17th Eastern Region History Seminar (ERHS) – Saturday 28 February 2026

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The seminar is designed to foster inspiration and collaboration, facilitate the exchange of information and ideas, and build bridges between local history groups.

Keynote Address by Richard Venus: Building Bridges Over the Torrens in the Early Days of Adelaide

Saturday 28 February 2026
10am – 3pm
Burnside Town Hall
401 Greenhill Road, Tusmore
(Accessibility friendly)

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Presentation Notes

View Anna Graves, Chairperson, Prospect Local History Group, presentation to the Eastern Region History Seminar, 28 February 2026.

Reflecting on the theme of the seminar, it came to mind a number of the ways we use the word ‘bridge’ in everyday language. So, she thought she would structure her talk around some common idioms which use the word ‘bridge’, and she called her talk “An Idioms Guide to Local History”.

Visit to the Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum

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The Museum:  Much to explore and experience

3 Perseverance Rd, Tea Tree Gully SA 5091

Tuesday 5 April 12 noon – 3.00pm

Light lunch on arrival, Introductory talk, Museum entry and self-guided tour

The Museum is housed in the old heritage listed Highercombe Hotel and includes the prominent  two storey blue stone Hotel opened in 1854, plus display pavilions, police holding cell and working  blacksmith shop. The grounds include lawn and gardens and displays of agricultural machinery.  The varied displays feature the domestic and agricultural lifestyles of people in the Tea Tree Gully  area from the 1850s to the 1950s

 

COST AND BOOKING ARRANGEMENTS

Cost $20 (light lunch and Museum entry)

Booking Arrangements

  • Bookings and full payment of $20 to be completed by Monday 21 March.
  • Phone Bookings to: 0422705916 (Liz Silz)
  • Money can be transferred by EFT to: Burnside Historical Society
  • BSB: 105086, Ac No: 330298840
  • OR Pay in cash at the BHS March meeting on Monday 21 March.

Transport: Own vehicles.

If needing transport, then please advise at time of booking.  We can arrange car-pooling from the car park of the Burnside Community Centre departing at 11.20am.

 

 

XVth EASTERN REGION HISTORY SEMINAR 2021

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East Torrens Historical Society Inc invites you to the History Seminar

LOOKING BEHIND AND FORWARD

Saturday 23rd October 2021

Marble Hill Stables, 314 Marble Hill Road, Marble Hill 5137

 

9.20 am             Registration

10.00 am           Welcome   

                            Dr Geoffrey Bishop, President, East Torrens Historical Society and                                                                      Dr Patricia Michell, Heritage Director, Marble Hill

10.15 am            Guest Speaker: Ian Hamilton, Arcuate Architects – ‘Battle of the Styles’:  Exploring                              the conflict in the mid-1800s in Glasgow (then the second city of the British Empire)                                      between neoclassical and neogothic, drawing comparisons with what was happening in                                South Australia around the same time.

11.00 am           Morning Tea

11.30 am           Group Reports – groups present a project by their organisation during the past year or                               a project being planned (5 minutes each plus question time at the end of the session.)

1.00 pm            Lunch

1.45 pm             Site tours – Marble Hill – a restoration project in action.  Guided tours of the Stables                                    and  grounds, including hilltop lookout.  (No public access to main residence which is                                    still a building site).

3.15 pm             Afternoon tea and closure of the seminar

 

Seminar hosted by East Torrens Historical Society Inc. and Marble Hill Heritage

Our thanks to the Michell family for hosting the seminar at Marble Hill

Visit to Port Adelaide Historical Society Museum and District

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Day Visit to Port Adelaide

Thursday 14 October 2021

Bookings and payments to be finalised by Monday 31 August to Cathy Bransbury and Treasurer

Cost $15 on bus 

or $7 per car

(This includes entrance to Museum and tour of District)

Lunch at Birkenhead Tavern at own cost,

Bus departs Council car park at 9.15 am 

 

10.00 am     Arrival at Port Adelaide Historical Society’s Museum at 95 Fletcher Rd, Peterhead

                                      Morning Tea, Tour of Museum, Talk by PAHS member

12 noon       Lunch at the very popular Birkenhead Tavern at your own expense

                                      Wide range of reasonably priced meals, 20% discount for all Seniors

2.00 pm       Afternoon tour of historic points of interest in and around Port Adelaide

                                      eg the Lighthouse, Semaphore, Fort Glanville and Port Misery

4.00 pm      Return to Burnside by 4.00 pm

 

Wheal Watkins 1843 Heritage Mine, Glen Osmond Above-Ground Guided Tour

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A History Festival Event

Wheal Watkins was part of Australia’s first metalliferous mining area.  It is a 178 year old silver-lead mine site that became the introduction to Cornish mining in South Australia. The area was worked in the 1840’s and was the forerunner to the mining industry based on copper in SA. It transformed the economy of South Australia from depression to rapid growth and prosperity.

 

Sunday 16 May 2021, for 1 h0ur

Groups limited to 16

Bookings required

Starting either 1.00 pm or 2.30 pm, arrive 15 mins prior

Cost: Adults  $5.00

Phone 0439 478 352

 

Sturdy closed in footwear needed.  Not suitable for wheelchairs. Walkers require a moderate degree of mobility as lengthy, undulating track and steps to get up and down along the path.

Meet guide at Wheal Watkins Reserve Fire Track, Allandale Avenue, Glen Osmond.  Park near 23 Allandale Avenue. but there are only a few parks at end of the road.