Archive: News Posts

Heritage is an election issue of interest to many people. The National Trust is convening a public forum to debate the risks and opportunities for our heritage with MPs and candidates from major parties invited to respond to your questions about heritage in a Q&A style format on Thursday 15 ... Continue Reading »

Our understanding of the Victorian era is often shaped by two extremes: the refined wealth of the aristocracy, and the harsh Dickensian squalor of the poor and working class who toiled at the coalface of the Industrial Revolution. A stroll down East Terrace reveals both sides of life in 1800s ... Continue Reading »

March might be over, but Adelaide’s festival season has just begun! The Australian Heritage Festival is nearly upon us, bringing with it a program packed with rare insights and fascinating adventures in local heritage and history. The 2017 Australian Heritage Festival theme is Having a Voice and we invite communities across ... Continue Reading »

We’ve all walked past it, watched a busker strum beside it or collapsed at its base from shopping-induced exhaustion. But you might not know that the Rundle Mall fountain is actually one of the last surviving links to one of the biggest parties Adelaide has ever seen. The year is 1887, ... Continue Reading »

This week is Australian Heritage Week, a national celebration of our heritage, a chance to discover our built, cultural and natural heritage.  This year's program includes talks, guided walks, performances, a children's play day and new ways to explore our heritage with the Adelaide City Explorer mobile app.  ... Continue Reading »

The National Trust of South Australia, in partnership with Adelaide City Council, is launching today a new mobile app and website to promote the city’s heritage and encourage visitors and locals alike to take a fresh look at the city and its remarkable architecture and heritage places. Adelaide City Explorer is ... Continue Reading »

Heritage is in the news again at Adelaide Oval. With the first flush of excitement over the redeveloped oval, heritage is once more under threat from those who would remove all traces of the past from Adelaide’s iconic cricket ground. In the rush to embrace the new, a few commentators have ... Continue Reading »

In less than a fortnight, Adelaide's renowned live music hot spot, The Jade Monkey, will reopen it doors at a recently restored heritage venue on Flinders Street. The 150 year old building is located at 160 Flinders Street, which is part of the former St Paul’s ... Continue Reading »

Another kind of Adelaide City heritage is making its way back to South Australia today. After decades of neglect and years of advocacy by a dedicated band of local supporters, the nineteenth century clipper ship the City of Adelaide is finally making its way back to Adelaide from its previous ... Continue Reading »

Nominations and voting for the Adelaide's greatest building poll by Adelaide City Council closed on Friday.  Many thanks to all those National Trust members who rallied to the call to vote for heritage buildings.  We await the final results of the poll, but we know that heritage buildings dominated the ... Continue Reading »

Forty one buildings that have been nominated for local heritage listing in the City of Adelaide by the Adelaide City Council. have recently been removed from the proposed amendments to Local Heritage listing by the Planning Minister, John Rau. They include offices, shops and private dwellings, including sites such as the ... Continue Reading »

It was standing room only at the Heritage forum hosted by the National Trust at UniSA's Hawke Centre on Wednesday night. The forum posed the question: Has South Australia given up on heritage?  A five person panel chaired by Professor Norman Etherington, President of the National Trust, debated the proposition ... Continue Reading »

Throughout the month of May, Adelaide City Council is asking you to nominate and vote for your favourite Adelaide building. From grand churches to corner pubs, funky warehouses to modern offices, now is the time to tell the world about your favourite buildings within the City of Adelaide. You can submit a nomination ... Continue Reading »

A forum on Thursday May 8th poses the question: has South Australia given up on heritage? Many years ago South Australia enacted heritage legislation to identify and protect significant places. But where are we today? Recent classification decisions and cuts to heritage entities have provoked fears that our built heritage is ... Continue Reading »

The recent loss of the former City Steam Biscuit Factory on Twin Street (most recently operating as the Jade Monkey live music venue) has highlighted the failings of current approaches to heritage protection in South Australia.  Despite being heritage listed in a last ditch bid to save the building, the ... Continue Reading »