National Trust SA Heritage Living Autumn 2016

HERITAGE LIVING | SOUTH AUSTRALIA AUTUMN 2016

New wine in old bottles Adapting heritage buildings

From the editor

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ROBERT DARE

n his President’s report in our last issue, Norman Etherington reminded us that we build so slowly in our cities that we cannot expect to see new structures comparable to our heritage buildings in the near future.

We should look after what we have.

DR DARREN PEACOCK CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Moving into autumn, we say goodbye to summer and to the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Costume Exhibition at Ayers House. The exhibition was our most popular event ever, with more than 30,000 people visiting the exhibition and associated program of events over three months. A big thank you to all of those who helped make the exhibition such a great success, including the more than 100 volunteers who worked front of house, many of them new to the Trust.

The exhibition drew visitors from across the state, interstate and around the world from as far away as Canada, Finland and Poland. Not only did Miss Fisher’s many fans get to see the stunning costumes from the television series, but most were discovering the splendours of Ayers House for the first time too – including many locals.

We look forward to building on the renewed interest in the House this year.

This year’s National Trust Heritage Festival will kick off soon with Australian Heritage Week from 16-24 April. As you will see from the events listing, we are offering a daily program of guided tours and walks around Adelaide, as well as major events such as the Victoriana Day of Play on Sunday April 17, a great family day out with oldfashioned games and entertainment in the beautiful grounds of Beaumont House.

The Heritage Festival flows into the South Australian History Festival in May with many events across the state, including the annual Hahndorf Pioneer Women’s Walk to be held on Sunday May 15. We look forward to seeing you at some of the Heritage and History Festival events in coming months.

In this issue we explore another side to the President’s remarks. Demand for space to live and work in our cities grows far faster than the rate at which we erect new buildings to meet that demand. We have little choice but to turn to our old buildings and make them over to suit new uses. Preservation of our heritage buildings can go hand in hand with their adaptation to 21st century functions.

Our special feature in this issue of the magazine takes a close look at adaptive re-use. We consider the social benefits of adapting old buildings, go inside a model of successful re-use, and talk to an award-winning architect who is bringing his vast experience in designing adaptations to South Australia.

We also present the winning and shortlisted photographs in the competition the National Trust of South Australia co-sponsored to encourage the retention of trades critical to the conservation of heritage places.

Norman also reminded us of how modern Chicago rose from the ashes of the fire that started behind Paddy O’Leary’s barn in 1871.

On a smaller scale, we tell the story of the extraordinary efforts of National Trust staff and volunteers to bring the Roachdale Nature Reserve back from the disastrous Sampson Flat fires last year.

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Heritage at Risk A better future for Martindale Hall

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Significant Tree A Washingtonia palm

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Roachdale Reserve Nature Trail Reopens

7 Acquisition New exhibit bound for Ardrossan Museum 8

Adaptive Re-use New wine in old bottles

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16 Special Places The Tench, Hobart 17 Special Places Ambleside survivor a place for the ages 18 Conservation Appeal Adare House

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20 60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Dinner 22 Garden to table National conference of the Australian Garden History Society

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23 In the Kitchen Yogurt Hotcakes 24 Exhibition Rod McRae’s ‘After-Life’ at Z Ward 25 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Costume Exhibition

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27 2016 National Trust Heritage Festival 29 Events 31 Hahndorf Pioneer Women’s Walk

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Heritage at Risk

A future for Martindale Hall that everyone can share DR DARREN PEACOCK, CEO, NATIONAL TRUST OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Martindale Hall, the iconic Georgian-style mansion at Mintaro in the Clare Valley, was a gift to the people of South Australia through a bequest from the Mortlock family. It has been managed by the State Government since 1986. Last year, the Government received an unsolicited bid to purchase the property and turn it into an exclusive private health resort.

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he National Trust is strongly opposed to any sale of Martindale Hall as a breach of the gift to the people of this state and a risk to the long-term preservation of this unique heritage property.

In April 2015, before the unsolicited bid surfaced, the Trust wrote to Minister Ian Hunter offering to take on responsibility for Martindale Hall if the Government was no longer willing to do so. We have reiterated that offer.

breed farm animals and an ongoing program of public activities and events. Produce from the farm is sold on site. The property includes a heritage orchard, and also offers hands-on courses in driving working animals such as draught horses.

Also in England, in the Lake District, is Dalemain Estate, which provided the inspiration for the building at Martindale Hall. It

now operates as a working country house open to the public and hosting major events such as the International Marmalade Awards.

In Australia, iconic properties such as Barwon Park in Victoria, Old Government House in Sydney and Clarendon in Tasmania are managed by the National Trust and offer a diverse mix of activities and events that support ongoing conservation, public access and local tourism.

There is much we can learn from these examples about how to create a sustainable and successful future for Martindale Hall and keep it for the people rather than for the few who want to avail themselves of a private luxury resort.

We believe that there are many more suitable options for the future of Martindale Hall than the current proposal for a resort. These options must be considered in preference to removing the property from public hands and placing it in private ownership.

South Australia has an opportunity to create a unique heritage-based toursim attraction at Martindale Hall that respects the original intention of the gift to the people.

The National Trust welcomes the challenge and opportunity to do that.

Wimpole Estate, outside Cambridge in England, is a fine example of the kind of place we are talking about.

Donated to the National Trust, it incorporates a grand country home begun in 1640 with parkland and a working farm, home to many rare-

You can join the campaign to keep Martindale Hall for the people by visiting our website www.heritagewatch.net.au and signing our petitions to the Premier and to the Parliament.

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Hall, Cambridgeshire, England. Photo: Karen Roe on Flickr estate includes the historic hall, a garden and home farm. Photos: Dongyi Liu on Flickr

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Significant Tree

A Washingtonia palm: In memoriam Edward Collins 1916-2016 KATH RAYNER AND MICHAEL HEATH

Born at Carey Gully, Edward Ernest Robert Victor was the eldest son of Robert and Sarah Collins. On October 12, 1916, at the age of 26, he enlisted as a driver in the Australian Army.

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n 1917, Edward was posted to Belgium. He took part in the battle of Broodseinde, near Ypres in Flanders, where the British Second and Fifth armies were pitted against the German Fourth Army. The conditions were appalling. Heavy rain and shellfire devastation made driving difficult and dangerous, restricting the routes on which guns and ammunition could be carried.

The Germans had easy targets, and under these harrowing conditions, Edward’s death was recorded on October 14, 1917, one year and two days after he had enlisted.

The battle was fought on October 4, so it is reasonable to suppose that Edward sustained severe untreatable wounds from which he died 10 days later. One of many who contributed to the most successful allied attack in the Battle of Passchendaele, he was buried at Broodseinde, the site of the battle that took his life.

Although also wounded, Edward’s soldier brother Herbert did return to Australia. Their sister Eva trained as a teacher and in 1914 joined the staff at Willunga primary school. She lived at 29 High Street in a home typical of the time that is now Willunga Gallery, an attractive and successful arts and crafts venue. Eva married Wilfred Aldam and they had a son in 1921, whom they named Edward, after Eva’s fallen brother.

From 1875 to 1925, the Woods and Forests Department ran a replanting program to reforest rural properties, offering free trees as an incentive to join.

They included willows, Aleppo pines and Washingtonia palms.

The Washingtonia palm took the public’s fancy and became a talisman for soldiers who did not return. Most probably in 1918, as a memento mori of her loss, Eva planted a Washingtonia palm (Washingtonia robusta) outside her kitchen window, where she could look out and remember Edward.

This story marks 100 years since Edward set out on his patriotic journey to fight for his country. In 2016 his memorial palm stands proud and tall, a local landmark in Willunga High Street. It is now included in the National Trusts of Australia Significant Tree Register, a permanent reminder of the strong link between trees, history and patriotism.

Visit the National Trust Significant Tree Register at www.trusttrees.org.au

TOP RIGHT Washingtonia palm, Willunga. Photo courtesy Jerry Keyte, Adze Character and Associates, Willunga. https://jerrykeyte.wordpress.com/ BOTTOM RIGHT Private Collins with officer’s swagger stick. Photo courtesy Kath Rayner

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Kathlyn Rayner is a longterm member of the National Trust, a former Chairperson of the Willunga Branch, and more recently, a member of the NTSA Council. She is Edward Collin’s great niece.

Michael Heath is a member of the Willunga Branch and has been chair of the Significant Tree Team since 2004. STT volunteers look after NTSAs Significant Tree Register, and its contribution to the National Trusts of Australia Significant Tree Register.

Nature Trail Reopens

Nature Trail reopens on Roachdale Reserve JANET PEDLER, NATURAL HERITAGE OFFICER

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On December 4, 2015, less than a year after Roachdale Nature Reserve at Kersbrook was burnt through by the Sampson Flat Fire, National Trust volunteers, community supporters and sponsors turned out to celebrate the repair and reopening of the reserve’s Nature Trail.

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rompt completion of damage assessments and settlements by our insurance broker (JLTA) and insurer Zurich allowed us to start replacing infrastructure such as fencing, tanks, piping and signage by April.

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The damage to the bushland was obvious: understorey and natural woody debris had vanished, and most of the trees were scorched or burnt into their canopies. However, it took longer to realise that the majority of very old, large and gnarled trees had vanished, leaving only large holes in the ground.

The condition of our popular Nature Trail was similar, with wooden markers, signs, bridges and boardwalks obliterated, and a row of nails or a few bolts all that was left.

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As many trees began to reshoot with epicormic growth from under the bark, others started to fall. The Nature Trail had to be closed and our Roachdale Reserve Officer, Chris Grant, spent many hours clearing fallen trees along the trail and fencelines. Monitoring of the bushland in July revealed that on average only five out of every 10 trees had survived the fire.

Despite groundcover and seedlings starting to appear, as the year progressed it was obvious that the severe heat had badly affected the nature trail surface. The ground was crumbling, particularly on sloping areas. It became clear that we needed to completely rebuild the trail.

With only the cost of trail materials covered by insurance , the NTSA turned to the Sampson Flat Fire Community Recovery Office and Natural Resources Adelaide & Mount Lofty Ranges (NR AMLR) at Gawler for ideas to support the repair. A collaboration soon emerged, and the AMLR Aboriginal Lands Trust NRM team donated a week to the project, while the donation by the Stirling Market Committee community recovery fund supported a second week.

Team members Josh and Luke Stone, Jason Martin and Shayden Rigney, supported by Chris Grant and myself, were soon re-marking and repairing the trail surface. Bridges and benches were then rebuilt, thanks to a Westpac disaster fund grant through Bank SA’s Woodside branch.

The result: a huge step forward in the recovery of Roachdale Reserve, community members returning to their favourite walk and wildlife going about their business - including the echidna that joined us for the celebration.

Many thanks from the Trust to all concerned in the recovery effort.

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1 Yvonne Gravier, chair of the Roachdale Reserve Management Committee, and Sheila Gordon, RMC member since 1983, cut the ribbon to re-open the Nature Trail. Photo: J Pedler 2 A local resident attends the reopening celebration - the first echidna sighting since the fire!

Photo: J Pedler 3 The ALT Team with Will Durack, Tom Brookman, Chris Grant, Chris Rehn and John Lyons.

Photo: J Pedler 4 Standing on new bridge over Malcolm Creek, from Left: BankSA district manager Jo Vink; NTSA CEO Dr Darren Peacock and president Prof. Norman Etherington; Chris Grant, RRO; Tom Brookman, NR AMLR; Anne Ellis, Sampson Flat Community Recovery; Kath Rayner, NTSA Council; Amanda Christensen, manager Woodside BankSA; Janet Pedler, NHO; and Mayor of Adelaide Hills Council Bill Spragg. Photo: Glenn Williams

Acquisition

Jaw-dropping exhibit bound for Ardrossan Museum An unusual salvage operation from a tragic event promises to deliver the Ardrossan National Trust Museum a unique item for display.

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n early December, 2014, an environmental tragedy unfolded on Parara Beach near Ardrossan on the Yorke Peninsula. A pod of eight sperm whales became stranded close to shore as they travelled up Gulf St Vincent. Despite the best efforts of local officials and volunteers, seven of the whales perished.

The daunting task of burying the massive whale carcasses to clear the beach required a herculean effort lead by staff from the District Council of Yorke Peninsula and assisted by mining company Arrium, which operates a dolomite mine nearby.

Teeth are used as indicators of the age and health of the animals, but are also highly prized for creating the artform known as scrimshaw carving or painting on bone or ivory -which was hugely popular during the 19th-century heyday of the whaling industry.

school students, Yorke Peninsula Mayor Ray Agnew OAM dedicated the monument. It comprised seven large stones, set against an ocean background, to mark each whale - named by the children as Ardie, Diver, Fin, Jettilene, Posidonia, Smoothy and Splash.

The salvage and burial operation was a major effort that brought the Ardrossan community together.

On the first anniversary of the stranding, around a hundred people gathered to mark the opening of a memorial to commemorate the lost whales and to recognise the remarkable efforts of the salvage team. With the help of local primary

Dr Kemper also spoke at the ceremony, and announced that the SA Museum has kindly offered to donate one of the jaw bones from the stranded whales for display at the Ardrossan National Trust Museum as another permanent reminder of this sad and remarkable event.

The salvage team included representatives from the South Australian Museum. Senior research scientist Dr Cath Kemper observed that a mass stranding of sperm whales had not happened in her 30 years with the museum. Sperm whales are not typically seen in Gulf waters, as they generally inhabit much deeper ocean areas.

Dr Kemper theorised that the stranding may have been the result of disruption to the sonar navigation system used by the whales in the shallower Gulf waters.

Each of the whales was identified as female, roughly 10 metres long and weighing approximately 14 tonnes.

Museum staff undertook dissection of two of the animals at the site, and removed jaw bones, teeth and skin samples for further research.

Chainsaws were used to remove the jaws from each of the whales.

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whale. Photo courtesy of the Yorke Peninsula Council.

Peninsula Mayor Ray Agnew OAM at the unveiling of the monument with Dr Cath Kemper of the South Australian Museum (seated) and local school children.

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Adaptive Reuse

New wine in old bottles ROBERT DARE

Cranes reaching above city skylines are our markers of progress and prosperity: the more we can see, the better off we think we are.

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hat is less visible is a more grounded reality. In developed countries, around half of construction expenditure in cities goes on existing buildings. The rate at which we erect new buildings cannot keep pace with demand for spaces for businesses and homes in the centres of our growing cities.

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Department Stores becomes Sir Samuel Way Building, Victoria Square Adelaide of New South Wales becomes Jamie’s Italian and 2KW, corner North Terrace and King William St Adelaide BOTTOM RIGHT Colonial Mutual Life Building becomes Mayfair Hotel, King William St Adelaide ABOVE LEFT Willard House becomes Hereford Beefstouw, Hutt St Adelaide TOP RIGHT Bank

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Adaptive Reuse

Some otherwise obsolete buildings are refitted for their existing purposes – new offices for old. More often they are made over for an entirely different function. What was a bank becomes a site of bars and restaurants, an office block becomes an apartment building or a hotel.

The clunky name usually given to this sort of transformation is adaptive re-use.

Re-purposing older buildings that have reached their use-by date in their existing functions makes economic and environmental sense.

It is usually cheaper to convert an old building than to pull it down and rebuild, and it is usually much quicker too.

Lower costs and shorter turnaround times mean more attractive rents for prospective tenants – innovators in start-ups for example, or first-time restaurateurs – who are unwilling or unable to pay for prime quality space in new buildings.

Demolition of old buildings wastes the energy embodied in them when they were built. Building new ones consumes more energy in materials, transport and construction than converting older structures. It is also more disruptive and dirtier, raising dust during demolition and blocking roads during construction.

Inner-city buildings of high heritage value are perfect for adaptive re-use.

They are in the right place. They are familiar and loved. They are robust structures built to last, and thus ideal for conversion to new uses.

The faces on the streets of our cities are younger and more diverse than ever, drawn to places of education, work and play. Heritage areas provide them. The buildings in Rundle Street east are old; the people whose custom sustains the businesses in them are young.

Our cities have become centres of leisure as well as work, places that bustle at night and on weekends as well as on weekdays. Creative and sensitive adaptation of old buildings for these expanded purposes makes heritage as contemporary as the minute.

ABOVE Treasury Building becomes Adina Apartment Hotel, King William St Adelaide Photographs: Jessica Cronin, NTSA.

The alternatives to smart re-use of heritage buildings are usually grim. We pull them down and erect something bland – or worse – in their place. We leave them empty and decaying, easy prey for vandals and squatters, a drag on the value of neighbouring properties, and a constant eyesore.

We spread out into the suburbs and beyond, acquiring land better used for other purposes, and in the process stimulate infrastructure projects, such as new freeways and overpasses, that are expensive, disruptive and deeply unpopular.

Adaptive re-use is a cooperative enterprise. Owners make the conversions because they know this alternative to decay or demolition can yield good income on their investment. Financial institutions fund these conversions because moderate but safe returns make more business sense than spectacular but uncertain ones.

Architects design them because they are a source of pride and achievement, allowing them to be expressive inside old masters.

Builders do the work because they relish the challenge, knowing as well that they will help maintain and pass on skills that would otherwise disappear.

For their part, governments and councils need to be flexible in their approach to the way older buildings are made compliant with modern buildings standards without damage

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to their heritage value. Clever and successful re-use projects are a sign that the relevant authorities get the point.

Adelaide City Council has provided a Heritage Incentive Scheme since 1988. Under the scheme, owners may apply for part funding for conservation work on heritage buildings and what it calls buildings of ‘unlisted historic character’. It is the most substantial scheme of its kind in Australia.

A city without iconic new buildings would be dull. A city that replaces its older buildings with endless vistas of high-rise glass is one that has forgotten itself. Cities people actually want to live and work in get the mix right. That doesn’t happen without adaptive re-use of older buildings.

In what follows, we go inside a recent and successful conversion in inner-city Adelaide and talk to the Tasmanian architect who is bringing his insights on successful adaptive re-use to South Australia.

Sources: S. J. Wilkinson et al., Sustainable building adaptation: innovations in decision-making, Oxford 2014; Adelaide City Council, Building refurbishment guide, 2007; Commonwealth Department of the Environment and Heritage, Adaptive reuse: preserving our past, building our future, 2004 Details of Adelaide City Council’s Heritage Incentive Scheme can be found at http://www. adelaidecitycouncil.com/your-council/funding/ heritage-incentive-schemes-his/

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Electra House, Adelaide ROBERT DARE

Electra House, opposite Adelaide Town Hall, is a veteran of adaptive re-use. It began life in 1901 as an insurance office, became a telegraph station, then a training centre for technicians and later a telecommunications museum, before being returned to use as offices and a residence. Not surprisingly, it has adjusted to entirely new purposes with elegant ease.

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he building is listed on the State Heritage Register. It derives its heritage status from its association with the telecommunications industry in South Australia, and from its rather baffling architectural style.

Experts struggle to find words for it. One architect has described it variously as ‘a rare example in SA of Edwardian extravagance’ and ‘an excellent example of Edwardian Baroque Revival (or Federation Free Classical style)’. However difficult to describe, its exuberant style surpasses its modest dimensions.

The building is a puzzle for other reasons. Two huge figures of Atlas support the first-floor balcony (as seen on the cover of this issue). Atlas was the father of the Greek goddess Electra. Simple word association seems to explain his presence on a building occupied by a company that harnessed electricity in the burgeoning telecommunications business. He also adorned Electra House in London, built in 1902 to house the cable company that later occupied Electra House in Adelaide.

But in the Adelaide building the association is fortuitous. At first Atlas did his heavy work for insurance companies, and then a lawyer (a great uncle of our present High Commissioner in London, Alexander Downer). The building was not acquired by the company that became Cable & Wireless until after World War I. It was named Electra House only in 1940, when Cable & Wireless became involved in the war effort. The Australian arm of the company employed and trained technicians to serve in war zones.

Through all these shifts and changes, the Atlas twins continued supporting their balcony unperturbed. In recent times they shouldered their burden alone: apart from a brief stint when it served as a Festival Fringe venue, the building was empty for more than a decade.

Mat Finch and Leigh Morgan, the young entrepreneurs behind its present incarnation as a venue for bars and restaurants were equally unperturbed by its promiscuous past.

They saw the potential of the vacant

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building to meet one of Adelaide City Council’s key planning objectives.

The Council wants the city centre to be ‘active during the day, evening and late night’. That will be achieved, it envisages, by ‘licensed entertainment premises, nightclubs and bars’ – particularly those located at street level or below. The entrepreneurs planned a new and external beer garden attached to the old building, with internal spaces disposed as another bar at ground level, a restaurant on the second level, and two function rooms on the top level.

Mat could see the building’s longterm future being in hospitality. It was in the right place, it was well made, and he thought it had ‘character, presence and identity’. A new building could deliver these benefits only at considerable extra cost.

Mat says he and his partner ‘are very happy with the outcome and preservation of this building, specifically the character, functionality and feel’.

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They acknowledge the constructive support of the City Council. ‘Our experience with Council’, Mat says, ‘was extremely collaborative’. Both sides understood that each wanted to achieve what he calls ‘the bestcase result while minimising the demolition of the existing fabric’.

Architect Tony Zappia agrees. What might have been daunting design and compliance problems were resolved with remarkable ease.

‘Adelaide is quite lucky in that we have quite a few of these buildings and to bring these buildings back to life is wonderful,’ he told InDaily reporter Farrin Foster.

Buildings such as this ‘can’t be redone in modern times’, Zappia says. ‘It’s the soul. When one walks into a space like this, you feel connected with the room. With very new venues ... it’s very hard to get that.’

Interior designer Danielle Elia also responded to the building’s soul.

‘Projects like this don’t come along very often,’ she agreed with Tony Zappia. ‘It had so much character.

Every space I walked into, I had an idea what I wanted it to be based on the bones.’ With new buildings, she feels, ‘you don’t get the same soul as this.’

Mat Finch would like to see all councils respond as supportively to such projects as Adelaide City Council did to this one. He knows from experience that ‘common sense and a respectful working

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relationship are crucial, instead of a dictatorship-style approach by council’.

Sources: The Advertiser, Herald Sun, InDaily, Adelaide City Council.

Robert Dare spoke to Mat Finch, Leigh Morgan and Tony Zappia.

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Zappia and Studio Nine (before), David Siervers Photography (after)

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An architect talks about new uses for old buildings ROBERT DARE

In October 2015, Professor Robert Morris-Nunn led a workshop in the Port Enfield Council Chambers convened by the Port Adelaide Branch of the National Trust. The workshop followed Robert’s second visit to Port Adelaide to work with the local community on the preservation and adaptation of buildings in this historic precinct.

He listens to the creative people, including from the local community, who are doing the hard work to conserve and renew. Typically, he coordinates a large team of artists, engineers, landscapers, designers, crafts people and members of the community around the site.

‘Of course’, he says, speaking of his project at the Strahan Visitor Centre in Tasmania, ‘this meant that the job became much more complex, much more draining than it would be otherwise; but it also made it much more rewarding and the project an infinitely richer work.’

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Robert thinks of his work as recovering old stories and then adding something new to them.

When he designs new structures for an old building to adapt it for contemporary uses, he is not simply repeating the old story.

IXL warehouses in Hobart from the street

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obert Morris-Nunn is an award-winning architect who has brought his special vision to a number of eye-catching projects in Tasmania.

whether catalogued (as in heritagelisted buildings), or informal or anecdotal, as in many anonymous older buildings that become part of the background built fabric of a community’.

He made it clear to the workshop from the outset that preservation did not mean setting old buildings in aspic. Historic buildings live on when they are used, and that usually means mixing old and new – conserving historic parts wherever possible, but adding to them in ways that ensure they continue to be living parts of the community.

He listens to the community in and around the building to whom it matters. He tries to ‘learn what it might mean to the diverse range of people to whom the building has an intrinsic value’.

Robert has developed his design philosophy over a lifetime of architectural practice. His Theory, as he calls it, is simple: ‘buildings telling their own stories’.

This is a process that cannot be rushed, says, and it is not for the impatient. If you want to be successful at adaptive re-use, you cannot be a fly-in-fly-out designer.

In his view, what makes for successful re-use is ‘keeping the exterior of an old building and, where appropriate, also all the internal spaces of historic importance, and then sliding in new spaces that add to the story’. He aims to ‘add another chapter to the story, keeping alive the earlier (hi) stories...as a way of embellishing the past whilst still being true to contemporary values and attitudes’.

One of Robert’s showcase projects was the adaptation of the seven IXL warehouses in Hobart.

The buildings had been empty and neglected for two decades. A large corporation bought them, stripped their assets, and sold the heritage parts to the state government.

‘Stories come first’, he insists, ‘and you work out how to make stories into viable architecture.’ And if you want to know the stories, you must listen.

Robert listens to the buildings as he redesigns them. Every building has a story. ‘Existing buildings’, he tells us, ‘have their own history,

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bedroom in the Henry Jones Art Hotel, part of the IXL warehouses complex

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Atrium, IXL House, Hobart

The government couldn’t work out what to do with what had it had acquired. It used the more modern bits as offices. ‘The remainder of the warehouses were left for illegal squatters to inhabit,’ Robert says.

‘The squatters almost burnt the whole complex to the ground.’

Robert headed a private consortium to save and refresh the warehouses.

His design for them combined conservation of their historic parts with state-of-the-art technologies

for things such as heating, cooling and energy conservation. A stunning new gridshell atrium soars over a large communal space that now caters to a wide variety of artsrelated and corporate activities.

Robert set out to make the atrium space ‘the basis for a complete rethinking of how old buildings can be sustainably recycled’. It and the rest of development are his ‘gift back to the citizens of Hobart’.

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Robert Morris-Nunn is the principal design architect at Circa Architecture Morris-Nunn and Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the University of Tasmania. He was won more than 50 architectural awards stretching back to 1984. You can get further details of his awardwinning projects at http://www. circamorrisnunn.com.au/

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The restoration and adaptation of heritage buildings demand trade skills no longer required in modern building methods. Developers in the United Kingdom report having to entice octogenarians out of retirement to work on their heritage buildings.

South Australian heritage buildings have faced the same challenge.

To coincide with the Australia ICOMOS Conference in November last year, ICOMOS and the National Trust of South Australia sponsored a Heroes of Traditional Trades Photographic Competition. The competition aimed to record and celebrate people involved with traditional trades, crafts and practices. The trades depicted in the photographs were to be important to sites of heritage significance or to heritage conservation generally.

Here you can see winning photograph and the seven other shortlisted from the competition demonstrating the diversity of trades engaged in the conservation of heritage places across Australia.

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1. Atlas at Eveleigh. Image by Wendie McCaffley.

2. Tuck pointing at Wanslea. Image by Eric Hancock.

3. Leadwork specialist .Image by Eric Hancock.

4. St Dominque Macau Stucco Repair.

Image by Kin Hong Ip. 5. Dry stone walling. Image by Kristin Munday.

6. Traditional bush timber skills. Image by Chris Smith.

7. Skilled painter. Image by Eric Hancock.

8. Brisbane foundry 2. Image by Dean Saffron.

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Special Places

The Tench, Hobart SOPHIE BLEACH, NATIONAL TRUST TASMANIA

The Tench, formerly known as The Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site, has quickly become one of the top-rated attractions in Hobart.

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arly last year, The Tench was voted fifth-top landmark in Australia in the Trip Advisor People’s Choice Awards. It continues to wow visitors from the mainland and overseas, who comment that it is an ‘unexpected treasure, a hidden gem’ and an ‘absolutely brilliant tour!’. Their enthusiasm is testament to the growing tourist interest in Tasmania’s heritage, especially the ‘dark tourism’ of our convict history.

As the convict prisoner’s barracks for Hobart Town, the Van Diemen’s Land Prisoners’ Barracks Penitentiary, shortened by inmates to The Tench, originally spanned more than two acres. Some 50,000 male convicts passed through the complex. Following the end of transportation, the site became the Hobart Gaol for more than a century. Sections of the Penitentiary Chapel were later converted into two Supreme Courts. ln the early 1830s, a service in the chapel of The Tench would have been a far from holy experience. The building, cruciform in shape, was designed by John Lee Archer to make additional space for the growing number of convicts arriving in Van Diemen’s Land. It included 36 solitary confinement punishment cells beneath the chapel floor. The smallest of these brick ‘Dust Hole’ cells was only 70cm high.

They were so dark and airless that by 1847 they were declared inhumane and sealed up.

Above the cells, a thousand convicts were crowded onto hard wooden benches in the east and west wings, while the north wing was opened up to the overflow congregation from a nearby church. Not surprisingly, there were complaints about the lack of ventilation and the terrible noises coming from chained convicts below the chapel floor.

These days visitors to The Tench are captivated by the gruesome stories of prisoners, guards, trials and executions. They praise the knowledge and the passion of the

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The Tench is one of Australia’s most important convict sites and yet it has always been one of Hobart’s best kept secrets – but not anymore!

With a full daily program of Tench tours, nightly ghost tours, and historical theatre experiences, all available through our new online booking facility, visitor numbers continue to grow.

elegant clock tower of the Penitentiary Chapel designed by John Lee Archer. within the building for bringing prisoners from cells into the courtroom.

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Trust’s volunteer guides who, they say, ‘bring history to life’ as they lead guests through the courts and tunnels to the chapel, solitary confinement cells and gallows.

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Special Places

United Kingdom

Ambleside survivor a place for the ages There are more than 500 places listed in the Handbook of the National Trust in the UK where Australian National Trust members can enjoy the benefits of membership with free or discounted entry.

One of the most picturesque parts of England is the Lake District in the North West of the country, with its dramatic mountain scenery, lush green valleys and tranquil blue lakes. As well as its scenery, the Lake District is famous for the people who lived there and drew inspiration from its beauty. They include the poet William Wordsworth and the writer John Ruskin, one of the people who greatly influenced the founders of the National Trust, Octavia Hill and Hardwicke Rawnsley.

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mbleside is a small village that sits one-and-a-half kilometres north of the head of Lake Windermere, the largest lake in England. The settlement has Roman origins, but is now a hub of tourist activities for visitors to the Lake District.

One of the most remarkable buildings in this town is a curiosity built in the 17th century by a wealthy local family to join up their land holdings across a small stream.

The Bridge House literally sits as a bridge over the Stock Beck (small river) in the centre of the town. It is understood to have been used as a summer residence and as a store for apples from nearby orchards.

The house is just 3.3m square and is made of stone rubble with a slate roof, including a small chimney.

The smallest house owned by the National Trust in the UK, it has just two rooms, one above and one below. In 1926, after a local fundraising campaign, it was purchased by the townspeople and donated to the National Trust. It now serves as an information centre for the thousands of tourists who visit it each year.

Recent record flooding in Northern England posed a dramatic threat to the Bridge House, but true survivor that it is, this 300-year-old treasure remains proudly in place astride the babbling Beck.

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House at Ambleside, UK. Photo by Kaustav Bhattacharya, Flickr.

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Conservation Appeal

Adare House conservation appeal Adare House at Victor Harbor, 75 km south of Adelaide, is a grand home completed in 1893 and now owned by the Uniting Church of Australia. It is located on the outskirts of the town along the banks of the Hindmarsh River, but with views to the ocean. For more than 60 years, Adare House has been used by the church for group camps and more recently, for private functions such as weddings. The grounds are used as a popular caravan park.

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he land was known to the Raminjeri people who inhabited the area as mootiparinga, meaning murky or brackish water. In the first year of colonial settlement, the site of Adare House was bought

by South Australia’s first Governor, John Hindmarsh. His son, also John Hindmarsh, built a small home there in the 1860s.

In 1889 the property was purchased by Daniel Henry Cudmore, a successful pastoralist in the boom decades of the 1870s and 1880s. Cudmore greatly extended the building to include 19 rooms, a cellar, tower, balcony and three turrets. The rebuild incorporated an interesting blend of features from French castles alongside classic Victorianera iron lacework.

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ABOVE Adare House, Victor Harbor.

Photo: Denisbin on Flickr ABOVE RIGHT Troassach’s Hotel, Scotland (from a postcard). Photo: Jenny Scott on Flickr

Our People

It has been suggested that the design of Adare was inspired by a visit by Cudmore to Trossach’s Hotel in Scotland in 1890. Trossach’s Hotel was an early example of accommodation designed for nature-inspired tourism, in an area beloved of Queen Victoria and immortalised in Sir Walter Scott’s poem Lady of the Lake and later novel Rob Roy. Whatever its inspiration, Adare House is an enchanting and unique landmark that took three years to complete. Frederick Dancker, the architect, is credited with introducing the turret roof to South Australia. His other work includes the beautiful Our Boys Institute with its Venetian Gothic façade on Wakefield Street in Adelaide, the Maccelesfied Institute and a number of church buildings.

Today, Adare House is in urgent need of extensive conservation and restoration work to preserve this magnificent seaside mansion for future visitors to enjoy. The National Trust of South Australia, in conjunction with the Uniting Church, has established a conservation appeal to support this work.

You can find out more about the appeal and make a donation by visiting www.saheritagefoundation.com. au/appeals/adare-house-appeal/

Why I volunteer with the National Trust ROSEMARY PALMER, FORMER EMPLOYEE AND VOLUNTEER AT AYERS HOUSE FOR 25 YEARS

My first memory of Ayers House is of seeing it as a small child in the early 1950s. I lived in the eastern suburbs and as a school holiday treat would travel by tram for ‘a day in town’. The tram passed a very grand-looking house - at least what I could see of it, hidden as it was by a fence, trees, shrubs and bushes.

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ittle did I know I would one day work in that house, first as a paid staff member and then as a volunteer, which I am still today.

Within weeks of starting volunteering I was leading guided tours of the house and eventually I developed my own dialogue, which I hoped was interesting and informative for the visitors. It seemed we all did a good job, judging by the comments in the Visitors’ Book.

Over the years, we’ve had exhibitions of costumes from our textiles collection, as well as of hats, shoes, roses, Christmas trees, silver, glass and brass, chairs, and many other objects. There has been musical entertainment from the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, the Metropolitan Male Voice Choir, harpist Emma Horwood and carol singers.

I have also had the pleasure of watching the restoration work which, under the master hand of decorative artist Clive Holden, returned the whitewashed walls and ceilings to the glory of Henry Ayers’ day. Clive took tracings of paint scrapes, which gave him colours and patterns and the frequency with which designs were used. He then made new stencils, painted the walls in their original colour and used the stencils to restore the decorative work.

As a volunteer, I have had all these wonderful experiences (and many others over the years) , and the pleasure of working with other devoted volunteers, who have also become friends.

What has being a volunteer meant to me? I have met and talked with people from all over South Australia, Australia and the world. I have helped take care of a unique piece of South Australian history, and I have spread the word about Henry Ayers, his family and his importance to our State.

Sources: Collins, Julie, ‘Dancker, Frederick William’, Architecture Museum, University of South Australia, 2008, Architects of South Australia: [http://www.architectsdatabase.unisa.edu.au/ arch_full.asp?Arch_ID=12] P. A. Howell, ‘Cudmore, Daniel Henry (Dan) (1844–1913)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb. anu.edu.au/biography/cudmore-daniel-henrydan-270/text9913, published first in hardcopy 1981, accessed online 28 January 2016.

I have also been proud and honoured to receive a Certificate of Appreciation from the National Trust. Last, but certainly not least, I had the privilege and absolute pleasure of meeting actor Nathan Page (Inspector Jack Robinson) at the opening of the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Costume Exhibition. And that only happened because I was a volunteer at Ayers House Museum !

ABOVE Rosemary with Nathan Page (Inspector Jack Robinson) at the launch of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Costume Exhibition.

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60th Anniversary

Reflections on sixty years of the National Trust in South Australia To celebrate its Diamond Jubilee, the National Trust of South Australia held a special dinner at Ayers House last November. The guest of honour was our Patronin-Chief, His Excellency the Honourable Hieu Van Le AO, Governor of South Australia. Guest speaker was distinguished historian and long-time champion of heritage, Emeritus Professor Graeme Davison, AO. As a prelude to the dinner, guests enjoyed a private viewing of the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Costume Exhibition in Ayers House Museum. We present here an extract from Professor Davison’s address. The full text is available at www.nationaltrust.org.au/sa

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s a Melburnian, it is only fitting I should begin by acknowledging that the event we commemorate tonight – the foundation of the South Australian Branch of the National Trust in July 1955 – preceded by a full year the foundation of the Victorian branch. Not for the first or last time the City of Light led the City of Hoddle.

I wonder if you have also noticed that there is a pleasant symmetry in the timing of this 60th anniversary? When the South Australian Branch of the Trust was founded in 1955, the English National Trust – founded in 1895 – was exactly as old as you are now.

A year or two ago we lost the opportunity to mark another anniversary, the centenary of the death of the founder the English National Trust, Octavia Hill.

A friend and admirer of John Ruskin and William Morris, she was one of those formidable English spinsters from devout middle-class households who spent their lives healing the sick, feeding and housing the poor, rescuing neglected and exploited children, educating the ignorant – and cultivating the arts. Passionate, indignant and indefatigable, these remarkable women wore down male politicians and bureaucrats by the sheer force of their intellect and integrity.

There have been a number of such women in the history of South Australia – Catherine Helen Spence comes to mind – and quite a number in the history of the National Trust.

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Octavia Hill embraced historic conservation as an extension to the great cause of her life – improving the lives of the urban poor. She began with housing reform and it was only after she recognised how important fresh air and exercise were to the health of the poor ­– she was a descendant of the great sanitary reformer Southwood Smith – that she began her campaign to secure adequate open space and parkland.

It was the attack of commercial interests upon England’s great legacy of public parkland and commons that first inspired the foundation of the National Trust. Defending public parkland remains a challenge to the Trust in Adelaide and Melbourne.

The National Trust is sometimes portrayed as a bastion of the Establishment. Some of its first campaigns in Australia were indeed to save stately houses such as Old Government House in Parramatta, Como and Ripponlea in Melbourne, and Ayers House in Adelaide. But the founding impulse of the Trust lay in something broader and deeper than a reverence for stately houses. It was not a trust in the narrow sense in which the word is now often used– a legal contrivance to minimise tax and serve the narrow interests of a family. It was a moral or spiritual trust and it was held on behalf of the nation, not just a family, or a club, or a class.

Theatre, Bourke St, Melbourne. Emeritus Professor Graeme Davison, AO. Drawing of Octavia Hill by Edward Clifford, 1877.

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60th Anniversary

Waterhouse and the Productivity Commission as one can imagine.

But without that sense of moral obligation, without the vision of a national estate held in trust for later generations, bodies such as the National Trust would be rudderless. Care for the future, rather than nostalgia for the past, should always be foremost in the concerns of the National Trust.

I hardly need to labour this point to South Australians. You have the South Australian Housing Trust and the History Trust to remind you of that remarkable local tradition of civic pride and responsibility begun in the colony’s founding years and symbolised in the great public institutions that line North Terrace, one of the loveliest streets in Australia.

It was Octavia Hill’s teacher, John Ruskin, who best summarised the founding philosophy of the National Trust. This is what he said in his book Seven Lamps of Architecture: God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after us, and whose names are already written in the book of creation, as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do or neglect, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or to deprive them of benefits which it was in our power to bequeath … Men cannot benefit those that are with them as they can benefit those who come after them; and of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

Ruskin’s high-flown Victorian prose comes strangely to our ears. It is about as remote from the language of Price

The National Trust is the fruit of [the] conviction [in the value of some of the things that have been left to us]. It is the oldest, largest, member-based independent body devoted to the protection of our heritage. It is important on occasions such as this to remind ourselves of how much it has accomplished.

What would Adelaide and South Australia be without the legacy historic buildings and natural environments that the Trust has secured? What would have become of the state’s tourist industry? More importantly, what would have become of its self-respect?

Note: Professor Davison discusses Edmund Wright, and the Commonwealth Bank and Palace Theatre in Melbourne, in his full address.

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Everett Millais, Portrait of John Ruskin, 1853-54, Ashmolean Museum Oxford.

Bank, Collins St Melbourne, photo courtesy MEL365.com – The Travel Photography website.

BOTTOM Edmund Wright House, King William St, c.1900, photo courtesy State Library of South Australia.

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Garden to table

National conference of the Australian Garden History Society MERILYN KUCHEL

Formed in 1980, the Australian Garden History Society brings together people from diverse backgrounds united by an appreciation of and concern for our parks, gardens and cultural landscapes as part of Australia’s heritage. There is a branch of the society in every state and the ACT, with a total of 1800 members nationwide. The 2015 Conferencee was held in South Australia.

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arrick Hill director Richard Heathcote is the current chair of the society’s National Management Committee, while fellow South Australian Ray Choate, Barr Smith librarian, is its deputy chair.

The 2015 conference had as its theme “Garden to Table – productive garden history” and the main lecture program and conference dinner were appropriately held at the National Wine Centre ­– which also provided the opportunity to spend time in the Museum of Economic Botany and explore our splendid Botanic Garden .

Among the diverse topics covered was “A history of food-growing in South Australian schools”, which brought back marvellous memories for the audience. Other highlights were presentations on the history of Anlaby and a very entertaining “Today I sowed seeds and the parrot died”, an insight into the gardening diaries of early Barossa settlers Ann Jacob and Johannes Menge. Caroline Berlyn, the project registrar at Carrick Hill, spoke on the history of flowers for the table, and described Ursula Hayward’s love for decorative flower-growing and arranging for the many formal dinners for visiting dignitaries and artists the Haywards entertained at Carrick Hill.

The conference lecture program is always supported by visits to relevant properties. The welcome cocktail party, held at Carrick Hill, included the launch of the book Endless Pleasure: The Art of Gardens and Gardening and its accompanying exhibition. Delegates were also able to view the collection of old gardening tools that feature in the new museum of gardening.

I was pleased to be invited to present a lecture on “Samuel Davenport, pioneer, politician, farmer and father of the olive oil industry in SA”, which gave me an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of this remarkable man. It also prepared the delegates for their visits to Beaumont House and neighbouring Gleeville, where the Davenports had lived for some time before taking up residence.

The enthusiastic feedback was gratifying, with one interstate visitor commenting that the garden was the best-maintained National Trust property in Australia. Praise indeed, which I was delighted to pass on to the volunteers who had worked especially hard to get the garden ready for the visit.

Other properties delegates visited included St Austell at Kensington, Yantaringa in Aldgate, Sophie Thomson’s Hamlyn cottage and Mandalay at Mt Barker Springs.

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Stone Pine at Beaumont House, Beaumont.

Barn at Gleeville Farm, Beaumont.

Flower bed at Gleeville Farm, Beaumont.

Original Olive at Gleeville Farm, Beaumont.

Two hundred delegates enjoyed the optional day trip to the Barossa Valley that included Anlaby at Kapunda, the Barossa bush gardens in Nuriootpa and the Seppeltsfield Winery.

The 2016 Annual Conference will be held in Canberra. For more information go to www.gardenhistorysociety.org.au

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Yogurt Hotcakes with Strawberries a nd Rosewater Cream RE CI PE BY SO PH IE HA NS EN

Preparation time: 15 mins Ingredients 4 eggs, separate d 1/3 cup caster su gar zest and juice of two oranges 250g natural yo ghurt 1 cup plain flour 1 punnet strawbe rries, hulled and halved 1/2 tsp rosewat er 1 cup yoghurt, extra Method: 1.

In the kitchen These light and delicate pancakes make the ultimate breakfast or brunch treat when you’re not up for anything too heavy. The rosewater cream adds a touch of the exotic and turns any morning into an occasion.

Recipe courtesy of Beerenberg Farms

Beat the egg wh ites in a clean, dr y bowl until they form stiff peaks.

2. Place the yo lks, sugar and ze st in another large bo wl then whisk un til pale and frothy.

Fold in the oran ge juice and yoghur t, then sift in th e flour and gently fold together un til you have a nice , thick batter. Fi nally, add the egg wh ites, folding them together very ge ntly so you keep as much air in the batter as possib le.

3. Heat a little butter in a nonstick frying pan until it melts and bubbles. Pour in some batter and cook pancake fo r a minute on ea ch side - or when you see bubbles forming on top, flip and cook fo ra little longer on the other side. Yo u want them to be lightly golden.

4. Stir the rose water through th e yoghurt.

5. Serve hotcak es in stacks with little piles of strawbe rries, the rosew ater yoghurt and a fe w mint leaves to decorate.

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Exhibitions

Rod McRae’s ‘After-Life’ at Z Ward created a public outcry. The Judas Collar, another of the exhibits, shows how technology – in this case a GPS tracking collar – is used in the culling of donkeys, now treated as a feral species of no use, despite their historic value in opening up the Australian outback and as carriers for the injured in World War I. ‘After-Life’ invites us all to think about our relationship to animals, both wild and domesticated , and the ways in which we benefit from their use for human purposes.

McRae says his primary aim is to explore the ways art can influence and add to the environment and climate change debates. His statements in sculpture are a powerful and haunting reminder of the many ways animals are made to serve us.

An unusual art exhibition in the former Z Ward space as part of this year’s Fringe Festival provides food for thought about our often fraught relationships with animals and conserving the natural world.

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onfronting, disturbing, compassionate, ‘AfterLife’ is a striking new exhibition from Sydney artist Rod McRae telling stories of animal-human relationships through artworks that are as complex as they are controversial.

Presented in the stark, confining spaces of the former Z Ward asylum for the criminally insane, McRae’s work asks us to consider what it means to be wild, free and autonomous, as opposed to captive, domesticated and farmed.

In his previous work – which includes Wunderkammer, the Cabinet of Wonders, recently displayed at the Flinders University City Gallery on North Terrace – McRae has curated taxidermied specimens of wild animals in unexpected poses and contexts to provoke questions about the hunting and incarceration of animals for human entertainment.

The new exhibition features the story of the young giraffe Marius, whose killing and public dissection at the Copenhagen Zoo in 2014

For more information visit www.zward.com.au The exhibition includes skins and skeletal matter from wild and domesticated animals. All of the animals used in ‘After-Life’ have been ethically sourced. No animal has been harmed to make this work. The skins and skeletons are the result of natural causes, medical euthanasia, hunting, culling and food production and have been traded on, sometimes multiple times, before they became part of this body of work.

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A special musical event presented

by Soundstream in conjunction with the artist, provided another opportunity to experience the extraordinary acoustics of the Z Ward space with a live contemporary music performance.

The exhibition is open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 am-4pm until April 10.

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Rod McRae. installation in Z Ward.

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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Costume Exhibition

Around 120 invited guests attended the launch event for the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Costume Exhibition at Ayers House in November. The Lady Mayoress of Adelaide, Genevieve Theseira-Haese, officially opened the exhibition following the welcome from National Trust President Professor Norman Etherington OAM. Special guests included Marion Boyce, costume designer for the television series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries; actor Nathan Page, who plays Inspector Jack Robinson; series producer Fiona Eagger and writer Deb Cox from Every Cloud Productions; Lord Mayor of the City of Adelaide Martin Haese; and Rachel Sanderson, State MP for Adelaide.

TOP Actor Nathan Page arrives in style at Ayers House in the 1923 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost kindly provided for the occasion by Ian Wall OAM. Nathan is accompanied by Olivia and Meral Nieman, dressed by Marion Boyce.

CENTRE Rachel Sanderson MP, State Member for Adelaide; Genevieve Theseira-Haese, Lady Mayoress of Adelaide; Martin Haese, Lord Mayor of Adelaide; Nathan Page, Inspector Jack from the television series.

BOTTOM LEFT TO RIGHT President of the National Trust, Professor Norman Etherington AM and Nathan Page. Marion Boyce, costume designer for Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. Genevieve Theseira-Haese, Lady Mayoress of Adelaide, officially launches the exhibition.

Series writer Deb Cox (left) and producer Fiona Eagger (right) from Every Cloud Productions.

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2016 National Trust Heritage Festival This year’s National Trust Heritage Festival runs across Australia from April 16 to May 31, with the support of the Commonwealth Department of the Environment. Last year more than 1500 events took place, as people remembered the legacy of World War I with the theme of conflict and compassion. In 2016, the theme for the festival is discovery and rediscovery, inviting people to explore heritage around them and to see things anew.

As a special part of this year’s festival, we are running a program of daily guided walks and tours around Adelaide. We invite everyone to join us in exploring the city’s hidden, unknown and forgotten treasures. From the underground tunnels at the Old Adelaide Treasury to our musical heritage and magnificent stained glass windows, there are hundreds of places to discover and explore.

Places are limited and bookings are essential, so book now at www.nationaltrust.org.au/tours-and-walks/ Discounts apply for National Trust members. Visit the Adelaide City Explorer website www.adelaidecityexplorer.com.au or download the Adelaide City Explorer mobile app from Apple’s App store or Google Play for a preview of many of the city walks. For the full National Trust Heritage Festival program visit www.nationaltrustfestival.org.au For more about the South Australian History Festival visit www.historyfestival.sa.gov.au.

Adelaide Heritage Tours and Walks ¼¼ Art Deco Delights This tour introduces Adelaide’s Art Deco architecture. Deco style appeared in buildings, art, fashion and film early in the 20th century.

It features geometric shapes, clean, smooth lines and bold colours. It emphasises symmetry. This tour includes examples of Art Deco period architecture you can still see in the city.

Friday 29 April, 13 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from Ayers House

¼¼ Heritage Reborn This tour explores sites around the city where heritage places have been carefully adapted to new purposes with an often funky twist. Discover some remarkable transformations of heritage buildings including a former bank, a rogue department store and a building once used for by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

Monday 2 May, Friday 20 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from Electra House

¼¼ Mary MacKillop’s Adelaide Saint Mary MacKillop was one of the first Religious women (nuns) in South Australia; who established many schools and charitable institutions in Adelaide. This tour traces some of the places that featured in Mary’s time here in the city, and retraces the remarkable work and life of Australia’s first Saint.

Mon 25 April, Thursday 12 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from St Francis Xavier Cathedral

¼¼ City of Pubs Adelaide has often been described as a city of churches. In reality, the city has always had just as many places to buy alcohol as places of worship. This tour will highlight some of the best hotels that remain part of the social fabric and architectural heritage of the city.

Tuesday 19 April, Friday 6 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from Ayers House

¼¼ Hidden Stories, Small Details Sometimes the smallest details offer clues to the most engaging stories from the past. On this tour you’ll visit some of Adelaide’s most unremarked buildings and uncover many small details that you may never have notice, as well as discovering the hidden stories that lie within.

Thursday 5 May, Saturday 21 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from Ayers House

¼¼ Cold Case: Somerton Man Mystery In December 1948, a dead man was found on Somerton Beach, south west of the city. It remains a great unsolved mystery. This tour explores the evidence from the Somerton Man’s final day around the city and allows you and draw your own conclusions about Adelaide’s most famous cold case.

Wednesday 27 April, Monday 16 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from Ayers House

¼¼ In the steps of Stella Bowen Stella Bowen is a celebrated Australian landscape and portrait painter. Born in Adelaide in 1893, Esther (Stella) Bowen left the city to pursue her passion for painting, later becoming Australia’s first female official war artist. Take this tour around many landmark heritage sites and experience Adelaide through Stella’s eyes in North Adelaide and the city that featured in Stella’s childhood.

Thursday 21 April, 19 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from Ayers House

¼¼ North Terrace: Cultural Boulevard Explore Adelaide’s political, cultural, and educational institutions, as well as grand residences, established along this classic nineteenth century boulevard. Start from Ayers House, Adelaide’s finest Victorian era mansion and end with Adelaide’s first church. Find out about the people behind and inside our most famous architectural heritage.

Sunday 17 April, Tuesday 17 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from Ayers House ¼¼ Outdoor Art Highlights From the first controversial installation of a public artwork in Adelaide in 1892 to those that caused people to ask “What is art?” more than 100 years later, this tour visits the monuments, murals and sculptures gracing our city spaces and recalls the often lively debates about their merits.

Tuesday 26 April, 27 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from Ayers House

Places are limited and bookings are essential, so book now at www.nationaltrust.org.au/tours-and-walks/

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2016 National Trust Heritage Festival ¼¼ Pennington Terrace: Colonial Gems This tour starts from the landmark St Peter’s Cathedral; and involves a stroll along this beautiful North Adelaide Street to discover the architectural gems of Pennington Terrace and nearby Montefiore Hill.

Thursday 28 April, Monday 23 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from St Peter’s Cathedral, King William Road ¼¼ Southwest Corner In the 19th Century, the southwest corner of Adelaide was a working class area. This tour will give you some insight into the rich history of this neglected corner of the city and the living conditions of its residents in the 19th century.

Wednesday 4 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from Queen Victoria statue, Victoria Square ¼¼ Treasured Trees This tour features some of Adelaide’s most treasured trees - both native species and introduced- and tells you something of their stories as much loved parts of the urban landscape. This tour covers the city and North Adelaide and requires a good pair of walking shoes.

Saturday 30 April, Tuesday 24 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from Ayers House ¼¼ Adelaide Parklands and City Layout The Adelaide Park Lands and City Layout are an exceptional example of nineteenth century urban design. This tour, starting from Light Square, named for Colonel William Light, who planned our city surrounded by parks. Discover the enduring legacy of his vision for Adelaide, now recognised on the National Heritage list.

Monday 18 April, Tuesday 3 May, Wednesday 18 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from Light Square ¼¼ Ayers House Join us for a special National Trust guided tour of the former home of Sir Henry Ayers, one of the finest Victorian era mansions in Adelaide.

Discover the history of the house and its famous namesake. Enjoy the most magnificent painted ceilings in Australia and period furniture and decorative arts.

Wednesday 25 May Time: 2.00pm Place: Ayers House Museum 288 North Terrace, Adelaide

¼¼ Old Treasury and Tunnel Tours This tour centres on the Old Adelaide Treasury, one of the Adelaide’s oldest and most significant historical sites. It was here that gold from the eastern states was stored to be smelted into the Adelaide Pound. The tour includes the former Cabinet Room, underground tunnel areas and much more.

Sunday 24 April, 8 & 29 May Time: 11.00 am and 1.00pm Place: Starting from Adina Treasury, Corner King William and Flinders Streets ¼¼ East Terrace Promenade East Terrace was home to some of the city’s most wealthy residents in the late nineteenth century who used their wealth to build some remarkably beautiful homes. Join this leisurely promenade down East Terrace to enjoy the well preserved legacy of Adelaide’s most gracious decades.

Sunday 15 & 22 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from Ayers House Museum 288 North Terrace, Adelaide ¼¼ Market to Market This tour starts with the glorious East End Markets on East Terrace and wends its way through some of the more interesting streets and heritage buldings of the central business district and onto Victoria Square and the buzz of the cosmopolitan Central Market, a fine place for refreshments.

Tuesday 10 & 31 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from Ayers House Museum 288 North Terrace, Adelaide ¼¼ Music in the City From the beautiful pipe organ in the Adelaide Town Hall, to the 1970s rock legends that graced the stage of the Tivoli Hotel, join us for a guided tour of the history of live music and performance in the City of Adelaide.​ Saturday 23 April, Wednesday 11 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from Ayers House Museum 288 North Terrace, Adelaide ¼¼ Sacred Glass Adelaide’s collection of stained glass windows is among the most diverse and interesting in the country.

From the precious stained glass that arrived with the first settlers in 1836, to the Stock Exchange’s Federation windows, this trail will reveal the meaning behind some of the city’s most sacred glass.

Wednesday 20 April, Thursday 26 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from Ayers House Museum 288 North Terrace, Adelaide ¼¼ The East End This tour introduces the unique cultural and historical features of Adelaide’s East End, famous for its markets, food, fashion, hotels, cafés and restaurants. Discover some of the hidden treasures and heritage icons on this leisurely tour of Adelaide’s favourite dining, fashion and leisure precinct.

Friday 22 April, Saturday 28 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from Ayers House Museum 288 North Terrace, Adelaide ¼¼ Victoria Square Victoria Square sits at the heart of Colonel William Light’s plan for the City of Adelaide. Always a contested site, it has been at the heart of the city’s cultural and political life. This tour explores the people, buildings and events of Victoria Square and the evolution of our city.

Monday 9 & 30 May Time: 2.00pm Place: starting from Queen Victoria statue, Victoria Square ¼¼ Zward: behind the walls Saturday 16 April, Sunday 1 May Time: 2.00pm Place: start from ZWard Go behind the walls at 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. ¼¼ Glenside Hospital walk Saturday 7 May Time: 2pm Place: Clock Tower, former Glenside hospital building.

Places are limited and bookings are essential, so book now at www.nationaltrust.org.au/tours-and-walks/

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Events VICTOR HARBOR BRANCH ¼¼ National Trust Heritage Week “Discovery and Rediscoveries”.

April 16 to 24 Time: 1-4 pm Cost: Adults $6, Conc $5, Children $4, Family $16 Place: Encounter Coast Discovery Centre and Museum 2 Flinders Pde, Victor Harbor Talk: Bob Korotcoff – “Angel Flights” was created by a group of Pilots, who believed in the benefit of volunteering.

April 21 Time: 2 pm Cost: $2 Place: Old School Building, Torrens St, Victor Harbor ¼¼ SA History Festival “Down Every Street” Photographic and Maps Display.

May 1 to May 31 Time: 1-4 pm Cost: Adults $6, Conc $5, Children $4, Family $16 Place: Encounter Coast Discovery Centre and Museum 2 Flinders Pde, Victor Harbor ¼¼ Talk: Peter Zanker’s Scenic Photo Show “Port Augusta’s Old Brickyard”.

June 16 Time: 2 pm Place: Old School Building, Torrens St, Victor Harbor Cost: $2 All Encounter Coast Discovery Centre and Museum enquiries: Val Yelds (08) 8552 4440 TEA TREE GULLY BRANCH ¼¼ Heritage on Sunday.

Enjoy the afternoon as you visit 13 rooms in the building, 3 pavilions, working blacksmith and wash house. 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.

VALE

One Day Only: Treasure Mart - For Sale – Vintage Wares, Bric-a-Brac and Unique Craft. Meander amongst the items as you look for and find that elusive bargain.

March 20 Time: 1.00-4.00pm Cost: Adult $5, Conc $4, Children Free Place: Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum 3 Perseverance Road, Tea Tree Gully ¼¼ Heritage on Sunday.

Enjoy the afternoon as you visit 13 rooms in the building, 3 pavilions, working blacksmith and wash house. 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: Games Children Played - Toys, games and puzzles are waiting to be played. Experience entertaining past-times that will engage young ones and bring back memories for the not so young.

April 17 Time: 1.00-4.00pm Cost: Adult $5, Conc $4, Children Free Place: Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum 3 Perseverance Road, Tea Tree Gully ¼¼ History Month Event: A Stitch Away – Knitting Workshop In a unique setting enjoy a leisurely time learning the basics of knitting or crocheting. BYO needles/hook, wool supplied, easy pattern to follow and helpful hints to help you click on.

Be part of our “All Wrapped Up For Winter” yarn bombing display.

Devonshire Tea available.

May 1 Time: 1.00-4.00pm Cost: Adult $5, Conc $4, Children Free Place: Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum 3 Perseverance Road, Tea Tree Gully

¼¼ History Month Event: All Wrapped up for Winter There is a yarn to tell as you visit the wonderful world of wool. What a purler of an idea, you will be in stitches as you cast an eye over objects never seen like this before. From food, flowers, furniture and fashion, be enthralled at our fun displays.

Devonshire tea available and the Gift Shop is a delight.

May 11 to May 15 Time: 10.00am-2.00pm Cost: Adult $5, Conc $4, Children Free Place: Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum 3 Perseverance Road, Tea Tree Gully ¼¼ Heritage on Sunday.

Enjoy the afternoon as you visit 13 rooms in the building, 3 pavilions, working blacksmith and wash house. 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: Curious Collections - Come and see a variety of curious things people collect. Over 30 clever, cute or crazy collections will be on display.

June 19 Time: 1.00-4.00pm Cost: Adult $5, Conc $4, Children Free Place: Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum 3 Perseverance Road, Tea Tree Gully GAWLER BRANCH ¼¼ The popular History Cemetery Tour has returned.

11 May 2016 10.00am-2.00pm 18 May 2016 10.00am-2.00pm Meeting Place: Car park, Gawler Visitor Information Centre.

Cost: $8 Enquiries: Graham Tucker mobile: 0408 083 459, email: tucktwo@adam.com.au

Ruth Mary Baxendale OAM

Ruth Baxendale was a member of the Willunga Branch of The National Trust of South Australia for 46 years, serving on the Committee for 41 years. She completed 21 years as Branch Chair in 2000, followed by 11 years as Branch Historian. On January 26, 2000, she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to the history and heritage of Willunga and McLaren Vale areas.

Ruth’s family connection to these areas goes back to 1840, when her great-grandparents, James Binney and Elizabeth Boundy Binney, arrived in South Australia. Binney Road, McLaren Vale, is a reminder of this history.

Ruth’s sustained and extensive work on local history remains with us. It is reflected in the records of the Willunga Branch, her advice to many local people and organisations, and the informative Willunga Walks publication covering 108 of the major attractions in the farmhouses, shops, dwellings, parks, ruins, cemeteries around Willunga.

In 2007 she received the Dr Mildred Mocatta Award, the highest tribute The National Trust of South Australia can pay to an individual. It acknowledges the significance of Ruth’s exceptional voluntary contribution in encouraging the growth and development of the National Trust movement in South Australia.

“I wear the hat of local history”, she said, because I believe you need to know something of the past to look to the future.”

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Hahndorf Pioneer Women’s Walk This year’s Hahndorf Pioneer Women’s Trail walk takes place on Sunday May 15.

T

he walk commemorates the women who made the long journey from the early German settlement at Hahndorf to Adelaide to bring their produce to market.

Soon after the first 54 families settled at Hahndorf in 1839, women from the settlement commenced the journey across the ridgeline of the Adelaide Hills onto the Adelaide Plains. They called it the ‘Road to the East’. Typically leaving at midnight, the trek would get them to the markets of Adelaide by nine in the morning. After selling their produce, they would make the return trip on the same day, bringing back with them those things they couldn’t make themselves, or other necessities such as tea and sugar.

Lyndell Davidge, one of the founding members of the Hahndorf National Trust, explains: ‘It’s a lovely story about self-sufficiency and becoming economically sustainable.

Over time, there was less need to go down to Adelaide and there were more provisions in the town itself.

The trail was forgotten, as was the significance of it.’

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Lyndell was involved in rediscovering and mapping the trail around 1980 when the first public walk was held to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the National Trust of South Australia.

In 2007, the marked trail was officially launched. Since 2009, the walk has been an annual event, with more than 300 participants.

Commencing at The Hahndorf Institute, the route follows the main road out of Hahndorf, crossing the Onkaparinga River before joining the official trail at Verdun. After winding through Bridgewater and Stirling, the trail traverses beautiful bushland in Mt George and Cleland Conservation Parks, before finally

emerging to stunning city views and the descent into Burnside, with the final destination Beaumont House.

The Trail covers a total of 26km. You can choose to walk four distances: 26km, 19km, 12km or 6km. The end point for all lengths is Beaumont House. The 26km walk starts at 8.30am in Hahndorf from the Hahndorf Institute; the 19km walk starts at 9.30am in Bridgewater; the 12km walk starts at 11am in Stirling; and the 6km walk starts at 12 noon at Eagle on the Hill.

Buses are available from Beaumont House (additional cost) to each of the starting points. Entertainment and refreshments will be available at Beaumont House, including guided tours of the house.

to relax at Beaumont House after finishing the walk. to start in Hahndorf on the 2015 walk.

BELOW Ready

Register now at www.nationaltrust.org.au/event/hahndorf-pioneer-womens-walk/

y 17 April 2016 11am to 4pm Sunda

Cost: Adults $5 Children $2 Beaumont House 631 Glynburn Road Beaumont SA 5066

Take the children back to the Victorian era for a day of old fashioned games and play in the beautiful grounds of Beaumont House. Enjoy stories, music and dress-ups, feed baby farm animals and try some parlour and outdoor games from long ago! www.nationaltrust.org.au/sa/events

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