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Olea (1880). Opened
TULYA WODLI: 937 Report on’ site together with the site of Of some aesthetic, social and and the Weir. A relatively healthy small ide Tribe Sheds’ were erected associated the demise of Corporation’s Cattle and
2 Sheriff Boothby established Olive ( a symbolic memorial thread along the northern Of some design and historical merit. : a garden plantation established alongside North Terrace and section): rd
4.0 ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF COMPONENTS ) Plantation C: a strip plantation located between the River the original ‘Aboriginal Locati the original ‘Aboriginal
europea
Olea the Colonial Store (Iron Store) and Signal Station (mound) on escarpment. This Precinct hosted several important post-contact institutions, Aboriginal and military functions, sites of death and education instrumental in the first few years of governance in the colony. In particular the post-contact Aboriginal associations as to this site are significance. oral During the course of developing Par 3 golf being uncovered, and advice recorded evidence of bones and building materials renovations to the ground surface of golf course has disguised site the Store. Both sites would contain archaeological evidence, and the former contains cultural meanings and significance to the Aboriginal Kaurna communities. some historical and cultural significance. Plantation that has been forgotten about due to its relatively inaccessible location. Also located approximately where the ‘Adela Piltawodli Precinct: Torrens/Karrawirra Parri and the railway line plantation, part of the original 186 Olive (
flank of the River Torrens/Karrawirra Parri that appropriates lower carriage drive location and planting design strategy proposed by Brown in his by Governor General Lord Foster. North Terrace Plantation North Terrace the Adelaide Railway Yards in the 1920s with Market Yards in the far eastern portion of Tulya Wodli/Park 27 and excisions to enable land for railways purposes, which Pelzer transformed into a garden precinct with some assistance from the Railways Corporation. historical merit . Drive (3 War Memorial
.
Of
Of Fraxinus ) in the 1960s-70s camaldulensis
of Port Road in Tulya Wodli/Park 27. former ‘The Location’ encampment by together with the original locations of a drainage swale constructed in the late
opment in the early 1960s, but still could
drainage of Tulya Wodli/Park 27A. Takes a associations and meanings now erased as a erhouse & Cattle Yards Sites: an assemblage of a large shallow circular pond often used for model : a small tract of land occupied by the Children’s Road Of some design merit. Bonython Park Circular Pond: of the Bonython Park development boat sailing developed in the early-mid 1960s as part edged by a collection of more recent pergol structures, an earthen mound which was the soil excavated from pond basin, and a series of mature American Ash ( Bromley was located as identified by Harris, Corporation’s former Slaughterhouse and associated Cattle Yards site demolished. The site exists as a place with its historical sites located above The Billabong where the consequence of the Bonython Park devel possess archaeological evidence beneath the re-contouring that was undertaken. americana ) trees. Location’, Slaught Former ‘The some historical, archaeological, social and cultural merit. Children’s Road Safety School Safety School since 1964 on the northern side some social merit. Tulya Wodli/Park 27A Drainage Swale: 1920s – early 1930s by Pelzer to assist 1930s by Pelzer 1920s – early north-east – south-west alignment. Located in the northern portion of Tulya Wodli/Park 27. Planted with River Red Gums ( Eucalyptus Of some engineering merit.
Of some engineering TULYA WODLI: 938 Of some historical Of some engineering and 1967 as part of plans prepared by 1967 as part and electrical substation structure located ss across the River Torrens/Karrawirra Parri the overall Bonython Park development to
a Carey Gully rendered refreshment pavilion
a multiple cream brick painted, Carey Gully stone timber and steel fabricated access bridge enabling
4.0 ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF COMPONENTS Of some social, aesthetic and design merit. concrete stone structure constructed in Bonython Park Refreshment Pavilion: with toilets erected in conjunction the mid 1960s Bonython Park development, over the ‘Billabong’ and echoing design imagery envisaged by offering an outlook Veale as seen at Stanley Park in Vancouver, Canada, but without the multi-gabled articulated roof. Bonython Park Maintenance Shed: rendered, corrugated iron roofed maintenance on the escarpment between Pavilion and Lower Weir. merit. Lower Weir: the Corporation, and developed as part of create the existing shallow lake from the former ‘Billabong’. aesthetic merit. Lower Weir Access Bridge: maintenance vehicular, foot and horse acce located adjacent to the Lower Weir. Reconstructed in the 1990s. and aesthetic merit.
Of some design Of some design and Of some design merit. Of some historical, design Of some historical, aesthetic, located in the Corporation abutment (central foreground in image).
two concrete stucco rendered pillars and edit
the original segment of Port Adelaide Railway ick annexe on the southern side.
ver Torrens/Karrawirra Parri. ver Torrens/Karrawirra Parri. a small castellated dull green painted building adjacent to the railway with the ‘Native Location’ of Piltawodli to the north. social and botanical merit. Tulya Wodli/Park 27 Maintenance & Storage Shed: depot on Slaughterhouse Road, a light green colourbond covered shed, gabled roof, with a light brown br merit. Railway Bridge Pedestrian Abutments: associated with a pedestrian route beneath the northern and Port railway lines constructed in the 1960s in conjunction with the Bonython Park development enabling recreational access along the Ri engineering merit. Railway Bridge and Abutments: abutments (1854), bowstring bridge on the Port Adelaide line Line bridge including (1876), with its stone and concrete rendered On the north-eastern side of present railway bridge. and engineering merit. Syphon Station: pedestrian underpass, associated with river works in the 1960s.
There are several recreation and Council maintenance service structures in Tulya Wodli/Park 27 as follows: Structures
TULYA WODLI: 939 ansport Diana Laidlaw . the main building complex, erected in port, Frank Blevins, as part of the ‘North a dull green painted brick pavilion with the 1960s, located in central portion of Of some engineering merit.
Of some historical merit. Of some historical merit. located on Port Road, a multi-laned vehicular bridge, designed
4.0 ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF COMPONENTS Of some social merit. Of some engineering merit located on Park Terrace, a multi-laned vehicular bridge designed North Adelaide Railway Station Assemblage: North Adelaide Railway 1857, is located on the eastern side of the railway line, in Piltawodli/Park 1, but a but located on the eastern side of railway line, in Piltawodli/Park 1, 1857, is platform with stone walling exists on the western side. Associated Signal Box, a part of this assemblage, was erected in 1880. Park Terrace Bridge: Park Terrace by the Department of Transport in 1990. Opened by the federal Member of Adelaide, Dr Bob Catley, and the state Minister of Trans West Ring Route’, on 5 September 1990. Port Road Bridge East: Tr by the Department of Transport, opened state Minister on 27 September 1990. Tulya Wodli/Park 27A Pavilion: located in the northern portion of Tulya Wodli/Park a flat green, with and olive pavilion painted dull green, light green-grey, 27, a red brick skillion galvanised roof. John Vaughan Equestrian Park Pavilion: low skillion galvanised iron roof erected in Tulya Wodli/Park 27, and now a venue for the Equestrian Federation of Australia (South Australian Branch). Of some social merit.
Of some engineering merit. architect Bruce Whitbread as part of the Of some engineering and aesthetic
. Of some aesthetic and design merit. Of some design merit. two Carey Gully stone rendered, skillion roofed, toilet a nondescript reinforced concrete structure designed and Of some engineering and aesthetic merit. overall Bonython Park development Western Weir: of the same design and history to Lower Weir, affording similar values. Central Bonython Park Toilet Pavilion: a Carey Gully sandstone rendered, inverted gabled corrugated iron roofed, toilet structure designed by Corporation landscape architect Bruce Whitbread and erected as part of the overall Bonython Park development in the early 1960s. structures designed by Corporation landscape North Bonython Park Toilets: Western Weir Access Bridge: of the same design and history to Lower similar values. Access Bridge, and affording merit. Port Road Bridge North: erected by the Department of Transport in 1996.
TULYA WODLI: 940 Of some social merit.
located on the eastern edge of Lake nstruction of the Port and Gawler ractor A Mackay to a design by JHC orey construction in limestone with stucco ge to a Benjamin Babbage design for £8000 station platform. Alternations were m painted besser block two storey structure e earliest of railway stations erected in the
neering, and design merit. Of some historical and architectural merit. Of some historical and architectural constructed in 1857 as part of the construction Rowing Clubhouse:
4.0 ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF COMPONENTS Of some social and design merit. Of some historical and engi visual presence on this part of the River Torrens/Karrawirra Parri lake and from Morphett Street Bridge. Station: North Adelaide Railway the railway line to Gawler, it is amongst th 1850s to survive in South Australia. Single st dressings covered by a gabled corrugated iron roof, with accompanying concave corrugated iron verandah overhanging the doors, and the west-facing verandah. In 1880 undertaken in 1876 to windows, station was partially extended. A signal box was also constructed in 1880. The station was extensively damage by fire in 1987. of the co erected in 1854 as part Railway Bridge: bridge spanned 106 feet over the River,lines, and was completed in 1855. The 32 feet (9.75m) below, with girders at 13 feet (3.96m) intervals and Torrens Valley limestone abutments 5 feet (1.5m) thick. Castings were founded by Pybus with ironwork wrought by Baker. Jacob Pitman constructed the brid and a bowstring arch added on the over 13 months. The bridge was upgraded in 1876 eastern flank under James Martin & Co and was transferred to its present position when upgrade works were undertaken in 1925. Of some historical and engineering merit. Torrens Weir: an imposing concrete sluice gate structure constructed by contractors to a design by RM Scott, and opened on 23 May 1929 Mayor Atkins & Finlayson Bonython that added to the original Torrens Weir structure that was constructed of concrete and opened on 21 July 1881 by cont Langdon. Pulteney Grammar School Torrens adjacent to Victoria Bridge, a crea with galvanised iron gabled roof nestled into the embankment.
.
Of . associated with the Children’s Road Safety tered on its external façade. Has a strong
: a green painted brick structure located on the : two flat roofed metal and timber structures located in Of some social merit Of some historical and design merit. an early 1960s designed structure possessing a modernist an early 1960s designed located near the Adelaide Gaol, the Adelaide Yard WYE Signal northern side of Lake Torrens in Tulya Wodli/Park 27 with a galvanised iron roof. Small Electrical Substation: located in the central portion of Tulya Wodli/Park 27, brick formed with a concrete roof opposite the John Vaughan Equestrian Park Pa vilion, Of some social merit. Lake Torrens Maintenance Shed some social merit Torrens Weir Restaurant: architectural style that has been partially al WYE Signal Cabin: Children’s Road Safety School the eastern portion of Tulya Wodli/Park 27 School established in 1964. Cabin was erected in 1915.
Of Of some ) Plantation B. Of
TULYA WODLI: 941 Of some design, Olea europaea gate. A circular concrete render covering e Tsimshian Nation in 1970, and received by
) carved totem pole, by William Jeffrey, est and unknown historical standing. Of some located opposite the vehicular entry of the Police
located in a small paddock between the Adelaide Gaol sempervirens
4.0 ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF COMPONENTS a bronze plaque on concrete plinth, located in the foreground of Sequoia a partially curved timber pole topped with a conical timber and located to the north-west of Tulya Wodli/Park 27 Maintenance Depot. A Concrete Well Foundation: and the Police Barracks, adjacent to above red brick ring foundations, 10 feet diameter, that originally supported a water tank. some historical merit. Small Wrought Iron Foot Gate: Barracks, and servicing foot horse egress into Olive ( a wider width than normal footgate, but may have been typical of “perambulator gates” erected aroundPelzer. the Park Lands in 1900s-20s under engineering and historical merit. Plaque: Totem Pole the Totem Pole, denoting the donation of the Pole by Corporation of the Forest design and social merit. Timber Pole: galvanised metal cap. Of obscure inter design merit. Totem Pole: Western Red Cedar ( Head Chief of the Gitwilgywat Band th on 16 November 1970. A gift from the Timber the Lord Mayor RF Porter Development Association of South Australia presented by the Corporation of the Forest Va ncouver, Canada, in November 1970. Industries of British Columbia,
Of some Olea europaea ) Of some design, Of some social and k two storey structure with galvanised iron t the structure erected in the 1980s. t the structure erected in 1980s.
main entrance gate into Olive ( located on the eastern edge of Lake Torrens adjacent an early 1960s structure attached to the main Weir
social merit. Riverside Rowing Clubhouse: to Victoria Bridge, a grey painted besser bloc Club established in 1943 bu skillion roof. Wrought Iron Strip Metal Gate: Torrens Weir Public Toilets: Restaurant complex affording public toilets and a small kiosk. Plantation A from Slaughterhouse Road. A lovely example that bears the F Morton and Co crest and lettering associated with their Liverpool foundry. engineering and historical merit. design merit.
There are several small scale elements in Tulya Wodli/Park 27 as follows: Small Scale Elements
Of some
TULYA WODLI: 942 a sculpture piece with two in the mid 1960s. Erected by Rotary ) trees erected and planted as part of road rt Road. The sculptures and trees were costata a small rectangular-formed children’s sized
Angophora e Entrance Art Sculpture: Of some design merit.
4.0 ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF COMPONENTS Port Road/Slaughterhous Smooth-Barked Apple Myrtle ( reconstruction and widening works for Po opened by Transport Minister Diana Laidlaw and Lord Mayor Jane Lomax-Smith on 13 although not described, marks an entry to the Slaughterhouse December 1997. The site, and the West Park Nursery off Shierlaw Terrace (Port Road). No trees extant. Sculpture features a gate/fence and wheel shapes placed on angled mound faces covered in artificial sandstone pavers. Thebarton Council Ward Marker: a cast iron marker denoting the edge of wards – Strangways and Musgrave - in the original Thebarton municipality, presumably relocated to the present location due to Port Road widening works, and now located immediately adjacent to the above sculpture installation. Founded by J Martin in Thebarton. Of some social and design merit. Jubilee Playground Water Fountain: water drinking fountain, rendered in Carey Gully sandstone with small brass plaque, and designed by Council landscape architect Bruce Whitbread as part of the original Jubilee Playground development within Bonython Park An inter esting feature, now not operating. Club of Adelaide 1924-1974. design and aesthetic merit. Jubilee Playground: a contemporary playground in the central section of Bonython in the early-mid 1960s and which has since had its Park that was originally developed merit. playground furniture replaced. Of some aesthetic
bronze plaque on a boulder terraced garden beneath several mature rial, recognising ‘Harmony Day 2004’ . Of novations in the mid interesting 1960s. An Of some social merit. entation to the Council in November 1970. r, Canada, to the Timber Development
ature associated with the Bonython Park ). Of some design and social merit.
a small concrete form-work crafted water fountain, that is camaldulensis a memorial seat with brass plaque, erected above and Eucalyptus Of some design merit. . Of some design merit. renovations. Gully stone-edged sand pit, shaped in a kidney form, Sand Pit: a curvilinear Carey constructed as part of the Bonython Park re feature still operational. An interesting design fe Concrete Water Fountain: Association of South Australia and its pres Of some social merit. World Environment Day 2000 Plaque & Boulder: Industries of British Columbia, Vancouve located to the northern slope ‘Billabong’ River Red Gums ( Harmony Day Memorial: Croatian Community Memorial: a white granite hand carved memorial erected by the Adelaide Croatian Community on 28 June 1992 to record the planting of native trees. Inscription reads “Vulovar 200’. the Croatian Community Memo overlooking some social merit.
and historical merit. TULYA WODLI: 943 Mintaro slate edging positioned on both ple of this work found in the streets and Tulya Wodli/Park 27, across a drainage the railway line in 1860s, of good
a series of contemporary play equipment located Of some design, engineering a small red brick drainage culvert under the Port Railway
4.0 ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF COMPONENTS a small rough Carey Gully faced footbridge located in Tulya Central Bonython Park Playground: adjacent to the central Bonython Park toilet block . Of some social merit. North Adelaide Station Road slate edging: sides of the North Adelaide Station Road, between the Station and Park Terrace, in the exhibits northern portion of Tulya Wodli/Park 27, that dates from the 1870s-80s and good craftsmanship. Perhaps the best exam kerbs in the Adelaide Park Lands. Line Culvert:Port Railway Line near to Park Terrace located between Tulya Wodli/Park 27 central and northern portions. Dating from the construction of craftsmanship. Of some design, and historical merit. Park 27A Footbridge: Wodli/Park 27A, in the northern portion of swale formed by Pelzer in the late 1920s – early1930s, with contemporary railings and fencing. Of some historical merit.
. Of
Of some
ne timber pergolas erected a bronze plaque on a boulder, a bronze plaque on boulder, Of some social merit . Of some social and historical ite granite boulder honouring the re, Beafield Education Centre, Aberfoyle ola and seat construction around the pond
a series of 2 treated pi seat construction around the pond.
on the southern and north-western flanks of pond. Bonython Circular Pond Youth Project Memorial A: on the southern edge of Pond, honouring work Adelaide Parklands Youth Project on 9 December 1996, that involved students from the Daws Road Centre, Prospect Centre, Possibility 14, Netley Cent some social merit. Bonython Circular Pond Pergolas: Hub Learning Centre, Newstart Hamilton Secondary School, and Choices 96 in undertaking brick paving laying, and perg social merit. Bonython Park Sign: a large bronze plaque on wh development and opening on Bonython Park in 1962. merit. Bonython Circular Pond Youth Project Memorial B: on the southern edge of Pond, honouring work Adelaide Parklands Youth Project on 23 June 1997, that involved students from the Daws Road Centre, Prospect Centre, Possibility 14, Netley Beafield Education Centre, Aberfoyle Hub Learning Centre, Newstart Hamilton Secondary School, and Choices 96 in undertaking brick paving laying, and pergola
Of some social
TULYA WODLI: 944 : a bronze plaque embedded in : two metal plaques affixed to the : two small metal storage structures Of some social merit. ciated graffiti-style acrylic mural by Josh ciated graffiti-style Of some social merit. including a white enamelled metal plaque first schoolmaster John Banks Shepherdson,
e Chief Secretary, Hon Sir Lyell McEwin, and a e Chief Secretary, Hon Sir Lyell McEwin, ce by the School unveiled on 3 March 2004
4.0 ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF COMPONENTS Of some social and design merit. and historical merit. January 1839. Plaque and memorial erected by the Council in 1928. South Australian School Society Memorial & Boulder a red granite stone located on the North Terrace footpath underneath the Morphett Street bridge recording the establishment of South Australian School Society on 28 this approximate site with its May 1838 on as erected in 1936 by the South Australian Public Teachers Union and the Corporation. Of some social merit. City SK8 Park Toilet : a metal and corrugated iron clad public convenience erected in 2000 as part of the City SK8 complex, with asso Pearce. Children’s Road Safety School Opening Plaques exterior wall of one the School’s structures, recording the opening of School by Lord Mayor James Irwin on 4 March 1964 including handing over of the land to th brass plaque recording 40 years of servi Commissioner of Police, Malcolm Hyde APM. Children’s Road Safety School Minor Structures associated with the Children’s Road Safety School.
) by staff from Finlaysons Lawyers on records the planting of “one hundred ) avenue in the central portion of Tulya cated in the far eastern portion of Tulya ces. Plaque commemorates the survey of c Garden, unveiled by Lieutenant Governor northwards within the railway yards but still
Thomas Allen in conjunction with the anniversary as a practice. Of some social r eastern portion of Tulya Wodli/Park 27 r eastern portion of Tulya th camaldulensis cladocalyx : a plaque denoting the site of first commercial : white granite upright memorial structure with
Eucalyptus Eucalyptus a silver painted wrought iron colonial park bollard, located at a seat with bronze plaque located in Tulya Wodli/Park 27 central Of some historical merit. Wrought Iron Bollard: the end of Sugar Gum ( Wodli/Park 27. Finlayson’s Seat: portion overlooking the Lower Weir. The plaque and fifty River Red Gums” ( the city commenced in “January 1837,” erection of first Land & Survey government offices in the locality from w ood before being destroyed by fire on 22 7 May 2000 to commemorate their 150 merit. opposite the corner of North and West Terra Thomas Allen Plaque & Boulder nursery established in South Australia by proposed second site for the Adelaide Botani Sir Donald Dunstan on 23 September 1983, lo Wodli/Park 27. In truth the site is further an important commemoration feature in the horticultural establishment of colony. Of some historical and botanical merit. Colonel Light Survey Memorial bronze plaque thereon, located in the fa
nd
TULYA WODLI: 945 ion’ that more recently has associations to od earlier than the present weir structure.
red tennis courts with contemporary chain by Silvio Apponyi featuring two small frogs : an amphitheatre featuring a basketball rink
located on War Memorial Drive adjacent to Of historical and design merit.
c and historical merit.
4.0 ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF COMPONENTS Of some social merit. anniversary of the National Sorry Day. City SK8 Park Basketball Amphitheatre and top viewing bench with a scatter of peripheral deciduous trees to a design by KBR. Of some social and design merit. Drive Tennis Courts: War Memorial Montefiore Drive, a series of bitumen cove wire mesh fencing. Torrens Weir railings: cast iron railings on the flanks of structure, possessing a Victorian character with each post supporting a ball feature and twisted cast metal railings appear to date a peri railings. The Of some design, aestheti Piltawodli Memorial: a prominent memorial to the ‘Location’ encampment, school and buildings associated with the ‘Locat the Stolen Generation. Memorial consists of 10 stones set in a blue metal space carrying various plaques and three sculptural pieces and life size Ring-tailed Possum. Erected by the South Australian ‘Bringing them Home’ Committee on 26 May 2000 in association with the Lutheran Church, on 2
rk complex erected in 2000 as part Of some social and design merit.
Of some social and design merit. : a series of metal artwork compositions erected on posts : twisted and cascading style metal perimeter fencing erected in : a metal sign erected in 2000 as part of the City SK8 complex. : a concrete rolling skate and blade pa : a concrete rolling skate Of some social and design merit. City SK8 Park Fencing 2000 as part of the City SK8 complex fabricated and designed by the adjacent Jam Factory. City SK8 Park Signage Of some design merit. City SK8 Park Flying Figures on the northern perimeter fencing erected in 2000 as part of the City SK8 complex fabricated and designed by Gerry Weld. of the City SK8 complex to a design by KBR. City SK8 Park
.
.
TULYA WODLI: 946 Of some social merit Of some social merit partially obscured over the shallow lake x, comprising a Corporation coat of arms of Peter Pontikinas who “tendered these er from 1960-2004,and affording excellent affording 1960-2004,and er from rles J Glover on 10 March 1961, and the Roxburgh Investments Roxburgh Pty Ltd and its re-
Of some aesthetic, social and historical merit. : a series of three plaques affixed to the northern
4.0 ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF COMPONENTS an outlook created in the mid 1960s with the development of an outlook created in the mid 1960s with
Aesthetic Qualities located above the Lower Weir, a bench seat with bronze memorial plaque Weir Restaurant Opening Plaques façade of the Torrens Weir Restaurant comple motif, a bronze plaque recording the building and opening of restaurant by Corporation as opened by Lord Mayor Cha renovation of the complex in 1983-84 by opening by Lord Mayor Mrs Wendy Chapman on 31 May 1984. Par 3 Opening Plaque : a bronze plaque now affixed the western façade of Weir Restaurant Public Toilets building recording the opening of adjacent Par-3 Golf on 3 March 1960. Course by Lord Mayor LMS Hargrave ‘Billabong’ outlook: views now garden, affording ‘Billabong’ terraced formed by the low weir. Of some design, social and aesthetic merit. ‘The Pont’: deliberately positioned to honour the services years” as a Council garden gardens for twenty views over the Lower Weir and lake.
Historical Views and There are several views associated within Tulya Wodli/Park 27 that have merit:
Of some Of some social Lake Torrens, on the southern side of Lake Torrens, on the northern side of
a green painted brick structure located a green painted brick structure located s over the Lower Weir and lake. located above the Lower Weir, a bench seat with Of some social merit . Of some social merit . : two bronze plaques affixed to the Weir structure recording the historical and social merit. Memorial Seat: Peter Pontikinas bronze memorial plaque deliberately posit ioned to honour the services of Peter Pontikinas who “tendered these gardens for twenty years” as a Council gardener from affording excellent view 1960-2004,and Lake, with a galvanised iron roof. Lake, with a galvanised iron roof. opening of the Sluice Gates of the Torrens Weir by Lord Mayor John Lavington Bonython, Town Clerk HP Beaver, and City Engineer RM Scott on 23 May 1929, with a second smaller plaque recording the contractors as Atkins & Finlayson. Lake Torrens Maintenance Shed (1): immediately adjacent to the water edge of Lake Torrens Maintenance Shed (2): immediately adjacent to the water edge of Torrens Weir Plaques merit.
Of Of
Of some aesthetic
TULYA WODLI: 947 Of some aesthetic merit. Of some aesthetic merit. aving the city, as well side vistas of ring glimpses of the eastern skyline, Lake d several well formed ornamental trees.
Course, Elder Park, and Adelaide Oval. Elder Park, and Adelaide Oval. a sweeping unfolding series of vistas along War a sweeping unfolding series of vistas along War a vista from across Lake Torrens from various points a vista from across Lake Torrens a sweeping unfolding series of park land vistas along a sweeping unfolding series of park land and urban a sweeping unfolding series of
4.0 ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF COMPONENTS Of some aesthetic merit. Of some aesthetic merit. Lake Torrens Restaurant Vista: around the Lake focused upon distinctive architectural form and shape of the Restaurant. merit. some aesthetic merit. some aesthetic merit. Lake Torrens, Adelaide Golf Course, War Memorial Drive East Vista: Drive East War Memorial Montefiore Drive South Vista: vistas along Montefiore Drive when progressi ng southwards entering the city, as well side vistas of Lake Torrens, Adelaide Golf Montefiore Drive North Vista: Montefiore Drive when progressing northwards le Memorial Drive when progressing eastwards offering glimpses of the city skyline, an Adelaide Hills escarpment, Lake Torrens, some aesthetic merit. War Memorial Drive West Vista: War Memorial Memorial Drive when progressing eastwards offe Torrens, and several well formed ornamental trees.
Of some aesthetic merit. Of some aesthetic merit. Of some aesthetic dramatic visual entrance to the immediate ong vista along the western flank of the Park
rpment, not obscured by the plantings of a across the Lake towards city skyline and
Of some aesthetic merit. Weir vista: a viewpoint from the weir and weir ) trees and tall stobie poles. Hills escarpment beyond. a view from the Park Terrace Bridge looking northwards . Of some aesthetic merit. a view south from the Park Terrace railway bridge to a view from the Port Road – southern Railway Line Bridge, orientalis Platanus West End Brewery complex towards Ovingham and Fitzroy, offering a l the visual corridor southwards from Port Road Hindmarsh Bridge South Vista: the visual corridor southwards from Port towards the southern Adelaide Hills esca Oriental Plane ( Park Terrace South Vista: Port Road East Vista: opposite the Police Barracks, that affords a city together with the Adelaide Park Terrace North Vista: Lands. Of some aesthetic merit. the Adelaide Hills escarpment beyond. restaurant and car park that enables a vist River Torrens/Karrawirra Parri
Recommended: Preparation of a ------Y Y Conservation Study
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(g) it has a special association with the life or work of a person
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(f) it has strong cultural or spiritual associations for the
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(e) it demonstrates a high degree of creative, aesthetic or
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(c) it may yield information that will contribute to an
------understanding of the State’s history, including its natural Y history 4.0 ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF COMPONENTS (b) it has rare, uncommon or endangered qualities that are of
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(a) it demonstrates important aspects of the evolution or
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) Plantation ) Plantation : a sweeping vista of the city skyline with Adelaide Hills europaea
Olea Lake Torrens Weir Vista escarpment in the backdrop when viewed from the River Torrens/Karrawirra Parri Weir and Sluice Gates, resulting in an often photographed television used viewpoint. some social and aesthetic merit.
Tulya Wodli/Park 27 – southern – generally – southern 27 Tulya Wodli/Park – generally 27– central Tulya Wodli/Park generally 27– northern Tulya Wodli/Park generally Plantation Terrace North – 27 Wodli/Park Tulya Drive Memorial Drive/War Carriage Lower 27Olive ( Tulya Wodli/Park AdelaidePrecinct Gaol Safety School Road Children’s Plantation Terrace North Colonial Store and Location’ ‘Aboriginal Piltawodli Course Golf Adelaide Billabong’ ‘The Weir) – Street (Morphett Corridor Parri River Torrens/Karrawirra Bridge) – Railway (Weir Corridor Parri River Torrens/Karrawirra – Bridge (Railway Corridor Parri River Torrens/Karrawirra Hindmarsh Bridge)
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Angophora Celtis occidentalis ) grove ) grove (1) ) specimen ) specimen (2) (2) ) specimen ) ) specimen ) specimen ) roadcorridor ) specimen specimen ) ‘Aureum’) hedge hedge ‘Aureum’) ) specimen ) grove costata costata
) lined lower carriage drive ) grove ) grove ) specimen ) specimen ) specimen ) specimen patersonii oxycarpa ) avenue
) mature specimen with two small two with specimen ) mature ), Hackberry ( ) grove ) grove ) specimen ) specimen ) plantation australasica ) specimen ) specimen ) specimen ) specimen ) specimen ) specimen ) specimen ) grove ) grove var ) corridor ) corridor ) plantation ) plantation heterophylla heterophylla Angophora Angophora Angophora costata
ilex indica var
camaldulensis camaldulensis verticillata distictum
) grove filifera
) plantation ) specimen ‘van Houtteii’) specimen specimen Houtteii’) ‘van
Lagunaria patersonii Lagunaria rubiginosa cladocalyx ) specimen ) specimen Corymbia citriodora Corymbia Ligustrum ovalifolium Ligustrum
) plantation (1) ) specimen (2) ) specimen Populus nigra ‘Italica’) Italian Poplar ( Populus alba ) & var oxycarpa angustifolia
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Ficus macrophylla Ficus Ficus rubiginosa Ficus rubiginosa Eucalyptus Eucalyptus Eucalyptus camaldulensis Taxodium Fraxinus americana Populus Allocasuarina Melia Ulmus procera Ulmus Ulmus procera Ulmus Eucalyptus Eucalyptus cladocalyx Fraxinus Fraxinus angustifolia Quercus ilex Celtis occidentalis europaea europaea europaea europaea
Ceratonia siliqua Ceratonia siliqua Ceratonia siliqua Ceratonia Olea Olea Olea Olea Adelaide Gaol Road Gaol Adelaide Road Slaughterhouse Road Nursery Park West Sugar Gum ( ( Ash Desert ( Fig Bay Moreton ( Gum Lemon-scented Drive Memorial War Point Survey Plan Adelaide Olive ( Olive ( Olive ( Privet ( Golden Hedge Gum ( River Red ( White Cedar Olive ( Gum ( River Red ( Swamp Cypress specimens Pine ( Araucaria Norfolk Island ( Washingtonia Cotton Palm Hibiscus ( Norfolk Island Tree ( Indian Coral ( Smooth-barked Apple Myrtle ( River Sheoak ( Fig Jackson Port Oak ( Holm Western Pine ( Araucaria Norfolk Island ( Smooth-barked Apple Myrtle White Poplar ( grove English Elm ( ( Smooth-barked Apple Myrtle Carob ( Tree ( Indian Coral ( Golden Elm ( Fig Jackson Port English Elm ( ( Ash Desert ( Ash American Carob ( Gum ( River Red Carob ( ( Hackberry Smooth- barked Apple Myrtle ( Jubilee Playground grove ( Holm Oak Hibiscus ( Norfolk Island Pine ( Canary Island Pine ( Canary Island Sugar Gum ( ( Fig Jackson Port
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pluridens Ficus microcarpa Ficus microcarpa ) Olea Olea Aloe ) specimen (1) ) specimen (1) ) specimen Eastern Holm Oak ( Holm Eastern Finlayson’s Plantation White Poplar ( Japanese Zelkova ( Washingtonia filifera Cotton Palm English Elm ( ( Smooth-barked Apple Myrtle ( Mexican Washingtonia Yards Railway Adelaide specimen Palm ( Yards Cotton Railway Adelaide Olive ( Plantation Terrace North Lombardy Poplar ( Hill’s Fig ( Hill’s Fig ( Pine ( Araucaria heterophylla Norfolk Island ( White Cedar Gum ( River Red Palm ( Canary Island ( Hoop Pine White Poplar ( ( Figs Bay Moreton Drive (east) Memorial War Fig ( Hill’s Weeping ( Pine Drive Stone Memorial War Bay Fig ( Piltawodli Moreton ( Fig Bay Moreton Drive (middle) Memorial War grove ( Corymbia Gums Lemon-scented Drive (middle) Memorial War citriodora Cottage Teichelmann’s (1) Cottage Teichelmann’s (2) PricklyTree Tea ( Aloe ( ( Gum Lemon-scented Drive (west) Memorial War specimens torulosa) specimens (Cupressus Cypress Himalayan Lake Torrens Morphett Street Bridge Car filifera Morphett Street Bridge Car filifera Olive ( Olive ( Depot 27 Maintenance Tulya Wodli/Park Tr Police Barracks Magic Forest Billabong’ ‘The Billabong’ Terraced Garden ‘The White Poplar ( grove Forest Community Native Croatian Tennis Courts & Basketball Park Bonython Circular Pond Park Bonython Swale 27ADrainage Tulya Wodli/Park
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Olea Former ‘The Location’, Slaughterhouse & Cattle Yards Sites Sites Yards & Cattle Slaughterhouse ‘The Location’, Former Safety School Road Children’s Plantation Terrace North Drive (3 Memorial War Piltawodli Precinct Olive ( Sheds & Storage 27 Maintenance Tulya Wodli/Park Pede Railway Bridge Syphon Station & Abutments Railway Bridge Pavilion Refreshment Park Bonython Maintenance Shed Park Bonython Weir Lower Access Bridge Lower Weir North Bonython ParkToilets Weir Western WesternAccess Weir Bridge North Port Bridge Road Park Toilet Pavilion Central Bonython Assemblage Railway Station Adelaide North Bridge Park Terrace East Port Bridge Road 27A Pavilion Tulya Wodli/Park John Vaughan Equestrian Park Pavilion SubStation Small Electricity Shed Maintenance Torrens Lake Cabin WYE Signal Safety School Road Children’s Torrens Weir Restaurant Railway Station Adelaide North Railway Bridge Weir Torrens Grammar School Pulteney Clubhouse Riverside Rowing Public Toilets Weir Torrens Gate Strip Metal Wrought Iron Foundation Concrete Well Iron Foot Gate Small Wrought Pole Totem Timber Pole Totem Pole Plaque Boulder & Day 2000 Plaque World Environment Concrete Water Fountain Sand Pit Community Memorial Croatian Memorial Day Harmony Water Fountain Jubilee Playground Jubilee Playground Port Road / Slaughterhouse Marker Ward Council Thebarton Circular Pond Park Bonython Pergolas Circular Pond Park Bonython
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Youth Project Memorial B Memorial Project Youth ation Road Slate Edgings School Minor Structures School Bonython Park Circular Pond Park Bonython Sign Park Bonython Park Playground Central Bonython Railway St Adelaide North Culvert Line Port Railway 27A Footbridge Tulya Wodli/Park Bollard Wrought Iron Finlayson’s Seat Thomas Allen Plaque & Boulder Memorial Survey Colonel Light Opening Plaques Safety School Road Children’s Safety Road Children’s Memorial School Society South Australian Toilet City SK8 Fencing City SK8 Signage City SK8 Figures Flying City SK8 Park City SK8 Amphitheatre Basketball City SK8 Torrens Weir Railings Piltawodli Memorial (1) Shed Maintenance Torrens Lake (2) Shed Maintenance Torrens Lake Seat Peter Pontikinas Memorial Plaques Opening Restaurant Weir Torrens Plaque Opening Par 3 The ‘Billabong’ Outlook ‘The Pont’ South Vista Bridge Hindmarsh Vista South Terrace Park Vista East Port Road Vista North Terrace Park Parri River Torrens/Karrawirra Vista Restaurant Lake Torrens Vista Drive East Memorial War Vista Drive West Memorial War South Vista Drive Montefiore Vista North Montefiore Drive Weir Vista Lake Torrens Statements of Cultural Significance Tulya Wodli/Park 27 represents a highly modified landscape that has experienced complete defoliation during the initial years of colonial settlement. While possessing general spatial integrity of the form devised by Light in his ‘Plan Adelaide, it’ has experienced considerable excisions and alienations thereby reducing the alienations have however introduced several europaea that ) Plantation, Adelaide Gaol, Police Barracks, railway lines and marshalling yards – are illustrative of government infrastructure hi story and thus underpin the development of State. Of major importance is the Piltawodli ‘Native Location’ site on the northern shores of with the asso the River Torrens/Karrawirra Parri,
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TULYA WODLI: 953 cladocalyx Eucalyptus ) Grove Precinct as a major cultural l Station site, School within and adjacent Piltawodli State Heritage Area (including th and through participation with Kaurna rate the social, surveying and horticultural significant Aboriginal, cultural and post- house Road’ designation that originally ’, Signal Station site, School within and integral to the foundational years of the al evidence beneath the ground surface; a Conservation Study, and a Landscape (‘Aboriginal Location’) – Weir Adelaide Olea europaea d his role upon the adjacent Olive ( Olea europaea ) Piltawodli
4.0 ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF COMPONENTS / Park 27 Olive ( (‘Aboriginal Location’) precinct in im pacting upon the cultural significance Colonial/Iron Store, ‘Aboriginal Sheds’, Signa to the main Piltawodli site) recognising Port Road, Slaughterhouse and adjacent barren vacant Gaol reserve land, to better integrate this landscape into the Park Lands characteristic landscape; Consider road designations over the access to the Gaol, and the road to the Powder Magazine. Possible nomenclature might honour Sheriff William Boothby in terms of his tenure at the Gaol an plantations, and resurrecting the ‘Slaughter applied to the latter road; Consider a road designation over the Sugar Gum ( Tulya Wodli/Park 27 central portion; Prepare and implement a Landscape Master Plan for the far eastern portion of Tulya Wodli/Park 27 comprising the Port Road-North Terrace plantation gardens having regard to the historical documentation above and proposed North Terrace Urban Design scheme to better integrate and celeb history of the state associated with this point; Propose the Piltawodli precinct including the space, street trees, view points, indigenous species trees and plantings, as the the Colonial/Iron Store, ‘Aboriginal Sheds adjacent to the main Piltawodli site) on the basis of cultural, symbolic, social, design, historical, aesthetic significance merit reasons; Prepare a detailed Archaeological Survey, Master Plan for the above recommended Piltawodli State Heritage Area contact associations on the place that is so colony of South Australia in consultation wi and other Aboriginal community representatives, Consider very seriously any development or landscape renovation project in the Piltawodli of the site and the unknown archaeologic Consider developing the larger Goal-Tulya Wodli heritage / living interpretation node that discusses and interprets the first 25 years of colonisation on the Adelaide Plains and provides circulation access between all venues.
Olea Piltawodli ) tree plantings as it relates to the (2002) and integrate siliqua ) avenue plantings in the Assessment Ceratonia cladocalyx a potential archaeological investigation a potential archaeological investigation terms of its construction, safety, and ); r the 1960s developed area of Bonython r the 1960s developed of South Australia Significant Tree of South considered as a potential archaeological ve impacted upon the site, and having perienced extensive ground surface changes e pre-1960s historical layers in Tulya ilex onsidered as a potential archaeological Eucalyptus citations pertaining to PL16 reflect the above search by Harris (1999, 2005); this hterhouse, the ‘Billabong’, Olive ( scape recommendations contained in e poles from Tulya Wodli/Park 27; ) plantation development may have impacted ecreational landscape except places that bear Quercus of Piltawodli/Park 1 as it relates to the of Piltawodli/Park 1 as tumnal style of plantings around the ‘Billabong’ and Olea europaea ) plantations so that it spatially includes all extant plantations and Assessment Adelaide Gaol – Conservation & Management Strategy d Aboriginal Location’ site be City of Adelaide Development Plan Olea europaea along Port Road; Seek the removal of ETSA infrastructure from Tulya Wodli/Park 27; Remove all overhead wires and stobi them within a landscape master plan that addresses the Gaol entry roadscape from Seek to enhance the communication of th Undertake a landscape management plan fo Park to review its design, layout, infrastructure, tree strike rate and health, and safety, and consider renovations to improve the ae sthetic appearance design integrity of the place; Conserve and reinforce the strong roadside Carob ( Wodli/Park 27 in particular the Slaug investigation site while recognising that changes of ground levels due to slaughter house and park development work may ha regard to research by Harris (1999, 2005); this recommendation should be considered in conjunction with recommendations contained Piltawodli ‘Location’; That the Slaughterhouse site be considered as and interpretation site for Tulya Wodli/Park 27; that it should be recognised the site and the associated cattle yards have ex and soil compaction over the years, again in the 1960s with development of the Bonython Park landscape treatments; Seek the implementation of the Land Flightpath’s europaea ) Plantations, West Park Nursery, etc.; Prepare a nomination to the state heritage register to include the Tulya Wodli/Park 27 Olive ( plantation/roadside lines; Conserve and enhance the au conserve plantings of Holm Oak ( Consider the health and future of the Magic Forest; Renovate the ‘Billabong’ Terraced Garden in established plantings, and consider a renovation of ground cover shrub plantings appropriate to the 1960s period; Conserve and enhance the Sugar Gum ( central portion of Tulya Wodli/Park 27; Conserve the sense of an open Gardenesque garden landscape between the Circular Pond and Port Road, especially the open placed mature trees; Revise conclusions and recommendations; Prepare a nomination to the National Trust Register for the trees identified in the above table. That the Adelaide Tribe ‘sheds’ site be c changes ofinvestigation site while recognising that ground levels due to railway line construction and Olive ( recommendation should be considered in conjunction with recommendations contained in the upon the site, and having regard to re ‘Location’; That the ‘Ol
and transformed to craft a formal organised r historical meanings to the foundations of colony. Recommendations: