Update
National Trust News Catch up on the latest campaigns, appeals and initiatives to protect heritage in New South Wales. In this edition, progress on our art conservation project, the listing of a WWII hangar, and plans to protect heritage at a popular Blue Mountains lookout. Plus, we cast a critical eye on the NSW Government’s review of the Heritage Act.
GENERAL NEWS
Art Conservation In Full Swing Thanks to the generosity of our members, the National Trust’s largest art conservation project - Rescue. Revive. Reveal. – is well underway. More than $167,000 was raised through our art conservation appeal, allowing us to conserve 36 works of art from properties around New South Wales. Expert conservators around the state have commenced treatment on our most special artworks in need of care. We are looking forward to revealing the revived artworks – and their stories – in the coming months.
Govetts Leap Heritage Protected The unique heritage values of Govetts Leap lookout in Blackheath will be retained under a revised plan to upgrade visitor access at this spectacular site. The National Parks and Wildlife Service’s visitor precinct plan will now see the early twentieth-century ironstone structures, including walls, monuments and picnic shelters, retained in-situ and a stone arch relocated to another part of the site. The changes follow successful lobbying by the Blue Mountains Branch of the National Trust and other local heritage groups.
Tocumwal Airfield Hangar Listed The WWII Tocumwal Airfield hangar is now listed on the State Heritage Register. Built in 1942 using short lengths of local unseasoned hardwoods, the hangar is a remarkable technical and engineering achievement. It was used as a temporary base to store and maintain B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft for the US Air Force in response to the fear of invasion during WWII. The National Trust made a submission and is delighted that the hangar’s heritage values are now protected.
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