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Salisbury and District Historical Society Incorporated

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25.01.2022 Opening of Salisbury's new Community Hub

23.01.2022 Checkout "The Blade" exhibition at the Salisbury Community Hub all of March

23.01.2022 You can see these and over 3,000 other photos of Salisbury by logging onto "www.flickr.com/photos/sdhsphotos/" and selecting the "Album" option. Provided by the Salisbury & District Historical Soc

23.01.2022 Unfortunately due to the present health emergency our community finds itself in the SDHS Committee have decided to close our Folk & Water Wheel Museums until further notice. We also advice that our next gathering on April 5th, a combined luncheon will also be cancelled. The May History Month activities are still awaiting a decision... We look forward to getting back to our normal program as soon as possible. Thanks for your understanding Des Brown President

20.01.2022 Welcome to the Facebook page of the Salisbury and District Historical Society. The society was established in 1981 and formed to promote the discussion of South Australian and Australian history, particularly within the district of Salisbury. Tasks of the society include the collection, recording and classification of works; source materials of all kinds relating to the district of Salisbury and to facilitate access to the collection by the community. The society also produc...es a quarterly newsletter. The society is managed by a committee, presided by Des Brown and includes the following members: Delwyn Ayling (Vice President), Lynette Potter (Secretary), Jan and Hugh Tonkin (Treasurers), Jim and Glenyss Trenorden, Jennifer Paine, Raelene Brown and Alice Foster. The society is also pleased to have Shiralee Reardon on the committee as the Salisbury Council Representative. General meetings with guest speakers are held regularly at the societys museum (the original Salisbury Police Station) on a wide variety of topics on a historical theme; members of the public are welcome to attend at no charge. The society also manages an historic waterwheel on Commercial Road near the Little Para River. More information on the society, museum, waterwheel and upcoming events will follow soon. The purpose of this page is to provide access to the societys newsletters, information about upcoming events and regular interesting historic facts relating to the district of Salisbury. So, thank you for your interest and we look forward to sharing with you the wonderful history of the district of Salisbury.

20.01.2022 "The First Cameleers Settlers" Our first General Meeting for 2020 on March 11th Wednesday at 7pm 3 Ann St Salisbury. The guest speaker will be Pamela Rajkowski OAM https://www.pamelarajkowski.com/ a research author in the history, heritage & contribution of the Australian Afghan Cameleers 1860-1930, you are all invited.

18.01.2022 The Salisbury & District Historical Society are pleased to advice that you are now able to view over 2700 pictures of various aspects of the History of Salisbury. Access to our photo records can be made via our web page www.salisburyhistory.com.au and selecting the link under Gallery otherwise the direct Flickr address is www.flickr.com/photos/sdhsphotos/ Select the Album option If you have any photos of Salisburys past, our Society would appreciate being able to include a copy in our collection. Please contact us on [email protected]

17.01.2022 Check out our latest Newsletter http://www.salisburyhistory.com.au//March-20-Newsletter.pdf

17.01.2022 Members Please Note; Due to the easing of Covid social distancing restrictions our general meeting will again be held at the normal place in the Old Police Station. Not the Salisbury Institute as originally advertised. Looking forward to catching up again on April 21st 7pm.

17.01.2022 Breakaway walking group visit Salisbury Water Wheel museum

17.01.2022 Adelaide- 43-45 Park Terrace Salisbury- This Grand Bungalow was built in 1920 and has been replaced with an Aldi supermarket. I took these photos late July la...st year just days before it was totally demolished. Help save South Australia's history from demolition. alerted me to this one with the link to their post in the comments below. Julie-Anne Turner who did some research and found out that the above property was originally owned in 1921 by a Florence Ida Bussenschutt (born Harvey), born June 12th 1868 and died on June 7th 1945. Florence's husband was Henry Bussenschutt who died on July 5th 1955: From 1945 Henry Bussenschutt and Ernest Harvey a fruit grower, took on the property up until 1955. Then for a short period of time another farmer known as Henrrich Bammann and a land broker Arthur Gaetjens until 1958 when a welder and his wife took over the property. Clarence and Davis owned the property until 1986. Then the portion of the land was transferred over to JETOARN PTY. LIMITED. Another building that should have been heritage to the local area lost......... See more

16.01.2022 Salisbury Community Hub Opening Celebrations Sat 30th Nov & Sun 1st Dec

13.01.2022 This Wednesday 11th, 7pm at 3 Ann St Salisbury, come and hear Pamela Rajkowski talk on the history of the Australian Afghan Cameleers-- Pamela has a OAM and has done extensive research regarding this subject and written several books.

12.01.2022 Check out the December Newsletter http://www.salisburyhistory.com.au//Dec-2019-Newsletter.pdf

10.01.2022 Salisbury Australia Day 2020

10.01.2022 Check out our latest Newsletter http://www.salisburyhistory.com.au//05/June-20-Newsletter. it includes reflection by Gordon Jenkins, an old Salisbury identity, landmark dates of the 1900's and details of the Jenkins family who became orchardists in the 1900's.

09.01.2022 SA History Festival 21 https://festival.history.sa.gov.au//historic-walk-around-/ Salisbury District Historical Soc Historic walk around Salisbury May 16th Sunday 1:30pm... $5/person, bookings required and limited numbers See more

07.01.2022 The Salisbury and District Historical Society produces a quarterly newsletter and we are pleased to advise that the September edition is now available. This quarter the society talks about Shirley Hall one of the oldest and possibly the most spectacular residence in Salisbury; Ann Pitman Harvey who was married to John Harvey, the founder of Salisbury; ploughing competitions which were held in Salisbury in the 1800s and as features in every edition, the Presidents Report, ...a Stop the Press Article and information on a former Salisbury resident. The newsletter is available from the SDHS website at the following link, which also provides you with access to previous newsletters - http://www.salisburyhistory.com.au/newsletters/ Enjoy!

05.01.2022 Check out the March 2021 Newsletter http://www.salisburyhistory.com.au//March-21-Newsletter.pdf It contains articles on the Anglican Church established in the early 1850's, the "story of a road" by B Saint OAM and Salisbury Past Resident -Doctor Hunter, Salisbury's doctor from 1902 and served in our district for 50 years.

04.01.2022 We are very pleased with the latest addition to our Museum. The Police uniform of Senior Constable First Class Donald Tanner. Snr Const Tanner was the last serving officer to live in the old Salisbury Police Station, now our Museum. He resigned in 1969

03.01.2022 The SA History Festival for May has now been cancelled refer https://historyfestival.history.sa.gov.au/

03.01.2022 Angle Vale Scouts visit to our Folk and Water Wheel Museums

02.01.2022 Volunteers helping finishing off the upgrade to the old Salisbury Methodist Cemetery

02.01.2022 SA History Festival 21 https://festival.history.sa.gov.au/.../historic-walk.../ Including the Waterwheel Museum Salisbury District Historical Soc Historic walk around Salisbury... May 16th Sunday 1:30pm $5/person, bookings required and limited numbers [email protected] See more