Heritage South Australia Newsletter

Department for Environment and Heritage Heritage South Australia Newsletter

Edition 31 September 2007

‘Heritage is one of our most important assets. It is both our inheritance and our future.’ Heritage Directions: A Future for Built Heritage in South Australia (Department for Environment and Heritage, 2003)

Heritage South Australiawww.environment.sa.gov.au Newsletter September 2007 Contents Minister’s Update

3 My favourite heritage place(s) Ms Raina most significant architects from colonial Institute Buildings Nechvoglod times to the present day. The database is took up her expected to be available on the internet 5 Heritage Places appointment by year’s end and will provide new as Manager of insights into our built heritage. Showcasing Heritage Places the Heritage Support for Local Government Rhine Park Homestead Complex Branch of DEH Building capacity within Local on 23 April as the Nor’West Bend Station Government to look after their heritage Branch continued places is a key strategy for heritage Conserving Heritage Places in Parks to focus on conservation and management in this achieving the initiatives outlined in 10 SA Heritage Fund Grants State. In 2006/07 over $100,000 was the Government’s Heritage Directions provided to assist local Councils to assess Salem Baptist Church strategy. Ms Nechvoglod brings the significance of local heritage places, experience in the Departments of Premier undertake Heritage Plan Amendment Morgan Railway Station and Cabinet, Health and Families & Reports or establish Council local heritage Keil House Smokehouse Communities and the Office of Local incentive schemes. Government to the position, and has a 2006/07 SA Heritage Fund strong background in strategic policy Heritage Advisory Service Review Grant recipients development, issues management and This year marks the 20th anniversary of the commencement of the Heritage Advisory 12 State Heritage Areas community consultation. Service in Burra in 1987. This service, Funding for State Heritage Places 13 Looking after your Heritage Place which is jointly funded by State and Local Applications for the 2007/08 round of Government, has been identified as Salt damp SA Heritage Fund grants are now being critical to regional servicing of heritage 14 Architects and Builders assessed. Priority will be given to places management. It continues to develop needing urgent physical conservation of South Australia – 4 and almost half of South Australia’s work, and projects that help owners plan local councils have engaged the Russell Ellis for the future management of a place. professional support of a Heritage Adviser. 16 DEH Heritage News In 2006/07, grants totaling $273,000 for A comprehensive review of the Service 59 projects to conserve State Heritage and its dividends is being undertaken, to 18 Heritage Bookshelf Places underlined the government’s inform future planning and management, commitment to assisting owners to care Through the Eyes of Goyder as well as professional service at the local for South Australia’s heritage places. Master Planner level. Details of some of these projects can be Showcasing SA Heritage Places 19 SA Heritage Council Update found in this issue. DEH also spent around $180,000 on conserving heritage places This section of the DEH Heritage website 20 Events in parks around the State, including has now expanded to include highlights stabilising ruins in the Flinders Ranges, of the SA Heritage Register and the Anstey Hill, Talisker and Innes parks. SA Shipwrecks Database. Information- packed fact sheets tell the stories of DEH SA Built Heritage some of South Australia’s unique built and Front Cover: ‘International Style’ Research Fellowship maritime heritage. This issue features just dwelling (Wright house) designed This annual fellowship, offered through two of these stories – I encourage you by Russell Ellis and built in 1949, the Architecture Museum of the Louis to visit the website www.environment. Springfield (1998) Laybourne Smith School of Architecture sa.gov.au/heritage/showcasing.html to and Design, University of South Australia, browse the full selection. The Heritage South Australia supports in-depth research into an aspect Newsletter is published bi-anually 2007 Schools Heritage Competition of the State’s built heritage. Initially by the Department for Environment In May I was very pleased to launch the funded for two years, DEH has decided to and Heritage 5th annual Schools Heritage Competition. support the annual fellowship for a further ISSN 1443-9719 The competition this year has aligned itself three years. Louise Bird, the inaugural with the Postcards TV show and includes September 2007 Number 31 recipient of the Fellowship, has written a new award category, the ‘Postcards’ For further information an illustrated monograph based on her award, which offers winning students the please contact: three-volume research report about South chance to fashion their own Postcards- The Editor, Australian modernist architect Russell Ellis style segment based on their competition Heritage South Australia Newsletter and has contributed an article on him to entry. Schools across the state have GPO Box 1047, Adelaide, SA 5001 this issue. responded enthusiastically to the theme Telephone: (08) 8124 4947 Database of SA Architects of Heritage Postcards: showcasing local Facsimile: (08) 8124 4980 and their Works places and I look forward to announcing Email: [email protected] In another DEH - Architecture Museum the winners later this year. www.heritage.sa.gov.au partnership, UniSA is employing Hon Gail Gago MLC © Department for Environment and Heritage researchers, funded by DEH, to document Minister for Environment All rights reserved FIS 2900.07 the lives and works of 100 of the state’s and Conservation

2 Heritage South Australia Newsletter March 2007 My Favourite Heritage Place(s) Minister’s Update

Institute Buildings In the days before free local public libraries became common – Elizabeth was the first in Brian Samuels 1957 - Institutes and their associated subscription libraries, public lectures and provision of community halls and meeting rooms were important centres of activity. They peaked at 309 in 1933, but as late as 1980 there were still 136 of them. Today only a handful still function, while there are now 138 local public libraries. I have chosen to focus on three of the more notable Institutes whose histories match the substantial nature of their buildings. However, even the humblest of Institutes will generally have witnessed many ‘entertainments’, lectures, meetings, dances and film shows while also providing both light and serious reading to educate and sustain the residents of their district. At the other end of the scale, some of the grander Institute buildings, for example Semaphore and Glenelg, were taken over by the local councils and became town halls. Reproduced in C Bridge (1986), p49. Original at State Records GRG 19/185. The South Australian Institute Image courtesy of the State Library of S.A. The Institute Building on the corner of entered in the SA Heritage Register ventilation system within the walls and North Terrace and Kintore Avenue, and the oldest cultural building on roof lights over the museum which Adelaide, is the oldest Institute building North Terrace. The Institute of the title could be covered by ‘slides’ worked refers to the South Australian Institute, from inside. established by Act of Parliament in The building soon provided homes for 1856. In 1884 it became the Public the Adelaide Philosophical Society Library, Museum and Art Gallery, a (established 1853; renamed the Royal combined body, which 56 years later Society of South Australia 1880), split into its component parts. and the South Australian Society of The southernmost half of the building is Arts (established 1856; ‘Royal’ since the original portion, and was occupied 1936). In the 1870s it was also the in 1860 and formally opened on 29 venue for the early lectures of the January 1861. Its south-western room University Association, forerunner of the was the public reading room and also University of Adelaide. These learned doubled as a lecture hall. Upstairs, the societies were later joined by the Royal long narrow space across the northern Geographical Society of Australasia end of the original building was the (SA Branch), whose acquisition of the first permanent home of the South York Gate Library in 1905 was a key Australian Institute Museum (now the factor leading to the construction of SA Museum), Adelaide’s first, which the northern additions to the building was established in 1856 and opened to (opened in 1907), which gave it its The Song of Australia was taught to SA school the public in January 1862. The building present external form. students for over 60 years. (Town of Gawler, Gawler Heritage collection) itself was quite sophisticated, with a

Heritage South Australia Newsletter September 2007 My Favourite Heritage Place(s)

The Port Adelaide Institute Founded in 1859 at the third attempt, the Port Adelaide Institute moved into its purpose-built two storey building in 1876. The size of the building suggests the Institute’s former significance. It incorporated reading rooms, a residence for the librarian, a book bindery, what is thought to be the second public art gallery in the Colony (1880), and one of the earliest museums (1872). As well as sustaining a substantial library, the Institute also organised lectures, classes and other educational activities. In 1900 it had the most subscribers of any Institute library outside of Adelaide. Its general The ‘Free [i.e. open to non-subscribers] Reading Room’, Port Adelaide Institute museum became a nautical museum (From Meleng’s 1902 book, facing p44 of catalogue) in 1933, and was believed to be the oldest such museum in Australia when it was absorbed into the SA Maritime Museum in the 1980s. The Institute moved out in 1959 and the building was incorporated into the adjacent Custom House until the Customs vacated both buildings in 1987. It still awaits a new use. In conclusion There are many other Institute buildings entered in State and local heritage registers. Local histories will generally provide a starting point for information about them, while Michael Talbot’s history cited below provides a very good overview of their achievements and the workings of the voluntary committees which ran them for so many years. The Port Adelaide Institute as it appeared in Meleng’s 1902 book (facing p13). Brian Samuels Australia from its foundation to the year The Gawler Institute Principal Heritage Officer The Gawler Institute was founded in of its jubilee: … (1893). October 1857 and moved into its The Institute also established a museum Further reading own building in Murray Street in 1871. (c1859) which appears to have been C Bridge A Trunk Full of Books: History of the State Library It remained there until 1985 when it the Colony’s first outside Adelaide. of South Australia and its Forerunners, Adelaide, 1986. EH Coombe History of Gawler, 1837 to 1908, was superseded by the Gawler Its inaugural curator was later to be Gawler, 1910. Public Library, which still occupies one of the more notable Directors of GL Fischer ‘Henry Hussey’s “History of South Australia”’, South Australiana vol. VIII no. 1 March 1969, pp17-24. the building. Adelaide’s Botanic Gardens. GE Loyau The Gawler Handbook …, Adelaide, 1880. Gawler’s Institute was a particularly ‘An excellent museum has also been FE Meleng Fifty Years of the Port Adelaide Institute..., formed in connection with it, the nucleus of Adelaide, 1902. innovative body, sponsoring a national M Page Port Adelaide and its Institute 1851-1979, which was presented by the Naturalist Club song competition which led to the Adelaide, 1981. at the commencement of the past year. It B Samuels ‘The Evolution of the North Terrace Cultural composition of ‘The Song of Australia’ embraces specimens of every department Institutions and their Buildings: An Historical Chronology’, (1859) and in 1860 a prize for the best of local natural history, as well as curiosities History Trust of South Australia, Adelaide, processed typescript, 1986 and ‘The South Australian Institute history of South Australia, which led and specimens from other parts of the world. Building: A Life History’, History Trust of South Australia, Adelaide, processed typescript, 1986. Henry Hussey to compile a history of A gentleman of great repute in the scientific world - Dr. Richard Schomburgk - has kindly M Talbot A Chance to Read: a History of the Institutes the then young Colony that was later Movement in South Australia, Adelaide, 1992. accepted the office of curator.’ adapted and used by Edwin Hodder – G Nott ‘Rise and Progress of Gawler’ in his two volume The History of South (1860) reproduced in Loyau (1880) p21

4 Heritage South Australia Newsletter September 2007 Heritage Places

New web-based showcase of Heritage Places This new section on the DEH Heritage website highlights some of the significant built and maritime heritage sites in South Australia. Available at http://www.environment. sa.gov.au/heritage/showcasing.html ‘Showcasing SA Heritage Places’ contains highlights and latest entries in the SA Heritage Register, Highlights of the SA Shipwrecks Database, and heritage places celebrating significant 150th Anniversaries South Australian Register, 8 July 1857 - anniversaries in 2007. reporting the loss of the Koning William II of Shipwrecks The site also offers virtual glimpses of on-site interpretation panels that tell The Phaeton, the Sultana visitors the stories of some of South and the Koning Willem II Australia’s unique heritage places, Three small wooden vessels – the including the Birdsville and Strzelecki Phaeton, the Sultana and the Koning Tracks, the Oodnadatta Track, and Willem II - carried some of the 20,000 the Kanyaka Homestead ruins in the Chinese immigrants making their way Southern Flinders Ranges. to the Victorian goldfields via South Improving public awareness and Australia to avoid Victoria’s ‘head tax’. appreciation about these places is They were lost off the coast near Robe considered an important part of their within six months in 1857. long-term conservation and protection For details about each of the wrecks, – for people to value these places, and a brief history of Chinese they first need to know about them. immigration through Robe, see http:// Each year a selection of places and www.environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/ shipwrecks with significant anniversaries showcase_sashipwrecks.html for that year will be highlighted. 50th Anniversary – Thematic groupings of heritage places Beacon House will also be interpreted, including Heritage in Parks, Transport Heritage Beacon House, the former Mutual Life Beacon House – former MLC (Mutual Life and Citizens’ and Citizens’ Assurance Company Ltd Assurance Company Ltd) Building, 1957. SLSA: B 13963 and Quirky or Unusual Places. Image courtesy of the State Library of S.A. (MLC) building in Victoria Square, In this issue we highlight two significant is considered one of Adelaide’s most 2007 anniversaries, both or which significant modern landmarks. Opened are featured in more detail on the in 1957, its construction had a dramatic Showcasing web pages. impact on the Adelaide townscape and created huge interest and debate in the media and community. It demonstrates the most sophisticated approach to steel prefabrication and integration of services and structure at that time in Australia. It also featured the first variable air-conditioning system completed in Australia. For more information about the historical background, architecture, design and construction of Beacon House, see http://www.environment. sa.gov.au/heritage/pdfs/showcasing/

beacon_house.pdf Beacon House (2007)

Heritage South Australia Newsletter September 2007 Heritage Places

Many owners of heritage places take seriously their role as custodians of South Australia’s built heritage. In this article we talk to owners who are responsible for not just a single building, but a collection of heritage places. Rhine Park Homestead Complex, Eden Valley

Home of the ‘Murray Merinos’ Rhine Park, at Eden Valley, is significant View of the homestead, Rhine Park as one of the earliest sheep studs in Advisory Service support destructive practice of repairing South Australia. The land on which the As the owner of a State Heritage Place crumbling mortar with cement-rich homestead and related buildings are in the Barossa Council area, Bevan rather than a lime-based mortar. situated was granted to John Murray, is able to seek advice through the The latter is softer and more porous the founder of the ‘Murray Merinos’, Heritage Advisory Service, provided than the stone or brick and acts in September 1857. in this region by Sam Hosking from sacrificially to protect the masonry. Bevan’s extensive experience and prior “… a ram bred the year after Mr Flightpath Architects. The service knowledge saved him from the lecture Murray formed his flock took champion provides for owners to seek information on this occasion. prize at the Adelaide Show, although and advice for conservation works and imported rams were placed against development proposals. Expect the unexpected it. This feat rather put South Australian Financial assistance An unexpected conservation flockmasters on their mettle, and Bevan has successfully applied for challenge is resulting from the eating several fresh importations were financial support through the South habits of the local white cockatoos. made, but Mr. Murray’s ram took the Australian Heritage Fund Grants The birds industriously remove the championship for six consecutive Program to assist in carrying out putty around the windows - Bevan years.” essential physical conservation works has re-puttied the windows in the Three generations of the Murray family on several of the buildings. Roofing has shearers’ quarters for three years carried on the breeding of these been a priority for the outbuildings, as running. Chicken wire currently acts famous foundation sheep. well as stone repair and repointing. as a deterrent. Current owners Have you had the cement Heritage buildings need Bevan and Phoebe Reynolds, owners lecture yet? to be used of Rhine Park since 1980, now have There is also a need to be vigilant Heritage places are not best served responsibility for the swag of State- about rising damp. On visiting Rhine by being ‘preserved in aspic’ – any heritage listed buildings on the Park for the first time, DEH Conservation building that is used is more likely to be property, including the homestead, Architect Elizabeth Little’s first question valued and looked after. The passage a cottage, the former stable, shearing to Bevan was: ‘Have you had the in the main house is very well used. shed and shearers’ quarters. cement lecture yet?’ referring to It has done double-duty as a cricket Once a far more extensive the common, well-intentioned, but pitch for the grandchildren; Bevan landholding, the Reynolds now run figures he’s replaced every window sheep and goats on the remaining pane in the vicinity. 400 acres of the property. Bevan says everyone in the area knows someone who at sometime worked at Rhine Park. The bluestone homestead, built in three stages using stone from the property, dates from the 1860s. Painting and maintenance is virtually an ongoing job – Bevan has had ample opportunity to count the 38 verandah posts. He is currently contemplating his next job of painting the 15’ internal ceilings. He reckons he’s getting too old for the ladder and so is planning to rig up some scaffolding and call out to his wife, ‘move’, each time he’s ready to paint a new spot. The homestead is constructed from bluestone sourced Shearing shed and outbuildings, Rhine Park (2007) from the property, Rhine Park (2007)

6 Heritage South Australia Newsletter September 2007 Nor’West Bend Station Imperfect and original Complex, Cadell The Pedders are very comfortable with the imperfections inherent in an old Most people don’t set out to buy a building, and have asked those who piece of South Australia’s heritage. have worked on the house to resist the It seems that more often they stumble urge to try and make straight the rough upon it and then find the notion edges and odd angles. They regard as irresistible. At least that’s how it a find the Scottish wallpaperer who is happened for Kevin and Sue Pedder used to plying his trade in centuries-old and Nor’West Bend, a well known local Scottish castles, where dealing with the pastoral property near Morgan. Having irregularities found in older structures is grown up on a rural property herself, second nature. Sue knew of Nor’West Bend through a family connection and was curious Although they have drawn on the skills to see it. In one visit curiosity turned to of expert tradespeople, they have resolve to purchase the property. tackled much of the work themselves. Well-known stone mason Peter Russell Significance is a regular at Nor’West Bend, but on The State heritage-listed station Remnant wallpaper retained after restoration of the an early visit, Peter advised Kevin that homestead dining room complex, situated opposite given the amount of work that needed Cadell on the River Murray and Layer upon layer to be done ‘he had better learn’. Kevin approximately10km from Morgan, As is the case with most buildings that was consequently set to work on an comprises the homestead, cottage, have been occupied over a long outside toilet under Peter’s supervision. woolshed and former coach-house period of time, they have found that Badminton anyone? and stables. Significant because of successive residents have left their its association with the expansion own touches. Layers of wallpaper and The woolshed adjacent to the of pastoralism in areas previously paint indicative of different eras and homestead is sited at the top of a unsettled by Europeans and the personal tastes have been investigated slope leading down to the river which establishment of extensive sheep and recorded. In every room the allowed easy loading of riverboats, runs in the late nineteenth and early history of the space has informed assisted by flying fox. Built into the twentieth centuries in South Australia, the approach to interior decoration. slope the structure is single level at Nor’West Bend Station was built in the In some instances walls have been entry, but originally two-storeyed 1850s, and at one time was the largest repapered or repainted with colours facing the river. The upper-storey and most significant station in and designs very close to the original. floor was removed many years ago, the region. And where limited records exist, or creating a larger space which now accommodates its current use as a Construction more recent, unsympathetic, additions have obscured the setting, Sue has badminton court. The main residence is constructed from skilfully introduced her own touch, with limestone quarried from nearby cliffs approval from the Heritage Branch. and was constructed on a north-south Fireplaces that were ‘grooved up’ axis in a U shape around a central in the sixties have now been toned courtyard. The initial roof material was down so their impact on the traditional reputedly red gum slabs, but was later setting of the place is reduced. updated to rolled edge iron roof tiles (probably imported from England). Keeping heritage significance A unique aspect of the building is the intact does not mean freezing buttressed walling, possibly introduced places in the past; a philosophy to stabilise walls very early on in the that has been embraced by building’s life. these owners. Conservation With forethought and planning, Kevin and Sue Pedder are living in the modern convenience sits comfortably adjacent cottage while slowly and alongside history. There are plans, carefully conserving and renovating where practical, to install underfloor the main residence and associated heating in specific areas of the buildings. They have spent a lot of homestead. The kitchen will discreetly time researching the history of the house a cool room and modern place, and it is through this and appliances, while still enabling Sue to the comprehensive Conservation teach her grandson ‘how they did it Management Plan, prepared by in the old days’ on the original Flightpath Architects in 2000, that the wood-fired stove. process of appropriate conservation Woolshed turned badminton court, Nor’West Bend Station and restoration has been informed.

Heritage South Australia Newsletter September 2007 Conserving Heritage Places in Parks

Built and maritime heritage places in parks help link visitors to South Australia’s rich cultural heritage. In 2006/07 DEH spent almost $200,000 on conserving heritage places in parks around the State on a range of works: Repairs and Restoration at Martindale Hall (Clare Valley) Few South Australians would not ‘Blue’ bedroom, Martindale Hall (image courtesy of be familiar with this Georgian-style Artlab Australia). mansion set on a pastoral estate in the Clare Valley. Martindale Hall, together with the coach house and stables, was built and furnished for the sum of View from the homestead verandah, Nor’West Bend Station (2007) £36,000 in 1880. The Hall is presented as a ‘living museum’ which provides the Added character public with the opportunity to interact closely with the building and its fittings, Living in a historic house is commonly but also accelerates the wear and enriched by stories from the past tear on the physical fabric of the place and the experiences of previous inhabitants. In this case there are – around 25,000 people visit Martindale also some unusual current residents Hall each year. ‘Blue’ bedroom wallpaper before conservation, Martindale Hall (image courtesy of Artlab Australia). – in the roof. Many of us have heard Recent works involved conservation the pitter-patter of little feet in the of wallpaper in rooms affectionately watercolours or putting in patches of roof space (possums, rats) but the known as the ‘blue’ and ‘white’ dyed paper. The repair and restoration Pedders have become accustomed bedrooms. Dampness in walls had work was undertaken by Artlab to the regular slithering of a carpet caused paper to become loose – the Australia, who also re-touched chipped python that exits each night around paper was lifted and re-adhered woodwork, and recoloured repaired 8pm in the warmer weather, returning where possible. Silverfish damage had plaster cornices in the billiard and sometime before dawn. left white patches where the colour smoking rooms. Nor’West Bend also boasts the had been eaten away; these were mandatory ghost story. The governess repaired either by re-touching with resided in two small rooms under the main roof of the homestead, but an internal door from the adjoining school room leads nowhere – clearly a bad omen. Of course she is forever now trapped between the two. Lyn Baxter, Public Communications Officer Pippa Morgan, Senior Conservation Architect

Sources E. Noack and Assoc. & Heritage Investigations, Morgan Heritage Study, Working Paper 1, Summary of History, Morgan Heritage Study Steering Committee, 1980, Conservation Management Plan Nor’West Bend Homestead, Flightpath Architects, 2000 Register of the National Estate Database Martindale Hall

8 Heritage South Australia Newsletter September 2007 Gatehouse cottage, Inneston (2006). Inneston Gypum Mining Complex site - Innes National Park (Yorke Peninsula) Significant as the remains of the only early 20th century gypsum mining Norfolk cottage, Inneston (2006) complex and associated settlement accommodate workers commenced. bird was re-discovered in the mid 1960s. in South Australia, Inneston sits within The poor quality limestone was sourced Although rarely seen, the distinctive call the Innes National Park. The park was locally. All manner of salvaged can be heard throughout the coastal named after William Robert Innes, who materials were used to construct heath habitats in the park. discovered commercial quantities of additions or internal improvements, DEH funding in 2006/07 helped stabilise gypsum in the area in the early 1900s. which are still evident today. ruins and fence unsafe areas to Gypsum is the principal raw material Substantial homes with commanding prevent public access. Repairs to the for the manufacture of Plaster of Paris, views of the mine site and township general store allowed public access used for finishing and decorating were built for the Mine Manager and to this building to continue. building interiors. At first the rock the Mine Engineer in 1918 and 1921 gypsum was quarried and exported, Overlooking Inneston Lake and respectively. but in 1917 a sophisticated plant was township, both the Engineer’s and The State heritage-listed site comprises built to wash, crush and calcine (roast) Manager’s Lodges are available as the lake bed, cottages, stores, stables, the gypsum to plaster on site. At its accommodation for hire, as are several Manager’s and Engineer’s residences, peak in the 1920s, the Peninsula Plaster other cottages. See http://www.parks. ruins of the crushing plant, factory, Company was employing 70 workers sa.gov.au/innes/visit/index.htm processing areas, and tramway on a year round basis, and exporting for details. and explosives magazine. 300 tons of plaster a week. In 1970 Innes National Park was Ruins stabilised in Flinders With the establishment of the plaster dedicated to conserve the habitat of Ranges National Park factory and increased employment the rare and elusive Western Whipbird opportunities, the construction Built in 1854, Hayward Homestead in Psophodes nigrogularis. Previously of simple limestone cottages to the Flinders Ranges National Park is one thought to be extinct in the region, the of a number of structures remaining that provides evidence of early pastoral life in the Aroona Valley - once known as the ‘Garden of the North’. An interpretive sign at the homestead depicts one of the paintings Hans Heysen painted during his stay in the area in 1927. This year saw further work stabilising the ruins of Hayward Homestead, as well as ruins at the Wills Homestead complex.

For a list of State Heritage Places within South Australia’s park system, see www.parks.sa.gov.au/parks/ heritage/index.htm

Ruins, Hayward Homestead, Flinders Ranges Wills Homestead, Flinders Ranges National Park

Heritage South Australia Newsletter September 2007 SA Heritage Fund Grants

Each year, funding to help conserve South Australia’s built heritage is available through the South Australian Heritage Fund Grants Program. In 2006/07, 59 projects to conserve State Heritage Places were assisted. Grants totaling $273,000 underlined the government’s commitment to assisting owners to care for South Australia’s Heritage Places. Applications for grants are usually received between 1 April and 30 June (applications for 2007/08 are now closed). Work supported in 2006/07 included:

Structurally sound and newly painted, the Morgan Railway Station Ticket Office and Refreshment Rooms (2007) New roof for the Inside out conservation: Salem Baptist Church, Morgan Railway Station Gumeracha The town of Morgan was once South The Salem Baptist Church in Australia’s most significant river Gumeracha was one of the first Baptist port, due to its connection by rail to Churches built in South Australia (1846) Adelaide, via Kapunda. The Railway and is currently the oldest Baptist Station and Residence is significant Church in this State continuously used for its association with this important for such a purpose. It is also one of the chapter in the history of South Australia earliest buildings constructed in the and the River Murray trade. Gumeracha area. Support from the SA Mid Murray Council, assisted by a Heritage Fund helped to re-roof and grant of $5000 from the SA Heritage Salem Church before re-roofing re-wire the church. Lying dormant Fund Grants Program, and a team of underneath the old roof was a timber dedicated volunteers from the Morgan shingle roof – in good condition. Community Development and Tourist Despite this, it was decided to keep the Association, undertook significant shingles covered, primarily because of conservation work to repair termite the risk from bushfires. damage to the Station building. The project involved the strategic removal of existing iron (which forms both the internal and external cladding), replacement of termite eaten timbers (in some cases there seemed to be nothing left to support the cladding) and then replacement of the corrugated iron in its original position. This remarkable effort replaced a Timber shingle roof exposed during re-roofing (2007) substantial portion of the timber structure while keeping the building standing – proof that buildings can be salvaged from the brink of collapse!

Salem Church after re-roofing (2007) Repaired door frame, Morgan Railway Station (2007) Termite damaged roofing timbers, Morgan Railway Station (2007).

1 0 Heritage South Australia Newsletter September 2007 Former coaching stables (Wilmington) Keil House Smokehouse 2006/07 SA Heritage Fund - towards stabilisation of stonework - $5000 Keil House at Bethany is historically Grant recipients Peterborough Town Hall important as a remnant from the Shops (Former Dwellings) Nth Adelaide - towards parapet repair - $5000 Peterborough YMCA Hostel first settlement of the Barossa Valley. - towards the treatment of salt attack & re-roofing and documentation of conservation works - $5000 - towards stormwater management & skylight Partially collapsed, the smokehouse Public School Clubs Building, conservation - $5000 needed immediate attention. Assisted Sandford House, Adelaide Nautical Museum (former Robe Customs House) by a grant of $5000, the owners rebuilt - towards the preparation of a Land Use Study and Conservation Management Plan - $5000 - towards tuck pointing - $5000 the rear of the building including Beacon House Dwelling, Robe external and internal walls, roof, s (former MLC Building, Victoria Square) - towards the treatment of salt attack to stables - $5000 moke-room, cracked chimney and - towards bathroom conservation - $5000 District Council of Robe Museum The Austral Hotel, Rundle St (Former Moonta Mines School) baker’s oven. Brick quoins on all four - towards verandah and balcony conservation - $5000 - towards stabilisation of stonework - $5000 corners of the building were also Salem Baptist Church, Gumeracha Headmaster’s Residence repaired and paving around the - towards re-roofing - $5000 (Former Moonta Mines School) perimeter of the building was re-laid Heritage Farm - towards internal crack repair - $2145 (former Nitschke Farm Complex) Dwelling, Cape Jervis to ensure adequate drainage. - towards re-roofing - $5000 - towards stone stabilisation - $1844.10 BankSA, Strathalbyn Former Courthouse, Kapunda - towards pigeon removal, downpipes - towards re-roofing - $5000 & salt attack - $5000 Prefabricated Manning Cottage, Marananga St Jude’s Anglican Church, Pt Elliot - towards preparation of Measured Drawings - towards removal of cement mortar & Dilapidation Survey - $5000 & stone stabilisation - $5000 Dwelling, Mt Pleasant Dwelling, Marden - towards re-roofing - $5000 - towards paint removal - $3061 Pompoota Hall St Aidan’s Anglican Church, Marden - towards re-wiring - $1000 - towards leadlight repairs - $6600 Morgan Railway Station & Residence St Philip & St James Anglican Church, – towards repairs from termite damage - $5000 Old Noarlunga Former Smokehouse, Terowie - towards stabilising foundations - $5000 - towards stabilisation of stonework - $1500 Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church, Former South Australian Mining Association Morphett Vale Store Room, Yard & Walls, Burra - towards slate roof repairs - $4608 - towards stone stabilisation - $5000 Dwelling, Meadows Uniting Church, Burra - towards re- roofing & render conservation - $5000 – towards façade conservation - $5000 Former Reynella Changing Station Dwelling, Burra Keil House smokehouse during restoration work - towards ongoing conservation works - $5000 - towards conservation & stabilisation of stonework Dwelling, Willunga - $5000 - towards verandah/balcony conservation - $3000 Dwelling, Burra Congregational Church, McLaren Vale - towards the stabilisation of walls - $3171 - towards conservation works to enable the building Ford Brothers Store, Terowie to be habitable - $5000 - towards internal conservation works - $5000 St Augustine’s Anglican Church, Former Wirrega Council Chamber, Mundulla Port Augusta - towards paint removal and timber conservation - towards masonry conservation - $1400 - $5000 Lee’s Theatre Club, 307 Young St, Wayville Dwelling, Rhine - towards the preparation of a Dilapidation Survey – towards re-roofing & stormwater management - $5000 - $2000 Collingrove, Eden Valley Road, Angaston Shops (former Bansemer Family Butcher) - towards the removal of cement rich mortar - towards stone conservation & paint removal - $5000 & conservation of stonework - $3489 Point Lowly Lighthouse Dwelling, Bethany - towards the preparation of a technical specification - towards stone stabilisation - $5000 & documentation of protective painting & rust repair Quornucopia Shop (former Bruse’s Hall) - $5000 - towards stone stabilisation - $5000 Dwelling, Mintaro Dwelling, Murray Bridge - towards stabilisation of stone wall - $1942.50 Rebuilt wall of smokehouse - towards re-roofing - $5000 Former AMP Building, Clare Sliding Rock/Cadnia, Warraweena - Towards stormwater management - $5000 Conservation Park, Beltana Manoora Institute - towards stabilisation of stonework - $5000 - towards render removal & stone stabilisation - $5000 Dwelling, Hamley Bridge St Peter & St Paul’s Church, Gawler - towards platform shelter conservation - $5000 - towards works to be identified from CMP - $5000 Hamley Bridge Institute Reeves Point, Kangaroo Island - for the preparation of an Engineer’s report into - towards protective fences adjacent lime kilns and cracking - $1980 mulberry tree - $5000 Former Poonindie Mission, Port Lincoln Hahndorf Memorial Institute - towards a Dilapidation Study - $5,000 - towards re-roofing - $5000 Gladstone Square, Port Augusta Mount Barker Uniting Church - towards ‘Places for People’ master plan - $15000 (former Dunn Memorial Church) Former G&R Wills Warehouse, Adelaide - towards window joinery conservation - $750 - towards provision of independent architectural advice Dwelling, Melrose - $5000 – towards stormwater management & verandah Former Beresford Arms Hotel, Adelaide reconstruction - $5000 - towards preparation of an Archaeology report - $5000 Oven after conservation, Keil House smokehouse

Heritage South Australia Newsletter September 2007 11 State Heritage Areas

There are seventeen State Heritage Areas in South Australia. Here we find out why a country lane and adjacent schoolhouse at Penola are together considered worthy to be one of them. Penola (Petticoat Lane/ Woods MacKillop Schoolhouse) State Heritage Area The Penola (Petticoat Lane/Woods MacKillop Schoolhouse) State Heritage Area links two adjacent heritage precincts. Petticoat Lane is a significant example of a ‘turn of the century’ First house built in Penola and residence of the Sharam family, 1870. SLSA: Photo B 26749. country lane which depicts the self- Image courtesy of the State Library of SA sufficiency of early South Australian John Thomas) were Penola’s first town life. The Woods MacKillop residents, and their cottage (in what Schoolhouse is one of the most is now Petticoat Lane) was the first significant sites associated with Blessed residence constructed in the new Mary MacKillop and is linked to the township. Ellen later gave birth to their founding of the Josephite Order and second son, William, in this cottage - the Catholic education system. the first European child born in Penola. The Petticoat Lane/Woods MacKillop Character of Petticoat Lane State Heritage Area is located on the south-eastern side of Penola, The Petticoat Lane section of the Sharam’s first and second cottages, Petticoat Lane (2005) between the town centre and its rural State Heritage Area contains an surroundings. The area is bounded by assortment of buildings reflecting a charitable teaching order that Portland Street and Roden Lane, and the growth of Penola, from its origins spread throughout Australia and New includes land on either side of Petticoat in 1850 to the First World War. These Zealand. Lane. It includes the Woods MacKillop buildings demonstrate some of the In 1866, at the invitation of Father Schoolhouse, sited on the corner of earliest remaining uses of timber and Woods, Mary MacKillop established in Petticoat Lane and Portland Street, stone construction techniques in South Penola the first school in Australia that as well as St Joseph’s Church and a Australia. catered for all children, irrespective of former Convent, ‘Bawcoodalyn’. Petticoat Lane has a rural character, family income or social status. This was with red gum kerbing, cottage a new type of school - a church school Early History of Penola gardens, distinctive fences, hedges, where the education was free to all. Penola was founded by Alexander grassed borders and underground The original schoolhouse was a Cameron, a pastoralist pioneer who power. It is a narrow thoroughfare renovated stable that catered for had been in the area since the mid- characterised by small buildings more than 50 students. It was replaced 1840s. His Limestone Ridge Station had on large allotments, with vacant in 1867 by what is now known as the grown in size, as had other stations in allotments maintained as open space. Woods MacKillop Schoolhouse and the district, and there was a need for The National Trust of South Australia is now displayed as a schoolroom of tradespeople to provide services for has gone to considerable lengths the 1860s with living quarters at the the workers and their families. to purchase and preserve the open rear. The adjacent Mary MacKillop In April 1850 ‘King’ Cameron, as he spaces between buildings, which Interpretive Centre was completed in became known, purchased 80 acres contribute to its character as a ‘turn 1998 and offers an intriguing insight into of land from the South Australian of the century’ country lane. the life and times of Mary MacKillop Government to develop the private and Julian Tenison Woods. Woods MacKillop Schoolhouse town of Panoola - later named More about State Heritage Areas Penola. He allotted several blocks for Blessed Mary MacKillop (1842-1909) For more information about Penola community use, including a market was Penola’s most famous resident. (Petticoat Lane/Woods MacKillop square and land for churches at a She was beatified by Pope John Paul II Schoolhouse) and the sixteen other later stage. in 1995 and is anticipated to become SA State Heritage Areas see http:// Early in 1850 Cameron invited Australia’s first saint. With Father Julian www.stateheritageareas.sa.gov.au Tenison Woods she set up a free school Christopher Sharam to build a house Robyn Ashworth, system and co-founded the Sisters of St and to establish a bootmaking business Senior Heritage Interpretation Officer in the proposed town. The Sharam Joseph of the Sacred Heart, family (Christopher, Ellen and baby

1 2 Heritage South Australia Newsletter September 2007 Looking After Your Heritage Place

The “Dos and Dont’s” of Salt Damp

One of the most common problems faced by owners of masonry buildings in South Australia is salt damp, a combination of rising damp and salt attack. Older buildings and structures can be of additional concern, as they have had time to accumulate a build up of salts, brought into the masonry by capillary action through rising damp, falling damp, or penetrating damp. In a nutshell, the critical ‘Dos and Don’ts’ when it comes to dealing with salt damp are: Concrete slab next to stone wall – moisture is forced up the wall instead of evaporating from the ground DO Don’ t • DO check gutters and downpipes • DON’T use hard, cement rich mortars for overflows, leaks, blockages, and to repoint failed mortars, which for signs of water pooling against will not solve the problem and will walls – best to do while it’s raining! increase the risk of further damage Fix leaks promptly and improve site • DON’T ever, ever, ever seal old drainage where possible masonry walls with water repellent • DO identify if there is a damp coatings proof course, and if so, is it intact / • DON’T allow garden beds to damaged / compromised? encroach up to and along walls • DO wherever access is possible, – controlled irrigation to avoid check under timber floors and moisture spray and ponding near framing, as damp walls increase the walls is best (drippers are better the risk of rot and termites than sprinklers for this reason) • DO investigate whether your • DON’T think that an old tar and building or structure has had sand damp proof course is useless. previous treatments that may be Remedial works to reduce the damp Different materials deteriorate at different rates - these bricks are an easy target for salt damp. obscuring the extent of the problem ‘stress’ on a wall, including use of sacrificial mortars and repairs to the (for example areas of render over Unfortunately there is no one-off, DPC may be sufficient to manage masonry) – a thorough investigation quick fix for salt damp. Buildings need the problem, rather than installing an of the current state of things will ongoing care and maintenance, expensive new DPC. better inform the nature and extent and heritage buildings tend to of any repair or remedial works • DON’T go down the path of installing respond better to tried and tested • DO clean out existing air vents a new DPC until other things, methods of repair and maintenance. regularly, and monitor the results including basic housekeeping Modern, impervious products may before installing new ones or measures (as described in the only mask the problem temporarily, changing ventilation conditions DO section) have been tried and or worse, contribute to accelerated assessed for a period of time • DO get independent, professional deterioration. An ongoing, regular advice • DON’T employ the contractor with maintenance and inspection the cheapest price without informing programme is critical to ensuring •DO consider carefully the implications yourself of their method and track continued use and enjoyment of our of drying out the soil beneath your record – a cheaper initial price can heritage buildings. building – places built on clay soils become far more costly in the long are prone to structural cracking Liz Little run due to poor workmanship and when the soil goes through extreme Senior Conservation Architect cutting corners moisture differences. Each case With thanks to David Young. will be different, but generally a consistent moisture content in the soil The current version of Rising Damp and Salt Attack (1995) is available from http://www. will provide a compromise between environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/pub_topic. cracking and rising damp html#damp_and_salt. A new version of this publication will be available in 2008.

Heritage South Australia Newsletter September 2007 13 Architects and Builders of South Australia - 4

ELLIS, Russell Stuart, 1912-1988 As one of the pioneers of Modernism in South Australia, Russell S Ellis was an important figure in the state’s mid- twentieth century architectural history. A ‘truly South Australian Architect’ (Cheshire and Johnson 1987, p.47), he was born and raised in the Adelaide seaside suburb of Semaphore. He undertook his architectural education at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries (School of Mines), graduating with an Architectural Draughtsman’s Certificate in 1934 before practising locally for nearly four decades. Although Ellis’s repertoire was expansive, his ‘forte’ (Cheshire and Johnson 1987, p.49) has been described as residential design ‘in the true International Style’ (Department for Environment and Heritage, Docket No: 16349). He was responsible for Wright dining table (example of built-in furniture), The Australian Home Beautiful, September 1950, p20 some of the best examples of Modern Centenary Homes Exhibition, and a Further Modern residences followed homes in South Australia, including house for Mr AW Harrison Esq built in the succeeding decade with two the State heritage listed Wright House on Brighton Road, Glenelg (1935), homes for the Sauerbier family at (1947-53) in Springfield. since demolished for the Woolworths Frances (in the southeast of the state) Ellis worked for architect Lionel Gregory shopping complex. and Brighton (demolished), and his Bruer while he was studying at the In 1935 Ellis took up a position with PR own family home (demolished) and South Australian School of Mines and Claridge and Associates. This brought the Wright house, both in Springfield. Industries. He was educated in ‘an him into direct contact with Jack During World War Two he worked for American-styled Beaux-Arts system’ Hobbs McConnell, a Victorian architect the Department of the Interior which (Collins and Collins 2006, p.4) that employed by Claridge in 1937 to saw him concentrate on melded well with a local architectural undertake the design of the Bank of non-residential projects. preference for neo-Georgian New South Wales on the southeast In 1945-46 Ellis authored a series of ten architecture. He was also well versed in corner of King William Street and articles for the local ‘Home Magazine’, the other popular domestic styles of the North Terrace. McConnell has been South Australian Homes and Gardens. 1930s. His typical house designs up until credited with introducing Modernism to In these he outlined his own philosophy 1938 were based on an amalgam South Australia and the Bank of NSW is in relation to the Ideal Home and of Tudor/English Revival, neo-Georgian recognised as one the first Modernistic Modern architecture. Aspects covered and Mediterranean styles and include buildings in Adelaide. Ellis was also an included functional planning, roof line, such work as a ‘Honeymoon Cottage’ initial member of the Architects’ Club, siting, orientation, natural ventilation, (1932), his entry into the 1934 Victorian established by solar control, selection of construction McConnell and materials and techniques, colour other like-minded schemes, landscape setting and architects, garden design, and interior design. and formed in To Ellis the design of the ideal early 1938 to home was based on the guiding disseminate and principle that: educate the The general approach in designing any wider community home should be the simple massing about Modern together of planned necessities to form architecture. an harmonious whole. With simplicity and clarity of thought it should provide a home Ellis designed to suit one’s needs only (with always an his first Modern eye to the future) and not the acquisition home in 1938 for of a life-long burden. (Ellis 1945, p.24) Audrey Hardy in These articles indicate Ellis’s concern the new suburb for, and desire to engage with, the Ellis Residence, The Australian Home Beautiful, September 1948, p28 of Springfield. public and to try and procure for

1 4 Heritage South Australia Newsletter September 2007 Hardy’s perspective, Louis Laybourne School of Architecture Museum 89/24/2

Shean drawing for the show of Homes, Louis Laybourne School Wright Residence 1998. Image courtesy DEH Heritage Branch Register file 16349 of Architecture Museum 89/62/1 them an ideal home to suit both their Ellis’s importance lies in his contribution References immediate and future needs. In the to the Modern idiom in Adelaide Bird, Louise Russell S Ellis Pioneer Modernist Architect, Architecture Museum LLS School of Architecture, post-war period he would continue and the introduction of a new and University of South Australia, 2007. this theme by designing a number of modern approach to post-war house Bird, Louise Russell S Ellis: An Architectural Survey and project homes and flat complexes. design that contributed to a shift in the Analysis of his Residential Designs, fellowship report, Department for Environment and Heritage Built Heritage After the war Ellis was both a partner popular perception about the function Research Fellowship 2005/2006 at the Architecture and layout of the home. He retired Museum, LLS School of Architecture, University of South in F Kenneth Milne’s practice and Australia. from practice in 1971 and passed operated his own business from home. Cheshire, Carol and Johnson, Donald Leslie ‘Russell This period presented him with only away in 1988, survived by his wife S. Ellis: South Australian Architect and Master Gladys and four daughters: Alexandra, Draughtsman’, in Paul Johnson (ed), Fourth Annual a few opportunities to design further Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians truly Modern homes. These included a Adrienne, Luise and Nicole. Australia and New Zealand, Adelaide, 1987, pp.47-51. project home for the builder TS Shean Louise Bird Collins, Susan and Collins, Julie Architectural Preludes: One Hundred Years of Student Drawings, Adelaide, at the 1961 housing development Louise Bird is the inaugural recipient of the Architecture Museum LLS School of Architecture known as the ‘Show of Homes’ Grange, Department for Environment and Heritage University of South Australia, 2006. SA Built Heritage Research Fellowship Department for Environment and Heritage, Provisional the Pozza flat complex, Glenelg Entry in the State Heritage Register of House, 3 North, and a home for the Starr family, 2005/2006 at the Architecture Museum, Louis Meadowvale Road, Springfield’, Docket No: 16349. Laybourne Smith School of Architecture Klemzig. However, he was able to Ellis, Russell S ‘Thoughts on Planning the Immediate Post- and Design, University of South Australia. War Home’, South Australian Homes and Gardens June apply his Modern design ideas in many Her Fellowship research focussed on the 1945, pp. 24-25. of his non-residential commissions domestic oeuvre of Russell Ellis. Ellis, Russell S Russell Stuart Ellis Collection, Architecture including a number of churches, Museum LLS School of Architecture University of South Australia, S79-96. factories and sporting facilities. Hamann, Conrad ‘Paths of Beauty: The Afterlife of The Nobby’s Nut Factory on Port Ellis monograph Australian Colonial Architecture, Part 1’, Transition 26, Road, Bowden, was one significant 1988, pp. 27-44. available Page, Michael Sculptors in Space, RAIA, Adelaide, 1986. industrial project. Based on Louise Bird’s three- Rowney, Barry ‘Significant Buildings Wright House, 1949, He undertook more than twenty Springfield’, Architect SA June 1991, pp. 10-12. volume research report, the conventional house commissions Schenk, John ‘Modernist man was suitably ancient as illustrated monograph surveys and well’, Place 1:1 May 2005, pp.28-29. during the 1950s-1960s and while these analyses Ellis’s residential designs were conventional in appearance, and reveals the development of he did manage to incorporate some his ideas about modernism. For aspects of his Modern architectural details on obtaining a copy, see philosophies into their design, providing the Architecture Museum website his clients with well designed and http://www.unisa.edu.au/arc/ practical homes. Archarchive/default.asp

Heritage South Australia Newsletter September 2007 15 DEH Heritage News

Heritage Branch Review of the Heritage Heritage Surveys/Plan Manager’s Update Advisory Service Amendment Reports - I am delighted This year marks 20 years since the Update to have Heritage Advisory Service (HAS) The following Councils are undertaking recently been commenced. In 1987, the first adviser or about to undertake Heritage appointed as was employed through Government Reviews/Surveys, prior to preparing Manager of funding to help manage heritage Heritage Plan Amendment Reports the Heritage in the State Heritage Area of Burra. (PARs): Branch and Now, with assistance from State •Adelaide Hills Council to have Government, almost half of South (Onkaparinga & Torrens Valleys only) joined such a highly professional, and Australia’s local councils have committed group of people. engaged the professional support of •District Council of the Copper Coast a Heritage Adviser. A review of the I am also very lucky to have inherited •Flinders Ranges Council & the District service is almost final, and will identify two well respected Section Heads, Councils of Mount Remarkable, the benefits the service brings to the Brian Samuels, Principal Heritage Orroroo/Carrieton & Peterborough community, owners of heritage places Officer and Paul Stark, Principal (Joint Heritage Review) Conservation Architect. They have and the showcasing of built heritage. made my transition into a new position More in the next issue of this newsletter. •Regional Council of Goyder much easier than it could have been Heritage Branch Staff •City of Holdfast Bay (1930s Heritage) and I look forward to working with •District Council of Kingston them over the coming years to provide Liz Little leadership to the Branch. has been •City of Marion appointed My first few months have been spent to the position •Mid Murray Council learning about the work of the Branch, of Senior the Department for Environment •City of Mount Gambier Conservation and Heritage and the importance of Architect. •District Council of Naracoorte working closely with key areas that Since Lucindale impact on the work we do. graduating from the University of • City of Onkaparinga There are a number of ‘big picture’ Adelaide in 1999 Liz has worked in (former City of Happy Valley only) issues within our current environment. SA, Victoria, and WA with several These include the big issues of climate •City of Port Augusta firms including McDougall and change and sustainability, key Vines. Most recently she worked as •District Council of Wattle Range government priorities and directions a Heritage Architect at Adelaide (Township of Penola only) outlined in the State Strategic Plan and firm Woodhead. Liz is a Registered the Department for Environment and •Wakefield Regional Council Architect experienced in preparing Heritage’s Corporate Plan. conservation works and maintenance •City of Whyalla The Branch and SA Heritage Council documentation, adaptive reuse The following Councils currently have started to discuss the impacts of proposals, management plans and have Heritage PARs under Interim these ‘big’ issues on our work and our undertaking advisory work. Authorisation: priorities. I look forward to reporting Jason Raupp has commenced in back to you on our progress in the a part-time capacity as Maritime •District Council of Mount Barker next issue of this Newsletter. Heritage Officer pending the full-time (District Wide Heritage) A key challenge for us is how to permanent position being advertised. •District Council of Tatiara (Heritage) ensure that we continue to engage Jason also works three days/week with all of the many diverse groups as Technical Officer, Maritime •City of Tea Tree Gully and individuals involved in caring for Archaeology, at Flinders University. (Local Heritage - Phase 2) our heritage and that we reflect your Ken Body previously a planner with the •Town of Walkerville views and interests in the work we do. Heritage Branch, is now working as a (Local Heritage - Supplementary) There are over 2,400 owners of planner with the City of Unley. State Heritage Places. Many of you share with us the same passion for conserving and interpreting our heritage and in doing so provide a gift to future generations. I look forward to meeting you over the coming years and gaining a better understanding of needs and concerns and how we can work with you more effectively.

1 6 Heritage South Australia Newsletter September 2007 DEH Chief Executive Allan Homes Friends of Innes National chaired the forum and identified Park take out Best similarities between our environmental heritage and our built heritage. Both Heritage Project by a contribute to our sense of identity as a Friends of Parks Inc Group community and represent our legacy for future generations. Heritage is not about slavishly replicating past styles and features. We need to more consciously develop a sympathetic Stirring the Possum dialogue between our heritage on Heritage buildings and new buildings around A DEH public forum held on 29 August them, a point made so well by focused on built heritage: Giving the Kerstin Thompson. Past a Future - Celebrating Heritage The Possum format of keynote speaker, Architecture. Keynote speaker panellists’ conversation and questions Victorian architect Kerstin Thompson from the floor worked well, although observed that we should see heritage clearly there is much scope for further Trail revegetation by Friends of Innes National Park as a ‘gift’ from the past, and that debate. If you have an appetite for heritage is not always ‘nice’. She also more, the City of Norwood, Payneham made the point that heritage is about and St Peters has arranged two public more than style; it is about networks forums featuring architect and urban and relationships, continuity and designer Professor Steffen Lehmann transformation. as part of the Council’s 2007 Cultural Chair of the SA Heritage Council Mary Heritage Festival to be held from 5-12 Marsland observed that heritage is October (see ‘Events’ back page of about how we value things. Heritage this newsletter). can be associated with a sense of New State nostalgia for everything from the past, rather than identification of Heritage Places places that are significant to us as a Shady Grove Unitarian Church Trail upgrade by Friends of Innes National Park community and their maintenance & Cemetery, near Hahndorf for future generations. The criteria Awarded annually by the DEH Heritage in the Heritage Places Act help us Branch, the 2007 award recognised to distinguish places of heritage the efforts of the ‘Friends of Innes’ significance from those that simply group for their work developing trails in contribute to urban or rural character. and around Inneston and Stenhouse Continued use of heritage places Bay. The group were commended through adaptive re-use contributes for their work which demonstrated to the sustainability of heritage places an understanding of conservation over the longer-term and enhances principles and an appreciation of their value for the community. In South Australia’s heritage. planning for our future built heritage we need to find the right balance This is the second time this group between the old and the new. This well-preserved building at Shady has taken out the award; in 1998 Grove is the only surviving nineteenth they were recognised for their work Adelaide developer George Kambitsis century Unitarian Church in the State, conserving the Inneston Post Office conceded that Council planners and is associated with one of only – an ongoing project. have a difficult task to do, but was two Unitarian congregations in South concerned that the end result of their For information about heritage Australia. As such, it demonstrates work was often that new buildings were accommodation at Inneston or the the religious diversity typical of mid- ‘dumbed down’. Friends of Innes group see http:// nineteenth century South Australia and www.parks.sa.gov.au/innes/index.htm Messenger Newspapers Editor-in-Chief reveals significant information about Megan Lloyd noted how the planning the history, development and practice process was poorly understood by of the Unitarian Church in this State. the community and emphasized More information: http:// how in her experience more open www.environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/ processes delivered better results than pdfs/showcasing/shady_grove.pdf when proponents undertook only the minimum consultation required by the Development Act.

Heritage South Australia Newsletter September 2007 17 Heritage Bookshelf

Through the Eyes The detailed descriptions reproduced of Goyder Master Planner in this work demonstrate just one facet of Goyder’s abilities. A McArthur (ed). Kanawinka Writers This beautifully produced book is a and Historians Inc, 2007. 312pp. $132 great credit to its designers and printers (Limited edition of 500 copies) and to the dedication of members of Ask any historian what is the favourite the Kanawinka Writers and Historians aspect of their work and there’s a Inc (originally known as South East fair chance they will say ‘dealing Book Promotions) who conceived the with original documents’. There publication and secured funding for it. have been many re-publications of Information on the group’s early descriptive and historical works many publications is available at relating to South Australian history, but http://www.kanawinka.com relatively few collections of previously Brian Samuels unpublished primary source material Principal Heritage Officer and, I believe, none that match the lavish quality of this one. George Goyder was one of South Australia’s most notable and long- serving (1861-1894) Surveyors-General. This book reproduces in facsimile his valuations and associated descriptions of 79 pastoral runs in the South-East in 1864-65, as copied by a head office clerk, with transcriptions alongside. Together they constitute the bulk of the book. They are supplemented by some well-reproduced historic photos, some exquisite full colour images from J Ednie Brown’s Forest Flora of South Australia (1882-90), and a set of scene-setting essays. These include an introduction by Emeritus Professor Michael Williams (once of the University of Adelaide) and an extended piece by well-known local historian Judy Murdoch on ‘The evolution of South Australia’s land laws and Goyder’s influence on their shaping’. In Williams’ words: When Goyder died in 1898 the obituary in The Advertiser was fulsome in its praise for his organising skill, administrative capacity, professional ability and strength of character. He had been, it said, an “’old identity,’ but he never became a fossil.” … Probably no one bequeathed more to the living present of South Australia than George Woodroffe Goyder. Goyder earnt the sobriquet ‘Little Energy’ in recognition of his capacity for hard work and, presumably, his diminutive stature (5’ 3”).

1 8 Heritage South Australia Newsletter September 2007 SA Heritage Council Update

• Progression of the recognition of • Advocating to the Premier that a the Adelaide Park Lands. A place vision for heritage be articulated which has captured the attention to commemorate 2036 (South of the Council and is under active Australia’s bicentenary) through consideration is the Adelaide Park a lead up event in 2011 (175th Lands. The Park Lands have rightly anniversary). a capacity to generate passionate The Council is delighted that there debate from the community on how has been an announcement that they should be best recognised, 2011 will be celebrated and that the Mary Marsland, Chair, SA Heritage Council managed, developed, conserved History Trust of SA will provide the and protected. They are at the lead. The Council will identify some As Chair of the South Australian heart of defining Adelaide’s identity. signature projects for consideration Heritage Council I am taking the A nomination has been considered to mark these anniversaries. opportunity through this newsletter by the Australian Heritage Council The Council will endeavour to continue to convey to you issues under for the National Heritage List and is to provide advice to the Minister for consideration and matters that the before the Australian Government Environment and Conservation that Council intends to progress in the for decision. The Council believes enhances heritage conservation in forthcoming year. that the Park Lands should be South Australia. recognised as a State Heritage The Council was established through Mary Marsland Area and is awaiting the decision amendments to the Heritage Act 1993. Chair, SA Heritage Council of the Australian Government Its role differs from the previous State before determining its next steps. Heritage Authority in that it has a more In the interim the Council has had strategic and advisory function with discussions with the Lord Mayor as a Register Committee appointed to Chair of the Adelaide Park Lands consider and make recommendations Authority to promote the inclusion on places to be considered for of conservation strategies in the inclusion in the South Australian management plans currently being Heritage Register. Australian Heritage adopted. To guide its work the Council has relied Reports • Advocacy for the inclusion of built on the Government’s key heritage heritage targets in South Australia’s The following reports can be policy document ‘Heritage Directions: Strategic Plan. Whilst the current plan accessed via links on the DEH A Future for Built Heritage in South has no such targets the Council will Heritage web site’s Australian Australia’. continue to lobby for specific targets and International Heritage Reports In its first eighteen months the Council and is optimistic that the debate on page http://www.environment. has progressed a number of initiatives. local heritage amendments to the sa.gov.au/heritage/reports.html Some of the key areas where Council Development Act may present a Thoughts on the ‘When’ and ‘How’ has given attention include: further opportunity to argue for the of Government Historic Heritage • Contributions to submissions and importance of the inclusion of Protection Research Report 1, Allen responses to the Productivity these targets. Consulting Group, October 2005 Commission’s Inquiry into the • Representation to Government Valuing the Priceless: the Value Conservation of Australia’s Historic to be consulted by Planning SA of Historic Heritage in Australia Heritage Places through the in the redrafting of the original Research Report 2, Allen Consulting Heritage Chairs of Australia and Development (Local Heritage) Group, November 2005 New Zealand. Importantly the Amendment Bill 2006. The Council Productivity Commission recognised believes that this is an important Making Heritage Happen that heritage places provide initiative that will guide the - Incentives & Policy Tools for important cultural benefits to the management of local heritage Conserving our Historic Heritage, community. The Heritage Councils’ places. National Incentives Taskforce for Chairs, however, did not support the • Engagement with the development the Environment Protection and recommendations of the Commission industry to provide an opportunity Heritage Council (EPHC), April 2004 on its proposed treatment of for open discourse to identify issues conservation agreements. and opportunities arising from that To date there have been no major sector so that Council is fully changes or recommendations by informed to provide effective the Australian Government from advice to the Minister. the Commission’s work.

Heritage South Australia Newsletter September 2007 19 Events

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The Adelaide Plains; an City of Norwood Payneham Schools Heritage Competition Environmental History & St Peters 2007 Cultural Heritage Presentation Ceremony – Colin Harris Festival: By Design Date and venue to be advised. Historical Society of SA Inc. Public forums (see below) featuring Enquiries: (08) 8124 4957 Venue: Burnside Community Centre architect, urban designer and author Enquiries: (08) 8277 2953 Professor Steffen Lehmann will be Time: 7:30pm just one part of a diverse program 6-9 November of activities and events. 8 October Venue: various locations Interpretation Australia Balancing Heritage Conservation Enquiries: 8366 4612 Association National with Sustainable Development or [email protected] Conference 2007 – A Free Public Event http://www.npsp.sa.gov.au/site/ Sydney page.cfm?u=1587 IAA is a national organisation City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters dedicated to the advancement of the 2007 Cultural Heritage Festival 12-13 October profession of heritage interpretation. Featuring Professor Steffen Lehmann Building a Cob House Enquiries: (07) 5548 6199 or and Dr John Montgomery – facilitated Workshop [email protected] by Marcus Rolfe, director of Urban http://www.interpretationaustralia.asn. and Regional Planning Solutions Mildura Cob is an ancient building material au/conference2007/ Venue: Norwood Concert Hall consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, Cost: Free and earth; similar to adobe. Part of Time: 7-9pm Bob Bennett’s fellowship program, 28-30 November Bookings: Not essential but would the workshop aims to cover many be appreciated to 8366 4562 State of Australian Cities aspects of building with cob. National Conference Venue: Sunraysia Institute of TAFE, 9 October An opportunity for Australian and Benetook Ave, Mildura Balancing Heritage Conservation international academics to explore Cost: ISS Institute is sponsoring urban issues in Australia. The purpose with Sustainable Development free registration of the conference is to report on – Breakfast Seminar Time: 10 – 4pm current research into issues of urban City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters Enquiries: (03) 9882 0055 and regional sustainability, to discuss 2007 Cultural Heritage Festival [email protected] the research with practitioners Specifically aimed at professional and policy makers, to identify architects, urban designers, planners 19 October research gaps and to improve our and heritage conservationists. Ten Years on… The Great understanding of the state of Featuring a similar program to the Lime Revival Conference Australian cities. prior evening’s event but will also Melbourne Venue: City East campus, UniSA include Kevin Taylor from Taylor Taylor This conference aims to bring together & University of Adelaide Cullity Lethlean and Jason Schulz from people who work with lime to develop Enquiries: [email protected] danvers schulz holland architects. ideas, skills and techniques in using http://www.unisa.edu.au/soac2007/ Venue: Norwood Concert Hall lime-based and related products. default.asp Cost: $44 including buffet breakfast Presented by the International Time: 7.15 – 10.15am Specialised Skills Institute Bookings: Phone 8366 4562 Venue: Como Historic House, for a registration form South Yarra Time: 9 – 5.30pm Enquiries: (03) 9882 0055 [email protected] Associated workshops: Slaking and Mortars – 17 October Surface Treatments – 18 October

For State Heritage Places celebrating significant anniversaries this year – 50th, 100th, 125th and 150th to be specific – visit the Highlights of the South Australian Heritage Register web page http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/showcase_saregister.html#2007_anniversaries