Heritage South Australia Newsletter March 2005 3 Heritage News Heritage News

Edition 26 March 2005

Issues and information on heritage conservation in South Australia

www.environment.sa.gov.au Contents 3 Heritage News 12 Students invited to tell heritage stories Heritage News 6 Heritage Advisory Service set to expand 12 Discounts for heritage place owners 7 Heritage help is at hand 13 Heritage diversity and 8 20th Century Heritage Survey Project the 2005 State History Conference 10 Cover Story: The Currency Creek Viaduct 14 New on the register Heritage Directions Update 11 2005 Edmund Wright Heritage Awards 15 Heritage Bookshelf 12 State Heritage Fund 16 Events The last issue of this newsletter outlined the Heritage Directions strategy and the changes it will bring to heritage management in South Australia, made possible by the Government’s commitment of an additional $2.9 million in heritage funding over the next four years.

Minister’s Update The Department for Environment and Heritage (DEH) is now busy with the first stages of implementation. Welcome to the March 2005 Edition of the places); and the Local Government Support Heritage South Australia Newsletter. Program (which includes the expansion of the Legislation • refining the Objects of the and in formulating heritage Heritage Advisory Service, and greater support for Act and the functions of management programs Since the November 2004 Edition, significant work Local heritage conservation through training and The early focus is on the new South Australian and policies. has been undertaken to progress the Heritage other services). legislative reform to Heritage Council (Heritage Directions) Amendment Bill. strengthen and streamline Work has begun on the 2005 promises to see a major step forward for the State’s heritage • refining archaeological expansion of the Heritage The amendment of the Heritage Act is an important heritage conservation in this State. By the year’s management system. and civil enforcement Advisory Service. Also, step towards achieving the goals for heritage end, our goals are to have amended successfully Changes outlined in the amendments and DEH has been working with conservation in South Australia as articulated the Heritage Act; established the new South discussion paper Heritage integrating them into the Planning SA, as part of its Hon. John Hill through Heritage Directions. Our aim is to provide Australian Heritage Council; made significant Directions: a future for built existing structure of the Act Better Development Plans an improved and integrated framework for heritage progress towards improved support for Local heritage in South Australia project, to develop heritage management, and to enable communities to better heritage through local councils; and to have affect both the Heritage Act • extending the provision in ‘modules’ or templates. conserve their heritage for future generations. moved towards the implementation of a single 1993 and the Development the Valuation of Land Act These will provide ‘plug-in’ For a detailed update on the first stages of South Australian Heritage Register. Act 1993. Changes to the 1971for adjusting the heritage management implementation, see the separate article this issue. Heritage Act are contained valuation of a property policy to local councils for I look forward to a busy and exciting year ahead in the Heritage (Heritage on account of a heritage incorporation into their This new direction has prompted a minor restructure for South Australian heritage conservation. Directions) Amendment Bill listing to include local as Development Plans, with within the Heritage Branch to better align the group 2005 and to the Development well as State places the advantages of being with the priorities for the next five years. The Branch Act in the Development consistent, comprehensive is now divided into two key sections: the Heritage (Sustainable Development) The Heritage Bill was and adaptable to local Conservation and Management Team, and the Amendment Bill 2005. introduced to Parliament circumstances. Heritage Education, Assessment and Promotion on 10 March. Team. Hon. John Hill, MP The Heritage Bill was released Review of Minister for Environment and Conservation for public consultation in For further information on the Government-owned Two new senior positions have been created within August 2004, prompting reform of heritage legislation, heritage buildings each of these teams, and staff appointed. These 52 submissions from industry contact the Heritage Branch positions will focus respectively on the two Heritage bodies, professional on tel 8124 4960 or email Recognising that Directions priority areas for 2005/2006: the creation organisations, community [email protected] Government should lead by of a single South Australian Heritage Register (as groups and individuals. and ask for a copy of example in the management proposed through amendments to the Heritage Bill, They revealed widespread Heritage in a Nutshell, a of its heritage assets, DEH is and which will list both State and Local heritage support for the Bill and also summary of South Australia’s currently reviewing the best put forward a number of heritage protection long-term management suggestions for refinement. framework for State and strategies for the Mapping produced by: Environmental Information The Department for local heritage places, and approximately 300 State- Department for Environment and Heritage Environment and Heritage the changes proposed in owned heritage buildings Heritage South Australia Newsletter PO Box 550 Marleston SA 5033 (DEH) logged and analysed the two Bills. in South Australia. Department for Environment Web: www.environment.sa.gov.au/mapland the issues raised, many of and Heritage Data Source: DCDB which have been Local Government The review is looking at the ISSN 1443-9719 Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic March 2005 Number 26 Compiled: 7 March 2005 incorporated into the final Support current use, condition and FIS 2055.04 Datum: Geocentric Datum of Australia, 1994 version of the Bill adopted by ownership of places, Products and services advertised are not necessarily endorsed by © Copyright Department for Environment and Heritage the Minister for Environment The main elements of the and will then make 2005. All Rights Reserved. All works and information the Heritage Branch displayed are subject to Copyright. For the and Conservation. Heritage Directions support recommendations about Advertising reproduction or publication beyond that permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (Cwlth) written permission must package for local the future management of If anyone would like to advertise be sought from the Department. in this newsletter, please contact The principal changes since government are the these places, in consultation Although every effort has been made to ensure the The Editor, accuracy of the information displayed,the the public consultation draft expansion of the Heritage with the Heritage Unit of the Heritage South Australia Newsletter Department, its agents, officers and employees make include: Advisory Service and Department for Front Cover: Currency Creek Viaduct. GPO Box 1047, Adelaide, SA 5001 no representations, either express or implied, that the Photo by P. Curnow. information displayed is accurate or fit for any purpose assistance to Councils in Administrative and Telephone: (08) 8124 4947 See p.10 article in this issue. and expresslydisclaims all liability for loss or damage Facsimile: (08) 8124 4980 arising from reliance upon the information displayed. undertaking heritage surveys Information Services.

2 March 2005 Heritage South Australia Newsletter Heritage South Australia Newsletter March 2005 3 Heritage News Heritage News

Manager’s Update Heritage Branch - Assessment,

It is now six months since I took up the new two initiatives comprised and how we would Education and Promotion challenges of my position in the Branch. implement them, before consulting more I have spent the time listening, learning broadly with other agencies and partners. In August last year a minor restructure brought On the educational and promotional fronts, and planning for the future. The accompanying photo shows us in that together the Assessment, Education and planning is well under way for the Edmund pleasant environment. Promotional functions of the Heritage Branch Wright Heritage Awards and Schools Heritage My first priority has been to review the way in into a single section. Competition, both annual events that require which the work of the Branch gets done and I have been fortunate in attracting some considerable effort to mount, while stage one to fill the vacancies on the staff, in order to outstanding people whose experience and Current preoccupations on the assessment of a major new web-site devoted to the develop new ways of delivering the single knowledge will extend the existing strength front, in addition to our on-going work of 17 State Heritage Areas should be completed South Australian Heritage Register and the and capacity of the Branch. I have been assessing places for entry in the State Heritage later this year. Ms Sue Averay Local Government Support Program. These equally fortunate in the support I have Register and maintaining and routinely Manager Heritage Branch are the priorities to which we are committed received from the longer-serving members updating the land and owner data in Branch staff are also participating in and in the coming year. of staff. I acknowledge their dedication and the Register database include: presenting papers at the State History I look forward to working with all of them to Conference at Whyalla 28-29 May. The Heritage Branch team spent a day in realise the vision of Heritage Directions • Preliminary planning for the single heritage February at DEH’s Cleland Wildlife Park, register proposed in the Heritage Directions Lastly, by the time this newsletter is distributed where we discussed in detail what these report. our first Heritage Planning Seminar for the year will have been held at Kadina, with more • Upgrading the data in the current State planned for later in the year. Heritage Register to allow maps of State places to be produced on demand Brian Samuels Principal Heritage Officer • Linking images to the Register database

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

• Upgrading information on early registrations

Food for Thought

Communities and rapid change

Let us slow down. Let us really live in our places and become advocates for their conservation to preserve our own sanity, protect a sense of context and continuity for our own lives, and be good stewards of those resources that are really the property of those who will follow us. Let us not blindly oppose what is new, but instead look for Heritage Branch staff (from L to R) a pace and quality of change that respects the fundamental human need to remember. Back row: Duncan Ross-Watt, Principal Conservation Architect; Brian Samuels, Principal Let us acknowledge that all of us need places of remembrance and that we need to Heritage Officer; Alison Radford, Senior Heritage Officer; Hamish Angas, stay in place long enough to embed memories, for only then can we truly be at home. Senior Heritage Officer; Rick James, Technical Officer; Deb Morgan, Project Officer; May we all remember that our sacred obligation is to care for our places and exercise Gill Strickland, Assistant Project Officer; Chris Giovannucci, Register Clerk; good stewardship so we will be reminded of where we came from and sometimes even Lu Vitale, Senior Conservation Architect discover who we are. Centre: Lyn Baxter, Communications Officer; Anna Pope, Senior Policy/Project Officer; Peter Wells, Senior Policy/Project Officer; Sarah Laurence, Senior Heritage Officer; - R. R. Archibald ‘No Place, Any Place, Some Place, My Place’, Forum Journal vol 16 No 2 Sue Averay, Manager; Terry Arnott, Senior Maritime Heritage Officer Winter 2002 [Extract from a speech at the 2001 National Preservation Conference, Sitting: Robyn Hartell, Senior Heritage Interpretation Officer; Pippa Morgan, Providence, Rhode Island] Conservation Architect; Lyn Metcalf, Project/Policy Officer Absent: Lyn McCloud, Assistant Register Clerk

4 March 2005 Heritage South Australia Newsletter Heritage South Australia Newsletter March 2005 5 Heritage Advisory Service Heritage help is at hand set to expand

Through its Heritage Directions funding, the State Government is The Heritage Advisory Service in Contact your local Council to arrange South Australia provides professional an appointment with a heritage adviser: committed to expanding South Australia’s heritage advisory service heritage conservation advice to local communities. The advisers are Adelaide City Council 8124 4922 Mount Gambier across the settled areas of the State over the next five years. experienced heritage practitioners (DEH Heritage Branch) City Council 8721 2555 jointly funded by DEH and including Cave First established in Burra in 1987, the service now covers local councils. Adelaide Hills Council 8408 0400 Gardens & Environs 23 Council areas across the State. including Mount Torrens State Heritage Area Community services State Heritage Area and Mt Gambier Victor Harbor Heritage Advisers work closely with Alexandrina Council 8555 7000 Volcanic Complex Coober Pedy The first of the planned additions to Council across a range of community including Goolwa State Heritage Area the network was in February 2005, heritage issues. State Heritage Area with the appointment of a Heritage Naracoorte Lucindale Advisor to Victor Harbor. Individual advice to owners Barossa Council 8563 8444 Council 8762 2133 Heritage Advisers provide individual Far North advice and assistance to owners of Clare & Gilbert Onkaparinga

Outback Negotiations are also underway to heritage places. Protecting the Valleys Council 8842 6400 City Council 8384 0666 Roxby Downs re-establish a far northern advisory heritage significance and market including Mintaro service, in the wake of one that value of your heritage place depends State Heritage Area Port Adelaide Enfield operated briefly during 2002/2003. on making the right decisions from City Council 8405 6600 It is intended to replace it with minor repairs to major renovations Gawler Town Council 8522 9211 including Port Adelaide three services covering a or re-development. including Church Hill State Heritage Area significantly wider area: State Heritage Area Your Heritage Adviser can assist you with: Robe District Council 8768 2003 Flinders Ranges • a Flinders Ranges service to cover Goyder Regional Council 8892 0100 Ceduna the Council areas of Orroroo • planning repairs, maintenance, colour including Burra Tatiara District Council 8752 1044 Port Orroroo/ Carrieton, Peterborough, Flinders schemes and conservation work, and State Heritage Area Augusta Carrieton Streaky Mt. Bay Ranges and possibly Mount finding suitably-skilled contractors Tea Tree Gully Remarkable Peterborough Remarkable Grant District Council 8721 0444 City Council 8397 7444 Le Hunte Whyalla Kimba • avoiding potentially costly mistakes including Mount Schank Port Northern Pirie Areas • an Outback service to cater that compromise the heritage State Heritage Area Unley City Council 8372 5111 Franklin Harbor Goyder Elliston Cleve for the unincorporated (out-of- significance of your place and Barunga West Councils) areas beyond possibly its market value Kingston District Council 8767 2033 Victor Harbor Copper Wakefield Clare & Coast Gilbert City Council 8551 0500 Lower Tumby Valleys Eyre Bay • an Upper Spencer Gulf service to • understanding technical advice from Light Regional Council 8525 3200 Peninsula Berri Barmera Renmark Paringa Light Gerard cover the Council areas of contractors and tradespeople, Wattle Range Council 8737 0900 Mallala Mid Port Barossa Murray Lincoln Loxton Whyalla, Port Pirie and Port Augusta particularly in cases of conflicting Mitcham City Council 8272 8888 Waiker ie advice including Belair National All other areas of Yorke INSET Karoonda Peninsula East Murray Light Murray Bridge Copper Coast Park State Heritage Area South Australia 8124 4922 INSET Mallala Gawler Alexandrina Discussions have also been initiated • planning alterations, additions and and (DEH Heritage Branch) Playford Barossa Yankalilla Southern Victor Harbor Mallee with the Copper Coast Council for renovations that are sympathetic to Colonel Light Gardens including

Kangaroo Island The Coorong a service to cover the Copper the heritage significance of your place State Heritage Area Arckaringa Hills Salisbury Triangle region, and with several State Heritage Area, Tea Tree Gully metropolitan Councils that have • reinstating missing elements such as Mount Barker District Beltana Port Adelaide Enfield Adelaide Hills Tatiara Prospect Campbelltown Charles Walkerville recently expressed interest. DEH will fences, landscaping and other lost Council 8391 1633 State Heritage Area, Sturt Norwood Adelaide Payneham and St. Peters continue to identify opportunities for features and fittings that contribute to including Hahndorf Innamincka / West Torrens Kingston Unley Burnside ongoing expansion. the heritage significance of your place State Heritage Area Cooper Creek Holdfast Mitcham Bay Areas currently participating in the Heritage Advisory Service Naracoorte State Heritage Area, Marion Lucindale (Local (for state and local heritage) heritage More information • lodging Development Applications Moonta Mines only) Robe Mt. Barker Areas proposed for expansion of the Heritage Advisory Service in 2005 WattleRange For further information on the and grant applications State Heritage Area (Peninsular only, Onkaparinga not whole IGA) Heritage Advisory Service, or to and Grant enquire about setting up a new No local adviser? Unincorporated regions Mt. Scale 1 : 4200000 Gambier Alexandrina Kilometres 0 20 40 80 120 160Kilometres service, please contact Peter Wells on 8124 4935 or The Heritage Branch of DEH can [email protected]. assist owners of State-listed places where no local Heritage Advisory Service is in place.

6 March 2005 Heritage South Australia Newsletter Heritage South Australia Newsletter March 2005 7 20th Century Heritage Survey Project Redressing the imbalance in the State Heritage Register

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

Overview Histories of 20th Century South Australia covering In writing the Overview History of the Post • American influence (television) Second World War Period the consultants 1946 – 1959 is now available on the DEH website looked at a number of themes including: • The role of women in society

Background to the survey the Oodnadatta Track, number of themes or the • ‘Austerity’ and ‘Modernism’ • Impact of the car (highways, motels & completed in 2001, and the timespan. service stations) Under Direction 5.2 – Establish other of the Birdsville and • Soldier settlement a single, comprehensive Strzelecki Tracks, completed In analysing places from the These themes were further developed as Register of the State’s in December 2002. 20th Century already entered • Immigration major headings for the Overview History: Heritage of Heritage in the Register, there is a Directions: A Future for Built Register imbalance sizeable weighting towards • Suburban development (and the • The South Australian environment Heritage in South Australia the first decades of the South Australian Housing Trust) report, one of the strategies The present State Heritage 20th Century. Of the 400-odd • Peopling South Australia is to review the State Heritage Register has a significant 20th Century places entered • Building technology & construction Register to ensure that there imbalance, with a far greater in the State Heritage Register, techniques • Economic production and working life is an appropriate number of places repre- only 36 date from the post- representation of senting the history of South 1940 period. Therefore the • Industrial development • Developing South Australia’s services 20th Century heritage. Australia from the 19th decision was made to industries Century rather than the commence the 20th Century • Business & commerce Since 1981 the Heritage 20th Century. Approximately heritage survey project • Building settlements, towns and cities Branch has been pursuing 400 places representing the concentrating on periods • Shopping centres & department stores The photo from the front cover a systematic program of 20th Century are entered in after the Second World War, • Politics and government shows four children in the regional heritage surveys in the Register, as opposed to that is, post 1945. • Space exploration & research summer of 1954/55 in the front South Australia. The purpose 1800-odd pre-20th Century • The social and cultural life of yard at 23 East Ave, of that program was to places. In May 2003 the Branch • Atomic energy & testing South Australians Northfield, enjoying a cold identify and record all the commenced Stage 1 of the Coca-Cola, still a rare Non-Aboriginal heritage of Hence the Heritage Branch 20th Century heritage survey Top: Berri pumping station American treat for any South the State, on a regional basis. decided that the first thematic project by commissioning Available online (Photo: C Cosgrove, 2003) Australian child. The family The program was completed surveys it would commission Marsden Russell Historians Above: Fibro houses at Kapunda migrated from Holland in 1953 with the publication of the would be of 20th Century to write an overview history The Overview History of the Second World War period (1946-1959) is now available at: (Photo: S Marsden, 2003) and had moved from migrant Heritage of the Upper North heritage. However, given of the period 1946-1959. camps at Bonegilla and in December 2000. the multitude of sub-themes The historical research http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/ pdfs/surveys/20_century/stage_1.pdf Finsbury to an asbestos house Subsequently the Heritage represented throughout this associated with this project rented from the South Branch commissioned two period, there needed to be established the principal Hamish Angas Australian Housing Trust. targeted area surveys, one of a reduction in either the events and themes that Senior Heritage Officer Bottom Left: Adelaide circa 1960 characterised the physical, (S Marden collection) cultural and social Below: War Service land settlement development of the period Nissen hut, now at 1946 to 1959. This Overview Loxton Pioneer Village History will be the basis for (Photo: S Marsden, 2003) assessing heritage places throughout South Australia that represent this period for possible entry in the Register.

8 March 2005 Heritage South Australia Newsletter Heritage South Australia Newsletter March 2005 9 2005 EdmundCurramulka Wright Primary School Heritage Awards Cover Story: The Currency Creek viaduct Nominations now open

The Currency Creek viaduct was completed in 1867, If you would like to showcase your outstanding heritage and the progress of works was reported to Parliament project or long-standing commitment to the conservation by the Engineer-in-Chief in 1868: and promotion of South Australia’s heritage, or if you would

“This line is twenty-two miles in length, and the whole of the earthwork, masonry, fencing, and like to put forward another person’s work, now is the time ballasting on this line are completed…and the first section, ten and a-half miles from Middleton [which included the Currency Creek viaduct], was opened for wheat traffic on the to nominate. Award categories include: 23rd December 1868 …The contractor is now rapidly pushing on with this work…The stations, platforms and booking offices, as well as the stables at Strathalbyn, Finniss, and Middleton Heritage Homes are completed. It is contemplated working this line by horse power, and three light Recognises the outstanding contribution of owners to the conservation of passenger carriages have been constructed at the Adelaide carriage works for this purpose. heritage homes Thirty trucks for goods are also made, ten of which are delivered at Finniss Station.

Although horses may be worked at first, I do not believe that it will be found economical, Heritage Places – Non-Residential if the traffic is of any amount; but should it be desirable to employ light engines, weighing, Recognises outstanding achievement in the conservation or sympathetic re-use say, ten to twelve tons, every provision has been made for using them in lieu of horses.” of a non-residential place, for example; commercial, public and industrial buildings. (Public Works Report, 1868, SA Parliamentary Paper No. 15 of 1869)

Two months later the track locomotives and on 17 Dec Supported on six masonry New Development in Heritage from Currency Creek to 1884 the section from piers, it was 23m high, a figure Recognises outstanding achievement in sympathetic new development within Strathalbyn was finished and Currency Creek to Middleton only rivalled by the Sleeps Hill or near a heritage area or place the entire line was opened was closed and replaced by viaducts (built in 1882 on the by the Governor, Sir James a new line direct to Goolwa. Adelaide Hills Line), one of Ferguson on 23 April 1869. The Currency Creek viaduct which was over 30m high. Heritage Volunteers Many thanks to Phil Curnow for It was operated by 23 men was incorporated into the The Currency Creek viaduct Recognises and celebrates the outstanding contribution by community first finding, then allowing us to and 25 horses and it took new steam line, but required remained the longest railway organisations to the care, promotion and interpretation of our heritage buildings use, his stunning original photo about three hours to travel some structural modification bridge in the Colony at over and structures from 1972 showing ex South between Victor Harbor and to sustain the weights of 85 metres until the Australian Railways Pacific type Strathalbyn. increasingly heavier and construction of bridges on Heritage Stories - locomotive No. 621 returning to more powerful locomotives. the line north of Port Augusta, Promotion, Education and Interpretation Adelaide from Victor Harbor across The Strathalbyn to Middleton such as those at Black Rock Recognises outstanding achievement in interpretive, promotional and educational the Currency Creek Viaduct. Tramway continued service With the introduction in 1926 and Bruce, and the Sleeps Hill activities associated with our built heritage This locomotive is still active as part for 15 years, and then, as of new locomotives, the viaducts already mentioned. of the Steam Ranger fleet operating predicted by the Engineer-in- Railway Commissioner duly Heritage Trades and Products on the South Coast tourist railway Chief in 1868, the line was authorised the strengthening Of substantial railway viaduct Recognises excellence in trade services and products that contribute to the based at Mt. Barker. converted for use by steam of the viaduct. The masonry structures constructed in restoration and conservation of heritage buildings and structures piers were encased in South Australia, only the concrete and seven new Currency Creek viaduct steel spans were installed, remains. The Sleeps Hill Planning for Heritage as were steel web girders. viaducts were superseded Recognises outstanding achievement in heritage conservation management theory when the line to Belair was and practice. The Currency Creek viaduct duplicated in 1919 to carry was one of the most larger rolling stock and the significant engineering viaducts were dismantled achievements of any type in in the following year. All nominations are assessed for their benefit to the community and excellence in work and approach. South Australia to that time. Sarah Laurence, The Hon John Hill, Minster for Environment and Conservation, will present the Awards at a ceremony Senior Heritage Officer to be held at Edmund Wright House on 16 September 2005.

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

Closing date for entries is 2 May 2005

10 March 2005 Heritage South Australia Newsletter Heritage South Australia Newsletter March 2005 11 Heritage Grants and Discounts Heritage Diversity and the Schools Heritage Competition 2005 State History Conference

State Heritage Heritage Branch presenting at Whyalla State History Fund 2005/06 Conference, 28-29 May 2005

Grants Program Students Invited to tell heritage stories In keeping with the focus of Water (or the lack of it) the conference, the branch Applications for grants for South Australian schools will encouraged to get out into is tackling a diverse range of Our forebears really had to Applications for a heritage conservation work once again be invited to their local community and heritage topics relevant to do some creative thinking. ‘Heritage Cemeteries’ are now invited from owners participate in the annual speak to people to find the the Eyre Peninsula and This presentation explores grant are encouraged from of places listed in the State Schools Heritage Competition stories behind their heritage Outback regions. the ingenuity and effort those with an interest in the Heritage Register or situated from April 1 this year. Open places. For information about that contributed to a reliable maintenance and within State Heritage Areas. to students from Reception to entering the competition, These topics include: supply of stock water in the management of small historic Year 10, the theme of this please contact the Heritage north of this State. Granite cemeteries or individual graves. Grants are available in two year’s competition is OUR Education Officer on tel. Industrial heritage. outcrops were used to categories: HERITAGE – THEIR STORIES: 8124 4957 or channel water into above Telling Tales of Heritage [email protected] Too recent or too ugly; too and below-ground tanks, • the ‘State Heritage Places’ Places. Students will be big and not easily adapted and other more complex category to assist in the to a new use, or just plain structures engineered to care and conservation of too hard - what is the future collect the run-off from places entered in the State Discounts for heritage place owners for our industrial heritage? flooded creeks. The surviving Heritage Register or Although there’s no denying structures that bear located within State In January 2000 Solver Paints We are pleased to confirm their historical significance, testament to this effort Heritage Areas. and the Heritage Branch the ongoing support for the we look at those ‘difficult’ are now at risk. announced a discount scheme by Solver Paints. sites that can easily fall into • the ‘Heritage Cemeteries’ scheme available to owners If you do not already have the unwanted or forgotten Whaling category to assist in the of State and local heritage a card, please contact the category. Strangways Springs Cemetery maintenance and places for the purchase of Heritage Branch on 8124 Current research and field management of small Solver paints and accessories. 4960 and we’ll send you one. Birdsville and work has led to the location historic cemeteries and A Privileged Customer Card The card itself has no expiry Strzelecki Tracks of previously unknown individual graves. was included with the date, so if you still have your whaling stations and related January 2000 edition of the original card you can Aboriginal contact, sites in the remote West Applications are open to Newsletter, valid for use at continue to use it as usual. exploration, transport and Coast. This work is part of a private and corporate owners, any Solver Paints or communications, pastoralism, project aiming to identify all local Councils, community Crowhurst Decorator Centres social life and services, South Australia’s land-based organisations, volunteer for a period of three years. geology and natural history; whaling sites for heritage groups, Church bodies and how’s that for diversity? listing and to produce cemetery trustees. All that and more was relevant management plans. covered in the heritage The grant information survey of the Birdsville and packages contain details of Strzelecki Tracks, and we look types of priority projects and at some highlights. (Copies Lonely grave – Peake Ruins are available from Monday of the survey are available 4th April by: on CD/ROM from the Heritage Branch). • Contacting Heritage Branch on 8124 4922 • Emailing [email protected] • Downloading from our web site at www.heritage.sa.gov.au

The closing date for applications is 30 June 2005.

12 March 2005 Heritage South Australia Newsletter Heritage South Australia Newsletter March 2005 13 New in the Register Heritage Bookshelf

The following places had their entries confirmed in the Harold Desbrowe-Annear A Life in Architecture State Heritage Register in 2004 By Harriet Edquist (Melbourne University Publishing 2004, RRP $69.95) Adelaide Born in 1865, Desbrowe- land boom in Melbourne, Public Schools Club Building in 1915. Theirs is one of only of his tertiary education and Annear became one of the Desbrowe-Annear embraced (former residence of William two Nobel Prizes awarded to his father was undertaking most innovative architects the power of architecture to and Lawrence Bragg, a South Australian, the other the early experiments and in Australia in the first quarter improve people’s lives. sometime Sandford House) being awarded to Lord research in the field which of the twentieth century. This is a beautifully illustrated Howard Florey. The house, was to bring them, nearly He counted among his and readable biography, This house was the family designed by William Henry two decades later, the clients some of the wealthiest which explores both the home of William Henry and Bragg, was their family home highest recognition. families in Melbourne and multi-faceted work and William Lawrence Bragg, the for nine years, during which among his friends a wide unconventional life of this father and son joint recipients time Lawrence was range of bohemian artists intriguing Australian architect. of the Nobel Prize for Physics completing the first stage and writers. Trained during the heady days of the 1880s Hamish Angas Booborowie Creating the Barossa in Fabric Booborowie Homestead, James and John Harris it as one of the state's prime The Making of the Barossa Valley Wall Hanging Outbuildings, Stables, Browne, who were later wool producing properties. Shearing Shed and Water credited with helping to This property formed the By Lyn Leader-Elliott, Joyce Brooker and Paddy Carter Tank establish the pastoral industry foundation for the Browne's (The Art Shop 2004, RRP $20.00) in South Australia. The subsequent and prominent Booborowie was the first Browne's owned and 40 year association with A simple and inspiring story Adding another dimension large landholding to be occupied Booborowie for the pastoral industry in of a group of Barossa Valley is the map on the inside back taken up by brothers William over 20 years and developed South Australia. (South Australia) women cover, cross referenced to who put their heads and the places on the wall hearts together and created hanging. It is difficult to read a textual storyboard of the this book without wanting to Port Adelaide Barossa’s heritage. The book see the hanging for yourself – tracks the idea, the making if you get similar urges, Former Adelaide Milling Built c. 1889, this substantial considered with the adjacent and the reflections of the this inspiring work now hangs Company Flour Mill, mill building is associated 1855 Hart's Mill, provides the makers as they look back in the Barossa Regional including southern annexe with the development of only known example of two over the experience. Colour Gallery in Tanunda. and former Motor Room, the wheat industry in South generations of flour mill illustrations show highlights Packing Shed (brick and Australia in the latter part buildings surviving on one of the wall hanging. Lyn Baxter iron facade only), stone of the 19th century and site. The Packing Shed is wall to west of Hart’s specifically with the export an uncommon surviving The Illustrated Burra Charter: (1855) Mill and remnant of flour from the state through example of an ancillary Good Practice for Heritage Places southern masonry wall Port Adelaide. It is a rare milling industry building. east of Adelaide Milling example of a purpose-built By Meredith Walker and Peter Marquis-Kyle Company Mill (the 1855 late 19th century flour mill in (Australia ICOMOS 2004, RRP $49.50) mill is at left). South Australia and, when In 1999 the Burra Charter (the companion document picks Australia ICOMOS Charter up the new ideas in the for Places of Cultural revised Charter, and illustrates Significance) was them in 120 pages of substantially revised to reflect examples covering a wide the evolution of cultural range of places of cultural heritage conservation significance drawn from all practice since the Charter over Australia. was first adopted in 1979. This new edition of the Lyn Baxter

14 March 2005 Heritage South Australia Newsletter Heritage South Australia Newsletter March 2005 15 Events Heritage related events, conferences, workshops and seminars around the State: March – September 2005

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Heritage Planning Seminar Gallipoli: Port Wakefield day tour Adelaide Town Hall Kadina The South Australian Story An Historical Society of Heritage Tour Aimed squarely at local This exhibition marks the South Australia Field Trip An Historical Society of government, this full day 90th anniversary of the 1915 Venue: Bus trip; leaves South Australia Field Trip packs in all you need to know Gallipoli campaign and tells Burnside Council car park Led by Glen Woodward about heritage planning. the story of South Australia’s Date: 10 April (Sunday) Date: 8 June 10:00am The presenters are heritage participation and response to leaves 10:00am Bookings: (08) 8278 5370 experts from both this Great War event. The Bookings: (08) 8278 5370 (Non-members welcome) government and private exhibition will also be touring (Non-members welcome) sectors and will cover some rural areas after June, legislation, processes for sponsored by the JUL identifying heritage value, Department of Veteran MAY policy, planning and Affairs. Police Historical Society, conservation. Seminar is open Venue: History Trust Exhibition SA History Week 2005 Thebarton Barracks to anyone with a keen Gallery, Torrens Parade It’s on again! Building on the An Historical Society of interest in heritage planning Ground resounding success of its South Australia Field Trip processes. Date: starts April - contact inaugural SA History Week in Date: 17 July 2:00pm Venue: The Farm Shed History Trust for exact date May 2004, the History Trust of Bookings: (08) 8278 5370 Museum & Tourism Centre, Cost: Free South Australia has set (Non-members welcome) Kadina Enquiries: (08) 8203 9888 or another date with history for Date: 18 March, email [email protected] 2005. An opportunity for all 9:00am – 5:00pm www.history.sa.gov.au South Australians to explore SEP Cost: $75.00 and celebrate their past Enquiries: (08) 8124 4956 together and discover what Artlab Australia tour APR makes us different. Contact An Historical Society of the History Trust for an South Australia Field Trip MAR Heritage Friday Forum Activities Booklet Date: 8 September 10:00am Adelaide (available April). Bookings: (08) 8278 5370 Wrecked! Tragedy and the Paul Stark from Planning SA Venue: Across SA (Non-members welcome) Southern Seas will talk about the Association Dates: 21 – 29 May There are 850 shipwrecks of Preservation Technology Enquiries: (08) 8203 9888 along the South Australian conference he attended in www.history.sa.gov.au SEP coast each telling a story of Texas in 2004. Hosted by the drama and tragedy from a Heritage Branch, this regular Edmund Wright Heritage time when shipping was part series of informal MAY Awards Presentation of daily life and immigrants presentations is aimed at the Ceremony came to Australia by sea. heritage professional Blast from the Past The 2005 Awards program This exhibition tells some of community. Includes nibbles State History Conference – culminates in a ceremony at those stories. and networking. Whyalla Edmund Wright House with Venue: South Australian Venue: 1 Richmond Rd The 2005 Conference will the presentation of awards Maritime Museum Keswick focus on the histories of recognising outstanding Date: 18 March until Date: 1 April, South Australia’s rural and achievement in heritage late August 4:00pm – 5.30pm industrial communities, with conservation and promotion. Cost: admission fees apply Cost: Free a particular focus on northern Venue: Edmund Wright www.history.sa.gov.au/ Enquiries: (08) 8124 4947 South Australia. Will interest House, Adelaide maritime/exhibitions.htm amateur and professional Date: 16 September historians, academics, Cost: Free, by invitation only. historical societies; anyone Enquiries: (08) 8124 4947 interested in history. www.heritage.sa.gov.au/ Contact the History Trust awards for details of the program. Venue: Westlands Hotel-Motel, Whyalla Date: 28 – 29 May Enquiries: (08) 8203 9888 www.history.sa.gov.au

16 March 2005 Heritage South Australia Newsletter