XVth EASTERN REGION HISTORY SEMINAR 2021

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