Newsletters & Bulletin

The Burnside Historical Society published quarterly newsletters from 1980 to 2020. The newsletters contain Society news and notices, summaries of meetings and articles of historical interest, usually with a Burnside focus. The first Volume was in December 1980 and there were 5 issues – December 1980, March 1981, June 1981, September 1981 and December 1981. Copies of these are available on this website. They can also be viewed in the Local History room at the City of Burnside Library.

From October 2019 a Bulletin has been produced instead of the newsletter. The early issues were irregular however they have become bi-monthly.

From 2021 the Society began producing an annual larger publication, a Journal highlighting the Society’s activities and meetings for the year. This includes articles of historical interest, usually with a Burnside focus.

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2022

August, 2022 (Issue. 5)

Bulletin
Burnside Historical Society bulletin, August, 2022, cover
  • Program for remainder of 2023
  • The History of heritage listing or not in Burnside - 15th August

2021

December, 2021

Journal
Burnside Historical Society journal, December, 2021, cover
  • President’s Reflections
  • Committee & Subcommittees
  • BHS Outings
  • May History Festival
  • BHS Key Activities

2020

June, 2020 (Vol. 40, No. 2)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, June, 2020, cover
  • BHS President's Annual Report
  • Burnside Historical Society, some comments from the past
  • Vale James and Barbara Crompton

March, 2020 (Vol. 40, No. 1)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, March, 2020, cover
  • Burnside Historical Society's 40th year
  • Osmond Gilles grave restoration
  • Walter Silzer

2019

December, 2019 (Vol. 39, No. 4)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, December, 2019, cover
  • From the Ground Up - creating our dream home
  • Margaret Preiss’s 90th Birthday

September, 2019 (Vol. 39, No. 3)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, September, 2019, cover
  • Osmond Gilles Grave Restoration Project
  • Toorak the Beautiful
  • Burnside Primary School - 150 years

June, 2019 (Vol. 39, No. 2)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, June, 2019, cover
  • Tribute - Dr Christopher Durrant
  • Tribute - Marjorie Andrew
  • Meeting Report - SA Women Serving in WW2
  • BHS visits Mylor
  • Memories - Valerie Comport - Part 2

March, 2019 (Vol. 39, No. 1)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, March, 2019, cover
  • 2019 SA History Festival
  • Recollections of Magill - part two
  • Memories - Valerie J Comport

2018

December, 2018 (Vol. 38, No. 4)

Newsletter
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  • Historical and Cultural Officer - welcome Laura Evans
  • The Margins of the Good Earth - BHS regional tour
  • Burnside Street Names and their Origins - another revealed
  • Recollections of Magill - Part one
  • A Beam on SunBEEm Honey

September, 2018 (Vol. 38, No. 3)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, September, 2018, cover
  • George Demasius - the man behind Demasius Ltd Part 3
  • May Gibbs with her family in South Australia
  • SA History Festival - BHS events
  • Moorcroft Interpretive Panel unveiling

June, 2018 (Vol. 38, No. 2)

Newsletter
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  • Tributes to long-standing Members
  • Memories of Monreith
  • George Demasius - the man behind Demasius Ltd. Part 2
  • SunBEEm Honey revisited

March, 2018 (Vol. 38, No. 1)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, March, 2018, cover
  • BHS SA History Festival 2018 events
  • BHS Regional Tour 7-9 September
  • George Demasius - the man behind Demasius Ltd
  • Memories of working at Demasius department store

2017

December, 2017 (Vol. 37, No. 4)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, December, 2017, cover
  • Unveiling of the Malt Factory plaque
  • A visit to SunBEEm Honey
  • Dr Alexander Stewart Paterson - Colonial Surgeon
  • The Burnside Ballroom

September, 2017 (Vol. 37, No. 1)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, September, 2017, cover
  • BHS History Quiz Night
  • Glenside Hospital then and now - meeting report
  • Memories of the Demasius Store

June, 2017 (Vol. 37, No. 2)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, June, 2017, cover
  • Burnside Walks mobile app launch
  • Coopers on Statenborough
  • Memories of working in the Burnside Council area

February, 2017 (Vol. 37, No. 1)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, February, 2017, cover
  • David Mattingley awarded Legion of Honour
  • Wendy McGuffog: Community Volunteer of the Year
  • Tusmore Park Gates
  • Archives: from Babylon to Burnside
  • Finnisbrook watermill: a United Kingdom connection

2016

December, 2016 (Vol. 36, No. 4)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, December, 2016, cover
  • Vale Elizabeth Warburton
  • A weekend in Rain Shadow country

September, 2016 (Vol. 36, No. 3)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, September, 2016, cover
  • What is happening at Wheal Watkins?
  • Malt extraction: a sticky business Part two

June, 2016 (Vol. 36, No. 2)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, June, 2016, cover
  • Malt Extraction: a sticky business
  • Old Joe - Samela Harris
  • My recollections of Joe Shay - Sonia McCarron

March, 2016 (Vol. 36, No. 1)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, March, 2016, cover
  • Private 3872 Rufus Gordon Rigney 48th Battalion AIF
  • The Glen Osmond Silver Lead Mines in the Early 1960s

2015

December, 2015 (Vol. 35, No. 4)

Newsletter
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  • The Story of the Lone Pine and Remembrance Day
  • Walker's King Violet Farm
  • St Austell - history of house and garden
  • Migration of Harz miners to South Australia
  • Coorong Dreaming - book review

September, 2015 (Vol. 35, No. 3)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, September, 2015, cover
  • Joyce Steele and Jessie Cooper
  • A. Simpson and Son
  • Charles Todd, Government Electrician
  • Knoxville Real Estate Posters
  • Was he your neighbour? Leon Maxwell Gellert

June, 2015 (Vol. 35, No. 2)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, June, 2015, cover
  • AGM President's Report
  • AGM Treasurer's Report
  • How has Constable Hyde been remembered in Burnside?

March, 2015 (Vol. 35, No. 1)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, March, 2015, cover
  • Heritage Awards, City of Burnside
  • Kennion House-the Anglican Boys' Home in Walkerville
  • The Cheer-Up Society of First World War SA
  • The Parish Church of Glen Osmond - St Saviour's
  • Kensington Park RSL Request for information on initials on memorial

2014

December, 2014 (Vol. 34, No. 4)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, December, 2014, cover
  • Art Decor
  • Mary Penfold
  • Coorong Regional Tour
  • Undelcarra Garden Walk
  • Hyde Inquest and Funeral

September, 2014 (Vol. 34, No. 3)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, September, 2014, cover
  • Nineteenth century postt-contact Adelaide archaeology
  • Searching Coromandel Valley's history
  • Dorrit Black retrospective
  • Constable William Hyde
  • The Teapot and the Bible

June, 2014 (Vol. 34, No. 2)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, June, 2014, cover
  • Edward Maurice Grant-The forgotten electrical pioneer
  • Magill Cemetery and seat
  • Lionel Gee and the War Memorial Pavilion
  • Local History for Schools @ Burnside Library
  • Burnside Historical Society-A History

March, 2014 (Vol. 34, No. 1)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, March, 2014, cover
  • George Woodroffe Goyder
  • Journey in wine: 125 years of Angove family winemakers
  • Memory Chains - Living, Working, Playing in the City of Burnside, 1945-65
  • Constable Hyde Memorial Garden
  • Inaugural Heritage Awards City of Burnside

2013

December, 2013 (Vol. 33, No. 4)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, December, 2013, cover
  • Flower Power: George Smith an Adelaide Landscape Gardener
  • Future of the Royal Adelaide Hospital Heritage Precinct
  • John Dunn: the father of Mount Barker
  • Charles Campbell's backyard - then and now
  • Burnside Village

September, 2013 (Vol. 33, No. 3)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, September, 2013, cover
  • Australian Exploration,some personal reflections
  • Thirty years of the BHS
  • Burnside's first industrial zone
  • Survey of Burnside's plaques post 1995

June, 2013 (Vol. 33, No. 2)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, June, 2013, cover
  • Program for 2013
  • The extended index for the Paddocks Beneath
  • Ken Preiss. A personal appreciation
  • The Gilles Brothers and the Glen Osmond Mine Dispute
  • A Tree Grows in Burnside

March, 2013 (Vol. 33, No. 1)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, March, 2013, cover
  • South Coast Regional Tour
  • History Month Program
  • Burnside's heritage - one lost & one retained
  • Different fortunes 150 years ago - McDouall Stuart and Burke and Wills
  • Murray House

2012

December, 2012 (Vol. 32, No. 4)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, December, 2012, cover
  • Eastern Region Historical Societies Seminar report
  • Plaques in the City of Burnside
  • Monreith-the first 90 years

September, 2012 (Vol. 32, No. 3)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, September, 2012, cover
  • Visit to Magill Cemetery and Magill Stone Mines
  • Bell Yett Interpretive sign and plaque unveiling
  • Memories of Bell Yett when a Convent of Mercy
  • John McDouall Stuart Statue

March, 2012 (Vol. 32, No. 1)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, March, 2012, cover
  • About Time - SA's History Festival
  • Wheal Watkins Mine benefactor
  • AGM agenda and nomination form
  • Adelaide Technical High School

2011

December, 2011 (Vol. 31, No. 4)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, December, 2011, cover
  • State History Conference
  • Burnside Primary School Jubilee 150 Celebrations
  • Wattle Park Reservoir

September, 2011 (Vol. 31, No. 3)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, September, 2011, cover
  • Visit to Ferguson Conservation Park
  • Bombing Darwin
  • Burnside War Memorial Hospital
  • Our City: Burnside the Beautiful

March, 2011 (Vol. 31, No. 1)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, March, 2011, cover
  • Program for 2011
  • AGM agenda & nomination form
  • State History Week
  • Linden Avenue, then and now photos

2010

December, 2010 (Vol. 30, No. 4)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, December, 2010, cover
  • Upper Spencer Gulf Regional Tour
  • The Flinders Ranges
  • Caroline Emily Clark
  • State History Conference

September, 2010 (Vol. 30, No. 3)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, September, 2010, cover
  • Eastern Regional Seminar Reports
  • Certificates of Appreciation
  • Gorebats - a Postwar Construction System

March, 2010 (Vol. 30, No. 1)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, March, 2010, cover
  • Vale Alan Cross
  • Eastern Regional Seminar
  • Magill Cemetery
  • Chelsea Cinema

2009

December, 2009 (Vol. 29, No. 4)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, December, 2009, cover
  • Mayor's Letter
  • State History Conference
  • Blue Gum Reserve
  • Introducing the Vice President
  • History of Sound

September, 2009 (Vol. 29, No. 3)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, September, 2009, cover
  • Toll House and Gate
  • The Gatehouse of Linden Estate
  • Recollections of my Earlier Years
  • Nurses' Home, Glenside Hospital

March, 2009 (Vol. 29, No. 1)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, March, 2009, cover
  • A Phoenix arises at Marble Hill
  • Mt. Osmond-Greenhill Ash Wednesday Fire
  • Ferguson Conservation Park

2008

December, 2008 (Vol. 28, No. 4)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, December, 2008, cover
  • State History Conference
  • Richard Schomburgk
  • Introducing Colin Harris - a new committee member
  • Recollections of my early years- Edna Bayfield

September, 2008 (Vol. 28, No. 3)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, September, 2008, cover
  • Eastern Regional Seminar Report
  • Recollections of my early years - Edna Bayfield
  • The Anderson Cottages

June, 2008 (Vol. 28, No. 2)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, June, 2008, cover
  • State History Conference
  • Recollections of my early years by Edna Bayfield

March, 2008 (Vol. 28, No. 1)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, March, 2008, cover
  • Further information on Black Family
  • Bennetts Magill Pottery

2007

December, 2007 (Vol. 27, No. 4)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, December, 2007, cover
  • The Last Mail to Birdsville
  • The Founders of South Australia: Who Should we Venerate?
  • Land Settlement on Yorke Peninsula
  • Tusmore

September, 2007 (Vol. 27, No. 3)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, September, 2007, cover
  • Clement Lindley Wragge: meteorologist and eccentric
  • Irish orphans in South Australia
  • Recollections of two early houses, Mount Lofty (Keir’s Cottage and Mt Lofty House)
  • Gandy’s Gully

June, 2007 (Vol. 27, No. 2)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, June, 2007, cover
  • Stonyfell and Stonyfell House
  • Burnside - Towards and Environmental History
  • St Gill's Artistic Style on the South Australian Frontier
  • Looking for the Wine Shop at Greenhill

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1981

September, 1981 (Vol. 1, No. 4)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, September, 1981, cover
  • 125th Celebrations of Burnside
  • Launch of Elizabeth Warburton's "The Paddocks Beneath"
  • Walks and bus tours of Burnside for 500 people
  • Survey of wine and olive oil industry in Burnside by Geoffrey Bishop
  • Ferguson Conservation Park
  • Cemeteries
  • Kurralta
  • A foothills Church - St David's Church

June, 1981 (Vol. 1, No. 3)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, June, 1981, cover
  • 125th Anniversary historic walks - Burnside, Rose Park and old Knightsbridge
  • University of Adelaide Dept. of Continuing Education Seminar on the History of Burnside
  • Historical Mini-bus tours of three 1856 foothills villages of Burnside
  • Colonel William Light's survey of Adelaide and foothills

March, 1981 (Vol. 1, No. 2)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, March, 1981, cover
  • Inspection of Penfold's Vineyard and Dr Penfold's 1844 house
  • Edwardian Burnside as seen by Mrs. C.M.Lambert, grand-daughter of J. and K Rodgers

1980

December, 1980 (Vol. 1, No. 1)

Newsletter
Burnside Historical Society newsletter, December, 1980, cover
  • Police Historical Society spoke about murder of Foot-Constable Hyde in 1909
  • Mr and Mrs George Greenham on reminiscences of the early days of Norton Summit
  • Ken Preiss spoke on the landscape and flora of the foothills and the southern Adelaide plains
  • Burnside the Beautiful painting by W Follen Bishop dated 1915
  • Burnside noted as a small postal township in suburban Adelaide near Second Creek

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