National Trust SA Heritage Living Winter 2017

H E R I TAG E L I V I NG WINTER 2017

Local Heritage:

going, going, gone?

P R ES EN T ED BY T H E N AT I O N A L T R U S T O F S O U T H AU S T R A L I A I N PA R T N E R S H I P W I T H T H E DA L E M A I N W O R L D ’ S O R I G I N A L M A R M A L A D E AWA R D S & F ES T I VA L U K

Hurry entries closing soon Enter your marmalade creation in the 2017 Australian Marmalade Awards to cement your place in national marmalade history!

Competition divisions Home-made (anyone can enter!)

Artisan

(professional*) *by open-pan method

Competition categories Seville Orange First Timer’s Marmalade with a Twist Children’s Dark & Chunky Mr Marmalade Any Citrus Savoury Gardener’s Marmalade

Entries close 28 August 2017 For entry forms, payment and delivery instructions Visit: www.nationaltrust.org.au/marmalade Or phone (08) 8202 9200 Or email marmalade@nationaltrustsa.org.au

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Burra and Moonta recognised on National Heritage List

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s you will read within, there has been a lot happening with the Trust. The new Australian Heritage Festival in April and May set new records for events and attendance, with 96 events staged by the Trust across the state. New events such as day trips to Anlaby Station and city walking tours were popular. Longstanding events, including the Pioneer Women’s Walk from Hahndorf, attracted record numbers. It is great to see so many people getting out to enjoy our heritage and experiencing it in new ways.

In the past year, we have increased our investment back into our properties. In June, we undertook a five-day, handson traditional skills training program at Glencoe woolshed. Seventeen participants learned stonemasonry, limewashing and timber conservation on the job, giving the woolshed its first major conservation treatment in 40 years.

The President and I were delighted to be present when the Chair of the Australian Heritage Council announced the addition of the Moonta and Burra townships to the National Heritage List in May. Congratulations go to our wonderful members and volunteers in these towns who have been instrumental in securing this recognition and, more importantly, have been the dedicated custodians of the most significant heritage places in Burra and Moonta since the 1960s.

With the arrival of winter, it is time to make the most of indoor weather and take up the challenge of producing Australia’s finest marmalade. After the success of last year’s Australian Marmalade Awards, run in conjunction with Dalemain Estate in the UK, we encourage you to enter your best efforts and join us for the Australian Festival of Marmalade in the heartland of Australian citrus at Olivewood Homestead in Renmark on September 3.

NATIONAL HERITAGE LISTINGS

ADELAIDE PARK LANDS

Will heritage listing save Adelaide’s Park Lands?

HANDS-ON HERITAGE

Traditional trades give Glencoe woolshed a new lease of life

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Underground gold in Adelaide

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MUSEUM MUSINGS

New futures for sharing our heritage

10 SIGNIFICANT TREE

The red cedar in the Adelaide Botanic Garden

11 SAVING SPECIES

A year in the life of Garland Lily, our own native “daffodil”

12 HERITAGE HEROES

SAVE Britain’s Heritage secures a future for Wentworth Woodhouse

13 A GIFT THAT KEEPS GIVING 14 FEATURE: LOCAL HERITAGE

22 OUR PEOPLE

Lyndell Davidge, OAM

23 HERITAGE HARVEST

Olive oil flows again at Beaumont House after 55-year drought

24 BURNSIDE WALKS

Burnside Walks Mobile App

25 STANGATE CAMELLIAS

Stangate House - a National Trust gem

26 BRANCH SPOTLIGHT: Stamps of approval Murder in Millicent

27 BRANCH SPOTLIGHT:

New museum display gains high commendation in national awards

28 AUSTRALIAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL 2017 HIGHLIGHTS 29 EVENTS

Regenerating Places of Faith Conference 30 October 2017

30 MEMBERSHIP 31 MEMBER SPECIAL OFFER 32 WHAT’S ON

Local Heritage under siege

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n August last year the state Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure released an eight-page discussion paper that threatened to upset the entire system of local heritage protection. The National Trust objected not only to the provocative content, but to the ridiculously brief 4-week period allowed for public consultation. Under pressure the department extended the deadline by four weeks.

This enabled us to mobilise public opinion across the state. By 7 October nearly 200 submissions had been received from councils, residents’ societies, National Trust branches and individuals. The unintended result was the largest survey of public opinion on heritage ever conducted in this state. Apart from showing overwhelming community support for local heritage, the consultation generated a public record of historic significance. This issue features a summary of the findings which may inspire you to download the full National Trust analysis of the submissions, free from our website at www.nationaltrust.org.au/advocacy-sa/localheritage/ Horticulture has long been an unsung legacy of National Trust properties. At Beaumont House a 160-year-old olive grove planted by Sir Samuel Davenport has been returned to production and yielded its first modern pressing of oil. It joins Olivewood in the Riverland as a source of oil marketed under our label. Olivewood will also be the host for our second Australian Festival of Marmalade on the first Sunday in September.

The National Trust continues to encourage the use of traditional building skills and material. A five-day heritage blitz at Glencoe Woolshed gave a unique piece of agricultural history a stunning makeover (see page 7).

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Burra and Moonta

recognised on National Heritage List After an eight-year wait,the historic townships of Burra and Moonta have been added to the National Heritage List in recognition of their significance in Australia’s development and their enduring heritage value.

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or more than 50 years, the National Trust, through its dedicated and active local branches, has worked to preserve many heritage places in Burra and Moonta. The national listing is well-deserved recognition of their achievements in maintaining the heritage values of these two towns and presenting them to the public.

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Top (L-R): Minister Sustainability, Environment and Conservation The Hon Ian Hunter MLC, National Trust Burra Chair Heidi Thompson, Australian Heritage Council Chair Hon. Dr David Kemp and Burra History Group and Friends of Burra Railway Station President Meredith Satchell.

Photo: Chelsea Ashmeade, Northern Argus, Clare.

Centre: Hughes Chimney, Moonta.

Bottom: Bon Accord Cottage, Burra.

The National Heritage List is the official list of Australia’s most significant Indigenous, natural and historic heritage sites, and includes more than 100 sites throughout the country. In announcing the national listing for Burra and Moonta, Federal Minister for the Environment and Energy, The Hon. Josh Frydenberg, said: A generation of Cornish miners, engineers and tradespeople worked in the copper mines, bringing traditions and a culture that are still celebrated to this day. The Cornish mining system spread from South Australia to other mining regions like Broken Hill, Bendigo, Kalgoorlie and Charters Towers.

Today Burra and Moonta give us the earliest examples of Cornish mining and domestic architecture in Australia. The fabric of these places is well preserved, thanks to the care of the local community and the efforts of the National Trust.

Their history and character have become central to the area’s thriving tourism industry. Every year tens of thousands of visitors experience this slice of Cornwall for themselves.

The listing of the Burra and Moonta Cornish mining sites takes to nine the number of National Heritage places in South Australia. The others recognised on the list are: • • • • • • •

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The Adelaide Park Lands and City Layout Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Naracoorte) Witjira-Dalhousie Springs Koonalda Cave Ediacara Fossil Site – Nilpena Old and New Parliament Houses The Burke, Wills, King and Yandruwandha National Heritage Place

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The Burra and Moonta Cornish Mining sites were first nominated for national heritage listing in 2009. They are the first sites managed by the National Trust of South Australia to receive national heritage listing. The new national listings build on the listing of both places as State Heritage Areas in the 1980s.

National listing also places Burra and Moonta in company with other Cornish Mining sites recognised as world heritage sites by UNESCO in 2006. This recognition will only enhance the appeal of these fascinating places to domestic and international tourists.

NATIONAL TRUST PLACES TO VISIT IN BURRA AND MOONTA Burra Morphett’s Engine House Police Lock-up and stables Redruth Gaol Bon Accord Mine and Museum Market Square Peacock’s Chimney Miners’ Dugouts ­– and more than 30 other places using the Burra Heritage Passport

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Top: Moonta Mines Methodist (Uniting) Church.

Left: Market Square Museum, Burra.

Centre left: Miner’s Cottage, Moonta.

Bottom: Mining bridge, Moonta.

Miner’s cottage and garden Hughes Enginehouse Moonta Mines Sweet Shop Moonta Tourist Railway Moonta Mines Museum Moonta School of Mines Richman’s Enginehouse Moonta Tourist Office

Burra: the beginning of mining in Australia The discovery of copper by two shepherds in 1845 launched Australia’s first metal mining industry. The operations of the South Australian Mining Association began in September of that year and quickly developed into the Burra Burra Mine ­– later known as the “Monster Mine” and, at one time, the largest copper mining operation in the world. Income from copper saved the struggling South Australian economy, made people such as Henry Ayers very wealthy, and brought a wave of migrants to the colony in the first Australian mining boom. In 1850, before the discovery of gold in the eastern states, Burra was the largest inland town in Australia.

Although the mine prospered only until the 1870s, in that time there was a huge investment in the latest mining technology, most often sourced from the innovative and rapidly industrialising mines of Cornwall, Devon and Wales. Already a magnet for Cornish migrants because of its religious tolerance, South Australia and its mining areas were soon populated by significant numbers of Cornish natives. They brought with them some of the most advanced deep rock mining techniques and skills in the world, many of them driven by the transformative force of steam-powered engines.

The culture and technology of Cornish mining reshaped the landscape of Burra, which soon featured the distinctive engine and crush houses, rounded stone smoke stacks and Methodist churches preserved to this day.

Moonta: Australia’s ‘Little Cornwall’ The Cornish migrants who had brought with them the innovative mining technology and techniques that made Burra a huge success were quick to take up other opportunities, as mining extended to Moonta, Kadina and Wallaroo and the Burra mines grew less productive. The Moonta copper deposits were of extremely high quality and new extraction techniques ensured the mine continued in production from 1862 to 1923.

The Miner’s Cottage maintained by the National Trust is in a typical Cornish style, although made with Australian materials. The former Moonta Mines School and light gauge railway give a great insight into the working life of these Cornish communities and the legacy of the mining industry they established.

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Will heritage listing save

Adelaide’s Park Lands?

Adelaide’s Park Lands are a unique asset, set aside in Colonel William Light’s 1837 plan for the city as one of the world’s first public parks, ahead of England’s Derby Arboretum (1840) and Princes Park (1842).

Protecting that remarkable legacy has been a continuous battle. Now, more than two decades since it was first proposed, a nomination for State Heritage listing of the Adelaide Park Lands is under consideration.

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delaide is the best planned nineteenth century city in the world. Light’s sweeping figure of eight ring of open space centred on the river and encircling the formal street layouts North and South anticipates a new approach to urban design emphasising public open space. Adelaide’s Park Lands are larger than Central Park in New York and Hyde Park in London combined. That visionary ambition and its preservation over more than 180 years has been recognised on Australia’s National Heritage list as “an enduring treasure for the people of South Australia and the nation as a whole.”

In recent times, the O-Bahn extension has cut a trench through Rymill Park to the East, more buildings proliferate on the northern side of North Terrace and proposals are afoot for private residential development on the site of the current Royal Adelaide Hospital.

The Park Lands will continue to be threatened and compromised by encroaching developments unless stronger protections of this unique and irreplaceable asset are enacted through legislation. While State Heritage listing is important, of itself it will not address present and future risks to the Park Lands as open public space.

South Australia’s Heritage Places Act aims, among other things, to provide for and promote the conservation of places of state significance. The listing of a place on the South Australian Heritage Register affords certain protections for valuable places, but given the scale and significance of the Park Lands, more is required to be done to preserve and protect them.

The National Trust proposed the Park Lands for State Heritage listing in 2001, but that nomination has not been considered formally by the Heritage Council until now. In the intervening period, the Park Lands were recognised on the National Heritage List in 2008, although that of itself provides no legislative protection from encroachment, or funds for their conservation. The Adelaide Park Lands Act of 2005 established the Adelaide Parklands Management Authority and acknowledges them as a ‘world-class asset’, but has not proven effective at preventing increasing incursions on the integrity of the Park Lands as open public space.

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Light’s vision for a city wrapped in a park is what makes Adelaide unique as one of the world’s best planned cities.

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The National Trust recognises the Park Lands as the most distinctive asset of Adelaide’s cultural landscape and believes their preservation is essential to the capital’s identity and to the growth of South Australia’s cultural tourism. In addition to heritage listing, we believe what is needed is a new plan to realise the full potential of the Park Lands as public open space and to prevent, once and for all, further encroachments for short term expediency. With a plan and a genuine commitment to preservation of this unique asset, the Park Lands can endure as a living treasure of international significance.

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Glencoe woolshed a new lease of life

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Program participants get to work on stone and timber preservation at Glencoe Woolshed.

An innovative training program is teaching a new generation the traditional trade skills required to maintain and conserve our heritage buildings.

Heritage buildings are special for many reasons. Some are valued for their beauty or for the skill involved in their design and construction, others for their historical associations. Many heritage structures are literally irreplaceable. The materials from which they are made may no longer exist, or they may be too costly to procure or use. Moreover, we increasingly lack the skills to preserve and/or recreate the structural and decorative features of our heritage buildings. Traditional skills are no longer practised in contemporary construction and have not been taught to younger generations of tradespeople. There is a growing shortage of skilled and experienced people able to work with traditional building materials and techniques.

To address this problem, the National Trust has established a heritage skills training program in partnership with the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and Applied Building Conservation Training (ABCT), one of Australia’s leading traditional trades training organisations.

In June, the Glencoe Woolshed, gifted to the Trust in 1976, was the site for a five-day intensive program as 17 participants learned some of the traditional skills that created this magnificent heritage place in the state’s South-East, 23 km from Mount Gambier.

Participants had a rare opportunity to learn on the job while working to restore original stonework and mortars, conserve structural timbers and refresh the lime-washed walls, using authentic materials and traditional building techniques.

Brothers Edward and Robert Leake established the Glencoe Station, covering an area of 502 square kilometres, in 1844. By 1856, when they built a large homestead, the property carried 33,000 sheep, 6,000 cattle and 250 horses. They celebrated the opening of the grand woolshed in October 1863 with a gala ball attended by 200 people.

The woolshed is one the finest examples of early Australian rural architecture. Built of local stone, it features 36 stone pens, with additional space for sorting and baling wool. The extensive internal timber framing was pit-sawn and hand-adzed from local blackwood.

The woolshed is notable for its size and the fact that it was never converted from traditional blade shearing. The work completed by our trainees will keep it sound and looking fresh for years to come.

In the coming year we will be running a range of short courses and extended week-long intensive programs to train a new generation in the traditional trade skills required to keep our heritage alive. The courses will be available to tradespeople, homeowners and heritage professionals.

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Underground gold in Adelaide WALTER MARSH

South Australia has always had its parochial side, but pressing our own currency has to be among our more audacious expressions of state identity.

In the underground tunnels of the Old Treasury Building in Adelaide.

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he discovery of gold at Mount Alexander near Melbourne in 1851 proved potentially ruinous for South Australia, with nearly half the male working population dragging their swags across the border to seek their fortune on the Victorian goldfields.

The exodus left Adelaide’s streets half empty and manpower scarce, and a local economy facing crisis as the lion’s share of the colony’s money went with the men. Worse still, those who returned with gold-filled pockets found there was little legal tender for which to trade it. A hastily devised solution led to the first gold coin struck in Australia, the “Adelaide Pound”.

Keen to rescue the economy, and protect their own profits too, members of Adelaide’s banking and business community lobbied Lieutenant-Governor Henry Young with a novel solution: a temporary Bullion Act that allowed

gold itself to be exchanged for bankissued notes tradeable as legal tender.

Once passed, the act allowed a newly constructed Assay Office to operate from the Government’s King William Street offices – now the old Treasury building – which enabled people to have their gold smelted into £3 11 shilling ingots and officially stamped with their tradeable value, and then deposited into banks in exchange for notes.

circulation, after the Assay Office processed just over 11.5 tonnes of gold at a value of £143,761. This, however, proved too much for the colonial authorities back in England, who baulked at the prospect of new mints appearing all over Australia (indeed New South Wales and Victoria were soon calling for their own) and it ordered Young to repeal the new measures.

Additionally, a mounted police escort to and from the goldfields was established to encourage the safe return of this new wealth to South Australia (“Your gold is no longer an unmarketable drug,” proclaimed a notice imploring hopeful prospectors to return with their loot).

By the time the order reached Adelaide the storm had already passed. The last of the coins were released in February 1853 and the Assay Office ceased accepting gold soon after, leaving the “Adelaide Pound” itself a curious anachronism – and a rare one too, given its penchant for being melted down again for its raw gold value. Today, one of the few remaining Adelaide Pounds can fetch as much as $350,000 at auction.

Eventually the first £1 coin (called a ‘token’) was minted on November 26, 1852, to put the gold directly into

Explore the space where the Adelaide Pound was minted and uncover more surprising tales with an Old Adelaide Treasury & Tunnels guided tour. To book, visit: www.adelaidetours.net.au page

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Gill Starks and David Tucker on a research excursion at the Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney.

New futures for

sharing our heritage DR LIZ BURGE

NTSA Councillor Dr Liz Burge has been on a journey of discovery, visiting dozens of museums across South Australia and interstate and imagining what they might become.

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ecently, a lively young schoolgirl steered me into her e-heritage universe. Fingers flying on the touchscreen, she revised the shape of a 3D heritage object in just a few seconds.

Our museum operations seem to be faced with two vexing issues: attracting younger skilled volunteers for acquisitioning, tours, etc., and securing repeat visits. Generally, one researcher found, most visitors look in some detail at 20 to 40 per cent of all displays, then leave. But will they return later?

Clearly I needed to travel through a few museum landscapes in South Australia, Canberra and Sydney. Thirty-four museum visits later (some outside the NTSA), my mind has been much challenged.

Visits to some imaginative Sydney institutions were enlightening. Colleagues talked about how to engage citizens of all ages, then keep them returning. (A key design factor: each adult has her/ his preferred ways of learning so exhibits must be quite variable in style.) At the Museum of Sydney, we played with kinetic sand, 3D-printed heritage models and Lego bricks, and I engaged with some brilliant photographs. The Hyde Park Barracks, a superb example of adaptive re-use, offers “modern Australian cuisine in a colonial Georgian building.” Hands-on activity at the Barracks kept kids of all ages very happy.

The interiors of such National Trust (NSW) properties as the Norman Lindsay Gallery,

Everglades House/Garden and Woodford Academy warranted the time devoted to them (and induced some squirming at some early living conditions).

The rooms in Old Government House (Parramatta) demonstrated that “less is more,” with right-brain thinking connecting today’s arts and crafts to yesterday’s items.

The work of museum consultant Frank Vagnone, former director of New York’s Historic House Trust and author of The Anarchist’s Guide to Historic House Museums, and others, extend my thinking.

Why not help museum visitors feed their curiosity and feel comfortable?

Some examples: provide a visitors’ “tinkering studio;”allow them to sit on heritage chairs; show how a property’s rooms really looked in use rather than a “don’t touch,” formal tidiness. Use a story framework to show how various factors influenced societal development or changed events, employ multiple narratives to promote deeper understandings of an event or a process. And keep labels short and sweet.

Key lessons so far? Less is more. Plan cultural collaboration with other agencies to enrich stories or expand small exhibition sites. Integrate many technologies to help all styles of learning – e.g. 3D computer models, wall wording, moving diagrams, arresting photography, archival recordings and mini-lectures. And ask citizens for exhibit ideas.

What might that charming schoolgirl expect from us in five years, I wonder?

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The red cedar in the Adelaide Botanic Garden

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he red cedar in the Adelaide Botanic Garden flourishes on the Bailey Lawns about 50 metres east of the main North Terrace gates. The Adelaide Botanic Gardens Conservation Study June 2006 identifies it as the specimen listed in the Catalogue of the Plants under Cultivation in the Government Botanic Garden of 1859 under the name Cedrella. It was planted by the first Director, George W. Francis.

At over 32 metres tall it is the largest cultivated specimen in Australia. The National Trusts of Australia Register of Significant Trees rates it of National Significance. A second smaller tree grows in the Garden near the Class Ground, and the Waite Arboretum at Urrbrae has a specimen planted in 1928.

Red cedar, Toona ciliata, is one of Australia’s most celebrated timber trees, and also one of its few deciduous trees. It is native to the subtropical rainforests of Queensland and New South Wales.

It is not confined to Australia, and occurs naturally from Afghanistan to Papua New Guinea, where limited quantities are harvested. From the first days of settlement carpenters were looking for trees for timber but were confronted by the hard woods of Eucalyptus and Casuarina. Their poor tools made these woods very difficult to work. A year after white settlement a red cedar was discovered at Rouse Hill, 40 kms north-west of Sydney Cove.

Others were soon found, and the tree’s timber proved so useful that it was heavily plundered.

Within a century it was almost entirely wiped out.

Attempts to cultivate the tree commercially were unsuccessful, mainly because the larvae of the cedar tip moth that burrow into the stem caused die back, destroying the leader growth that is so important in producing a good timber tree.

The timber from these massive trees, with trunks 9 metres and more in diameter, was light and easy to work. It proved useful in a wide range of situations, including the construction of dinghies and sailing boats because it was waterproof, pest resistant and buoyant. Early examples of its use can be found in many Colonical public buildings, churches and homes. It was turned into fine furniture, and many highly-prized examples remain in homes and art galleries around Australia.

The timber also responded extremely well to fine French polishing, and rivalled the mahogany fashionable throughout the British Empire.

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Leafless cedar.

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A year in the life of Garland Lily, our own native “daffodil”

Many National Trust reserves, from Watiparinga in the Hills and the old railway corridor reserve, Nurragi, south of Strathalbyn, have patches of our local native Garland Lily. The Garland Lily is related to daffodils and can give “daffys” a colour run for their money in native bushland.

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n late summer or early autumn, out from the dry ground come fleshy green or burgundy flower stems.

Our gorgeous Garland Lily has pushed up its flowering stalk protected by bracts, and flower buds are beginning to open out. This is a bulb with flowers that are up and blooming before any leaves appear.

What can compare to a ‘drift’ of Garland Lily under eucalypts or an expansive display of Garland Lily found in nature’s garden amongst Kangaroo grass and other native grasses?

After a few more weeks the next part of the Garland Lily story begins. Up come leaves at last and pea-size fruits are forming.

- for a head start when they hit the ground rolling and the seeds then grow down into the soil.

Why would anyone want to grow daffodils ever again? Purple Garland Lily (Calostemma purpureum) and its relative, the Yellow Garland Lily (Calostemma luteum), can be grown in deep pots - each year the roots pull the bulb further down into the soil away from the heat. Although the leaves come up each year, you may have to be patient as it can be a few years before they flower. In the meantime, nature may provide you its pink and purple delights on a walk in your local bushland in March.

The fleshy red- stems have dried and fallen and the shiny green leaves are up. Amazingly, the fruits develop a small root while still on the plant

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1. Flower buds emerge.

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5. Leaves begin to emerge.

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6. Fruits start to swell.

7. Leaves take over.

8. F ruits start to pull themselves into soil.

Photos: Ann Prescott.

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SAVE Britain’s Heritage secures a future for

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entworth Woodhouse, a sprawling mansion near Rotherham in South Yorkshire, has more than 300 rooms (the precise number is not known, but there is a story that there is one for every day of the year), and sits amid 82 acres of gardens and parklands. It has been used as the backdrop for Mr Turner, a film about the life of the painter J.M.W. Turner, as well as the BBC’s popular Antiques Roadshow and its recent mini-series Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.

One of Britain’s grandest stately homes has recently been acquired by the charity SAVE Britain’s Heritage, which plans to restore the property and open it to the public with help from the National Trust.

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East front of Wentworth Woodhouse.

Photo: Andrew Rabbott, Wikimedia Commons.

Wentworth Woodhouse Victorian garden bedding scheme.

Photo: Allan Harris Photography, Flickr.

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The property has had a chequered history since the 1630s, when the original house was built. It has morphed into a grandiose blend of Baroque, Palladian and Georgian architecture, with 25 ornate rooms that are unique in style. They include the enormous Marble Saloon, reputed to be one of the grandest 18th-century rooms in England. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the owners filled the highly decorated rooms with art and sculpture, and threw vast parties. The house is so large that in Victorian times guests were given confetti so that they could lay a “trail of crumbs” along its 5 miles (8 km) of corridors so they could locate their bedrooms.

The estate was established by the Watson-Wentworth family, finally passing from the family into private hands in 1979. Architect Clifford Newbold fell in love with the building and purchased it in 1999 for £1.5 million ($2.5 million), with the intention of restoring the house to its former glory. Unfortunately, he died before this restoration work could be completed and the house was again put up for sale. After an offer by a Hong Kong-based company to buy the estate fell through, SAVE Britain’s Heritage stepped in with a bid that was accepted.

The Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust, formed four years ago, has already raised funds to replant areas of the parklands and to restore the temples and follies.

The Trust plans to sensitively repurpose areas of the property not open to the public in order to raise funds for repairs to the house. Plans include opening the house for tours run by the National Trust; using the listed buildings for events and holiday lets; converting old stables into workshops and offices; and transforming some of the rooms into short-term rental and holiday apartments.

Wentworth Woodhouse will soon undergo its latest transformation, ensuring that this amazing house survives for the enjoyment of future generations.

A gift that keeps giving 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Brocks’ gift of Beaumont House to the National Trust of South Australia.

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n August 1967, Lilian and Kenneth Brock made a most magnificent gift to the National Trust. Their bequest of the historic Beaumont House and its grounds, along with a cash endowment, is one of the most generous ever made to the Trust.

Beaumont House had been Lilian’s home since 1911, when she and her first husband, Richard William Bennett, purchased the property.

Richard was a prominent Kings Counsel and a member of the Law Society Council. He and Lilian began bringing Beaumont House into the 20th century, modernising it by connecting electricity among other improvements.

Lilian, a keen horsewoman and animal lover, kept horses and dogs and, for a time, koalas. She built aviaries to house various birds, including parrots and peacocks. She was a much-loved member of the local community, holding frequent garden parties for neighbours and friends. Not content with being one of the first women in the area to drive a car, she also rode a Harley Davidson motorbike.

After Richard died in 1929, Lilian remained at Beaumont House and in 1936 married Kenneth Allayne Brock, the great grandson of Daniel George Brock, who accompanied Sturt on his expedition into central Australia in 1844-5. At this time Beaumont House sat on 29 acres (12 ha), 14 of which were planted with olive groves. On his return from World War II, Kenneth developed an olive nursery using cuttings from trees planted by Sir Samuel Davenport in the 1860s. He sold more than two million plants Australia wide, employing several Italian migrants to assist him.

Kenneth and Lilian had no children and wanted Beaumont House to be available for future generations to experience part of the heritage and history of South Australia. In 1967, they bequeathed the property to the National Trust of South Australia, along with a capital sum to be invested to assist with future maintenance. In its 1967 Annual Report, the National Trust described the gift of the 3.5 acre (1.4 ha) property as “the most outstanding acquisition of the year.”

Kenneth died suddenly in 1969 and Lilian followed soon after, in 1970, at the age of 82. The foresight and generosity they showed in leaving their property to the National Trust has enabled thousands of people to enjoy this special place. Today, whether hosting a garden wedding, an outdoor play or music performance, or welcoming walkers on the annual Hahndorf Pioneer Women’s Walk, Beaumont House continues to honour the spirit of generosity embodied in the Brocks’ original gift.

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Lilian Brock with her horse and dogs at Beaumont House.

Beaumont House today.

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Local Heritage under siege NORMAN ETHERINGTON

On 11 August 2016 an officer of South Australia’s Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI) wrote to selected government, industry, professional and community organisations seeking comment on a brief paper titled ‘Renewing our Planning System: Placing Local Heritage on Renewed Foundations’.

By the extended deadline of 7 October 183 written submissions had been received which were posted on the departmental website. This is by far the most extensive survey of public opinion ever conducted on heritage issues in South Australia.

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t is in fact one of the four largest such surveys ever undertaken in Australia. For that reason alone it deserves close analysis and widespread discussion. The Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee of the National Trust of South Australia commissioned an analysis of the submissions as a contribution to further discussion ahead of any legislative

change to the established planning system for the protection of Local Heritage. National Trust President Norman Etherington prepared a detailed report on the submission that is summarised here.

The principal finding of the report is that a very large gulf separates the views expressed by state government

agencies and the property industry from the opinions held by local government, community organisations and ordinary citizens. Some way must be found to bridge this gap ahead of any change to existing mechanisms for the protection of local heritage.

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The Government’s discussion paper advocated a relaxation of restrictions on the demolition of local heritage places.

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Heritage is sometimes said to be a polarising issue. That proposition was put to the test in a wide-ranging public consultation conducted in 2016

by South Australia’s Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI). One hundred and eighty-three written submissions, a number of public meetings and an online survey delivered a resounding, completely lopsided verdict: the existing system of heritage protection works pretty well.

Any changes should aim to enhance, not diminish protection.

The focus of the consultation was local heritage protection managed by local government through Development Plan Amendments submitted for approval by the state government. The results show that with negligible exceptions South Australians take great pride in the multitude of historic buildings they see as setting their cities and towns apart from other places. They believe heritage protection delivers tangible

economic benefits: tourism, lively streets and jobs. If anything, they value designated local heritage above places listed on state and national registers.

They express their attachment with passion and even ferocity. They believe that heritage is best managed by elected local councils who understand them and can be held accountable when elections roll around.

Politicians will find many causes for concern in the public submissions.

Rightly or wrongly, citizens, councils and community organisations express their distrust of ‘faceless bureaucrats’, ‘so-called experts’ and advisory committees whose opaque procedures frustrate the will of the people. Many detect the hidden hand of vested interests in decisions working to destroy places they love. They deplore ‘distant’ government ministers and political parties who, in their opinion, dance to the tune of the property and development industry – delivering

Above and below: In their submission Cheltenham Park Residents Association suggests “coming to a Backyard near your place”.

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short-term profits at the expense of long-term economic growth and community well-being.

The National Trust of South Australia regards the 2016 public consultation on heritage as one of the most important ever undertaken in this country.

We believe that the submissions deserve fair-minded, objective and factual analysis equivalent to that expected from a Royal Commission.

Our hope is that readers of the report will appreciate our efforts to avoid prejudging outcomes and the use of highly-coloured or emotional language.

If we succeed, this volume will help inform public policy on heritage issues for many years to come.

We and those who took the trouble to make a written submission, await the government’s response.

‘Contrary to the negative issues highlighted in the Discussion Paper, this Council’s experience with built heritage has been generally positive, with the current framework widely understood, accepted and valued by many citizens in our community, but most importantly by those owners of Local Heritage Places’.

The City of Norwood, Payneham and St. Peter’s submission.

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RENEWING OUR PLANNING SYSTEM

Placing Local Heritage on Renewed Foundations

Heritage reform – an exploration of the opportunities Local Heritage Discussion Paper The State Government is committed to improving the ways we recognise and manage local heritage places in South Australia.

This discussion paper has been prepared to encourage high-level ideas and feedback from experts and practitioners involved in local heritage practice in this state. Responses will inform planning policies in this specialised area, including the creation of a new Bill.

Defending gains made in Local Heritage protection over 40 years

A Critique of the DPTI Local Heritage Discussion Paper

by Norman Etherington, President of the National Trust of South Australia, on behalf of the Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee Under the guise of reforming and ‘improving the ways we recognise heritage places in South Australia’, the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure threatens to set our system back forty years.

The damage could not be undone. It would be a crime as well as a blunder to proceed without widespread consultation of councils, community organisations and the general public. This should include a series of public forums at which the proposed changes can be debated and recast.

The changes proposed in the Government’s discussion paper will make demolition of heritage buildings much easier.

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Background ‘There is strong evidence to demonstrate that heritage has a strong employment multiplier and creates jobs. The State Government must fully understand, appreciate and take into account the strong economic benefits of heritage in any further thinking about reforms.’

Local Government Association of South Australia submission.

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An Expert Panel on Planning Reform constituted by the state government in February 2013 delivered its report in 2014 following lengthy discussions with focus groups representing a range of stakeholders, including industry and community organisations. This was followed by new planning legislation enacted in 2015. None of the Expert Panel’s recommendations on the treatment of state and local heritage were incorporated in the Planning Development and Infrastructure Act (2016). Instead, DPTI foreshadowed a series of meetings with heritage professionals and organisations, beginning on 18 June 2015 to lay the groundwork for further legislation.

For reasons yet to be explained this was the first and last of the promised meetings. Nothing more was heard for 14 months.

With no advance notice, on 11 August 2016 DPTI sent out an eight-page paper detailing possible changes to treatment of Local Heritage Places to a select list of industry, professional, community and local government representatives.

A deadline of 9 September was set for any response.

A critique of the DPTI discussion paper issued by the National Trust on 23 August attracted wide coverage in print and broadcast media. Many community organisations complained that it would be impossible to meet the September deadline, due to the time required to convene and consult their members. As a result the deadline for submissions was extended by four weeks.

In an effort to widen the pool of respondents the National Trust circulated the DPTI Paper and its critique to its 46 local branches, 68 local councils, 108 residents’ groups and 56 historical societies. The Local Government Association in cooperation with the Adelaide City Council convened a colloquium on Local Heritage issues on September 21. An open public meeting at the Adelaide Town hosted by the Lord Mayor Marting Haese on 26 September attracted more than 300 people.

Despite the short time available for comment, 183 submissions made their way to DPTI offices by the 7 October deadline.

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Size and Scope of the Report Submissions displayed on the DPTI website were numbered from 1 to 190.

As seven numbers in the sequence have no associated content, the total comes to 183, comprising 654 pages in all. Those 183 submissions include several with associated comment from individuals. For instance, the Adelaide City Council attached 20 hand-written and signed commentary forms filled out at the September 26 Town Hall Forum.

The National Trust conducted an online survey through its Heritage Watch website (www:heritagewatch.net.au) which attracted a further 177 individual responses.

Even allowing for some duplication, the magnitude of DPTI consultation held over six weeks bears comparison with the 2015-16 South Australian Royal Commission on the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (more than 250 submissions received in the course of a year according to www.nuclearrc.sa.gov.au/) For the purpose of the analysis submissions were grouped into the following categories:*

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‘The integrity of the Local Heritage Places, their overriding contribution to the streetscape and hence character of the main streets’ is ‘integral to maximizing the economic potential of townships and to the health of the local small business community.’

Mount Barker District Council submission.

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Above: Inconsistencies in listings can lead to confusion and weaken protections.

Left: Packed public meeting at Adelaide Town Hall in response to proposed changes to local heritage protection.

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Geographical Distribution of Submissions from Local Government: Rural & Regional

District Council of Franklin Harbour

Regional Council of Goyder

Berri Barmera Council

Light Regional Council The Barossa Council Mid Murray Council The Rural City of Murray Bridge

Yorke Peninsula Council Metropolitan Local Government (see Metropolitan map)

Participating Regional and District Councils

Alexandrina Council Mount Barker District Council

District Council of Grant

Submissions from Local Government

The Local Government Association of South Australia

The most detailed and knowledgeable submissions came from 30 local government authorities. As the tier of government closest to the people affected by Local Heritage processes, the council submissions deserve close scrutiny. They cannot be dismissed as in any sense unrepresentative.

One of those 30 submissions, from the Local Government Association of South Australia (LGA), is based upon its own consultations with member councils. It set the tone for many other submissions and was specifically endorsed by six councils.

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The LGA first calls attention to a central contradiction in the DPTI Local Heritage discussion paper. On the one hand that paper claims to act on a lead from the Expert Panel’s report; on the other it ignores or departs from recommendations for heritage reform set out in that report. Whereas the Panel called for a single, integrated statutory body to handle all heritage matters, state or local, the DPTI paper envisages an ongoing division of responsibility for heritage between the State Heritage Council and the Department of Planning.

This issue is canvassed in many submissions as a key element in any reform of the current system. As a practical matter, why should two government departments offer advice to two different ministers, especially when current expertise resides almost entirely with the Heritage Council in the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR). In relation to good governance, how could DPTI advise itself on heritage in relation to Development Planning Applications?

Would this not, as some submissions asked, create an impossible ongoing conflict of interest?

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Town of Gawler

City of Playford

City of Salisbury

City of Charles Sturt City of Prospect Corporation of the Town of Walkerville Adelaide City Council City of West Torrens City of Unley City of Holdfast Bay

City of Tea Tree Gully

Port Adelaide Enfield

Adelaide Hills Council

City of Mitcham

City of Marion Campbelltown City Council

City of Onkaparinga

The City of Norwood, Payneham and St Peters The City of Burnside Metropolitan Local Government Bodies making submissions

A related recommendation of the Expert Panel, which acknowledges the limited heritage capabilities within DPTI, is the call for the new single heritage authority to have governance arrangements that embrace the capabilities and expertise of the state’s key cultural institutions. Presumably this would include such bodies as

the History Trust, the Art Gallery, the History Council, SA Museum and National Trust. The DPTI paper leaves entirely up in the air how the department proposes to acquire and deploy the heritage expertise required in a reformed system.

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SNAPSHOT WE COMMEND CLOSE STUDY OF THE SUBMISSIONS.

HIGHLY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE HAVE PUT A LOT OF EFFORT INTO THEM. COUNCILS EXPERIENCED IN DEALING WITH HERITAGE ISSUES OFFER WORTHWHILE ADVICE ON TECHNICAL ISSUES. BUT FOR THOSE WHO WANT A SUCCINCT OVERVIEW OF THE CONSULTATION, A FEW SALIENT POINTS STAND OUT.

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ine inner suburban metropolitan councils have made identification and limited protection for ‘Contributory Items’ the mainstay of their local heritage protection.

Most submissions that mention Contributory Items want existing protections for them continued under whatever reforms may be implemented. Submissions from two planning professionals and property industry groups want them removed.

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The three principal lobby groups make very brief statements (eleven pages in all) offering unsubstantiated assertions rather than the carefully argued, evidence-based analysis these well-resourced organisations might have been expected to deliver.

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part from the property and development lobby groups – and a few disgruntled home owners – no one wants current constraints on demolition of heritage places relaxed. Interim protection of places nominated for listing is almost universally recommended to guard against pre-emptive demolition.

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ouncils and government agencies with experience of the system would prefer that heritage advice come from an integrated authority operating independently of the planning and development approval system.

This is the recommendation of the 2014 Expert Panel on Planning Reform most often endorsed in these submissions.

The National Trust extends its thanks to all those who have helped to gather information on the public consultation, including our own local branches, community organisations, the Adelaide City Council and officers of the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure.

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nly two proposals set out in the DPTI discussion paper that generated the public consultation are generally endorsed: early engagement with owners of nominated heritage places, and the development of a single online portal giving access to all existing documentation on heritage – local, state, national and world.

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ome individual proposals for simplifying heritage protection deserve wider discussion and debate. One is that the state government step aside from local heritage altogether, leaving it entirely in the hands of local councils. Another is that all buildings and historic fabric dating from before World War I or the 1930s be treated as prima facie heritage whose destruction requires detailed justification.

Both proposals would relieve state and local governments from expenses currently associated with heritage protection.

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT FROM www.nationaltrust.org.au/advocacy-sa/local heritage YOU CAN ALSO ORDER A FULL PRINTED COPY email: admin@nationaltrustsa.org.au JOIN THE CONVERSATION about the State Government’s proposed changes to local heritage protection on the Heritage Watch website at: www.heritagewatch.net.au or on Facebook/loveyourlocalheritage

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Lyndell Davidge, OAM We are delighted to announce that Lyndell Davidge, a founding member of the Hahndorf Branch, has been recognised for her services to historical preservation and interpretation in Hahndorf in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours Awards.

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yndell Davidge is a long-time resident of Hahndorf with a passion for history and a long and active involvement in local history groups and community events. She has done much to raise awareness of and facilitate community engagement with Hahndorf’s history from settlement to the present day.

Lyndell was a founding member of the Hahndorf Branch of the National Trust, which was established in 1976 to research and lobby for planning controls in the village, and she has continued to play an active role with them ever since. She was a member of the group that first discovered and mapped the Hahndorf Pioneer Women’s Trail, a 26 km route that the early German pioneer women followed to take produce from Hahndorf to Adelaide to sell in the markets. Since the first organised re-enactment of the walk in 1980, the annual Pioneer Women’s Walk has grown into a hugely popular event. This year, as part of the Australian Heritage Festival, more than 500 people undertook all or part of the walk, finishing at Beaumont House.

As an active member of the Board of Hahndorf Academy since 2004, Lyndell has a deep knowledge of the history of the Academy building, and its later development as a museum and art gallery. She is the volunteer collection manager at the Academy and has done much in recent years to improve the storage of the collections according to the standards of best practice for community museums.

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Lyndell looks after the works on display in the museum, revised some of the interpretation, and presents occasional ‘Wunderkammer’ exhibits of additional materials. She regularly provides engaging educational tours for school groups, and organises various public programs that engage the broader community with history, such as Imagine the Past, an annual event that takes place in the grounds of Hahndorf Academy during History Month when twenty or so demonstrators showcase traditional crafts, skills and trades of the past.

Lyndell’s knowledge of and commitment to local history, Hahndorf, and Hahndorf Academy, combined with her wide network of contacts within the community and various historical organisations, make her an invaluable contributor to historical preservation and interpretation in the Hahndorf area.

Congratulations Lyndell on a welldeserved award.

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Olive oil flows again at Beaumont House after 55-year drought MERILYN KUCHEL

A dedicated band of volunteer olive pickers gathered at Beaumont House in May to harvest olives from the historic trees planted by Sir Samuel Davenport 150 years ago. For the first time since 1962, the olive oil is flowing again from the Beaumont House grove.

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eaumont House holds a special place in the history of South Australia’s olive industry. Sir Samuel Davenport made the first plantings here in the 1850s and for more than a century olives were crushed and made into oil on site.

Davenport’s Beaumont olive oil was highly acclaimed, winning national and international awards. At the time of his death in 1906, there were more than 16,000 olive trees on the property.

Although the size of the olive grove is now much diminished, this year an old tradition has been revived.

At the end of May, 40 volunteers helped harvest olives from the heritage listed olive grove at Beaumont House for the first time in almost 60 years.

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of Olives SA members and their president, Michael Johnson, the volunteers handpicked 330 kg of green, half-ripened and fully ripened olives.

This was not an easy task; most of the trees have not been pruned since the 1960s and as a result most of the olives were out of reach of the long-handled olive rakes. We partially solved this problem by pruning some of the branches, but heavy pruning over the next four years will not only reinvigorate the trees and increase their yield but also bring the canopy down so that we can harvest olives more efficiently. This is a very labour intensive project and we look forward to growing our volunteer team to help us prune the trees each winter as well as harvest the olives in late autumn.

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Michael Johnson delivered our harvest to Diana Olive Oil at Willunga, where they were crushed to make 40 litres of extra virgin olive oil. The oil is being stored in a cool, dark cellar and will be ready for decanting into bottles in Spring. We are investigating the possibility of having facsimiles of the original Davenport olive oil bottles and labels made. It is hoped that this limited release of Davenport olive oil will be ready for sale at our Spring Open Garden Day at Beaumont House on Sunday, September 24.

The National Trust wishes to thank Domenic from Diana Olive Oil for crushing our olives free of charge, and Michael Johnson and all the Olives SA members and picking volunteers who helped make our first harvest both a fun and fruitful event.

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Burnside Walks Mobile App VANESSA RAETS

Burnside Council, Burnside Historical Society and the National Trust of South Australia have collaborated to produce a new mobile app guiding walkers around places of historical interest in the City of Burnside.

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n 1981 the Burnside Historical Society, in partnership with the City of Burnside, produced seven brochures of self-guided historic walks within the Burnside Council area. These trails cover areas in Beaumont, Beulah Park, Burnside, Eastwood and Parkside, Glen Osmond, the old village of Knightsbridge, Rose Park and Waterfall Gully.

Earlier this year, the City of Burnside approached the National Trust to work with them and the Burnside Historical Society to create a new contemporary digital guide to local heritage, following the success of the Trust’s earlier mobile heritage apps Adelaide City Explorer and Willunga Walks.

The Burnside Walks app was launched in May by Burnside Mayor David Parkin at St David’s Anglican Church, the first stop on the app, as part of the celebrations for the Australian Heritage Festival. The launch was attended by members of the City of Burnside, the Burnside Historical Society, members of the National Trust and local residents. After the launch attendees were invited to participate in the walk, using tablet devices provided by the City of Burnside.

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Top: Burnside Historical Society President, Meredith Ide. Left: Anderson Cottage.

Right: Tour of Old Council Chamber.

Photos: City of Burnside.

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Burnside has a good number of significant and well preserved heritage sites and offers a unique record of early colonial life. The self-guided trail in the Burnside Walks app showcases the architectural heritage of the village of Burnside through a diverse range of buildings, including shops, hotels, churches and homes. Users can follow the map, accompanied by original and contemporary photographs, and download information about many of the significant historic sites of Burnside whilst walking.

The Burnside Walks app is available to download from the Apple App Store and Google Play free of charge.

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Left: Thompsonii Rosea.

Top: Stangate House and garden.

Bottom: Camellias in the garden.

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Nestled in the heart of the Adelaide Hills, Stangate Gate house is a sanctuary and popular venue for all kinds of celebrations.

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tangate House was a gift to the National Trust from the Revd.

Raymond and Mrs. Gwenyth Cornish who built the house in 1939.

The property had long been in Mrs. Cornish’s family, the Thomas family, who owned the Register newspaper in Adelaide. Gwenyth and Raymond had lived in England for many years where Raymond was a much loved chaplain at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London. They built the house for their retirement, creating a garden of trees, bluebells, bulbs and shrubs for the birds they loved, and they were helped in the layout by Raymond’s sister, Elsie Marion Cornish, a well-known garden designer.

The house overlooks a garden of some four acres with a number of large mature trees, some planted in the 1800s, and green lawns on both sides of a creek which is spanned by two pretty bridges. A favourite tree with wedding couples is the huge oak in the corner nearest the walkway known locally as “Lovers’ Lane.” The tree is currently the second largest on the National Tree Register of Australia.

Since 1977 the Camellia Society Adelaide Hills Inc. has managed and further developed the garden, planting over five hundred camellias along winding paths, together with azaleas, rhododendrons and other plants suitable for conditions in the hills. The years of hard work by the Society’s volunteers was rewarded in 2012 by the garden being recognised as an International Camellia Garden of Excellence, at the time one of only three such gardens in Australia, and one of just thirty in the world.

Since the property passed into the ownership of the National Trust, the house, and particularly the garden, have seen numerous weddings, fetes, parties and community events, as the Cornishes always wanted their home to be shared with others. In the winter the large fireplace and blazing fires in the function room have always been a drawcard. In recent years the Mount Lofty Branch has had a new roof installed and overseen painting of the outside, installation of air conditioning and Wi-Fi, and re-decorated the interior, so that now it is also an ideal venue

for seminars, small conferences and training days at any time of the year.

The most recent event was a very successful sculpture exhibition over ten days in both the house and the garden run by the Stirling Rotary Club.

New committee members and volunteers are always most welcome to join us and enjoy the magic of Stangate House and Garden.

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The museum is open Thursday to Sunday from 11am- 3pm.

With thanks to the Border Watch, Mount Gambier.

“Before the advent of modern court systems, the recording of court proceedings had to be done manually.

Every step in the court process needs to be recorded- you can imagine the repetitive stress injury magistrates and clerks might have suffered if they had to hand write everything. The stamps were designed to print standard orders and the clerk would fill in dates and details.”

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he Millicent National Trust Museum has once again staged a “Murder at the Museum” event, as part of the Geltwood Craft Festival. More than 160 amateur sleuths were enlisted in solving the mystery of who poisoned Lord Elquist’s fish soup. Was it the Major’s business partner and heir of the shipping company Albert Hastings Esq played

by Mason O’Rielly, the beautiful widow Philomena played by Raquel Mustillo or Captain James McPherson played by Phil Golding?

Everyone was intrigued by the clues that were provided by the many characters of this interactive performance at the museum. The thirty actors of the night included community members, museum volunteers and theatre group members in late 1800s costumes wandering through the museum. During the evening, the Blacksmith Shop was fully operational, two steam engines were working and steam was coming from the T224 Class Locomotive. A horse and cart trotting along the path with ladies of the night standing by the street lights all added to this colourful theatrical program. The murder mystery was solved as Police Officer John O’Connell arrested Albert Hastings Esq for the killing of his business partner.

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New museum display gains high commendation in national awards

Top left: Prof. Norman Etherington AM (President NTSA), Ann Daw, Reg Lyon (Mayor Kingston District Council), Ross Johnston (Chairman Kingston SE Branch), Peter Rout (Assistant Director, Operations, Australian National Maritime Museum).

Top right: Visitors Peter and Lynda Dunn and Ashley Sampson viewing information about “Workhorses of the Sea” and the bell retrieved from the Margaret Brock Reef in 1967.

Right: 155 year old Artefacts from the Margaret Brock shipwreck.

All photos: May McIntosh.

Last year, as the Cape Jaffa lighthouse was undergoing a transformation on the outside, on the inside a new display was taking shape. The Margaret Brock Room in the base of the lighthouse tells the story of the wreck of the Margaret Brock, the vessel that gave its name to the reef where the lighthouse once stood, 8 km offshore.

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he official opening of the display in November marked the 40th anniversary of the re-location of the Cape Jaffa Lighthouse on shore. Curated by Alison Stillwell, Secretary of the Kingston Branch, the Margaret Brock room has won a high commendation at the national Museums and Art Galleries National Awards, presented in Brisbane in May. The room was shortlisted for the ‘Permanent Exhibition or Gallery Fitout’ category and was up against major competition including:

Museum and Galleries Australia commented on the room, “It brings the actual building structure alive through the story and its relevance to the history of the state, the importance of lighthouses.

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The exhibit was designed by Richard Browning of Synthetic Creative Services, who is well known for his creative design work across South Australia, for which he has won many awards. Alison Stillwell says,

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as one which they consider a high quality presentation of a valuable Australian story. We are very impressed with the wonderful display of information and the incorporation of interactive elements. This makes the whole exhibition friendly to young and older visitors alike. Richard’s experience in collating and presenting the information about the shipwreck for the Margaret Brock Room has been a great asset and we’ve really appreciated how he encouraged the community to participate and contribute.”

The Margaret Brock Room development and beautiful new look to both the interior and exterior of the lighthouse has stimulated a significant renewed interest in this historic structure, with record numbers of visitors keeping volunteers busy since November.

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Top: Martin’s Quarry Tour, Willunga.

Photo: Mark Standforth.

Top left: Mourners at Walk at St Stephens’s Cemetery, Willunga.

Photo: Mark Standforth.

Top centre: Students attending an informative display of Barmera History showing local identities, locations and historical objects.

Top right: Best of Town and Country day excursion to historic Anlaby Station near Kapunda.

Opposite: Children get to work in Ayers House kitchen as part of the Dream Big Festival.

Bottom right: 180th Birthday Celebrations: Naming of Adelaide’s First Streets and Squares author Dr Jeff Nicholas addressing the event at SAMHRI. Below: Walkers depart Hahndorf in the Pioneer Women’s Walk.

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hese beautiful edifices were imagined and constructed in times quite different from today.

Recently, in too many cases, congregations have been shrinking, ageing and struggling to maintain and regenerate these places of faith.

Regenerating Places of Faith Conference 30 October 2017

South Australia has many historic church buildings that have served their congregations and communities well over several decades.

They have enabled congregations to worship and engage in missional activities, and communities to benefit in a wide range of ways of services.

This one day conference looks at how to sustain them into the future.

The Regenerating Places of Faith Conference in October will address the complexities and possibilities that our current situations present. How can congregations reimagine their life and their role as stewards of these buildings? How might congregations, other community groups and local businesses work in partnerships to restore and repurpose historic church buildings as functional centres of community development?

What wider community resources, including state and local government, can be harnessed to maintain, restore and reimagine our historic churches?

Regenerating Places of Faith will address these questions by bringing together members of local congregations who have responsibility for historic church buildings; denominational leaders; people involved in local government; the National Trust; the State Heritage Unit of the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources; heritage architects; and all who are interested in South Australia’s historic buildings and in how they might continue to be used to bring life to local communities.

A keynote speaker at Regenerating Places of Faith will be Peter Worland, Executive Director of UnitingCare, the services and advocacy arm of the Uniting Church in New South Wales and the ACT. This organisation is one of the largest welfare and community development agencies in Australia. Peter works across New South Wales seeking to bring churches and communities together in community projects and delivery of service. Other speakers will present case studies from Australia, the UK and Canada.

The Regenerating Places of Faith Conference will be held in the Clayton Wesley Uniting Church on the corner of The Parade and Portrush Road, Beulah Park. Clayton Wesley is one of our state’s most iconic historic church buildings and one where all of the above issues are being addressed. The conference is being presented by Clayton Wesley Uniting Church, the State Heritage Unit, the Anglican Church and Arcuate Architecture in conjunction with the National Trust.

Registrations for the conference are now open.

For more information and to register your place www.trybooking.com/RFHM www.nationaltrust.org.au/event/regenerating-places-offaith-conference/ TOP TO B OT TOM

Clayton Wesley Church. Photo: Scott Goh Photography.

St Paul’s Old Ford adaptation UK. Photo: Helene Binet.

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One hundred and eighty years ago, the streets of the newly created city of Adelaide were given the names we know them by today. Now the National Trust of South Australia is proud to be able to offer to its members a new and exciting publication, Behind the Streets of Adelaide (Crocus Publishing House, Bloomsbury, London). In it, Dr Jeff Nicholas pays tribute to the 58 men and women named in Adelaide on May 23, 1837, by a committee of 12. The majority view on that day carefully guided the outcome and they came away with what Dr Nicholas describes as a Pantheon of Dissent. In this work he mines the “biographical archaeology” of those chosen with rigour and intellectual acuity, illuminating each story with a lyrical turn of phrase.

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The men who comprised the committee were driven my many of the principles that became cornerstones of modern democracy: separation of church and state; the universal enfranchisement of both men and women; free trade; the total abolition of slavery; progressive model schooling and a free education for all; a property transfer mechanism that evolved in to the Torrens Title System; a government-funded safety net for the impoverished, then known as the Poor Laws; and a fair taxation system for all.

These imperatives explain why 35 of those they chose were authors in their own right on a variety of intellectual and philosophical subjects. It also explains why George Grote, Sir Henry George Ward and Sir William Molesworth initiated the Reform Club (for supporters of the Great Reform Act of 1832) in London’s Pall Mall, where another 30 of the 58 named became inaugural committee members in 1836.

As a special offer to National Trust members, we have a limited number of boxed sets of Behind the Streets of Adelaide available for a short time at a discount of 10 per cent on the normal retail price. Be quick to secure your copy of this magnificent publication. email: admin@nationaltrustsa.org.au

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What’s on Adelaide Tours - Go behind the walls of the notorious Z Ward Go behind the walls of the notorious Z Ward at the former Glenside Mental Hospital. For almost 90 years it was home to those classified as “criminally insane” on the overlapping edges of criminality and mental illness. This guided tour explores the architecture and social history of this remarkable building.

Saturday 19 August Time: 2pm Place: Access to Z Ward is via 63 Conyngham Street, Glenside only.

Enquiries: Ayers House Museum (08) 8223 1234 email: bookings@nationaltrustsa.org.au Book now www.trybooking.com/KJDM. www.adelaidetours.net.au

GUIDED WALKS with the Adelaide Parklands Preservation Association Park Ambassadors Entries in the Australian Marmalade Awards close on 28 August. Judging takes place in Adelaide and awards will be announced and presented at the Australian Festival of Marmalade at Olivewood Homestead, Renmark.

Sunday 3 September Time: 10am - 4pm Competition Enquiries: (08) 8202 9200 email: marmalade@nationaltrustsa.org.au Festival Enquiries: Mob: 0400 741 533, 0417 814 374, email: olivewood.renmark@gmail.com

Rundle Park/ Kadlitpina (Park 13) Join APPA Committee member (& Park 13 Ambassador) Hero Weston for a guided walk, learning about one of the most central and often-used parts of the Park Lands. The site of the annual ‘Garden of Unearthly Delights’ was once a despised rubbish dump and a quagmire. Learn about the huge efforts as early as the 1880’s to turn it into a much-loved outdoor venue space. No booking necessary. Gold coin donation. (Free for APPA members). Wear sturdy shoes for a walk of just over 1.5 km in total 60 to 90 minutes duration.

Children and dogs welcome.

Saturday 12 August Time: 2 - 3.15pm Place: Meet at the corner of East Terrace and North Terrace at the Light Horse memorial.

More details here: www.facebook.com/ events/254187274986073/

Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) Join APPA member (Park 16 Ambassador) Rose Wight OAM for a guided walk, learning about one of the most-used parts of the Park Lands. Apart from its wellknown uses for motor racing and 150-yearplus horse racing history, you’ll also see the urban forest, woodland trails, fitness track and much more. No booking necessary.

Gold coin donation. (Free for APPA members). Wear sturdy shoes for a walk of over 2km 60 to 90 minutes duration.

Children and dogs welcome.

Saturday 9 September Time: 2pm to 3.30pm Place: Meet at the corner of East Terrace and South Terrace.

More details here: www.facebook.com/ events/1927268510889635/

Local Branch Events Burra Branch The Blacksmith Shop is fully operational, a blacksmith will be working with a forge of typical Cornish design and original elephant hide bellows.

Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 September Time: 10am - 3pm Place: Bon Accord Mine Museum, Corner West Street and Railway Terrace, Burra.

Enquiries: (08) 8892 2743, Mob: 0429 160 322

Talk – ‘Reginald Hughes & the Aboriginal People of Nockatunga’ Speaker: Chris Hughes

Mount Lofty Branch Stangate House Open Day with Camellias in bloom and spring arriving.

Burnside Branch

Friday 8 September Time: 7 - 8:30 pm Cost: Adult $10, please bring a supper plate to share.

Place: 631 Glynburn Road, Beaumont.

All Burnside Branch Booking and Enquiries: Chris Perriam, telephone: (08) 8362 3036 or Mob: 0411 036 491 email: perriamci@bigpond.com.au

Beaumont House & Garden - guided tours

Mount Barker Branch

Port of Adelaide Branch

State Heritage listed property built in 1849

by Augustus Short, the first Anglican Bishop of Adelaide, and after, the home of Sir Samuel Davenport, politician, horticulturist & pioneer of the olive oil industry in SA. Guided tours with afternoon tea.

Sunday 3 September Time: 2 - 4.30pm Cost: Adult $10, incl afternoon tea.

Stangate House. Car pool to Stangate House. Camellia high season. Afternoon tea to be confirmed. Please telephone Triss or Beverly to confirm attendance by 1 September.

Tuesday 5 September Time: Depart Dunn Uniting Church Hall at 12 noon Place: 13 Mann Street, Mount Barker.

All Mount Barker Branch Enquiries: Triss (08) 8389 9281

AGM with Guest Speaker Vince Rigter Project Director Port / Woodville West / Renewal SA. Tour of Studios and Exhibition with Brigid Noone - Director Fontanelle at 8 pm.

Wednesday 13 September Time: 7pm Place: Fontanelle Gallery & Studios, 175 St. Vincent Street, Port Adelaide.

Enquiries: email: pat@pnetschi.com

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Sunday 27 August Time: 1 - 4pm Cost: $5 entry, children under 14 free with Cornish tea available.

Place: Stangate House, 3 Edgeware Road, Aldgate.

All Mount Lofty Branch Enquiries: enquiries@stangatehouse.org.au, Mob: 0408 081 124

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Local Branch Events continued Port Elliot Branch Talk: Family history. Guest Speaker Annie Basham speaking on her Family history.

Thursday 14 September Time: 7:30 - 8:30 pm Cost: $2 donation, light supper provided.

Place: RSL Hall, The Strand, Port Elliot.

All Port Elliot Branch Enquiries: Lorraine (08) 8554 2024, Allan Mob: 0407 716 726 or Helen Mob: 0407 607 726

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Tea Tree Gully Branch Heritage on Sunday. Enjoy the afternoon as you visit 13 rooms in the building, 4 pavilions, working blacksmith, police cell and laundry. Surrounded in a beautiful garden setting take time to wander, explore and be entertained. Devonshire tea is available and the Gift Shop is a delight.

One Day Only: All Bottled Up - Adelaide Historical Bottle Club members will display their extensive collections throughout the Museum building.

Sunday 20 August Spring in the Garden – Spring is in the air, a lovely time of the year to visit our beautiful gardens. Plants for Sale.

Sunday 17 September Time: 1 - 4pm Cost: Adult $5, Conc $4, Children free.

Place: Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum, 3 Perseverance Road, Tea Tree Gully.

All Tea Tree Gully Branch Enquiries: (08) 8251 3499, www.ttgmuseum.on.net

Beaumont House Photo: Luke Simon ABC Gardening Australia.

Come and enjoy the splendour of the Beaumont House garden in full bloom at the Open Garden Day. Explore this lovingly restored Mediterranean garden, and learn about the early history of these experimental gardens and the original olive grove. Guided tours of the garden will be available.

There will be a working blacksmith, plant sales, music by the Dixieland band of the South Australian Police and Devonshire teas served on the veranda.

Sunday 24 September

Time: 10am to 4pm Cost: Entry at the gate is $8, concession $6, under 18s free.

Enquiries: (08) 8202 9200, email: events@nationaltrustsa.org.au

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A lack of local heritage protection in some Council areas allows the destruction of places such as this one in Milang.

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His Excellency the Honourable Hieu Van Le AC Governor of South Australia

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P R ES EN T ED BY T H E N AT I O N A L T R U S T O F S O U T H AU S T R A L I A I N PA R T N E R S H I P W I T H T H E DA L E M A I N W O R L D ’ S O R I G I N A L M A R M A L A D E AWA R D S & F ES T I VA L U K

Olivewood Homestead, Renmark, in the heart of Riverland citrus country, will host the public celebration of the 2017 Australian Marmalade Awards.

With marmalade tastings, a BBQ, Kids’ Corner, Raffle, Magic Show, displays, teas, music and much more!

10am to 4pm Sunday 3 September 2017 Olivewood Homestead, Renmark The Australian Marmalade Awards and Festival are supported by Jane Hasell-McCosh of Dalemain Estate, Cumbria UK, founder of the famous World ’s Original Marmalade Awards and Festival for the last ten years. dalemainmarmaladeawards.com

For more information about the Australian Marmalade Festival at Olivewood Homestead please email olivewood.renmark@gmail.com or call 0400 741 533 / 0417 814 374

www.nationaltrust.org.au/marmalade