Look After Heritage Assets Advisory Service is available by More than thirty delegates from local contacting the Heritage Branch councils learnt how to identify and on telephone 8124 4956. manage their heritage assets at a seminar held by DEH at Kadina in March, the fourth regional Heritage Consultants seminar Planning seminar organised by the In June the Heritage Branch, together Heritage Branch of DEH. with Planning SA, convened a Heritage Councils represented at the seminar Consultants Seminar to provide a forum Attending the Consultants’ Seminar L-R: Margaret included the , Flinders Heathcote, Amy Nhan, Liz Vines, Therese Willis for professionals working in the heritage Ranges, Mid-Murray, Copper Coast, field. Topics for discussion included: Mt Remarkable, Wakefield and Orroroo • The Heritage (Heritage Directions) Carrieton. Amendment Bill 2005 “Local Government is where • What is the State Heritage everything begins in regard to heritage Register? management and planning,” said seminar presenter Kate McDougall • Proposed upgrades to the SA of McDougall and Vines Conservation Heritage Database & Heritage Consultants. • Future heritage surveys “Responsibility for assessing and • Changes to the planning system managing local heritage assets rests • Accreditation of heritage survey with local government and they need consultants. to know how the processes work,” Attending the Consultants’ Seminar L-R: Claire Booth, she said. Bernadette Irwin, Robyn Taylor, Sarah Laurence

Manning Index of South Australian History

The Manning Index of South Australian Want to know what the wives of newspaper articles reporting on History is now available online at the unemployed were doing in South picnics, including picnics held for www.slsa.sa.gov.au/manning, following Australia during the Depression? barbers, hairdressers, tobacconists, its purchase by the State Government Manning’s index points to the following dairymen, bakers, fishermen, draymen, on the recommendation of the State reference: cabmen and linen drapers. Not to Heritage Authority. South Australia - the Depression Years mention the first butchers’ picnic This invaluable tool indexes a large - 1930 to 1936 - Females reported in the Register, 5 November 1880: number of South Australian newspapers “Wives of the Unemployed - What Are and magazines for a range of subject They Doing” is in the Observer, “Of course larrikins were present in areas for the period 1837 to 1936 and is 21 August 1930, page 53d. strong force, but beyond two or three now available through the State Library scrimmages or free fights there was Or to find out what Adelaide thought of South Australia website. nothing to complain of..”. about talking movies, go to: Compiled by Geoffrey Manning, The State Library holds all of the Adelaide - Entertainment and the Art the public availability of this index will publications indexed and can provide be a great asset for historians and “New Talkie Wonders Promised” is copies. Library staff can also advise other researchers, and will play an in the Register, 2 and 4 March 1927, customers on the finer points of using important role in assisting both the pages 5c and 13d. the Index. study and appreciation of our history Picnics were big news in the late and our heritage. 1800s; Manning’s Index refers to many Launched by the Minister for Environment and Conservation, John Hill, and the Director of the State Library, Alan Smith, the new website provides a window into our past through the stories being reported in the press at the time. The Index contains many thousands of references including extensive selected text from the indexed publications, other primary and secondary sources and numerous extracts from Mr Manning’s own writings. ‘North Terrace’ painting by ST Gill. Image courtesy of the State Library of South Australia. B7170.

15 Events

Heritage related events, conferences, workshops and seminars around the State: September – December 2005

NOW NOV NOV Wrecked! Tragedy Schools Heritage Heritage Friday on and the Southern Seas 2 Competition 4 Forum Adelaide There are 850 shipwrecks along the Presentation Ceremony. John Dallwitz will speak about and South Australian coast each telling The annual Schools Heritage demonstrate his work on the Ara Irititja a story of drama and tragedy from Competition, coordinated by DEH, Project - a multi-media digital archive a time when shipping was part of daily aims to improve South Australian of the Pitjantjatjara people. John has life and immigrants came to Australia students’ understanding of our State’s managed the Social History Unit of by sea. This exhibition tells some of built heritage. This year’s competition the Pitjantjatjara Council for the last those stories. culminates in a ceremony at State decade and has been instrumental Venue: South Australian Maritime heritage-listed Urrbrae House with the in creating this private library for the Museum presentation of prizes to winning entries Pitjantjatjara people. The Archive holds more than 50,000 high quality images Date: until 16 October for the 2005 theme OUR HERITAGE - THEIR STORIES: Telling Tales of Heritage and hundreds of hours of audio. Cost: admission fees apply Places. Venue: 1 Richmond Rd, Keswick www.history.sa.gov.au/maritime/ exhibitions.htm Venue: Urrbrae House, Urrbrae Date: 4 November, 4pm – 5.30pm Date: 2 November Cost: Free Cost: Free, by invitation only Enquiries: (08) 0124 4947 Enquiries: (08) 8124 4957

Congratulations The Department for 50 years of advocating for and Environment and Heritage conserving the State’s built, congratulates the National natural and movable cultural Trust of South Australia on its 50heritage. achievements as it celebratesyears 16