National Trust SA Heritage Living Winter 2016

HERITAGE LIVING | SOUTH AUSTRALIA WINTER 2016

MA RT I N DA L E HA L L E S TAT E NATIONAL TRUST ’S VISION TO CREATE A WORLD-CLASS HERITAGE-BASED TOURISM ATTRACTION.

‘MIRANDA’ RETURNS FROM PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK TO HELP KEEP MARTINDALE HALL FOR THE PEOPLE.

STOP PRESS!

Fort Largs to be restored and opened to the public by the National Trust

LEFT TO RIGHT President of the National Trust Professor Norman Etherington leads the rally to save Fort Largs, October 2014. Protesting to preserve the fort.

Gun emplacement at Fort Largs. Photos: National Trust of South Australia.

After years of uncertainty about the future of Fort Largs at Taperoo, the National Trust has joined a partnership with the State Government and developer A V Jennings to restore the historic fort and open it to the public as part of an overall redevelopment of the site.

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ransport and Infrastructure Minister Stephen Mullighan announced the partnership at the fort on 17 June. The Trust has been campaigning with other community organisations for the preservation of the fort and associated heritage buildings on the site since 2014. It secured state heritage protection for the World War II barracks and drill hall, alongside the original fort, which was listed by the Trust in 1973 and state heritage listed in 1986.

Constructed between 1883 and 1884, Fort Largs is one of only two forts built to defend South Australia.

The other, Fort Glanville, is further down Adelaide’s coastline at Semaphore. Both forts have great heritage significance as evidence of nineteenth-century defence strategy and technology. Fort Largs

was also a significant military site in the twentieth century and housed the first barracks for the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) in Australia.

The planned development will ensure that the heritage buildings are preserved while allowing for residential development on the site, used as the Fort Largs Police Academy from 1961 to 2012, after it was handed to the State by the Commonwealth Government.

Under the proposed agreement, the National Trust will assume responsibility for the restoration, maintenance and future operations of the fort. The Trust will be supported to do so by the State Government with funds raised from the sale of the site. The Minister stated, “We couldn’t think of anyone

better who could do this facility the justice it deserves, returning it to its former glory [and] also making sure the different elements of its heritage are retained and preserved.”

The Trust will work closely with A V Jennings, Renewal SA and the Port Adelaide and Enfield Council to ensure that the revitalised fort is well integrated with the new development and surrounding area.

Iniital plans for the fort include an interpretive centre and café facilities.

President of the Trust, Professor Norman Etherington AM, welcomed the opportunity to work in partnership with Renewal SA and A V Jennings to ensure that Fort Largs is properly protected and made permanently accessible to the public.

“We look forward to creating a solution that preserves the integrity of the fort and enables a new use which respects its significant role in Australia’s defence history. We are optimistic that we can reach an agreement that will secure the long term future of the site as a significant tourist attraction and public amenity.”

From the editor

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ur feature this issue takes up Norman Etherington’s call for us to be clever about how we plan and present what he calls heritage tourism.

PRESIDENT’S REPORT NORMAN ETHERINGTON For the last few years we have been developing new ways to enhance people’s recognition and appreciation of heritage places. We have already launched internet-based tools that let anyone with a mobile phone, tablet or computer get instant information on particular sites. Willunga Walks is a mobile app that lets you guide yourself through the streets of a notable historic town. Adelaide City Explorer (adelaidecityexplorer.com.au) offers you the opportunity to explore our capital’s heritage treasures at home or on the move along several thematic trails.

I strongly urge members and branches to help us to implement similar programs in your neighbourhoods and towns. The templates used for Willunga Walks and Adelaide City Explorer can be readily and cheaply adapted to any locality. I would be delighted to arrange demonstrations to any interested council or National Trust Branch. The potential benefits for tourism and small business are substantial and will more than repay the cost of developing these wonderful new resources.

Lately we have joined an alliance with the State Heritage Council, the Adelaide City Council, ICOMOS Australia and the Local Government Association to promote awareness of the economic value of heritage tourism. The key to success is linking heritage places via trails based on the historical forces that brought those places into being. In this issue we give you some idea of how this can be done.

Meanwhile our Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee has moved into the final stages of checking and digitising our Register of Classified Places. Soon you will be able to access that information electronically on your smart phone, laptop or tablet.

The core of his plan is that we need to find new ways of telling stories about our past that people actually want to hear. The stories, he tells us, should be compelling and linked thematically to familiar places.

They should be accessible through new technologies that most of us use all the time, such as smart phones and tablets, as well as by well-tried media such as brochures and roadside story-boards. And we should realise that heritage tourism has the potential to make a major contribution to the state’s economy.

We present two of Norman’s thematic walks in the city of Adelaide, the first linking the old east-end market to the thriving central market, and the second taking us around places of worship, the diversity of which explains how South Australia came to be known as the paradise of dissent. Finally, Norman outlines how his principles will work outside Adelaide.

Meanwhile, the National Trust is pushing ahead with its bid to save Martindale Hall for the people of South Australia rather than it falling into the hands of private developers. We outline the Trust’s plan on the following pages.

We also introduce a new page to the magazine in the form of letters to the editor. We invite you to have your say about protecting and promoting our heritage. Letters should be brief- around 175 words.

We will publish the best of them in forthcoming issues.

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Fort Largs to be restored and opened to the public by the National Trust

4 Planning New planning legislation set to reshape our urban environment 10

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Learning with Heritage

10 Significant Tree The Polkinghorne Oak, Willunga 11 Engelbrook Reserve War Against Weeds 12 Special Places Everglades, Leura, Blue Mountains NSW

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13 Wimpole Estate, UK: A feast for the senses 14 Heritage Tourism 22 In the Garden National conference of the Australian Garden History Society 23 Elsie Cornish, pioneer women and Stangate House camellias 24 Copland Foundation Grant for Beaumont House Garden 25 Branch Spotlight Mount Barker

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26 In the Kitchen 27 Marmalade Festival Calling all marma-lovers 28 Hahndorf Walk 29 Exhibition Goolwa looks for lost war heroes

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31 Places to Stay Heron’s Bend at Overland Corner 32 Events 35 Conservation Appeal St Peter’s Church Glenelg - Great West Window

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Will you join us to help keep Martindale Hall for the people?

MARTIN DA L E H ALL E S TATE NATIONAL TRUST ’S VISION TO CREATE A WORLD-CLASS HERITAGE-BASED TOURISM ATTRACTION The South Australian Government is exploring options for the future of historic Martindale Hall. The National Trust of South Australia has a bold plan.

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e have submitted a formal proposal for Martindale Hall Conservation Park, which will ensure this magnificent property, gifted to the people of South Australia, will remain in public hands and be accessible to all.

The National Trust will invest in the site to develop amenities, attractions and events and will preserve the buildings in accordance with the terms of the original bequest to the people of South Australia.

Martindale Hall Estate will be a world- class tourism destination expected to attract more than 100,000 visitors annually and give one of the State’s jewels the prominence it deserves.

Join with thousands of Australians to help keep Martindale Hall for the people.

But we need your support to make our vision a reality.

ABOVE Anne Lambert, who played Miranda in the film Picnic at Hanging Rock filmed at Martindale Hall, has joined the call to keep the Hall for the public.

Photos: NTSA, Sunday Mail, Ash Starkey.

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BACKGROUND

The State Government is considering its options regarding the future ownership, operation and management of Martindale Hall and is considering unsolicited proposals for the site.

The National Trust has made the Government aware of its ideas and its commitment to the property and in March this year was invited to submit its own formal proposal.

THE NATIONAL TRUST’S VISION FOR MARTINDALE HALL ESTATE WILL CREATE •

A dynamic exhibition and events space in the Hall showcasing national and international heritage collections

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A restored coach house hosting displays and demonstrations of horse-drawn vehicles using the National Trust’s own collection, the largest and most significant held in Australia

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Parks and gardens, including a 19th century pleasure garden, olive grove, heritage orchard and community garden

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An innovative outdoor adventure playground for children and families

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A farm shop and licensed café, cellar door, retail outlet, marquee facility for functions and amenities for outdoor events and school camps

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An extensive special events program, including concerts, music, food and wine festivals, garden shows, car rallies, antique and collectors road shows and equestrian events

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Farming, sporting and other outdoor recreation activities including horse riding, animal handling, clay pigeon shooting, croquet, polo and cricket.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE PROPOSAL AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT: Visit: www.nationaltrust.org.au/sa/martindalehall Email: martindalehall@nationaltrustsa.org.au Call:

(08) 8202 9200

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OUR CASE •

The National Trust has been preserving and promoting South Australia’s heritage for more than 60 years.

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We manage more than 120 heritage places across the State and operate a range of tourism oriented services and attractions, including a number of accredited Visitor Information Centres and more than 20 local museums, from Ceduna to Burra to Renmark to Mount Gambier.

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We have managed one of the State’s major heritage properties, Ayers House in Adelaide, on behalf of the Government for more than 40 years.

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We are part of a national and international network of National Trust organisations, the largest and most respected heritage attraction operator in the world.

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Our capacity is greatly enhanced through our membership base of 6,000 South Australians, 60,000 nationally and four million worldwide. In addition, more than 1,000 registered volunteers in South Australia work with us to manage properties and deliver visitor experiences.

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Once completed please return this form to the National Trust of South Australia, 631 Glynburn Road, BEAUMONT SA 5066 or email this information to: martindalehall@nationaltrustsa.org.au

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Planning

New planning legislation set to reshape our urban environment In April, the State Government’s new planning legislation was passed by Parliament, after a long and contentious passage. The new Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016 establishes the foundations for the new planning system emerging from the Government’s Expert Panel on Planning Reform.

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he legislation has far-reaching implications for the built environment and open space in our State and for the protection of heritage places, buildings, streetscapes and neighbourhoods. After a quick passage through the lower house, the Legislative Council spent many hours debating the key points of the bill in often heated exchanges within and outside the parliament. The Opposition, Greens and other crossbenchers worked tirelessly to improve the legislation and to protect the interests of local communities in the planning process.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, even after hundreds of amendments, the final legislation is unlikely to satisfy fully any of the stakeholders including developers, conservationists and planners. In any case, the full impact of the legislation will not be be known or felt for some time. With such a complex and significant piece of legislation, the devil will indeed be in the detail of the supporting codes and regulations, which are yet to be resolved.

Broadly, the new legislation centralises planning regulation and decisionmaking through a new Planning Commission reporting to the Planning Minister. The role of local Councils in the planning process has been diminished, with Council representation

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Letters to the Editor

Adare House Having been delighted to read the latest National Trust magazine (Autumn 2016), the most exciting pages to me were the ones on Adare House.

Daniel Henry Cudmore, who bought the house in 1889, was my great grandfather. The Cudmores built several of the historic mansions around Adelaide, Paringa Hall being one.

Roland Herbert Cudmore was born in 1879 and died in 1913. He married Annie Isabell Porter in 1907, but died of a heart attack at the age of 34.

Annie was left to care for three children, including my father, Daniel Murray Cudmore, who also died young. His sister Margaret married Arthur, later Sir Arthur Rymill. on Development Assessment Panels reduced from three members to one. The role and rights of individual citizens to participate in and object to development approvals have also been significantly curtailed.

Other aspects of the legislation include the establishment of an urban growth boundary around metropolitan Adelaide to contain urban sprawl, and an impost on local councils, developers and land owners to share the cost of future infrastructure development.

Despite earlier discussions, the future protection of local heritage places, of special interest to the National Trust, has not been settled.

However, the Planning Minister, Deputy Premier John Rau, has written to the Trust to confirm that every place currently listed as local or state heritage will remain as such under the new planning system.

We are pleased with the Minister’s commitment to preserving current heritage listings. We trust that this commitment will extend to all existing heritage protections including contributory heritage items, historic conservation zones and State Heritage Areas.

The National Trust will continue to participate in discussions around these issues and to advocate for stronger protection of our heritage within the new planning system.

LEFT Colonel William Light’s original Plan for the City of Adelaide, devised in 1837.

Credit: National Library of Australia.

My father Daniel was a born country man in true Cudmore style. He purchased Kingsford, just outside Gawler, and restored it into a beautiful home for us to live in. Once the house was a palace to live in. We built the 1500 acres up into a lovely sheep and wheat farm. The students from Roseworthy used to come out to see the model farm.

The present owners have done a wonderful job of restoring it. They run a bed and breakfast in the old style, and also host weddings.

Carolyn Blute, Moonta Bay

Bundaleer and Wirrabara forests The State Government is currently considering proposals for the future use of the Bundaleer and Wirrabara Forests. The Trust and its members may wish to express their views to the Minister for Forests, Leon Bignell, to support conserving the state and national heritage they represent (ministerleonbignell@sa.gov.au).

Bundaleer was the first public forest in the Australian colonies. It was declared in 1876 and managed by the first forest service in the Australian colonies, the Forest Board of South Australia. The Board was the hard-fought outcome of legislation initiated by George Goyder following a comprehensive review of the Victorian lands laws. Goyder reaffirmed the colony’s distinctive vision for a planned settlement, including forests to supply the growing needs of settlers.

The mid-north forests occupy a significant place in our cultural as well as natural heritage. They symbolise a proud history of environmental innovation in South Australia, and its leadership by Goyder in particular.

In 2015, ForestySA released a strategy for regional community consultation about the future of the forests, following the devastating bushfires of 2013 and 2014. It acknowledges the heritage value of the forests. The Trust and its members can play a key role in reinforcing this message.

Lizzie Summerfield, Mylor TOP Guests

enjoying a garden party in the grounds of ‘Adare’, owned by H.D. Cudmore, December 1905; published Chronicle 6 January 1906. State Library of South Australia B 64337.

RIGHT Wirrabara state forest in the nineteenth century. State Library of South Australia PRG 280/1/4/470

Have your say on things that matter to the National Trust. Send us your letters to the editor on what you have read in the magazine, or on other relevant issues. Keep them to no more than 175 words. Those selected for publication may be edited. Email your letters to publications@nationaltrustsa. org.au or post them to National Trust of South Australia, 631 Glynburn Road, Beaumont SA 5066.

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INTRODUCING HELEN LAWRY, SCHOOL PROGRAMS PRESENTER

Learning with heritage Heritage places are rich learning environments for students of all ages. The National Trust welcomes teachers and their students to our heritage places and offers structured learning programs at a number of locations around the state. This year we are offering new school programs at Ayers House and the Old Treasury and Victoria Square in Adelaide in addition to our current offerings at the Bassett Schoolroom in Willunga, the Gawler Old Telegraph Station Museum and the Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum.

Each of these five places offer guided programs based on the Australian Curriculum and customised to different year levels. Our programs emphasise hands on learning experiences in authentic heritage environments.

In my case it was the miner’s cottage at Moonta, and Como House in Melbourne, two very different homes, but both successful in catching my imagination, so much so that I bought postcards of both with my hard earned pocket money.

In addition, I was raised on stories of ancestors who jumped ship, shot rabbits and found gold. My father also taught me to respect the work of those who wrought iron and made walls of rock , and in this way I learned to look for the clues of the past that surround us.

Because of these things I felt like history was everywhere and it belonged in some way to me.

Many children miss out on these experiences. The National Trust is in a perfect position to help make up for this deficit. If we succeed in this, the children we influence will be the people who care about and fight to preserve natural, built and cultural riches when we are gone.

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exploring Ayers House on North Terrace.

CENTRE Dressing the part for the Willunga schools program.

BOTTOM Helen Lawry storeytelling at Beaumont House.

I would hazard a guess that most of the members of the National Trust had their interest in history roused when they were children. Perhaps they were taken to an old house, or to some bushland that had been set aside to be preserved.

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Learning with Heritage

Old Treasury Building and Victoria Square The Old Treasury Building facing Victoria Square is one the most significant historic places in Adelaide. Our guided school tours include some of the famous rooms in this fascinating building and a trip underground to the tunnels below where gold from the Victorian diggings was smelted and stored during the 1850s gold rush. These tours are suitable for teaching Year 5 and Year 9 History. An optional extension is a guided walk around Victoria Square for an outdoor history experience.

Ayers House: Adelaide’s finest Victorian-era home

Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum

Explore local heritage and win a prize!

Two new school programs are being offered at the magnificent mansion of Sir Henry Ayers on North Terrace.

The Daring and Dancing program caters for Year 5 students and investigates the dispositions and skills required for social success in the colonial era. Year Two students and above can also try the Spit and Polish program which focuses on the experience of domestic servants in the grand homes of the colonial era.

Teachers can choose from eight different modules based on the National Curriculum:History for Years 3- 5. Volunteer guides lead groups through activities including wash day, old school room experience, agriculture, blacksmith shop, local area development, family life, post office/hotel and games. Three modules can be presented per museum visit. A self-guided walking tour of local historical buildings is also available.

The National Trust, in conjunction with the History Teachers Association of South Australia, is running a competition challenging primary and secondary school students to learn more about their local heritage. Students are invited to nominate a site of cultural, natural or built heritage as being historically significant. This may be a building, street, structure, landmark or tree.

Gawler Museum

Willunga Schoolroom

Two school programs are offered at the Gawler Museum in the ‘Old Telegraph Office’. One is tuned to the Year 5 History curriculum. It’s hands on and includes Gawler’s local history of migration, discovery of mystery objects, MP3 guided trail through the museum, and the technology of daily living, entertainment and communication.

Mr Bassett’s Schoolroom is a school learning program that has been developed to support teaching of Year 3 History in an authentic heritage setting. The program focuses on continuity and change in the Australian experience of school over 150 years. It has been designed to enable teachers and students to reflect on how schools and education have changed in their own area over time, as well as the shifting role of symbols and emblems in the identity and heritage of their local area.

The second is aligned to Years 2 and 3 of the Technology curriculum. It’s hands-on and includes communication, entertainment, home equipment and technologies, food and Industries.

We consider distinguishing between past, present and future. In both programs, students are rotated through four short lessons in groups of 7-8.

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Individual and class entries are welcome. For more details and entry forms, visit: www.htasa.org.au Entries close on 30th September 2016. Awards will be presented at Ayers House in November.

can experience old style wash day at Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum. an old fashioned pastime: marbles Photos: National Trust of South Australia.

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For more information about our school programs or to plan a visit for your student group, email learning@nationaltrustsa.org.au or visit is www.nationaltrust.org.au/education-sa

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Significant Tree

The Polkinghorne Oak, Willunga MICHAEL HEATH

One hundred and fifty-nine years ago, several acorns travelled from Cornwall to South Australia. One of them has become a majestic oak tree in St Georges Street, Willunga. This is its story.

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ichard Polkinghorne, a pig-breeding butcher, his family, and his brother Thomas, a quarryman, sailed aboard the Emma Maria from Cornwall to South Australia in 1849.

Thomas became a manager of two of the slate quarries for which Willunga is noted.

After settling in Willunga, Richard was drawn to the Victorian goldfields by the excitement of prospecting. In 1852, he struck it rich. On returning to Willunga £700 better off, he bought many allotments. One was 22 St Georges Street, where he lived from 1857 until 1874.

By the time he returned from the goldfields, one of the acorns had grown into a sapling. It was planted in front of his house, amidst a broad setting of naturally occurring gums, many of which adorn the town still.

The local name for this English oak (Quercus robur) is “The Polkinghorne Oak”. No record of its being named has been found. It was certainly later than the 1950s, a time when the children from Willunga Primary School were taken to this tree, to wonder at its size, and because it was the only oak tree in the town.

It is Willunga’s first, finest, and oldest oak, with a chronological depth of 90 per cent of South Australia’s settlement history, making it historically important.

Few buildings or other historical artefacts in the whole of South Australia can claim such a lengthy chronology.

One contemporary, and notable Willunga landholder, was Evelyn Sturt, brother of Captain Charles Sturt, celebrated explorer of inland Australia. Evelyn and the Polkinghornes would have known each other well during Willunga’s establishment, settling as they did in the first, quite small number of allotments that created the village.

Richard Polkinghorne died in Willunga in 1874, aged 64. His oak tree features in the Willunga branch’s National Trust tours of historically interesting places: the Anglican cemetery, the Court House, Police Station, Slate Museum, and the Bassett Boys’ School.

The planting of a notably longlived tree, an oak, was a reminder of home. It was also a sign that settlers in Willunga had come to stay and make a go of it in a new land, knowing that if any tree could survive with them, it would be an oak tree.

Sources: Courthouse records hold “Some early Willunga History”, by David Barry Foreman, 2006, one time resident of No 22 St Georges Street, Willunga; M. J. Fitzgerald, “Sturt – an influential family and its connections across time”, South Australian Genealogist, February 2013.

Members of Willunga National Trust provided anecdotal and historical evidence for this story.

PHOTOS courtesy

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Michael Heath

Engelbrook Reserve

War Against Weeds RUSS SINCLAIR

The Engelbrook Reserve, in Bridgewater, is not well known, although many local people enjoy walking there. The Friends of Engelbrook volunteers work there regularly to check the spread of exotic weeds. Our main enemies are Watsonia, Erica, gorse, broom and blackberry.

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e have tried several methods to eradicate the weeds. We used to wipe Watsonia leaves with glyphosate using pads attached to rubber gloves, but this is laborious. We now usually dig up the plants, but what to do with them then? If they’re simply left in a pile, the large corms will sprout again next spring!

We now pile the uprooted plants on a sheet of black plastic. The corms shoot, but if the roots cannot penetrate the plastic the plants should die. We will see next September if this method has worked.

Erica, native to the Mediterranean region, is at home in the Adelaide Hills. It can grow to three metres or more, seeds prolifically, and recovers readily after fire by sprouting from a large woody lignotuber. It can be killed by cutting and swabbing, but the lignotubers are quite brittle and usually shatter if hit with a sledgehammer. The pieces can then be uprooted. The plant does not re-sprout from the roots beneath.

We are now pushing back the boundaries of Erica patches, armed with sledgehammers.

Gorse is a very prickly proposition.

It can form impenetrable thickets.

Cutting and swabbing can be hard work. However, we have an unexpected green ally: the native climbing parasitic vine Cassytha (snotty gobble).

Robert Cirocco, a PhD graduate from the University of Adelaide, has just completed a study on Cassytha, using Engelbrook as one of his study sites. I don’t think Cassytha is the whole answer to our gorse problem, but it is a welcome little helper.

Cassytha starts life from a germinating seed, but as soon as it begins to twine around a nearby plant, small sucker-like growths develop. These penetrate the host plant stem and draw water and nutrients from it. The root withers and the vine is then a parasite, like mistletoe. It grows on native plants, but does even better on the invasive gorse. It can smother a gorse plant so densely that the gorse eventually dies.

Blackberrry grows prolifically along Cox Creek, and is difficult to eradicate. It also forms a good refuge for bandicoots! So we may leave the blackberry on the creek lines for them, and try to restrict its spread up the hillsides.

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You can see Robert Cirocco’s study at https://www.newscientist.com/ article/2085389 TOP Engelbrook

Reserve, Bridgewater smashed CENTRE Watsonia RIGHT Cassytha suckers Photos Russ Sinclair TOP INSERT Erica

Special Places

Everglades, Leura, Blue Mountains NSW Drawing from the great traditions of European landscape design as well as the unique Blue Mountains bushland, Everglades charms with its grace and beauty.

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verglades is one of Australia’s foremost heritage gardens, lovingly maintained by the National Trust (NSW). This treasure from the 1930s sits in twelve and a half acres of European-style gardens and native Australian bush with breathtaking views over the Jamison Valley in the World Heritage listed Blue Mountains.

Back in the 1930s Leura was just starting to come into its own as a hill station. It offered the wealthy the opportunity to develop largescale weekenders with elaborate cold climate gardens reminiscent of those in Europe.

Built by industrialist Henri van de Velde, Everglades House was a bold new statement in Australian domestic architecture. Other retreats for the wealthy typically favoured a softer ‘Arts and Crafts’ or Old English approach, but Everglades House embodied functionalism at its most comfortable – efficient, streamlined and full of the ‘mod cons’ of the time.

Under the watchful eye of Henri van de Velde, the gardens were constructed by Danish-born landscape gardener Paul Sorensen, a skilled horticulturalist who celebrated the impact of plants and brought a singularly Australian character to Everglades in his careful blend of formal gardens and bushland, and the integration of vistas. He was respectful of the intrinsic nature of the site and its natural elements, retaining choice plants and examples of rock to create texture.

The creation of the gardens was an extraordinary endeavour of its time, equivalent to some of the most celebrated examples of European and English garden design. Art Deco finds expression in the gardens – notably in the wrought iron edging to the Lookout, the ‘Adam and Eve’ gateway and wrought iron panels in the courtyard telling a sorry tale of a bad dog.

Sorensen saw trees as the main structural element in a garden’s layout whether standing alone as individual specimens or used in groups and groves. Unlike his contemporary, Edna Walling, he left the choice of individual flowers to his clients, preferring to concentrate on the massing of trees, shrubs and bulbs to achieve colour and form. Azaleas and rhododendrons splash colour across less formal areas, while delicate cherry blossom planted along the Cherry Terrace has a backdrop of deep blue spruces.

Massed plantings of bulbs and annuals add colour at ground level.

It’s easy to make a day of it at Everglades: enjoying the house, relaxing in the gardens, visiting the gift shop and latest exhibition in the Gallery, bringing a picnic or indulging in the tea room’s delicious fare.

Everglades Historic House and Garden is open daily from 10am-4pm in Autumn and Winter and till 5pm during Daylight Savings.

National Trust members receive free entry. Admission for non-members is $13.

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Wimpole Estate, UK

Wimpole Estate: A feast for the senses Wimpole Estate is a magnificent National Trust property located just 14 kilometres from Cambridge that includes an historic mansion, a range of gardens, parks, a working farm and woodland. The house is the largest in Cambridgeshire and the grounds cover more than 1000 hectares (2 500 acres).

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impole existed as a small village until the estate was established

by Thomas Chicheley in the seventeenth century, including the magnificent Hall begun in 1640.

The Hall had a succession of owners and was worked on by many celebrated architects and designers.

Interior features include the famous Yellow Drawing Room and an amazing plunge bath designed by Sir John Soane and a library for 10 000 volumes. Mrs Elsie Bambridge, daughter of Rudyard Kipling, who acquired it in 1938, completed it with an extensive collection of Georgian era furniture and artefacts before gifting it to the National Trust in 1976.

Outside the Hall there is a no less impressive list of landscape designers including Capability Brown and Humphrey Repton who have created grand avenues and stunning vistas across the estate, including a gothic folly and decorative lakes. Artists working with the Trust have recently created a series of outdoor installations that

allow visitors to frame the elegant views of garden, pathways and buildings just as the masters of landscape did.

The eighteenth-century pleasure grounds are perfectly suited to strolling and picnics, with exotic plants from around the world and more than 180 000 summer flowering bulbs. The walled garden produces hundreds of kilograms of fresh produce for the estate restaurant. The larger estate includes a small deer park and a number of woodland belts.

The estate is full of activities and events to suit all kinds of interests.

The Home Farm provides an opportunity to get up close to working animals and to taste cheese, meat and eggs produced on site. There are also demonstrations of traditional farming practices and equipment in the grain threshing barn, dairy, stables and animal pens.

A range of short courses are offered in traditional rural skills including hand shearing, blacksmithing, scything, laying hedges, axe and saw felling and even ferreting.

Exploration is encouraged with walking trails, horse-drawn coach rides, guided tours and a weekly 7km run around the landmarks of the estate.

For children, this is an excellent introduction to farming life.

Wimpole is home to one of the UK’s largest rare farm animal breeding centres, helping to conserve traditional breeds of pigs, sheep and goats. An adventure playground nestled amongst the trees provides lots of opportunities for children to climb, slide and swing and there are many dedicated trails and activities to pique their interest and reward their curiosity.

A visit to Wimpole is a feast for the senses and a remarkable way to spend a day or a weekend.

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Hall and parterre garden. with foreground daffodil planting.

BOTTOM RIGHT Exploring Wimpole estate with traditional horsepower. Photos: National Trust (UK) TOP RIGHT Hall

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n April 20, representatives of the National Trust attended a workshop convened by the Heritage Council to discuss the principles and possibilities of heritage tourism in South Australia.

The workshop was opened by the minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, the Honourable Ian Hunter.

The Lord Mayor of the City of Adelaide, and representatives from the South Australian Tourism Commission and History SA also attended.

Norman Etherington, the President of the National Trust, presented our plan for heritage tourism. The following is a digest of its key points, two examples of the particular routes devised, and suggestions on extending heritage tourism across the state.

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF HERITAGE TOURISM Heritage tourism works best when it enhances the experience of getting to and back from an established attraction.

No visitor is going to build a trip around a heritage register, or categories such as commerce or prisons.

Every heritage tourism route should attach itself to an attraction that has already proved itself, i.e. Hahndorf, McLaren Vale, the Barossa, Clare Valley, Kangaroo Island, the Flinders Ranges, Mount Gambier, the Coonawarra and the Naracoorte Caves.

People understand routes best when they tell stories about the historical forces that brought heritage places into being.

Thinking about how places you can see got to be the way they are makes it easier to come up with stories about places along the way. History on its own will not sell a story or a route; it needs to be linked to what the eyes can see. For example, World War I and the Great Depression are very significant chapters in the history of South Australia but difficult to relate to visible heritage along routes that tell unfolding stories.

Heritage Tourism must embrace the possibilities opened by new technology and social media.

We are fortunate to live in an era where we need not rely on roadside signage and brochures to tell stories.

New technology and social media enable us to tell an enormous variety of stories by attaching i-beacons or QR codes to physical fabric. GPS coordinates on websites such as Trip Advisor can be used to alert casual visitors to attractions and the stories behind them. Stories can be enhanced and expanded as new source material, pictures and points of view come to light.

Heritage tourism should relate to more than just places that figure on national, state or local registers.

The criteria used to justify registration usually have little to do with the kind of thematic storytelling that attracts visitors.

Themed heritage tourism routes should aim to make visitors look beyond the magnet that attracted them in the first instance.

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For example, visitors to the Clare Valley should have their attention drawn to other attractions in the wider region: Mintaro, Burra, Port Wakefield, Polish Hill River, Port Pirie, etc. This has the added benefit of encouraging visitors to extend their stays beyond a single day or overnight.

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Heritage Tourism HERITAGE TOURISM IN ADELAIDE Heritage walks, trails, guides, brochures, apps and websites should be built around recognised attractions, either as starting points or destinations. In the city, this means building on established visitor destinations. All the proposed routes set out in the next section start either at the Adelaide Convention Centre or at Ayers House in the East End. An effective heritage tourism program for the city will look beyond the ephemeral (Formula 1 racing, the Beatles visit) to places and themes of enduring interest.

As the National Trust has already demonstrated in its development of Adelaide City Explorer, the power of new technology and media must be used to the utmost extent for the promotion of heritage tourism.

Heritage tourism in the city should extend beyond celebration of registered state and local heritage items.

Much of Hindley and East Rundle Streets have no heritage listings, but taken together they offer wonderful opportunities to call attention to a rich architectural legacy.

Heritage tourism planners should be mindful of the wider context, especially the routes by which visitors approach the city for different purposes – holidays, shopping, sporting events and the like.

Approaching the city from Main North or South Road is not the most interesting or attractive option.

Routes to and from established tourist destinations should encourage travel on scenic and historic byways, rather than the fastest route from Adelaide. Travelling to McLaren Vale via Belair, Coromandel Valley, Clarendon, Blewitt Springs and Chapel Hill offers stunning vistas and riveting stories that eclipse anything the Southern Freeway can offer. Approaching the Flinders Ranges via Clare, Gladstone, Laura, Melrose, Quorn and Hawker offers magnificent scenery and an unfolding story of the ruined hopes of those who tried to push agriculture beyond the fatal bounds of Goyder’s Line.

In the following pages we present two examples of the heritage walks. You can view others by downloading the NTSA heritage tourism strategy paper at www.nationaltrust.org.au/initiatives-sa/

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The National Trust of South Australia offers a range of guided walks around the City of Adelaide and tours of significant buildings.

FIND OUT MORE BY VISITING:

nationaltrust.org.au/tours-and-walks-sa/ Or you can visit adelaidecityexplorer.com.au for more walk ideas and to download the mobile app.

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Market to Market This walk takes in some of the liveliest parts of the city, from the former East End wholesale market to the bustling Central Market. It is a veritable heritage sampler of buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Turn the corner into East Terrace to take in the historic façade and the old Wholesale Market Rules (2). Proceeding west into Rundle Street, the route takes us up a street that never shuts down, where cafes, restaurants and hotels take advantage of the heritage ambience.

In passing, note the Old Synagogue in Synagogue Lane, as well as the Austral Hotel.

While crossing Pulteney Street, take note to the north of you of Ruthven Mansions (3) (which had a built-in vacuum system when erected around 1912), Scots Church and Bonython Hall.

Moving on to Rundle Mall, look up at the peculiar red and white neo-Flemish upper story of 156 Rundle Mall (4), just ahead of turning to walk through Adelaide Arcade.

Emerging from the grand arcade on Grenfell Street, we turn west. Look left at Bertram House to see the Historian Hotel and the bluestone wall on the side of the old Wigg Stationery building.

When it was built in 1975, what locals call the ‘black stump’ (25 Grenfell Street) was one of the first international-style tower blocks in Adelaide. It sits across the street from the Trustee Building, considered a ‘skyscraper’ when it was built ca. 1915.

Working our way south alongside the ‘black stump’, we arrive at the old Stock Exchange building (6). The path now threads its way through the Town Hall complex. Beyond is the meeting hall Pilgrim Church, a remarkable building with renowned acoustics. Then we come to the Adina Hotel in the old Treasury building, Electra House, the GPO and the Harbours Board Building – famously, it was moved 34 metres in 1979 – before we arrive at the arcade between the old Moore’s department store, now a law court complex known as the Sir Samuel Way Building, and the Hilton Hotel that leads into the Central Market.

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City of faiths From here we walk down the hill and cross the Torrens River, where for tens of thousands of years ancestors of the Kaurna people performed ceremonies in a more exuberant fashion. One of the last corroborees held here in 1839 attracted a large crowd of colonists, who each paid a piece of silver to watch.

In years gone by Adelaide was known as the City of Churches, partly because of the diverse denominations that flourished here and partly because of the high quality of ecclesiastical architecture.

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his tour begins with the oldest Anglican church building in South Australia and finishes at one of the oldest mosques in the Southern Hemisphere.

Directly opposite the Convention Centre on North Terrace, Holy Trinity is not just a church but an impressive complex of buildings dating from the Victorian period.

Taking the dazzling new footbridge across the Torrens Lake, pass the Oval whose northern aspect has long been known in cricketing circles as ‘the cathedral end’. Behind the imposing edifice of St Peter’s Anglican cathedral sits a hidden treasure, the Friends Meeting House.

Quakers began meeting here in the 1840s in a prefabricated wooden building shipped from England.

Passing on via Lakeman Street into Kermode Street we encounter the venerable Kermode Street chapel, built in 1883. For many years it was home to a Church of Christ congregation. Like many other small chapels, this one has been a private home for many years.

A narrow lane threads its way between the archbishop’s palace and Christchurch, built in the same style. This was for many years the church of Adelaide high society.

Walking up the hill and into the city, we detour into east Rundle Street to note the former Jewish synagogue in Synagogue Place. Until its orthodox congregation moved out in the 1980s this was one of the longest continuously occupied synagogues in the world. Its art deco wrapping envelopes the still extant Victorian building designed

by Edmund Wright. It speaks eloquently of South Australia’s proud history of religious toleration.

Emerging on Jeffcott Street, we turn north to the grand neo-gothic Lutheran Seminary, once a private grammar school but more recently a training ground for pastors in a German Lutheran tradition with deep roots in South Australian history.

Moving on to Wellington Square we turn into Tynte Street at the corner site of the Primitive Methodist Church, designed by prominent architect Daniel Garlick, and proceed to the North Adelaide Baptist Church, a neoItalian Romanesque building with an extraordinary interior stepped preaching space graced by an equally grand organ. The acoustics for both sermons and music are famed among musicians.

Continuing on Frome Road and turning west into Flinders Street we encounter first Bethlehem Lutheran Church (1872), then St Paul’s former Anglican Church and Rectory, arriving eventually at Stow Memorial Pilgrim Church next to the historic old Treasury Building (now the Adina Hotel).

Passing via Margaret Street to Brougham Place, we encounter another landmark building, the Brougham Place Uniting Church.

Across Palmer Place to the north-west lies the charming and venerable architecture of Bishopscourt, home of successive Anglican archbishops of Adelaide.

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One block south on Victoria Square stands St Francis Xavier’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, whose building over 150 years rivals the stories of the great mediaeval European cathedrals. The foundation stone was laid in 1856, and construction went on sporadically over the next half-century. The lower section of the bell tower was constructed in the 1920s but not triumphantly completed until 1996.

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Heritage tourism in regional South Australia Many promising routes outside Adelaide suggest themselves for exploring. Each combines appreciation of heritage places with complementary experiences of natural wonders, cultural landscapes and history.

Historic wineries and villages of the Barossa Valley Approaching the Barossa via the Northern Expressway makes for a dreary ride from almost every point of view, at least as far as Roseworthy.

A heritage tourism approach can make sense of the Barossa from a geographic, historical and viticultural point of view. Approach the Barossa via Hahndorf, Birdwood and Eden Valley and every kilometre is scenic and establishes the theme of German settlement as a background.

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Villages of the Adelaide Hills The Adelaide Hills remain an underpromoted, largely unappreciated tourism asset. No other capital city can offer a comparable experience.

Until they achieve recognition as a destination in their own right, the easiest way to promote them is to persuade visitors travelling to and from Melbourne to desert

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the freeway for the Old Princes Highway. Since the expressway was built, towns along the old route have reasserted their nineteenth-century village character.

Every village along the way has a peculiar character easily revealed with proper guidance from mobile phones, beacons and websites.

Significant stops along the way include Crafers and Mt Lofty, Stirling and Aldgate, Bridgewater, Hahndorf, Littlehampton, Nairne, Kanmantoo and Callington – and Monarto, the town that never was that became instead an open-range zoo.

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Wines, mines and estates of the mid-north The deep and intricately connected big historical themes here are mining, pastoralism and viticulture.

Subsidiary themes such as religion, grand houses and group settlement make this a region of extraordinary interest.

One grand tour might look like this.

Begin at Ayers House to see the visible fruits of the fortune Henry Ayers made from the Burra mines.

On to Kapunda, Australia’s first real mining town, taking time to inspect Anlaby, the Dutton family seat.

Move on through historic Auburn and the wine centres of Leasingham and Watervale to Clare. The grand homes of great pastoralists at Wolta Wolta and Bungaree extend the theme of pastoral wealth. Move on via Sevenhill and Polish Hill River to Burra, then take the old copper road via Mintaro, Martindale Hall and Balaklava down to Port Wakefield.

Finish with the drive via Crystal Brook to Port Pirie.

Heartbreak trail to the Flinders Ranges The North Flinders Ranges are another established tourist destination. The two most travelled approaches are relatively flat and offer little in the way of scenic attractions. A much better route marked by numerous heritage places runs from the Clare Valley up through the Southern Flinders Ranges past Melrose and Quorn, and on to Wilpena.

The main themes here are geology, topography, climatology and agriculture. After the nineteenthcentury agitation from small farmers to have the huge pastoral runs broken up into small holdings for farmers, settlers were encouraged to push on beyond Goyder’s Line, despite the surveyor’s famous warning that rains were too unreliable to support agriculture. The ruins of Gordon, Kanyaka and other failed towns on the way to Hawker conjure up the heartbreak that came to those who convinced themselves that rain would follow the plough.

Much of the northern section of this route runs parallel to the Heysen Trail, which offers a complementary nature and cultural heritage experience.

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Germans in South Australia German settlement is a minor part of the history of European migration to Australia, but has special features that distinguish it from other settlement narratives.

The very large number of places and buildings associated with German migration is without parallel in Australia. The story has the added advantage of being associated with two established tourist destinations, Hahndorf and the Barossa.

The Hahndorf branch of the National Trust has done a great deal of archaeological and interpretive work that could help make the town an overnight rather than a daytrip tourist experience. There are a number of visible links to Hahndorf as a young Hans Heysen depicted it in the earlier drawings on display in his studio at The Cedars.

The German story, which is also an Adelaide Hills story, continues via Oakbank and Mount Torrens to Birdwood (former Blumberg) which dramatically illustrates the impact of World War I on people of German descent. Proceeding via Springton, the route takes in the Herbig Family Tree, which shows as few other sites can do what it was like to arrive with few possessions and nowhere to live. From here we move on to Collingrove, whose long association with the Angas family makes it an ideal spot to explain their role in bringing out the first German settlers.

Many other themed tours through regional South Australia offer great rewards. For details of some of them go to our extended suggestions at www.nationaltrust.org.au/initiatives-sa/.

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In the Garden

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 Conference 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, former 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 at Beaumount House. 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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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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In the Garden

Elsie Cornish, pioneer women and Stangate House camellias MERILYN KUCHEL

On April 19 this year, the Trustees of the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden joined representatives of the Australian Garden History Society, The Royal Flying Doctor Service, the Country Women’s Association, the Adelaide City Council and the National Council of Women to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Pioneer Women’s Garden.

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ocated to the north of Government House, the garden has in recent years been the site of Adelaide Writers’ Week events.

In 1935, the Women’s Centenary Council decided to raise money for a memorial to the pioneer women of South Australia. Fundraising activities included a pageant held at Her Majesty’s Theatre, and the publication of Leaves of Remembrance, which listed the names of 20,000 women who lived in South Australia during its first hundred years.

The funds raised were used to establish a Flying Doctor Base in Alice Springs, and to create the Pioneer Women’s Garden of Remembrance.

The garden was designed by Elsie Cornish, one of the state’s most respected landscape gardeners. The government astronomer, George Dodwell, designed the sundial and Melbourne sculptor Ola Cohn created the statue.

The Adelaide City Council maintains the garden. It has undergone several renovations and replantings over the years but retains Elsie Cornish’s basic design. She chose symbolic plantings, including Holm oak, myrtle, honeysuckle, lilac and box to represent protection, love, devotion,

memory, and stoicism in adversity ­– all characteristics of our pioneer women.

Cornish worked on other major landscaping projects in and around Adelaide, including Stangate House garden, bequeathed to the National Trust in 1967-1970 and now managed by the Mount Lofty branch. She helped with the design, planting and care of the garden. Her sister-in-law Gwenyth Cornish was the great-granddaughter of Robert Thomas, who arrived in Adelaide in 1836. He was co-founder and proprietor of the South Australian Gazette and the recipient of a grant of land on which the garden was created.

The garden has been the home of the Camellia Society Adelaide Hills since 1980. In 2012 it was recognised as an International Camellia Garden of Excellence, one of only three in Australia and 30 worldwide. Volunteers care for the garden and its collection, and hold many open days during winter and spring to allow the public to enjoy the stunning display of camellias in bloom.

Source Louise Bird, ‘Ephemeral plants/intangible meanings: The pioneer women’s memorial garden Adelaide’, Studies in Australian Garden History, vol. 3, 2012.

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Coming events at Stangate House Sunday July 24 – 1pm to 4pm Beatrix Potter’s 150th Birthday: Peter Rabbit, children’s activities, open fires, and Cornish tea and carrot cake. $5 entry, children under 14 free.

Sunday August 28 – 1pm to 4pm Almost spring and the camellias will be blooming! Open fires and Cornish tea. $5 entry, children under 14 free.

September – every Sunday from 12 noon to 4pm The Camellia Society Adelaide Hills will host Open Days featuring plant sales, trading table, advice and refreshments. $5 entry, children under 14 free.

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Copland Foundation Grant for Beaumont House Garden MERILYN KUCHEL AND ROD MATHESON

In early 2015 the National Trust of South Australia received a grant from The Copland Foundation to fund the development and installation of four large interpretive signs and fifteen descriptive labels for the Beaumont House Garden.

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he Copland Foundation was established from the legacy of the late Alexander Ewart Copland, an avid collector with a special interest in historic houses and their contents. The objects of its grants include the interpretation of the gardens of historic houses. The resulting signs enable visitors to Beaumont House at any time to appreciate fully the history of the garden and the people who have nurtured it.

Four large panels have been installed in the grounds describing the olive grove, Samuel Davenport’s horticultural experiments, the native plants in the garden, and the people associated with Beaumont House. Fifteen trees in the garden have their own signs listing botanical name, common name, place of origin and uses.

Chair of the Beaumont House Garden Committee Rod Matheson and horticultural adviser Merilyn Kuchel researched and edited the information and photographs.

They drew on the resources of the National Trust archives, the State Library of SA archives and the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board. The signs were designed and made by Richard Browning of Synthetic Creative Services.

The signs have considerably enhanced the visitor experience, and the response from visitors to the garden has been very positive. The National Trust is indebted to the Foundation for its support.

More information www.coplandfoundation.com.au

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Branch Spotlight

Mount Barker DON GOLDNEY

The Mount Barker branch of the National Trust, formed in 1969, does not have a building of its own and the branch has adjusted its activities accordingly. Some of its records are presently held at the local history centre.

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ith the support of the Mount Barker Council, the branch has produced a walks brochure that gives a brief history of the buildings and places around the town. It conducts heritage walks for schoolchildren and adults, and a new and updated walks brochure is being finalised.

The branch holds monthly meetings featuring interesting speakers on a range of subjects. Local members share their experiences of growing up in Mount Barker and elsewhere.

Speeches at our branch meetings were recorded and the tapes transferred to computer files for later copying to paper.

The branch puts a great deal of work into collecting and preserving the photographic record of the district. It has a large collection, amassed from private collections,

containing 5000 images and 800 A3-size photographs used for public displays. ln 2001, with the help of a Centenary of Federation Grant, the branch produced a book of photographs titled Then and Now: Photographic Mount Barker.

It has also mounted public displays of the collection for music and other festivals. It plans to copy its collection onto modern media.

Active in protecting and preserving sites of local heritage, the branch has worked with Council to place plaques at 46 sites, in addition to special plaques at the first home of Duncan McFarlane, the Triangle, the Quaker Meeting House, The Laurels, and the recent Pioneer Women’s Memorial. We have been active in defence of threatened heritage sites, stopping the demolition of the Dunn Mill, and having the Dunn Memorial Church and the historic

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Harrowfields building added to the State Heritage list. A long-standing task has been the preservation of the Dunn family crypt.

The branch is involved with many town projects, through Council consultations. The most recent are the Recreation Centre (Showgrounds) and the Nixon Mill.

It has lobbied Council to protect two parcels of land gifted to the town.

Future tasks include creating an inventory of the heritage buildings in the Town Register to determine their present condition, and production of a drives brochure showcasing the many special heritage and historical places that are never seen when the main roads are used.

Contact the Branch through either PO Box 1235 Mount Barker SA 5251 or phone 8367 5006.

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Preparation time: 10 mins Cooking time: 2-5 hours Serves: 4-6 Ingredients 1tbsp olive oil 1kg diced chicke n thigh meat 1 chorizo sausag e, diced 1 red onion, slice d 400g can diced tomato 100ml chicken stock 240ml jar Beeren berg Slow Cook er Spanish Chicke n 125gm green stu ffed olives (optio nal)

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Marmalade Festival

Calling all marma-lovers The National Trust of South Australia is partnering with Dalemain Estate in the United Kingdom, home of the World’s Original Marmalade Awards, to present the first Australian Marmalade Awards.

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ry your hand at producing Australia’s finest marmalade in either the home-made or artisan competitions. Prize awards and public tastings will take place at the Festival of Marmalade at Beaumont House in Adelaide during November.

An ancient tradition First produced in Europe more than 2000 years ago, marmalade represents a cooking tradition that has crossed the world. While Spanish, Portuguese, Scots and English people may claim it as their own invention, this unique bitter sweet preserve now belongs to everyone. The British have done the most to popularise this delicious citrus treat beloved of immortal characters such as Lewis Carroll’s Alice, Paddington Bear and even James Bond. Explorer Robert Scott took it with him to the Antarctic one hundred years ago, as did Sir Edmund Hilary when he climbed Mt Everest in 1953. A delicacy not for the faint hearted indeed!

Worldwide fame Over the last ten years Jane HasellMcCosh of Dalemain Estate in Cumbria has presented the annual World’s Original Marmalade Awards and Festival, which has become a huge and much anticipated event in the UK, numbering among its patrons Prince Charles, Fortnum & Masons and Paddington Bear!

Join the fun

Our own Beaumont House has been selected to host the judging and public celebration of the inaugural Australian Marmalade Competition Awards and Festival of Marmalade, which will take place on Sunday 20 November 2016.

Entries for the marmalade competition are open from 9 August to 31 October. As the home of some of the world’s finest citrus fruit, we look forward what our Australian marmalistas can produce.

Perhaps you are a champion marmalade maker or connoisseur?

Do you know a local artisan producer? Perhaps you produce citrus fruit for marmalade making.

Let us know your marmalade story. Better still, show us how it’s done with your own entry. Entry categories include Australian Orange, Any citrus, Marmalade with additions, Native fruits, Children’s and First Timers.

Competition guidelines and entry forms and more information can be found on our website at www.nationaltrust.org.au/event/ marmalade-festival/ Or contact Helen Cartmel our events manager, on (08) 8202 9213 or by email to events@nationaltrustsa.org.au for all other enquiries.

Happy marmalade making!

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Hahndorf Walk

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his year’s Hahndorf Pioneer Women’s Walk was conducted on a beautiful Sunday in May. A record number of 411 participants joined the walk, up more than 100 on the previous year. The 26 kilometre walk commemorates the women who made the long journey from the early German settlement at Hahndorf to Adelaide to bring their produce to market. It follows in their footsteps out of Hahndorf, and across the Onkaparinga River before joining the official Pioneer Women’s trail at Verdun. After winding through Bridgewater and Stirling the walk traverses beautiful bushland in Mt George and Cleland Conservation Parks, before finally emerging onto stunning city views and the descent into Burnside and the final destination at Beaumont House for some welcome relaxation and refreshment.

Next year’s walk is planned for Sunday 7 May 2017.

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Exhibition

Goolwa looks for lost war heroes

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he exhibition aims to fill in the missing faces by appealing to the public for images and more information about them.

During World War I all men who enlisted from Goolwa were photographed, a project that continued right through the war as men enlisted. The photographs were framed and hung in the Goolwa Institute Hall, where they remained for many years after the war. Eventually, they were taken down and handed to the Goolwa RSL sub-branch. Over time the images deteriorated until all were eventually lost.

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So far there are 30 photographs.

The Branch is inviting members of the Goolwa community and general public to provide further photographs of men (and one woman) whose names appear on the wall. The picture frames were generously prepared by local picture framers Carol and Ray Coventry of Coventry Lane Picture Framing.

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The memorial wall was officially unveiled by ABC 891 radio host Peter Goers, who gave a moving speech about remembrance of those who served and were lost.

Returning the images of these soldiers to a place of honour will ensure they are not lost to future generations.

The exhibition runs until November at Goolwa National Trust History Centre, 11 Porter Street Goolwa.

The Goolwa Branch of the National Trust secured a grant from The Department of Veterans Affairs under the ANZAC Centenary Local Grants Programme to re-create the collection and mount it in the Goolwa History Centre. Funding has also come from Alexandrina Council and the Goolwa RSL. The names of those who enlisted and are recorded on the town Cenotaph and the Tablets in the Memorial Gardens will be the basis of the collection. The wall has provision for 117 frames, each of which has a name and service number until a photograph of the If you think you may be able to contribute any information or photographs of World War I service personnel who may have enlisted at Goolwa, please contact Anthony Presgrave at anthony.presgrave@bigpond.com

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WW1 war heroes

A remarkable new exhibition at the Goolwa National Trust History Centre aims to revive and share memories of local people who served in World War I. A wall within the building has been given over to a display of picture frames, one for each known person from the local area who served during World War I. There are more than one hundred picture frames, but most of them are empty except for a name below.

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Places to Stay

Heron’s Bend at Overland Corner BOB CORNWELL

Heron’s Bend is just up the road from the Overland Corner Hotel, owned by the National Trust and still a popular watering hole.

The hotel takes its name from the bend in the Murray river that nineteenth-century drovers used as a crossing for stock being moved from New South Wales to South Australia.

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eron’s Bend is the site of old police stables now operated by the Overland Corner branch of the Trust as a three-bedroom holiday cottage. The original police station, well up above the floodplains on the river, is now a private home.

The cottage was modified in the late 1940s as a dwelling. The lease on it expired in December 2014. The local branch considered options for its future use and resolved to transform it for short-term holiday rental.

Branch members had noticed the success of holiday-stay buildings operated by other Trust branches throughout the state.

But the house needed extensive refitting, and the branch had to find the money. In the first half of 2015, a project business plan prepared by the Branch secured

State Office support to fund a loan for the renovations. Around a dozen volunteers from the branch put in over 2 000 hours on the project, and welcomed the first visitors to “The Riverfront Cottage” in December last year.

Between the cottage and river is an expanse of precious and iconic wetlands that are rich in the history of both Indigenous and European occupation. Aboriginal people lived among the wetlands for thousands of years before European settlement, drawing on the abundant resources of the river. Later, overlanders grazed their cattle in the wetlands to fatten them before they drove them to market in Adelaide. The local branch has managed these wetlands for more than 20 years, using funds from grants obtained by networking with partners, both state and federal,

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River at Heron’s Bend, Overland Corner Hotel, Heron’s Bend cottage, Wetlands between the river and the cottage. Photos the National Trust (the wetlands) and Robert Dare.

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as well as private organisations.

Now, they are able to supplement these resources by leasing the cottage.

The two-storey cottage has three bedrooms, modern facilities in the kitchen, laundry and bathrooms, a large air-conditioned sitting room, and outdoor cooking and eating areas. It is 15 minutes from Barmera and Lake Bonney, and around twoand-a-half hours from Adelaide. A boat ramp gives access to the river, and the area offers a number of walking and nature trails.

For details and bookings, go to Stayz.com.au and enter Overland Corner.

Events AYERS HOUSE

BURNSIDE BRANCH

¼¼ Ayers House on North Terrace is Adelaide’s finest Victorian-era home, with some of the finest painted decoration in the nation.

The National Trust Museum is open 10am- 5pm Tuesday – Sunday. Guided tours available on the hour. Admission $10 adults.

National Trust members free.

¼¼ Beaumont House Guided tours.

Speaker: John Thomas, Burnside Branch-Beaumont House Curator Sunday 7 August, 4 September Time: 2 – 4.30pm Cost: Adults $10, incl afternoon tea Enquiries Burnside Branch: Chris Perriam (08) 8362 3036, email: perriamci@bigpond.com.au

Please note that Ayers House Museum will be closed for the month of August in preparation for our major new exhibition.

¼¼ Topic: ‘The Beaumont House Collection on the MOSAIC System’ Friday 9 September Time: 7pm Cost: Adult $10 and bring a supper plate to share.

Place: Beaumont House, 631 Glynburn Rd Beaumont Bookings & Enquiries: Jill Phone: (08) 8379 5782, email: jillianmhamilton@bigpond.com

¼¼ The Dressmaker Costume Exhibition Hot on the heels of the hit movie The Dressmaker, the National Trust presents a major new exhibition of Marion Boyce’s masterful costume design from the film.

Set in the dusty town of Dungatar in the 1950’s, experience the journey of transformation made through the artful and luxurious costumes worn

by Kate Winslet and the cast of The Dressmaker.

Z WARD ¼¼ Have you had the Z Ward experience yet? Hurry to book online as tours sell out quickly Go behind the walls of the notorious Z Ward at the former Glenside Mental Hospital. For almost 90 years it was home to those classified as “criminally insane” on the overlapping edges of criminality and mental illness.

This guided tour explores the architecture and social history of this remarkable building.

Sunday July 24, August 7, and Saturday August 20 at 2.00pm Place: start from Z Ward at rear of 63 Conyngham St Glenside Enquiries: Victoria Hardy (08) 8223 1234, booking email bookings@nationaltrustsa.org.au Online Bookings Popular Z Ward Night Tours are back Most Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays (other nights available on request) Time: 7.30 - 9.30pm (Duration approx. 1 hour and 45 minutes) Cost: $38 pp Suitable for ages 15+ (Parents understand our tours are kept real, can get very scary at times, and you take full responsibility) Bookings: adelaidehauntedhorizons. com.au TO LIST YOUR EVENT EMAIL: publications@nationaltrustsa.org.au

BURRA BRANCH ¼¼ Come along and experience a working Blacksmith at the forge at Bon Accord Museum Saturday and Sunday 16-17 July, 20-21 August, 17-18 September Time: 10am – 3pm Place: Bon Accord Museum, Corner West Street and Railway Terrace Burra Enquiries: (08) 8892 2154 MOUNT BARKER BRANCH ¼¼ Speaker: Tony Finnis, Subject: Establishment of Mount Barker involving his forebear Captain John Finnis Tuesday 2 August AGM, Speaker: Wayne Barrie Subject: The Boer War and Mount Barker Tuesday 6 September Time: 1:30pm Place: Uniting Church Hall Mann Street Mount Barker All Mount Barker Branch Enquiries: Chairman: Don Goldney (08) 8367 5006, Secretary: Triss Wales (08) 8389 9281 MOUNT LOFTY BRANCH ¼¼ Open Day - Beatrix Potter’s 150th Birthday - children’s activities plus Cornish Tea and carrot cake Sunday 24 July ¼¼ Open Day - Camellias in bloom plus Cornish Tea Sunday 28 August Time: 1pm to 4pm Cost: $5 entry, children under 14 free Place: Stangate House, 3 Edgeware Road Aldgate SA

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All Mount Lofty Branch Enquiries: Mob: 0408 081 124, email@stangatehouse.org.au 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. ¼¼ One Day Only: Cell Block Opening Come and view the recently re-located and restored 1920’s cell block. Learn of policing in early Tea Tree Gully.

Sunday 21 August ¼¼ One Day Only: Spring in the Garden Sunday 18th September Time: 1.00-4.00pm Cost: Adult $5, Conc $4, Children Free ¼¼ School Holiday Event: A World Fun and Fantasy An exciting hands-on display of old-fashioned entertainment including puppetry, hand shadows, stereoscope, lantern slides. Watch a silent movie, enjoy a pantomime be charmed!

Sunday 17 to Sunday 24 July Time: 10am-2pm Cost: $3.00 per person Place: Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum, 3 Perseverance Road, Tea Tree Gully All Tea Tree Gully Branch Enquiries: Phone: (08) 8251 3499, www.ttgmuseum.on.net VICTOR HARBOR BRANCH ¼¼ AGM - Followed by General Meeting Thursday 18 August Time: 2 pm Place: Old School Building, Torrens St, Victor Harbor Cost: $2.00 ¼¼ Celebrations: 150 years since the building of the Old Customs/ Stationmasters’ House.

Display of photos and information.

Monday 19 September to Friday 23 September (Official celebration afternoon on 23rd) Time: 1- 4pm Cost: Adults $6, Conc $5, Children $4, Family $16 Place: Encounter Coast Discovery Centre and Museum, 2 Flinders Pde, Victor Harbor All Victor Harbor Branch Enquiries: Val Yelds (08) 8552 4440

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Stanley Spencer: a twentiethcentury British Master First exhibition in Australia in fifty years The centrepiece of Carrick Hill’s thirtieth anniversary of its opening to the public will be an exhibition of national significance entitled Stanley Spencer: a twentieth-century British Master running from 3 August to 4 December 2016.

Carrick Hill, 46 Carrick Hill Drive, Springfield Open Wednesday to Sundays and Public Holidays 10.00 am to 4:30 pm. www.carrickhill.sa.gov.au Sunflower by Stanley Spencer

The Art Deco & Modernism Society invite you to join us for a Fashion Parade highlighting the fun and frolics of Art Deco and 20th Century Fashion with scrumptious Devonshire Tea!

Saturday 6th August 1.45pm for a 2pm start North Adelaide Community Centre, 176 Tynte Street Bookings Essential: $30.00 Online at: www.trybooking.com/LPNL

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E L E C T I O N TO N AT I O N A L T R U S T C O U N C I L

Nominations are now open for five vacancies on the National Trust Council for Regional Councillors representing the following regions: Central, Eyre Peninsula, Riverland, Southern and Hills and Yorke Peninsula. Nominees must be members of the National Trust of South Australia, and be aged at least 18 years. Any two current members of the Trust may nominate a member for election to a vacancy. Incumbents who have served their two year term may renominate. The closing date for nominations to these vacancies is Wednesday 31 August 2016. For nomination forms or more information please contact Helen Cartmel, Executive Administrator on 8202 9213 or at executiveadmin@nationaltrustsa.org.au

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St Peter’s Church Glenelg - Great West Window St Peter’s Church has an iconic place in the heart of Glenelg. One rarely meets a person who is not familiar with the church in the middle of the road! The land itself was set aside for a church at Glenelg by Colonel William Light in 1840. The first church built in 1852 soon proved too small and a new church was built and opened in 1883.

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very week visitors to St Peter’s Anglican Church at Glenelg are taken by the beauty of the stained glass windows they discover here.

Of particular note are the Great East window and the Great West window. From the main entrance you are immediately struck by the vibrant colors and beautiful scenes of the Great East window, which was restored in 1999.

But the Great West window is the surprise factor.

When you turn around, your eyes are drawn to the power of this dramatic window, which depicts themes of resurrection and life. This beautiful window is the lasting impression you are left with as you leave the church.

The Great West window has a treasured place in the fabric of the church and was installed in 1913. It was made in London by prominent English firm Heaton, Butler & Bayne. The triple-lancet gothic window is made of mouth-blown antique glass and flashed glass with hand-milled lead.

The window consists of three lights. The left light is in memory of James Francis Cudmore and his wife Margaret. The Central light was erected by the congregation in memory of Helen Johnstone.

The right light was erected to the memory of Janet, wife of Sir James Penn Boucaut, who was a former Attorney-General and Premier of South Australia.

The Great West window is now in need of restoration to ensure its life for the future. It will take six months for renowned glass artisan Frans Kat to remove, restore and conserve the window and replace the protective exterior covering. The lead is deteriorating, with some areas of bowing and cracking and with significant loss of putty. Some of the glass is missing, as are some support bars. The estimated cost of repair and restoration is $100 000.

The National Trust has launched a fund raising appeal to support restoration of the window. You can find out more or make a donation by visiting www.saheritagefoundation.com.au/st-petersgreat-west-window-appeal

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West Window, St Peter’s Church, Glenelg. Photo: St Peter’s Church Glenelg.

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Costume Exhibition

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1 September–11 December

Ayers House Museum 288 North Terrace Adelaide (08) 8223 1234