National Trust SA Heritage Living Summer 2015 -16

HERITAGE LIVING | SOUTH AUSTRALIA SUMMER 2015/2016

A Summer of Phryne:

MISS FISHER costume exhibition comes to Ayers House

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From the editor

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ROBERT DARE

o mystery in this issue – you’ve seen our front cover. Miss Fisher is in town, and at Ayers House. Inside, we give you clues to what you will find when you come to our exhibition of costumes from series three of the popular television show. Keep them a secret.

Meantime, wrap your boa around your neck, pull your cloche down to your ears, jump on the running board, tell your chauffeur to crank the car, and head for North Terrace anytime between November 16 and February 14 next year.

PRESIDENT’S REPORT NORMAN ETHERINGTON This past August, I fulfilled a boyhood dream with a trip to Tibet following the International Congress of Historical Sciences in Jinan, China. I had always imagined the wonderful Potala Palace of the Dalai Lamas in Lhasa to be at least a thousand years old. To my surprise I learned that most of it was constructed in the 17th century – at about the same time Louis XIV of France was building his palace at Versailles. The very first Dalai Lama was a contemporary of Richard III of England, so Tibetan Buddhism as we know it today is barely older than the Protestant Reformation.

That got me thinking that years alone do not determine what is old and what is heritage. It all depends on the context. We owe the heritage skyscraper district of Chicago to Mrs O’Leary’s cow, who kicked over the lantern that started the disastrous fire of 1871 that levelled most of the city. Likewise, visitors to historic San Francisco marvel at houses built in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake.

Viewed from this perspective, calling Australia a young country is misleading. Our collection of Victorian architecture in Adelaide and country towns deserves as much care and respect as any other irreplaceable set of heritage buildings. Because of the slow pace at which we build new structures, we are unlikely to generate anything comparable in the foreseeable future.

Unless, of course, we get hit by an unexpected earthquake, tsunami or disastrous fire. Meanwhile we’d better hang on to what we have.

North Terrace also faces a challenge of a different kind. Recently the state government released hints of its alternative scheme for the Festival plaza and the area north of the railway station.

The first scheme we heard of was for a 24-storey tower and a food outlet. What we would get in return is a large number of car parking spaces in a city already over-supplied.

We don’t know much about the government’s alternative scheme. But both schemes require us to give up public land to a private developer. Our advocacy page tells you more.

I am delighted our significant tree column tells us of the first Australian eucalypt to be described and classified. You know it well. I live among acres of it. I have had furniture made from it. Recent estimates tell us that the planet has 422 trees to every person, but that the ratio is falling. Trees are our heritage, and our future.

Oh, and by the way, it wasn’t the butler.

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Saving Our Heritage The Festival Plaza site and the Casino

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Living Heritage The first-named Eucalyptus

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Special Places Nurragi Conservation Reserve, Milang Plains

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Heritage at risk Keep Martindale Hall for the people

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Special Places Hidcote, Gloucestershire, UK

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Special Places The Old Melbourne Gaol

10 Heritage Attraction A New Beginning for Z Ward 11

11 Summer of Phryne Presenting Miss Fisher 18 In the Garden Open Garden tradition continues

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19 In the Kitchen Strawberry and Brioche Pudding with Lemon Verbena 21 Conservation Appeal Payneham Road Uniting Church Organ Appeal

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22 Out ‘n’ About 24 Anniversary: 60th Birthday Celebrations at Beaumont House 26 The National Trust of South Australia

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Saving Our Heritage

The Festival Plaza site and the Casino ROBERT DARE, FOR THE CULTURAL HERITAGE ADVISORY COMMITTEE

South Australians are right to be proud of the planning that gave us back the broad expanse of North Terrace between Frome and King William streets.

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andscaping now gives us visual access to a succession of major cultural institutions – two universities, an art gallery, a museum, a library, and the governor’s residence. Going west across King William St, we get to the new and old parliamentary buildings, each a gem, and then the railway station, another gem.

Beyond that, we hit a problem: the intrusion of buildings that are entirely out of sympathy with their precinct, because they are either too high, or ugly, or both.

Now, the state government wants to push that intrusion onward to the cultural boulevard to the east. It wants to do so by giving a private developer access to public land for a price, if any, and under a title we do not know. The company will then put up a building as high as the InterContinental Hotel, and a food mart. What it will build in return is 1560 car parking spaces, for a city with more spaces than Melbourne or Sydney.

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Meanwhile, the government is urging SkyCity, the owners of the Casino, to build a hotel and more gaming facilities behind the railway station, again on public land. If SkyCity doesn’t build there, the government has alternative plans of its own.

What kind of building would the high rise on the plaza be?

Offices?

Adelaide has a vacancy rate in office buildings that alarms the Property Council. They don’t want any new offices. The Council warns of the effects of a slump in demand coinciding with a modest increase in supply. Vacancy rates are highest in older buildings, the very buildings we should treasure and adapt for re-use. If the government offers

Apartments?

If the rates of return on city apartments were high and rising, developers would not need public land – they would build on the many vacant blocks around the city. Instead of protecting Colonel Light’s vision of public spaces for public use along the river front – one part of his broader vision of a city bounded by park lands – the government wants a high-rise building of indeterminate use and unknown appearance.

To achieve that outcome, it will exclude parliament and the public from a say in it.

Sources: http://www.afr.com/real-estate/residential/vic/landlords-hit-by-glut-of-apartments-20140820-jclff http://www.propertyoz.com.au/Article/NewsDetail.aspx?p=16&id=9806 http://www.todaytonightadelaide.com.au/stories/festival-plaza

degree panoramic view of the Southern Plaza of the Festival Theatre Centre, Mike Lehmann, Mike Switzerland view of Festival Plaza. Photo: Courtesy of Mark Parnell MLC

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what amount to free land grants as inducements for new offices in the city, these older buildings will languish.

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Living Heritage

The first-named Eucalyptus MICHAEL HEATH

No botanical collections of eucalypts are known to have existed before Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander arrived in Botany Bay with Captain James Cook in 1770. The two collected specimens of E. gummifera, the Red Bloodwood, from that location, and E. platyphylla, the Poplar or Cabbage gum, from the Endeavour River in Queensland. At that time neither of these species was known to the world, nor had they been formally named and described.

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n 1777, during Cook’s third expedition, botanical collector David Nelson took a eucalypt from Bruny Island, Tasmania, to the British Museum in London, to be given a botanical name and enter the lexicon of trees known to that date. A French botanist, CharlesLouis L’Héritier de Brutelle, was working at the museum at the time, and he named it.

Botanical terminology uses root words from Greek or Latin, and Charles-Louis used the Greek roots eu and calyptos to give this new species its generic name. The two Greek words, meaning ‘well’ and ‘covered’, refer to the operculum of the flower bud. An operculum is a structure that covers or closes over an aperture – ­ a lid, cap or flap found on a seed vessel.

The covering operculum in gum trees sheds under pressure from the emerging stamens, as part of the flowering process, and its presence defines the genus. Most trees have a common name for everyday use, and this one is called messmate or stringybark.

Monsieur L’Héritier chose the specific classification from the Latin , meaning ‘oblique’, a description of any leaf base where the two sides of the leaf blade are of unequal length. This large, tall tree has the honour of being the first gum tree to be formally described and named. Arguably it is Australia’s first significant tree.

Descriptively of Tasmanian and eastern states origin, it is also found in Adelaide’s Mt Lofty Ranges. It is not a cultivated tree, but in the eastern states its timber is milled for its straight grain.

When similar Australian tree discoveries were brought to him, L’Héritier perpetuated the generic name for them because the operculum was found to be common to most other eucalypts.

He published his definition of the first gum tree to be botanically described in 1788, coinciding with the first official settlement of English people in Australia.

Some gums are also known botanically as Angophora and Corymbia, but that’s another story.

Source: Ivan Holliday and Geoffrey Watton, Gardener’s companion to eucalypts, 4th ed., Sydney 2002 LEFT E.

obliqua in the Adelaide Hills. made from E. obliqua, complete with duck. Photos: Robert Dare

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Special Places

Nurragi Conservation Reserve, Milang Plains SIMON LEWIS

Stretching north-west from Milang on Lake Alexandrina, Nurragi Conservation Reserve was originally the railway line corridor between Sandergrove and Milang. It can be accessed from several locations, most notably Milang, near the railway museum, the old Nurragi Siding on Nurragi Road and Sandergrove on Tucker Road, off Dry Plains Road.

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ore than 12 km long and now comprising about 65 ha, Nurragi offers a fascinating mix of natural and cultural heritage features.

Nurragi conserves valuable native vegetation in a region where more than 98 per cent of its original cover has been cleared. More than 300 native plants species are present with more than 50 being rare or endangered. The reserve, like the railway line that operated here from 1884 to 1970, also forms an important corridor, linking the foothills to Lake Alexandrina.

During the 1980s, the local community and the Environment Department combined to ensure the features of this corridor were recognised and conserved. Nurragi became a Conservation Reserve in 1991, with the National Trust of South Australia and local volunteer group, Friends of Nurragi, sharing joint responsibility for the reserve.

As a narrow corridor with more than 25 km of edges, the Nurragi Conservation Reserve is extremely vulnerable to ongoing disturbance. Volunteers have dedicated nearly 30 years to managing weeds and rabbits and restoring native vegetation along the reserve. They have achieved much. For instance, bridal creeper, once a major problem along the reserve, has now been reduced to manageable levels.

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Bottle-brush (Callistemon) in low-lying section of Nurragi Reserve. Photo: Jeff Whittaker walking trail through mallee / dryland tea-tree vegetation. Photo: Simon Lewis RIGHT Friends of Nurragi President Jeff Whittaker, left, and then Alexandrina Council Mayor Kym McHugh, right, officially opening the Nurragi walking trail. Photo: Simon Lewis TOP RIGHT Nurragi

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At a higher level, Nurragi volunteers have reduced the reserve’s vulnerability to disturbance by collaborating with neighbours and the Alexandrina Council. Nearby undeveloped road reserves have been closed, with the equivalent amount of land added to the Reserve and then revegetated.

This approach has nearly doubled the size of the original reserve, significantly buffering it from threats.

Volunteers have also established a self-guided walking trail along the full 12.4 km length of the reserve from Sandergrove to Milang. The trail is complete with points of interest, distance markers and a brochure. At the formal launch in May 2014 by the Mayor of Alexandrina Council, there were guided walks with a barbecue lunch provided by partner organisation, Goolwa Wellington Local Action Planning team.

Nurragi Conservation Reserve is a testament to the efforts and foresight of local community volunteers. Providing easy access and a number of comfortable walking options, Nurragi’s native vegetation and rural landscapes are certain to delight all who visit.

Heritage at Risk

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Hall, Mintaro LEFT Martindale Hall, detail of craftsmanship Estate, Cumbria UK RIGHT Plaque dedicating the Hall to the Government “in trust for the people of South Australia”. Photos: Hermione McCosh

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Keep Martindale Hall for the people Martindale Hall is a unique South Australian heritage treasure, made famous in the film Picnic at Hanging Rock. Built by Edmund Bowman in 1879, it was bequeathed to the people of South Australia by the Mortlock family. Now, the State Government is promoting an ‘unsolicited bid’ to purchase the property and turn it into an exclusive luxury resort.

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artindale Hall, outside Mintaro in the Clare Valley, is a unique architectural and cultural curiosity. It is the finest example of Georgian-style architecture in South Australia and one of the most significant within Australia.

Built at the height of the pastoral boom for a sum equivalent to more than $5m today, Martindale Hall tells the story of South Australia’s settlement like no other place.

Edmund Bowman Junior, who built the Hall, was born in Australia, but drew great inspiration from his homeland of Cumbria in northern England. The Bowman family had lived and worked in the vicinity of the ancient Dalemain estate for centuries. After spending some

time in England as a young man, Edmund Bowman Junior decided to take the name Martindale and the model of Dalemain estate from the land of his forebears to transplant to his new home.

Bowman’s fortunes came unstuck in the 1890s when drought and a faltering economy led to the forced sale of his once magnificent estate.

Martindale Hall was purchased

by William Tennant Mortlock and remained in that family’s hands until 1965. John Tennant Mortlock died in 1950 and bequeathed his estate to the people of South Australia through the University of Adelaide and the Libraries Board of South Australia. His widow Dorothy managed the estate and made a number of generous donations herself, including many items from

Martindale Hall donated to the National Trust.

In 1986, the University of Adelaide transferred Martindale Hall to the Government ‘in trust for the people of South Australia’ so that it ‘will be kept available to them for their enjoyment and appreciation of their heritage’ (see plaque above).

Now, the State Government is promoting an ‘unsolicited bid’ from a private consortium seeking to buy the property and convert it into a private luxury resort.

We believe that the property must remain in public hands to honor the gift of the Mortlock family and to ensure that the property is preserved and accessible for the people of South Australia for all time. If Martindale Hall is privatised as proposed, that gift will be lost and the future of the Hall will face an uncertain future in private hands.

This extraordinary gift to the people is too important to be lost.

Please support our campaign to keep Martindale Hall for the people.

Go to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sharethelovemartindalehall/ Sign the online petition: https:// www.change.org/p/premier-of-south-australia-keep-martindale-hall-for-the-people-don-t-sell-off-our-heritage Or write to the Premier or your local MP and tell them why Martindale Hall must not be sold.

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Special places

Hidcote, Gloucestershire, UK ROBERT DARE

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idcote rivals Sissinghurst for the fame and influence of its garden. Both gardens came to their prime in the 1930s. They shared a design philosophy of extended vistas connecting distinct garden rooms of one or two dominant colours. It is all the more surprising then that Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West did not visit Hidcote until well after they had made their garden at Sissinghurst.

Hidcote was the creation of Lawrence Johnston, a shy and reclusive soldier. Born in Paris in 1871 of rich American parents, he became a British national only as an adult. A good deal remains obscure about Johnston’s life, including the source of his garden ideas. He never had to work. Any garden notebooks he might have kept in the style of Thomas Jefferson have disappeared, if they ever existed. Only a few jottings survive.

In the face of this silence garden historians often fall back on sheer inspiration as the source of Johnston’s designs. He was, we know, a painter, which goes some way to explaining his use of colour in the garden. He was also an avid plant collector, which gave him a broad colour palettte to work from. The long views framed by formal plantings of clipped hedge owe something to the gardens of 18th-century France, which he knew well.

The Hidcote garden has two loose axes. The longer axis runs north and south, terminating at the southern end of the sublime Long Walk at a gate looking out to the Cotswolds. The shorter east-west axis links a series of garden rooms of astonishing virtuosity. Maintaining year-round colour, and keeping the metrical precision of its vast lengths of clipped hedging, required a team of gardeners. Johnston himself never got dirty. Ideas rather than tools were his implements.

By 1948 Johnston was nearly 80, in failing health and worried by British taxes. He decided to get rid of Hidcote and retire to the other – and larger – garden he had created on the Riviera. The English National Trust saw its chance, and in 1948 acquired its first property solely on the basis of its garden. And if that weren’t tribute enough to Johnston’s gardening genius, after his death his other garden in France, Serre de la Madone, became the first to be designated a monument historique by the French government. To have created two gardens in different countries declared national treasures is a unique achievement. http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hidcote/ Sources Fred Whitsey, The garden at Hidcote, London 2007; James Fenton, ‘Tale of the Century’, The Guardian [London] March 25, 2009; Robin Lane Fox, ‘A living legend’, Financial Times [London] July 25, 2009.

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Manor Garden (Photos:www.flickr.com/photos/52957117@N04/9566428232

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Special Places

The Old Melbourne Gaol NATIONAL TRUST (VICTORIA)

Located in the heart of the City centre, the Old Melbourne Gaol has been voted Melbourne’s best heritage tourist attraction and offers a great day excursion or, if you dare, a night tour with a difference.

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f you dare to enter the Old Melbourne Gaol you will pass through bluestone walls and enter a nave as if in a gothic cathedral, a central passageway of echoing stone flagstones. Cells puncture the walls like miniature chapels. The original gallows and its machinery are still in place where Ned Kelly was hanged at the gaol on 11 November 1880. There in front of you, across a transept in what seems like a high altar, sits a gruesome relic –the head of Ned Kelly.

The nineteenth-century pseudoscience of phrenology has bequeathed us Ned Kelly’s death mask. Originally made in order to study the cranial protuberances of a criminal, the mask is now a ghoulish drawcard for thousands of tourists annually.

The Old Melbourne Gaol offers an insight into the underbelly of Melbourne’s past and provides visitors with a narrative that traces Melbourne’s colonial history. By 1845 the first cell block had been built. Overcrowding in the gaol was reported even before the Port Philip District separated from New South Wales to become the Colony of Victoria in 1851. By 1858 a new wing was complete with chapel, baths, infirmary and cells. The women’s

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Kelly’s death mask. CENTRE A cell in the Watch House. TOP RIGHT A night at the Watch House tour. MIDDLE RIGHT The Hangman’s tour. BOTTOM RIGHT A cell in the Watch House.

Photos: National Trust (Victoria)

prison was completed as a matching cell block in 1864 and covered an enormous area of Melbourne city stretching between La Trobe, Russell and Franklin Streets.

Visitors to the gaol will feel the cold forbidding atmosphere and wonder at the plight of the thousands of unfortunate men, women and children who were incarcerated between its bluestone walls.

Originally, inmates on their first entrance to the gaol would have gazed at the gallows as they first entered the cell block. The intention of the original founders of the gaol was to build a humane model prison based on the Pentonville prison in London, with its clean and light facilities designed to bring prisoners closer to rehabilitation through religious contemplation and improvement.

The Watch House, built in 1909, is also part of the gaol precinct open to visitors. The Watch House has housed some of Melbourne’s most notorious criminals, from

1920s gangster Squizzy Taylor to, more recently, stand-over man Chopper Read. It was designed to provide model facilities for the arrest of both men and women in Melbourne, and felons would pass from the Watch House to the 1910 Magistrates Court. You can retrace their footsteps as a visitor.

The National Trust employs Charge Sergeants who will make sure that you come to a full understanding of what life was like for a prisoner by treating you as though you had just been arrested. During school holidays you can take the stand as Ned Kelly and undergo his trial with fellow visitors in the Old Magistrates Court. Whatever your interest, the gaol provides all visitors with a memorable experience.

You can visit the gaol both day and night at 377 Russell St (between Victoria Street and La Trobe Street), Melbourne 3000. Open every day except Christmas Day and Good Friday from 9:30am to 5:00pm.

Find out about our various Night Tours at http://www.oldmelbournegaol.com.au.

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Heritage Reborn

A New Beginning for Z Ward Adelaide’s notorious Z Ward at the former Glenside mental hospital has been reopened to the public under the care of the National Trust of South Australia. Over the coming year this remarkable heritage building will play host to an extensive program of day and night tours, art exhibitions, music and performance events.

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ast year, South Australia’s former Hospital for Criminal Mental Defectives, known as Z Ward, was opened to the public for the first time in 40 years and drew huge crowds. This year the building’s owner, Beach Energy, has kindly agreed to the National Trust of South Australia operating the former Z Ward building as a heritage attraction for an initial period of one year.

An imposing building, Z Ward was completed in 1884 by one of colonial South Australia’s most important architects, Edward John Woods. The polychromatic brickwork technique Woods used in his design is the most elaborate and sophisticated example of this architectural style in South Australia.

For 80 years Z Ward housed those people considered too dangerous for prison or other psychiatric institutions, or who would have been unsafe in such places.

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Under the National Trust’s care, the first art event held at Z Ward took place in August, with a two-day exhibition by regional artist Sue Wegener. The hugely popular night tours offered by Adelaide’s Haunted Horizons have also resumed. A night tour is an unforgettable way to experience the unique atmosphere of Z Ward.

In October, a number of events took place as part of the Festival of Architecture and Design, including an evening performance of baroque music and a guided tour of the site as an exemplary work of its architect, E.J. Woods.

The National Trust greatly appreciates the generosity of Beach Energy in allowing us to once again open Z Ward to the public.

Funds raised from the events program will be used to undertake further research on the history and architecture of Z Ward, and to support the work of mental health charities including the Mental Illness Fellowship of South Australia (MIFSA) and Beyond Blue.

National Trust members can take a special free guided tour of Z Ward on Saturday November 21 at 2pm following the Annual General Meeting.

To find out more about events at Z Ward, visit www.zward.com.au

Top: Interior of Z Ward, showing former cells.

Middle: Open art exhibition, August 2015.

Bottom: Front façade and gate showing the polychromatic brickwork of architect E.J. Woods. Photos: NTSA

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Summer of Phryne

Presenting

MISS FISHER The National Trust & Every Cloud Productions’ new Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Costume Exhibition – Series 3 has arrived in Adelaide.

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ophisticated lady detective the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, who fights crime in impeccable style, brings her signature panache to Adelaide at the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Costume Exhibition.

It will show this summer from Monday November 16, 2015, at the historic Ayers House Museum.

This beautifully curated exhibition features close to 50 stunning costumes from award-winning costume designer Marion Boyce, as featured in ABC TV’s third series of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, produced by Every Cloud Productions and based on a series of books by Australian author Kerry Greenwood.

The exhibition will also offer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse into the workroom of the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries costume department. Visitors will gain insights into the extraordinary skills and creativity of series costume designer Marion Boyce and her team, and what’s required to ensure that Miss Fisher and her co-stars look fabulous as well as authentic to the period.

National Trust Victoria, Cultural Collections Curator, Elizabeth AnyaPetrivna (see her interview with Marion Boyce on page 15) says: “This exhibition is like no other. Visitors will be able to immerse themselves in Miss Fisher’s world at every level. It will provide a unique glimpse into life in Australia in the roaring twenties as well as the inner workings of one of Australia’s most loved and successful television series.”

Ayers House Museum will play host to the exhibition, and will offer guests numerous themed rooms complemented by a unique behind the scenes look at costumes and set production, including interactive displays that allow guests to try their hand at designing a 1920s-themed gown themselves.

There will also be a program of related themed events over the summer involving fashion, music, dance, food and parties all with a 1920s glamour theme (see pages 16 & 17).

CREDITS Costumes,

images and footage courtesy of Every Cloud Productions and Marion Boyce.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation presents, in association with Film Victoria and Fulcrum Media Finance, an Every Cloud Production, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Costume Exhibition at Ayers House Museum, 288 North Terrace, Adelaide November 16, 2015 to February 14, 2016.

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The costumes are such an integral part of the whole look and feel of the television series and I know from the fan mail we receive just how much our viewers love Phryne’s wardrobe.

The National Trust exhibition extends the Phryne experience for fans by allowing them to see, up close, the gorgeous fabrics and intricate details that make costumes so special.

The exhibition also takes visitors behind the scenes to discover the inspiration, research and production that go into making the costumes.

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“Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries is a costume designer’s dream job, and particularly for me as I have an abiding passion for the period. As a designer you have to do an enormous amount of research. You don’t just look at pattern books, fashion books. You have to read a lot of literature, you have to visit art galleries. You’ve got to see the beauty of the times.

You’ve got to be informed about the social history.

Architecture informs you about how things would work, how you needed to dress for a particular occasion – how big someone’s wardrobe was, for instance, for different strata of society. Everything – furniture, jewellery – you have to really explore an enormous number of worlds.”

- COSTUME DESIGNER MARION BOYCE

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The TV Series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, based on the novels by Australian author and lawyer Kerry Greenwood, is one of the most popular series ever seen on ABC TV. Following a campaign by fans, it has kept audiences in thrall with a third series.

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s Greenwood’s novels, set in 1920s Melbourne, have been skilfully transformed

by Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger at Every Cloud Productions into a high-quality period hit. The seriously talented Essie Davis brings glamorous lady detective The Honourable Phryne Fisher vividly to life.

Filmed in and around Melbourne – including at several National Trust properties – the show has been sold into 120 countries and a feature film, to be made in the UK, is now in the pipeline.

With Phryne Fisher moving to the big screen, she will have a larger canvas for her crime-fighting exploits. Essie Davis is on record as saying her favourite parts of filming are the action sequences – involving anything from helicopters to planes and motorcycles – so the film should give her even more scope to indulge.

The lavish costumes and their intricately crafted accessories, created by designer Marion Boyce and her highly skilled team, are almost characters in their own right. Worn against carefully chosen backdrops, they draw on the spirit of the age to evoke a fantasy of between-the-wars Melbourne.

“We are thrilled at the enormous success of the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries costume exhibition hosted by the National Trust in Victoria which has allowed thousands of our show’s dedicated admirers to appreciate Phryne Fisher’s stunning wardrobe and the work of our amazingly talented costume designer Marion Boyce,” said Every Cloud Productions’ Fiona Eagger and Deb Cox. “We are now as thrilled, due to the success of the Exhibition, that we are also able to bring it to our South Australian fans. Ayers House is a perfect fit and Phryne herself would have been at home in the sumptuous interiors.”

“Our partnership with The National Trust is very important to the success of the show and we are thrilled that it has enabled us to highlight the Trust’s glorious heritage buildings to audiences around the world.”

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An interview with Marion Boyce Curator Elizabeth Anya-Petrivna talks to costume designer Marion Boyce, winner of the 2014 AACTA Award for Best Costume Design in Television.

EAP: How does working on Phryne Fisher’s costumes differ from other projects you’ve worked on?

MB: I have a great love of Phryne and I adore Essie Davis, so that enables me to use my precious things [items from her personal collection]. Once it goes on an actor, it then belongs to them and it’s no longer mine, so I have to really like the person or the show to be able to hand it over.

EAP: Would you ever consider reusing a costume for another project?

MB: No, I really think Phryne has her own signature. You can completely strip the garment or accessory and remake it, but I find that quite hard to do. Each ensemble has its place and we keep them fairly intact.

EAP: Who is your favourite designer or couturier from the 1920s – Madame Vionnet? Chanel?

Patou? Lanvin?

MB: I’d have to say it’s a toss-up between Madeleine Vionnet and Lanvin. Truly, truly great masters.

EAP: What about your love of chinoiserie?

MB: I must have been Chinese in another life. I eat Asian food, I collect Asian objects, I have an extraordinary love of Chinese fabrics, the traditional embroideries.

There’s something really beautiful about the symmetry of design.

EAP: Accessories are such an important part of the complete ensemble for a woman of Phyne’s era. What are the challenges, delights and creative solutions involved in making the perfect hat?

MB: Hats are terrific, but also extremely problematic, because the base fabrics are really hard to find – for example, the really beautiful, very fine straws. We search in op shops, auction houses, junk stores and all sorts of places for old felts and straws we can re-block and remake.

Some of the really beautiful, deep, rich colours with a lovely lustre are only found in felts that are 50 or so years old. We collect feathers from collectors, and find things in odd boxes and from odd sources.

EAP: There is such nostalgia for hats, but no one seems to wear them anymore.

MB: When a hat is right for the person, when it is made for someone and frames their face, they look gorgeous. People love the iconic pictures of people in hats – all the old movie stars who all looked unbelievably sexy. That’s what people are looking for. It doesn’t really work in our lives, but everyone wants the allure of Marlene Dietrich.

“The 20s was a time of opulence and excess. But it was also a time that came out of an enormous amount of hardship because of World War I and probably a time that will never be repeated.”

- COSTUME DESIGNER MARION BOYCE

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Explore the wonderful world of Miss Phryne Fisher through these special events

Meet the Makers Join the creative team behind Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and find out behind-the-scenes stories from Costume Designer Marion Boyce, Actor Nathan Page (Inspector Jack Robinson), Executive Producers Fiona Eagger and Deb Cox. Hosted by Ian Henschke of 891 ABC Adelaide.

Cinema 8, Palace Nova Cinemas 251 Rundle Street, Adelaide Monday 16 November, 6.30pm $20/ $25 Book via the website: missfisherexhibition.com.au Enquiries: missfisher@nationaltrustsa.org.au

High Tea at Ayers House Before or after your visit to Miss Fisher’s Costume Exhibition, why not enjoy a sumptuous high tea at Ayers House? Scrumptious savouries and luscious sweets will be presented in a formal dining setting- a special treat best shared with friends! Exhibition admission included.

Ayers House Function Centre (adjacent to Ayers House Museum) Check the website for dates. High tea is served promptly at 2.30pm. Not available every day. $75 (includes exhibition entry) Book via the website: missfisherexhibition.com.au Enquiries: missfisher@nationaltrustsa.org.au Phone: (08) 8202 9213

Miss Fisher’s Summer Sundays at Beaumont House Spend a leisurely afternoon lounging on the shady lawns of Beaumont House at our 1920s garden party. Enjoy the smooth sounds of 1920s jazz music and relax on the veranda of Beaumont House with a champagne flute or Devonshire tea. Browse market and food stalls for something special.

Beaumont House, 631 Glynburn Road, Beaumont Sunday 17 January and 7 February 12.00 noon – 6.00 pm Tickets $10 per person at the gate, Children under 12 FREE Book via the website: www.missfisherexhibition.com.au or email: missfisher@nationaltrustsa.org.au

MISS FISHER

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Summer of Phryne

1920s Speakeasy bar at Z Ward Let’s dance the night away at our 1920s inspired speakeasy pop up bar at the historic Z Ward. This remarkable heritage-listed building will be transformed into a lounge bar complete with live jazz music.

Grab your bugle beads and get flapping!

Z Ward, access via 63 Conyngham Street, Glenside Saturday 30 January, 6pm – 11 pm Cost: $20 per person Book via the website: www.missfisherexhibition.com.au or email: missfisher@nationaltrustsa.org.au

In the Garden

Open Garden tradition continues MERILYN KUCHEL

Following the shock announcement in September 2014 that Open Gardens Australia was to cease operations, local garden lovers welcomed the news that the tradition of opening gardens will continue under a new state-based Open Gardens South Australia (OGSA). An experienced and determined group of volunteers got together to form a committee and a selection panel. With the generous support of more than fifty garden owners who had previously opened their gardens, they put together a program of openings. Already the new season has met with great success and the beautiful weekend weather has attracted good crowds.

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outh Australia was the first state to offer an open gardens program, with a partnership between the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and The Advertiser newspaper in April 1986. The pilot program featured seven gardens during the autumn of 1986. The first garden open was Beechwood in Stirling, then owned by the Botanic Garden.

Dr Chris Laurie, then chairman of the board of the Botanic Garden, opened his own century-old garden Panmure in Stirling. This was followed by Grove Hill at Norton Summit, the Fountain garden at Clarence Park, the Golder garden at Meadows, the Smith garden at Flagstaff Hill and Paradean at Sandilands on Yorke Peninsula.

Another 50 gardens were opened during the following spring. This program continued until 1992 when South Australia was invited to join Australia’s Open Garden Scheme.

The SA program was based on the British National Gardens Scheme (NGS) founded in 1927 to raise funds for the District Nursing Service (DNS). By 1931 more than a thousand private gardens were open. A guidebook was published, known as The Yellow Book because of its bright cover. After World War II, the National Health Service took on the DNS, but money was still needed to care for retired nurses and invest in training. The NGS offered to donate funding to the National Trust to restore and preserve important gardens. In return, the National Trust opened many of its most prestigious gardens for the NGS. With the aim of promoting the knowledge, pleasure and benefits of gardens and gardening, OGSA is also continuing the tradition. It preserves important garden history by maintaining a photo library and encouraging garden owners to write the stories of their garden making.

For details and photographs of all the gardens visit www.opengardensa.org.au PS: One of the many benefits of membership of our National Trust is gaining free entry to National Trust gardens in the UK.

LEFT  Glenalta,

the historic garden originally owned by former premier of SA, Sir John Downer, will be open on Sunday January 17 2016 as part of the new OGSA program.

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Strawberry and Bri oc Pudding with Lemon he Verbena RE CI PE BY SO PH IE HA NS EN

Preparation time: 15 mins + 30 min s sitting Cooking time: 35 mins + 15 min s standing Serves: 6 Ingredients 400ml whole m ilk 1 vanilla pod, ha lved zest of ½ lemon ½ cup lemon ve rbena leaves 8 slices of sligh tly stale brioche, thickly sliced and then cut in to triangles 1 punnet of straw berries, hulled an d halved 3 eggs 2 tbsp caster su gar 200ml double cr eam 1 tbsp demerara sugar pinch of cinnam on Method: 1.

In the kitchen Easy, pretty and just in time for summer, this delicious pudding has even more going for it – it can be prepared hours in advance and just popped in the oven 45 minutes before you’re ready to serve it. Perfect for entertaining in the warmer weather, or just for when you’d like a luscious but light sweet treat to finish a meal.

Lemon verbena is a lovely herb native to South America that was brought to Europe by the Spaniards in the 17th century. It is easy to grow, and apart from its culinary uses, has long been used for its fresh, citrussy character in everything from perfumery to folk medicine. It gives this dish a delicate lift.

Recipe courtesy of Beerenberg Farms

Put the milk into a small pan with the vanilla pod. Brin g the milk to a sim mer, then turn off th e heat, add the lemon zest and verbena lea ves and allow to cool.

2. Meanwhile, arrange the brio che slices in a baking dish in overlapping row s and scatter with the strawberries.

3. Beat the eg gs and sugar to gether until well combined.

Remove the vani lla pod from the milk an d discard. Beat the milk into the egg mix ture along with the cream.

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Pour the mixtu re over the straw berrytopped brioche slices, pushing them down so every last one is cove red with the custard.

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Preheat the oven to 180C and let the pudding sit and soak for 30 min utes or more (it can sit in the fridge for a few hours even at this point with no problems if you want).

6. Sprinkle th e top with suga r and then the cinnamon. Bake for 35 minutes or until golden then allow to stand for 15 m inutes before serving w ith cream or ice cream.

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Conservation Appeal

Payneham Road Uniting Church Organ Appeal ROGER WYATT

The Payneham Road Uniting Church is prominently located on Payneham Road at its intersection with Lower Portrush Road. The church (built in 1882) and the adjacent hall (built in 1905), are listed in the SA Heritage Register as a pair of fine Gothic revival buildings of outstanding architectural importance.

They constitute a notable and familiar landmark. Both buildings have recently been re-roofed. The interior of the church has been sensitively restored recently and investigations are in hand to repair and internally upgrade the hall which has suffered damage due to its close proximity to heavy traffic on Lower Portrush Road.

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usic for worship is led by a pipe organ which was presented to the church by a local family almost 100 years ago. Notably, the organ is a three-manual instrument and is one of the earliest in Adelaide to be built with electric action from inception, in contrast to more usual later conversions from mechanical or pneumatic actions.

The organ was built by Josiah Dodd, who built many of the church organs in and around Adelaide.

Tonally, it is a 19th century English romantic organ, now approaching its 100th anniversary, having been commissioned in 1918.

The organ is regularly tuned and, where possible, running repairs have been undertaken to maintain functionality. Not surprisingly, there has been a progressive loss of functionality as various elements have aged. In the words of Adelaide organ builder and tuner, Richard Larritt, the instrument has been patched up for the last 50 years and is now in urgent need of rebuilding.

The proposed work is to restore full functionality to all of the existing pipework and to enhance the tonal structure. The original casework will be retained.

In addition to its pivotal role in regular church services, the organ also features in weddings, funerals and public concerts. The proposed enhancement of the tonal structure will expand the organ’s capability over a wider range of repertoire and increase its appeal to students of the pipe organ. The work will be undertaken by a local organ builder.

The congregation has been actively fundraising to enable the work to be undertaken and over a quarter of the needed funds have been raised to date. Following an assessment of the organ in its context as part of the fabric of the heritage listed church, the National Trust determined that the proposed re-building is worthy of its support.

For more information and to donate to the appeal, visit: www.saheritagefoundation.com.au/appeals/payneham-road-uniting-church-organ

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Out ‘n’ About NOVEMBER 2015 - FEBRUARY 2016 NATIONAL TRUST OF SA

BEAUMONT HOUSE

CLARE BRANCH

¼¼ N ational Trust of SA 60th Annual General Meeting All members are invited to attend the meeting in the morning, followed by options to visit the Miss Fisher’s Costume Exhibition and/or Z Ward in the afternoon.

Saturday 21 November Time: 10am-12noon Place: North Adelaide Community Centre, 176 Tynte Street, North Adelaide Enquiries: (08) 8202 9200

¼¼ S ummer Sundays are returning to Beaumont House in 2016 Come along and enjoy the beautiful gardens while listening to music or shopping at our exclusive stalls.

Food and wine will be served throughout the afternoon and bocce or quoits will be available for use on the lawns. Celebrate the 1920s with our ‘Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries’ themed Summer Sundays on 17 January and 7 February.

Sunday 17 January, 7 February 2016 Time: 12 noon Place: 631 Glynburn Road, Beaumont Enquiries: (08) 8202 9200

¼¼ AGM and volunteers meet and greet.

Sunday 8 November Place: Clare Visitor Centre, Cnr of Main North Road and Spring Gully Road, Clare Time: 2pm Enquiries: (08) 8842 2376

Miss Fisher’s Costume Exhibition The National Trust in association with Every Cloud Productions proudly presents a major new exhibition featuring the sumptuous costumes, props and furniture from the popular Australian ABC TV series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.

Monday 16 November to Sunday 14 February 2016 Time: 10am-5pm daily (Closed Christmas Day & New Year’s Day) Cost: General public Adult $20, Concession $18, Child (5-15) $10, Family (2 adults, 2 children) $50 National Trust members Adult $17, Concession $16, Child (5-15) $7.50, Family (2 adults, 2 children) $45 Place: Ayers House Museum, 288 North Terrace, Adelaide Enquiries: (08) 8223 1234 Bookings: www.missfisherexhibition.com.au

Popular Z Ward Tours are back Completed in 1885 and closed in 1973, this remarkable building with its impressive and inescapable Ha-Ha wall, housed many of the State’s violent and criminally insane patients. Go behind the walls and discover Z Ward for yourself, at night.

Most Thurs, Fri and Sat nights (other nights available on request) Time: 7.30pm-9.30pm (Duration approx. 1 3/4hrs) Cost: $38 per person (inc GST) Suitable for ages 15+ (Parents understand our tours are kept real, can get very scary at times, and you take full responsibility) Bookings: www.adelaidehauntedhorizons.com.au Enquiries: 0407 715 866

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¼¼ War at Sea-The Navy in WW1 A graphic panel display from the Australian National Maritime Museum February Time: 2-4pm Place: 16 Fifth Street, Ardrossan All Ardrossan Branch event enquiries: (08) 88373939

Moonta Station Markets will be on again. There will be a large variety of stalls and the Tourist Train will be running all day, leaving from the markets. We will also have one of the road trams running, which will take passengers out to the Old Sweet Shop, the museum and around Hughes Pump house. It’s a wonderful day out for the whole family.

Sunday 8 November Time: 9am-3pm Place: Located at the Old Railway Station, Blanche Terrace, Moonta Enquiries: If you would like to attend as a stallholder contact the Moonta Tourist Office on (08) 8825 1891 or email info@moontatourism.org.au

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¼¼ Beaumont House & Garden tours 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. Sunday 6 December and 7 February 2016 Time: 2pm-4.30pm Cost: Guided Tour $8 (afternoon tea included) Place: 631 Glynburn Road, Beaumont Enquiries: Open Day & Special Group tours - Chris Perriam (08) 8362 3036 Email: perriamci@bigpond.com.au

¼¼ Talk: Speaker Egon Shore. He will share his personal experiences as a young lad during WW2 in Bristol, England.

Tuesday 10 November Time: 1:30pm Place: Uniting Church Hall, 13 Mann Street, Mt Barker

ARDROSSAN BRANCH

¼¼ B ranch Members Christmas Party Celebrate Christmas and the New Year with the Committee at this year’s Christmas Party at Beaumont House at 7.00 pm. Enjoy a sumptuous Christmas feast, some cheer and a chance to catch up with other members.

Friday 4 December Time: 7pm Cost: Adult $15, bring a plate Place: Beaumont House 631 Glynburn Road, Beaumont Enquiries: Chris Perriam (08) 8362 3036 Email: perriamci@bigpond.com.au HERITAGE LIVING | 22 | SOUTH AUSTRALIA

¼¼ Special Christmas party Share a complimentary bus trip and afternoon tea.

Tuesday 1 December Time: 1pm Place: Leaving from Uniting Church Hall 13 Mann Street, Mt Barker All Mount Barker Branch Enquiries: Secretary: Triss Wales (08) 8389 9281.

RSVP by 10 November MT LOFTY BRANCH ¼¼ Carols at Stangate Mt Lofty Singers will lead us in the carol singing and the Hills Poets will entertain us as well.

Ice cream, coffee and gourmet sausages available from Natura’s Ice Creamery Van, or bring a chair, rug and your picnic!

Sunday 6 December Time: 5pm-8pm Place: Stangate House, 3 Edgeware Road, Aldgate Cost: Optional gold coin donation,

Members from all branches are most welcome Enquiries: Lyn Radzevicius 0418 803 971 or enquiries@stangatehouse.org.au MOUNT GAMBIER BRANCH ¼¼ Old Courthouse Gallery exhibition by local artists.

Summer Thursday to Sunday Time: 10 am to 4 pm Place: 42a Bay Road, Mount Gambier Enquiries: (08) 8725 7011 PORT ELLIOT BRANCH ¼¼ Annual Musical evening Come along and enjoy the Fleurieu Male Choir.

Thursday 12 November Cost: $2 donation Place: RSL Hall, The Strand, Port Elliot ¼¼ Christmas Dinner Come along and join the festivities 10 December Place: RSL Hall, The Strand, Port Elliot All Port Elliot Branch Enquiries: Gretchen (08) 8555 0232, Lorraine (08) 8554 2024

TEA TREE GULLY BRANCH ¼¼ Heritage on Sunday One Day Only: A Musical Interlude - There is music in the air as local talents showcase their artistic flair. BYO picnic rug and take time to relax in our beautiful garden setting.

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

Devonshire Tea or Cheese and Wine is available and the Gift Shop is a delight.

Sunday 15 November Time: 1-4pm Cost: Adult $5, Conc $4, Children Free Place: Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum, 3 Perseverance Road, Tea Tree Gully ¼¼ Touch of Christmas Past All rooms are decorated as you delight in Christmas from days gone by. See everlasting traditions, the Dickens room, Santa’s Workshop and much more. Christmas gifts for sale, tea room and lolly shop open.

Sunday 6 to 13 December Time: 10-4pm Cost: Adult $5, Children U/12 $2.50 Place: Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum,3 Perseverance Road, Tea Tree Gully All Tea Tree Gully Branch event Enquiries: (08) 8251 3499 www.ttgmuseum.on.net VICTOR HARBOR BRANCH ¼¼ Talk: Pat Uppill “Travelling through the Shetlands “a Power Point Presentation Thursday 19 November Time: 2pm-4pm Cost: $2 Place: Old School Building Torrens St, Victor Harbor ¼¼ Christmas Luncheon Thursday 10 December Time: 12 for 12.30 pm Place: Hotel Grosvenor, cnr Ocean St and Coral St, Victor Harbor All Victor Harbor Branch event Enquiries: (08) 8552 8392

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On a sunny Sunday afternoon in October, around 350 members and friends of the National Trust of South Australia came together at Beaumont House to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the formation of the Trust in 1955.

Entertainment was provided by the highly talented Navy Jazz Band and the energetic Adelaide Morris Men. Vice President Brian MacMillan gave a rousing speech and Francy Crooks, a Trust volunteer at Ayers House, delivered a fine rendition of the national anthem.

The garden was at its glorious best, providing the perfect setting for an elegant promenade by members of the Victoriana Society.

A highlight of the afternoon was a ribbon cutting on a new garden fountain, honoring a generous donation to the Trust by Madeleine Weisner. James Bruce from Theodore Bruce Auctioneers provided valuations for a number of interesting collectible items brought along by guests.

PHOTOS: Jessica

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Costume D esign Marion Boyce

16 November 2015 – 14 February 2016 OPEN DAILY 10AM - 5PM • AYERS HOUSE MUSEUM 288 NORTH TERRACE ADELAIDE

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