VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1 APRIL 2016

Newsletter of the West Torrens Historical Society Inc PO Box 43 Marleston SA 5033

UNDERDALE COLLEGE OF ADVANCED EDUCATION - BEFORE AND AFTER. After originally being granted in May 1838 to John Morphett (1809-1892), for most of the 1840s the land later taken up by the Underdale College of Advanced Education – part section 97, Hun-dred of Adelaide – was owned or co-owned by James Hurtle Fisher (1790-1875). From 1854 the land was jointly owned by Charles Brown Fisher (1818-1908), J.H. Fisher’s son, and John Vidal James (1820-1897), C.B. Fisher’s brother-in-law, and was part of the much larger – over 120 hec-tares (c.300 acres) – Lockleys Estate owned by Fisher alone. The Lockleys property became known for its success as a horse racing stable and stud. In July 1867 Fisher and James sold por-

tion of Lockleys, including part section 97, to James Scott esquire of Para River Darling, New South Wales. The property remained in the hands of the Scott family until the early 1900s when it was subdivided. The general region’s rich alluvial soil made it attractive to market gardeners, among them the Cooke, Huelin and Skuse families. For much of the twentieth cen-tury the site which was to become the Under-dale College was part of a parcel of land owned by the Lewis family of market gardeners. In the early 1970s the federal government compulso-rily acquired the site from the Lewis family as the location for the new twenty-hectare Torrens College of Advanced Education, opened in March 1976. (The opening attracted some con-

troversy since it was carried out by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, who had recently and controversially dismissed the Whitlam government). In 1982 the college was renamed as the Underdale campus of South Australian College of Advanced Education and in January 1991 as the Underdale campus of the University of South Australia. In 1994 the federal government also established on the site the Distance Education Centre, which focused on the needs of students living in remote areas who could not attend campus. In the early 2000s the federal government resolved that in order to rationalise spending on education the Underdale campus would be closed. This eventually occurred in 2005. In February 2004 property developer Urban Pacific had won a $30 million tender to develop thirteen hectares of the campus into the Promenade housing estate. The project was a joint venture with Macquarie Real Estate Equity Funds. The remaining seven hectares of the site north of the Torrens was developed into an aged person’s estate by Medallion Homes. Promenade even-tually consisted of 145 housing allotments and was com-pleted in 2006. The project incorporated some of the newest innovations in urban design including innovative water and stormwater management, low-maintenance, high quality land and street scaping, and the require-ment that each home must have a five-star energy con-servation rating. It was also stipulated that at least half the homes on the site must overlook the River Torrens Linear Park or other parkland, and that no home should be more than 250 metres from the Linear Park. The final cost of Prome-

Underdale Campus from the Linear Park.

Linear Park near Underdale Campus.

The state government acted to ensure that the section of the project running directly along the

Linear Park (about 17000 square metres) would stay in public hands. The site also houses the

University of South Australia’s Flexible Learning Centre. Most of the streets in the Promenade

development were named for early West Torrens and Thebar-

ton mayors and councillors. Arthur Lemon Avenue for example

was named for Arthur William Lemon, a member of the The-

barton council (Musgrave ward) from December 1909 to De-

cember 1911, and mayor of Thebarton from December 1916

to December 1917. Cook Street was named for Alfred Peter

Cook (1845-1938), a member of the West Torrens council,

August 1881 to July 1883, July 1889 to July 1892 (Plympton

ward) and July 1899 to June 1909 (West ward). Cook was

chair of the West Torrens council in 1900. Geoffrey Grainger.

A LOCAL SCHOOL NEAR DISASTER.

On Tuesday morning 21 February 1967 a potentially dangerous chemical spill occurred at the

Netley Demonstration (Primary) School. Two assistant teachers had removed a cylinder of chlo-

rine gas from the filtration plant of the school’s swimming pool. Despite its gauge showing empty

a yellow cloud of acrid-smelling gas escaped from

the cylinder. Soon the assistant teachers, the

headmaster and a large group of children who

were attracted by the gas cloud were affected,

coughing violently and experiencing breathing diffi-

culties. The children were taken across the school

grounds to the oval about three hundred metres

away to await medical attention. They were in-

structed to drink milk to reduce the effects of the

gas. Soon police and ambulances arrived and a

total of thirty-one children and six teachers were taken to hospital. Despite great initial alarm, in

the event no serious injuries occurred. After several hours’ observation most of the children and

teachers returned to school unscathed; indeed the former, according to a press report, ’sang

songs and laughed and returned to school work in high spirits’. The Minister of Education (Mr

Loveday) later said that he ‘greatly regrets that this incident occurred and that any teachers or

children were affected’. He also gave an undertaking that chlorine gas cylinders would no longer

be used in schools. The chemical spill attracted enormous publicity at the time, making the front

VALE: ROSS STANTON A dearly loved and respected man, William Ross Stanton lived a full and fruitful life for his family, his community and his Church. He was actively involved in his work, then after retirement he busied himself quietly helping his family and others through Meals on Wheels, his Lodge and Church and in recent years as a valued member of the West Torrens Historical Society. Ross was born in 1931 and lived for 84 years before passing away on October 1st 2015. He will be sadly missed by his devoted wife Dulcie, one daughter and three sons and his grandchildren and great granddaughter as well as his many friends. Page 2

Netley Primary School 1960-1997.

Flexible Learning Centre.

A WORD FROM THE PRESIDENT. Some time ago a large illuminated address (see photo below) was entrusted to the West Torrens Historical society by the Adelaide West Uniting Church for safe-keeping and possible restoration. At one time this large framed object hung high inside the northern entrance porch

of the Holder Memorial Church on South Road at Mile End. When that building was sold it was stored at the Adelaide West Church for some time where further deterioration occurred. It was presented to Rev. Thomas Geddes White on his departure from the district in appreciation of the architectural work that he performed in the Western Suburban Circuit of the Methodist Church. The artwork was done by a noted artist C E Stamp, and it depicts six West Torrens Methodist Churches - Brooklyn Park, Plympton, Thebarton, Holder Memorial, Fulham and Torrensville. White was the architect for Holder, Torrensville and Brooklyn Park Church buildings as well as a school room at Plympton and a kindergarten hall at Torrensville. He also designed the Memorial Organ façade for the Perry Memorial pipe organ inside the Holder Church. WTHS member Giles Walkley is in the process of assembling a detailed list of buildings throughout South Australia that

T Geddes White designed. At this stage

the list numbers well over seventy, making him the most prolific Church architect in this state. The illuminated address is currently undergoing restoration and possible re-framing and will be displayed within the WTHS rooms at a later date.

The Hamra Library has re-commenced digitising a number of our files including photographs and these will be progressively added to our web-site which is accessible through the Library catalogue. Two new audio visuals have also been prepared for use at talks around the district. One is centred on over 150 historic photographs received in the past two years and the other illustrates “Where West Torrens Played’ - featuring Page 3

VALE: ROSS STANTON A dearly loved and respected man, William Ross Stanton lived a full and fruitful life for his family, his community and his Church. He was actively involved in his work, then after retirement he busied himself quietly helping his family and others through Meals on Wheels, his Lodge and Church and in recent years as a valued member of the West Torrens Historical Society. Ross was born in 1931 and lived for 84 years before passing away on October 1st 2015. He will be sadly missed by his devoted wife Dulcie, one daughter and three sons and his grandchildren and great granddaughter as well as his many friends.

The T Geddes White illuminated address.

Perry Memorial organ.

Glenelg jetty and aquarium 1935.

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GROWING UP IN COWANDILLA Recollections collated by John Satterley.

1. Early Days; 2. Primary School; 3. The Big School; 4 Double Trouble; 5. Party Games; 6. High School; 7. Pat’s Career; 8. Getting Started; 9. Volunteer Work; 10. Father Whitfield (In 20 years’ time these recollections will be a century old. - John Satterley, September 2014). 1. EARLY DAYS: The Satterley twins, John Herbert and Graham Reginald, arrived in that order three hours apart on Saturday, October 7, 1933. The following Saturday, West Torrens 13.10 defeated Norwood 9.11 in the SANFL grand final at Adelaide Oval. Dad made club history when he signed them up as the youngest ever West Torrens members. The parents, Lilian Constance (nee Cochéme) and Reginald Herbert Satterley, moved to 7 (now 11) Neill Road, Cowandilla, within a year of the twins’ arrival and it was the family home for 22 years. They had an older sister, Patricia May, born in 1927. The family lived on a road signposted ‘Neil’ at one end and ‘Neill’ at the other end of the street. Few houses fronted the road which was a narrow strip of bitumen with unformed footpaths, several vacant blocks and many side fences. Facing north near the Marion Road end was grouped the Barnes, Turner, Satterley, Kaye and Luce families. The Satterleys rented a semi-detached brick house (the Turners were the other side of the common wall) that had two bedrooms, living room, kitchen, laundry and

bathroom/lavatory. A chip heater provided hot water for the bath. From the age of five the boys slept in a “sleepout” on the front verandah. The top bedroom was Pat’s and on chilly mornings the boys climbed through its window rather than go via the sleepout door and front door. In later years John would rib his sister for allegedly emitting the loudest screams in the district when Adelaide’s worst earthquake occurred in the early hours of March 1, 1954. No. 7 escaped damage. Uncle Bill and Auntie May (Mum’s sister) lived with them for several months before finding a place to rent. Uncle Frank and Auntie Lena (another sister) and daughter Joan also stayed with them while their house was built minutes away on Marion Road. Paying the rent was a weekly ritual for Mum who would dress well, leave the key under the front doormat, and catch a tram into the city. She did this until an eviction letter arrived. John remembers going with Graham to see the landlord personally. He told them in a not unkind way, “Boys, I can get more from a sale than from rent.” Neill Road days had ended. Nana, the

twins’ maternal grandmother, lived with Frank and Lena for several years. She would wave to passing motorists from her chair on the front veranda – and over time became a local identity. Toots from passing traffic were a reminder to Lena of where Nana was spending some time each day. John remembers Nana arriving one afternoon helped by a neighbour. He was home from school with a stomach upset and she wanted to visit him. On the way she had become entangled in weeds and the neighbour had rescued her. Nana left a jar of Bulldog Salve in case it might help; it was her favoured medical remedy. Les Kaye wheeled his bike along Neill Road one Friday after work because he was squiffy, and left it propped against the Barnes’ front fence. The next day Mrs Barnes told Mrs Turner her husband had found a bike and it was in their backyard because they didn’t know whose it was. On the Monday, Mrs Turner mentioned this to Mum over the back fence. She knew at once that it was Les’s because she had seen him go off to work without his. The Satterleys had an Australian terrier called Paddy. He had Wheaties with milk for breakfast, was fed biscuits and got the leftovers from the evening meal. They had him 13 years. Kennel was the space under the rainwater tank near the back door. He was allowed inside in the mornings only when Mum said so. He would stay in the kitchen until told, ‘Go wake Pat,’ then race up the passageway and leap on to her bed and watch; when an eye opened licks would start. Any of us walking home on Neill Road could expect to be met by Paddy who would be

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Dad got his first car, a green two-door Ford tourer SA 375-181 when the boys were just into long pants, at 13. It meant both could accompany him on visits to his brother Walter and wife Marj who lived near Valetta Road, Kidman Park. Previously only one could go, donkeyed on the bar of Dad’s bicycle. The route took them along Fulham Park Drive (coincidentally where John now lives at No. 55) and over the Torrens via a rickety footbridge long since replaced although the concrete abutments are still visible nearby.

2. PRIMARY SCHOOL: The twins attended Cowandilla Primary School (1938-46) and Adelaide High School (1947-50). CPS (now Cowandilla Demonstration School) was about two kilometres away and they walked there until receiving bicycles on their 14th birthday which they used for getting to AHS in the city. John and Pat attended a reunion at the primary school on October 29, 1988, when John Mudge was the Principal. Pat was a pupil from 1933-40. John recalls looking at attendance records going back years, and joining the throng around Miss Taylor, a former much-loved teacher then in her nineties. When close enough, he said to her, “Do you remember the Terrible Twins?” She looked at him and said, “I do. I think you’re John and the other one was Graham.” The brothers earned the tag because they would stand either side of the infant school gate and hit kids passing through. Mum visited the school to find out why they were getting home late and was told they were held back so everyone else could get clear. Nearby St Joseph’s Convent was an imposing two-storey building in large grounds fronting Cowandilla Road (now part of Sir Donald Bradman Drive). Nuns in black robes and starched white cowls lived there. When the boys hadn’t arrived home by the expected time one afternoon Mum went looking and found them coming out of the convent. They had been showing the nuns their new schoolbags and given biscuits in return. Miss Kentish was in charge of the infant school (Kindergarten to Grade 2). She was a fun person. Easter eggs would be hidden in the school grounds prior to morning recess when the kids would be challenged

to find them. Miss Kentish would rush around waving what she called paddy whack the drumstick. John says he can still recall the shrieks of excitement. He remembers that manners were important. At one indoor assembly of all the infant school classes he was told to get my large floppy sun hat and come out the front. There he was shown how to take it off when in the presence of a lady, bow from the waist and say Good morning or Good afternoon. Miss Anderson was the twins’ first teacher. She was a no-nonsense person who on one occasion invited them to step out the front and feel her biceps. She taught them until Miss Taylor took over in Grade 4. Tables up to and including the 12 times table were learned by rote and the chanting of them could be heard from classrooms every morning. Grade 6 was taught by Mr Jones who at one stage had at least 50 pupils. He operated a buddy system and John really liked sitting next to his older helpmate. Mr Jones had a large collection of sharpened bamboo sticks. The class practised cursive writing with them. He insisted the stick pen be held straight up while resting on a shoulder. John remembers one teacher in particular, the Rev’d Ron Trudinger. He had been teaching Aboriginal children at Ernabella where he had translated the Lord’s Prayer into Pitjantjatjara. He stayed a term at

CPS and taught songs in Arunta. John still remembers some of the words. Trudinger arrived in Adelaide with Ngarla Kunoth, the star of the film, Jedda, who paid the school a visit. He caused consternation the day in class when, without warning, he struck John across the head with a

Rev. Ron Trudinger.

Cowandilla Primary School Grade 4 1944 Satterley twins back row far right.

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An adjoining paddock was the school playground. It was large enough to have two cricket pitches. An open concrete drain ran along the southern boundary and was spanned by a tiny footbridge. When heavy rain fell, a boy would be sent to check the stormwater level. If it was ris-ing children who used the footbridge would be allowed to leave early. John remembers listening to a storm one afternoon and counting the seconds between thunder and the lightning flash be-cause the teacher said that every three meant the storm was one mile away. As these were the war years, trenches were dug along the paddock’s northern edge immediately behind the school. Classes did air-raid drills when everyone got under desks or were marched out to stand in the trenches. A unit of what must have been the local home guard performed marching drills on Cowandilla Road from time to time. Mr Nancarrow was the Headmaster. He came to the door of Grade 5 one morning and asked John to stand up. He was holding a list of books and said: “This shows you have borrowed 20 books from the school library this year.” Reading out a title he said: “What was this about?” John told him. He read out several others and was told. “Well done,” he said, and left.

3. THE BIG SCHOOL: The senior or “big” school of Grades 3 to 7 installed a letter-box for the chil-dren to write letters to each other. John spent a weekend writing to every-one in his class and on the Monday morning there was a buzz when the “postie” called with the biggest bundle any class received that day. John was blind in the right eye from a childhood accident and did not play sport. When the senior school played an important game of football he and Uncle Bill got together and wrote a match report that praised every player. On John’s last day at primary school Mr Walters, a Grade 7 teacher, stood at the side gate and shook the hand of every boy who had received the QC (Qualifying Certificate) and wished them luck as they left. John became a print media journalist from 1951 until early retirement in 1989. Graham, now retired after a career in insurance and living in Melbourne, is a member of the Point Cook Community Baptist Church. Cowandilla in the 1940s and 1950s was dotted with vacant blocks and few footpaths had kerbing. The western side of Marion Road was a deep drain with footbridges. Visits to the Parkinson fam-ily (Uncle Frank and Auntie Lena) had to be cut short if heavy rain started falling. Within 20 min-utes the drain would spill water too deep to wade through. In the 1940s rubbish was collected by

horse and cart, the baker delivered by horse and cart and a grain merchant at Hilton had a delivery cart hauled by two horses. He called at No. 7 one day with grain for Dad’s fowls. While down the side of the house someone (never identified) threw a stone that caused the horses to bolt with the grain merchant running after them. Set among trees on the south-western corner of Wilson Street and Cowandilla Road was a wattle and daub house behind a three-strand wire fence. It was probably the oldest house in Cowandilla until replaced by shops in the 1940s. The West Torrens Council Cham-ber became concerned because children walked on its low sandstone fence. Mr

Nancarrow called a school assembly and said that had to stop, at council’s request.

Cowandilla School from the oval.

Cowandilla Shops Brooker Tce & Cowandilla Rd. in flood.

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4. DOUBLE TROUBLE: In 2003, John and Pat wrote reminiscences for Graham to use at his 70th birthday celebration in Melbourne. Pointing out that Cowandilla was directly under the main flight path of Adelaide Airport, locals would have been aware of another nuisance, the Terrible Twins from around the late 1930s.When they were little tackers, they would stand on the gas box just inside the front fence and call out to passers-by. The neighbours called each of them Johnny/Graham be-cause they were so much alike. One day John and Graham poured gravel into the milkman’s can, which held 10 gallons of milk. Poor Mum had to bring the milkie in-side and help him strain the milk into every cup, glass, saucepan and jug she could lay her hands on in an attempt to get the grit out of the milk. He topped up the can with water and went on his way. Mum told Graham he had to protect John because John had had a serious eye injury. Graham went overboard and punched any kid who looked sideways at John. Almost every day Graham ended up with a nosebleed caused by fighting with someone. He stopped only after Mum told him: “If you continue getting blood noses you will bleed to death.” Pat remembers when the entire primary school went down to the paddock where sports were played to see Graham fight Nicholas Burchell, who went on to become a Judge of the South Australian Supreme Court. The fight lasted one punch. Burchell hit Graham in the stomach, which made his nose bleed. Burchell then escorted him back to the quadrangle for treatment. In all our school photos, Graham looks like a scruff because he was always fighting and getting pulled around. Pat remembers him coming home one day and all that was left of his shirt was the collar around his neck. He once went off wearing a new hand-knitted jumper. When he came home it was big enough to fit his father. Every morning Dad used to read the paper aloud to Mum. He read the headline: VD rampant among Australian troops. Graham said: “What’s VD Dad?” John said: “It would be something we couldn’t afford.” One day Mum had to go out and didn’t want to take the two boys with her. She said we could do some gardening while she was away. So John and Graham got stuck into pruning an apricot tree. When Mum got home it was just a stump. An-other day Mum was standing in the driveway giving her vegetable order to the greengrocer. As the man turned to leave he fell over. Mum thought he had suffered some kind of fit. As he scrambled to his feet he said, “Those bloody kids have tied my shoelaces together.” Pat thinks it was John who did this. Mum always said that John made the bullets, and Graham fired them.

5. PARTY TIMES: Going to school had one big advantage: make friends and they invited you to their birthday parties. Ben Stacey invited everyone in his class and as 30 to 40 was the average class size, a lot of kids needed entertaining. Mr Stacey thought he had the solution, tipping a packet of hundreds and thousands over the woodheap and offering a prize for the most anyone could re-trieve. Splinters caused it to be called off. Pinning the tail on the donkey was a favourite while go outside and count the stars with a partner could lead to teasing if you came back with an actual number. The guess-whose-legs game was in full swing at the Turners’ house with the young ones parading their legs behind a blanket. Vera Turner thought she would join in, and wasn’t amused when John sang out, “Those aren’t human legs!” Dad was a self-taught pianist who liked to play on Sunday afternoons. Abie My Boy was a favourite. The lyrics were catchy: You promised to marry me someday in June, it’s never too late and it’s never too soon. All the family keeps on asking me, which day, what day I don’t know what to say, Abie, Abie my boy, what are you waiting for now? Uncle Bill’s party trick was a man-on-the-flying-trapeze dance in neck-to-knee flannels. It was caus-ing so much hilarity at one party that Les Kaye arrived, wanting to join in. Squiffy, his trick was to eat the petals from roses in a vase in the dining room. Uncle Bill insisted his full name was Charles Wil-liam Cameron Horace Oratio Frances Nicholas Read. A barber, he did haircuts in the pudding basin style of the day. Graham was in the 13th (and final) National Service intake in 1956 and while at Woodside Army Camp addressed a letter home to Bill using his “full” name –so long it went around the back of the envelope. Bill kept that envelope for years.

Patricia (Pat) Satterley in 1948.

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Above: Tins of throat pastilles produced by Torrensville chemist, C.R.E. Downing. Below: after 1929 the shop was run by St Ives Private Hospital, Henley Beach Road New Mile End

(later Torrensville). Author Barbara Hanrahan was born here.

Tinted image of chrysanthemums growing in front of Plympton Primary School head teacher’s house.

Turner the butcher’s boiling down works and abattoir on the western side of Marion Road (south of todays Sir Donald Bradman Drive) at Brooklyn Park

looking west circa early 1900s. Page 9

Southwark Hotel near the corner of Phillips Street and Port Road (now Thebarton) circa 1940s.

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A WORLD WAR l HERO. A well kept grave, number 1, row A, in Pieta Military Cemetery (left) bears the name of a young West Torrens soldier, Private Francis Gilbert Evans. At age 21 he was wounded in action 16-23 May 1915 and died in Malta on May 31, 1915, 36 days after he and about 1000 men from Adelaide’s 10th Battalion became one of the first to set foot ashore at Gallipoli on April 25. Private Evans left from Outer Harbour on board the HMAT Ascanius on October 20, 1914. He served in Egypt and also at Gallipoli.

Not a lot is known about the young electrician whose parents were John and Jane Evans nee Organ, of 26 Rankine Road Torrens-ville (New Mile End). Fran-cis was born on 15 Febru-ary 1894 in Adelaide. He and his 10th Battalion mates were stationed for a time in Egypt and on the Greek island of Lemnos before they sailed for Tur-

key on April 24, 1915. The diary of the battalion’s Adelaide commander, Colonel Stanley Price-Weir, tells the story of the opening days of the battle at Gallipoli, when many were killed. The soldiers climbed into row boats and hit the Turkish coast in the early morning of Arpril 25. “No sound was heard except the splash of the oars,” Col. Price-Weir wrote. “We thought that our land-ing was to be effected quite unopposed, but when our boats were about 30 yards from the beach a rifle was fired from the hill in front of us. “Almost immediately heavy rifle and ma-chine gun fire was opened upon us.” An entry from April 29th said those men who survived the landing were exhausted from fear and fighting. “Their nerves (are) shattered after 96 hours of continuous fighting in the trenches with little or no sleep (and) the dreadful anxiety of not knowing how the battle was progressing,” Col. Price-Weir wrote. In the first month of the campaign more than 4000 wounded Anzacs were trans-ported to Malta’s hospitals from Gallipoli and by the end of the war almost 58,000 had been transported to the island, which became known as ‘Nurse of the Mediterranean’.

Infantry and nurses leaving Outer Harbour on HMAT Ascanius, October 20, 1914.. SA State Historical Trust image.

Private Gilbert Evans.

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COMING EVENTS FOR YOUR DIARY WEST TORRENS HISTORICAL SOCIETY MONTHLY MEETINGS

held at “Kandahar” 327 Marion Road, North Plympton. Commencing at 7:45pm

Tuesday April 26th: Note this is a Tuesday due to ANZAC Day. “ANZAC” from the WTHS collection including the Ross Stanford “Dambusters” story. Also more profiles of WWI soldiers with Helen Prettejohn. Interesting stories with illustrations.

Monday May 23rd: General Meeting. A time to submit new reports, photographs and a display of some of the large maps and posters in our collection. New material not seen before!

Monday June 27th: Special Meeting. “Down to the Beaches from West Torrens”. A pictorial view of Henley Beach, West Beach and Glenelg in earlier times. John Andrewartha. Please bring supper.

Monday July 25th: General Meeting: Reports and discussions.

Working Bees will be held at ‘Kandahar’ from 10.00am to Noon on Tuesdays prior to each monthly meeting (except Jan & Dec).

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Website access to Local History through the West Torrens Library. The West Torrens Historical Society web-site is users.chariot.net.au/~wths/

THE West Torrens Historical Society is currently digitising all its files in partnership with the West Torrens Hamra Centre Library. This is an ongoing project. Hundreds of WTHS files – photographs, images, documents, transcribed interviews and news-paper articles are already accessible via the City of West Torrens website.

To help you access these files, follow these new instructions:

Go to the City of West Torrens website http://www.wtcc.sa.gov.au . At the top of the Home Page click on “Council” and then in the drop-down box “Local History” then “Local history collec-tion”. This will take you to the Local History page. Scroll down to “Access the collection through the Library Catalogue” - this will open the West Torrens Library service page. Leave the first box as ’Everything’ Then “All fields” in the second box. Type in the key search word/s in the third box. Photographs will be shown as thumbnails, click on ‘View’ to see text. Maps etc.

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