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Above left: Retiring Heritage Council Chair Daryl Jackson with his daughter Sarah, retiring member
Helen Lardner and former Deputy Chair Shelley Penn. Right: the crowd at the farewell.
The Heritage Council of Victoria Chair for the past six years, Daryl Jackson AO, was one of five Council members and alternates farewelled at a function at the MCC committee room on
25 June.
Deputy Chair Jim Norris highlighted the achievements of the Heritage Council over the period, including 197 additions to the Victorian Heritage Register, development of a Strategic
Plan, the launch of an award winning app, a study of best practice Industrial Heritage
Adaptive Re-use and development of History in Place – a project which links local primary schools with local museums and collections to tell stories of the area’s history.
Jim said Daryl had led support for the popular Open House Melbourne, and the development of the annual Heritage Address, coupled with the presentation of the annual Ray Tonkin heritage volunteer award.
The Heritage Council under Daryl had also developed a strong working relationship with the
Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council, working on projects such as the Framework of
Historical Themes.
He noted the most recent Heritage Council award to the Budj Bim Sustainable Development
Partnership for the Bessiebelle Conservation project recognised a site with strong shared values which were being further explored in one of the Cou ncil’s current projects. Other projects included a revised Victorian Heritage Database, which will make heritage information more accessible, a new Heritage Council website, research in the public’s perception of heritage, and a World War One audio walking tour.
Jim presented mini-plaques to retiring members: Professor Bill Logan (General Heritage
Expert), Helen Martin (alternate to the Chair), Helen Lardner (Architect member) and Robert
Sands (alternate Architect member).

The plaques highlighted the special skills and experience each had contributed to the
Heritage Council.
Jim Gard’ner, Executive Director Statutory Planning and Heritage, Department of Transport
Planning and Local Infrastructure, made the final presentations to Daryl, which included a montage of Daryl’s graphic illustrations which often accompanied his discussions.
In his response, Daryl noted that he had been born in a heritage-listed building in Clunes and was perhaps destined for his heritage role.
Left: Retiring member Helen Martin with current members Bryn Davies and Don Kerr.
Right: (from left) Mint Inc Project Manager Ross Turnbull, Deputy Heritage Council Chair Jim Norris, photographer John Gollings, Mint Inc Executive Officer Katrina Kimpton and Heritage Victoria
Operations Manager Renae Jarman.
UNDERWATER SURVEY
Tim Smith, Executive Director of Heritage Victoria, has just returned from a successful twoweek archaeological expedition to the AE2 submarine wreck site in Turkey.
Tim has been involved in Project Silent Anzac in a voluntary capacity (Director-Maritime
Archaeology) since its inception in 1997.
Now under the management of the AE2 Commemorative Foundation Ltd., the team this year successfully opened the conning tower hatch and put a range of water quality and recording instrumentation into the largely sealed hull.
An extensive internal survey was completed using remote operated vehicles that provided a fascinating insight into the operations and life on board a British type E-class submarine during the First World War.
Captured for the first time in 99 years, the interior was found to be in exceptional condition with all gauges and dials clearly readable, timber cabinets intact, and even glass objects sitting on Captain Stoker's writing desk.
The data from the expedition, a joint Turkish-Australian endeavour with funding support from the Commonwealth Government under the Centenary of Anzac program, will inform continuing management strategies for the site and inform ongoing educational programs.
The work included the attachment of a cathodic protection system at the site and a surface marker buoy to guard against fishing hook-ups. In a first, part of the interior was mapped with
3D sonar scanning systems. The project will feature in forthcoming TV specials. All work was undertaken with Turkish Government archaeological and military sites controls and to the standards of the UNESCO Convention on The Protection of the Underwater Cultural
Heritage 2001.

Images from the AE2 survey in Turkey.
Heritage Victoria has also had input, via the involvement of senior maritime archaeologist
Peter Harvey, in the preparation of a second world war heritage trail on the island of Saipan, located to the north of Guam in the northern Pacific Ocean. The short but bloody Battle of
Saipan was pivotal to the end of the war in the Pacific.
The work was directed by Dr Jennifer McKinnon and funded by a US Government American
Battlefield Protection Program grant administered by the "Ships of Discovery" not-for-profit organisation.
Peter's involvement was to support the project by leading students in the mapping of around
20 US and Japanese ship and aircraft wrecks that lie in Saipan's Tanapag Lagoon, and surveying 15km stretch of Saipan's north-western shoreline.
The wreck trail aims to raise the awareness of local tourism operators and their customers of the importance of protecting Saipan's underwater cultural heritage for the future.
A Brutalist style carpark and office complex, an early stable for horse drawn buses and trams, and an electric bulb sign have been included in the Victorian Heritage Register.
Reflecting the massive increase in car ownership in the post-Word War II period, Total
House carpark and commercial complex has been included in the VHR following a
Registration Hearing.
The Brutalist style reinforced concrete building is considered a landmark of post-World War II modernist design and one of the earliest and best expressions of Brutalist architecture in
Victoria.
It features shops on the ground floor along Russell and Little Bourke Streets, seven elevated parking decks above, four levels of offices with a smaller footprint elevated above the top deck, and a theatre in the basement.
In 1955 the City of Melbourne recommended that parking stations be established on every city block. The site of the future Total House was purchased in 1959-61 by the City and tenders for a new car park were advertised in 1962.
The new building was designed by the architectural firm of Bogle & Banfield Associates, a partnership of Alan Bogle (1902-76) and Gordon Banfield (1922-2007). The developer of
Total House was the Savoy Car Park Company, which was controlled by Gordon Banfield, who owned or developed many car parks and entertainment venues in the city in the 1960s and 1970s.
It is one of the earliest examples in Victoria of the Brutalist style, which incorporated ideas of integrity in the expression of materials, structure and function, and gave rise to dramatic building forms.

Brutalism dominated construction in post-war Japan, and details of these buildings were widely published and admired by western architects: in Australia Robin Boyd published a monograph on Kenzo Tange in 1962 and many Australian architects visited Japan. The design of Total House shows a strong Japanese influence.
In the basement of Total House was the luxuriously-appointed Lido nightclub, the first of its kind in Victoria. Most of the shop fronts and the entry to the offices were altered in the 1980s or 1990s, with glass canopies added at this time.
The stables built by the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company in 1879-80 are evidence of the thriving early public transport system that once operated in the inner suburbs.
The company’s horse omnibus service, and its later horse tram service, were essential to the development of Melbourne’s inner suburbs in the late 19th century and were the basis on which Melbourne’s extensive cable tram network was developed.
The stables are a rare surviving example of a large timber and iron stable building and the only known surviving example of a horse omnibus stable which continued to be used in the cable tram era. It is also significant as a rare surviving example of a former livery stable.
Horse omnibuses, or horse buses, were a form of public transport which transported people along regular road routes by means of horse-drawn carriages. Horse omnibuses are said to have operated in Melbourne from the 1840s, and by 1860 Melbourne had 28 horse bus lines.
The Melbourne Omnibus Company (which became the MT & O Co in 1877) was established in 1869, operating a fleet of 11 horse-drawn buses from the city to Fitzroy, and soon was also servicing the suburbs of Richmond, Carlton and North Melbourne.
By 1881 its fleet consisted of 158 horse buses, each seating 12-14 passengers, and services extended as far as Moonee Ponds, Prahran and Brunswick.
Stables were built by the company throughout the inner suburbs, including North Fitzroy,
Fitzroy, North Melbourne, Richmond, Clifton Hill, South Melbourne, St Kilda, Moonee Ponds,
Prahran and Port Melbourne.
The stables at North Fitzroy were built by the company in 1879-80 and continued to be used as stables following the company’s introduction of horse trams (which ran on rails) from
1883.
The MT & O Co began to construct cable tram lines from 1885, though horse trams continued to be used on less frequented routes until the 1920s.
In 1889 the North Fitzroy building may have been in use as a cable tram workshop, but by
1890 it was no longer owned by the MT & O Co. It continued in use as a livery stable (where privately-owned horses could be kept for a fee) at least until the 1920s.

During the following decades it was used successively by the Melbourne fish and rabbit market as a place to scale and skin their produce, as a cabinetmaker’s workshop, as an army truck depot during World War II, as a car repair shop and as an art studio for students from the local school.
In 1972 the building was converted into a residence and studio by the artist Murray Walker.
Geelong’s landmark Sailors’ Rest Electric Sign, mounted on the parapet of the King Edward
VII Sailors’ Rest building, is a rare surviving original electric bulb sign in Victoria.
Preceding neon signage, bulb signs were the first type of electric signage and this one was installed in 1926 to attract more sailors to the welfare organisation influenced by the
Temperance Movement.
The King Edward VII Sai lors’ Rest building was built in Geelong to a design by the Geelong architect, Percy Everett in 1912. The Sailors’ Rest was an evangelical temperance organisation designed to provide welfare services to sailors, to attempt to divert them away from alcohol and other temptations of the town and to encourage them to return to or continue to practice Christianity.
The animated sign originally operated with flashing letters and words and was intended to be very noticeable from Yarra and Cunningham piers as the sailors disembarked.
The sign was built by the nearby Melbourne Electric Supply Company and donated to the
Sailors’ Rest by Howard Hitchcock former mayor of Geelong and Chairman of the Sailors’
Rest Committee.
The sign is understood to have ceased operation from the 1950s until 1997 when it again operated but without animation.
The Sailors’ Rest Electric Sign is socially significant for its association with the long-standing and continuing relationship with seafarers visiting Victorian ports from the 1850s to today. It is tangible evidence of a charitable Christian organisation, valued by thousands of sailors past and present.

The final of the Heritage Skills Workshops, a two day Dealing with Damp course, was held at the Briars on 30-31 May.
Aimed at tradespeople and owners and managers of historic buildings, the popular Heritage
Skills Workshops were presented by the Heritage Council of Victoria, the Department of
Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure and the National Trust of Australia (Victoria).
The project was supported through funding from the Australian Government’s Your
Community Heritage Program.
Each course was led by heritage consultant David Young OAM and involved practical illustration of the issues through examples at the specially selected venues.
The first workshop, Restoring Timber in Historic Buildings, held at Gulf Station in
November 2013 ( above left ) covered wood anatomy, fungal rot, borers, termites and conservation and repairs.
Looking after War Memorials and Honour Rolls was held at Bendigo RSL on 28 February
( above centre ) and covered the typical stones (granites, marbles, sandstones), metals
(bronze, copper) and other materials found in war memorials, basic repairs and appropriate cleaning techniques and control of biological stains like lichen and algae. Heritage Victoria
Materials Conservation Heritage Officer Jenny Dickens, assisted with this course.
Looking after Old Houses ( above right ) was held at the National Trust’s Geelong property
The Heights and provided an understanding the materials of old houses — stone, brick, mortars, plasters, timber, metals and paints with an introductory talk: ‘Avoiding disasters — ten things not to do’. It included avoiding problems with things like: rising damp and salt attack, eroding lime mortars, borers and termites and rust and corrosion on corrugated iron roofs.
The Briars Dealing with Damp course ( below ) included plenty of hands-on practical work as well as discovering how to manage relatively mild cases of dampness in old houses through good housekeeping, and the fundamentals of dealing with rising damp problems including how replacing (repointing) the lime mortar joints can help dry out damp walls.

Open House Melbourne will take place on 26 and 27 July with more than 100 buildings open to visit.
Some, including tours of the Pentridge archaeological excavations (already booked out) are allocated by ballot, but most are open for all to see.
The Heritage Council of Victoria has been the heritage sponsor of the event for several years and this year is also supporting a series of ‘favourite building’ film clips.
This year’s program was opened on 2 July at a public launch at Citipower J Substation and
Water Tank Way, one of the spaces to be open for the program.
This year the first popular Speakers Series event will be held on Wednesday 16 July 6pm at
Deakin Edge, Federation Square. The second event will be held on Tuesday 22 July, 6 pm
Capitol Theatre with a focus on the suburbs.
See www.openhousemelbourne.org for details
Melbourne Town Hall (left) and Hamer Hall (right) were popular venues during last year’s Open House
Melbourne program.
At the launch of Secret Lives (from left) Tim Smith and Jeremy Smith from Heritage Victoria, exhibition curator Andrew Jamieson, and Kelly Gellatly, Director of the Potter at Melb University .
Secret Lives, Forgotten Stories : highlights from Heritage Victoria’s Archaeological
Collection: Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne (Swanston Street, Parkville, between Elgin and Faraday Streets), until 12 October, 10 am to 5 pm Tuesday to Friday and
12 noon to 5pm Saturday and Sunday.
Objects from archaeological excavations around the state, revealing the stories of forgotten
Victorians: with their lives reflected in the trinkets and treasures that were left behind.
There is also a series of floor talks. Check for updates at www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au

Love, Desire & Riches : Rippon Lea House and Gardens, 1 July – 30 September, 10 am – 4 pm: an exclusive look into significant fashion pieces of wedding couture from the 18 th to 21 st century.
From Miss Haversham’s anti-wedding room to Valentino’s magnificent gown worn by
Princess Marie Chantal of Greece, an Armani creation worn by Charlene, Princess of
Monaco and creations from Australian designers, including Alex Perry, Toni Maticevski, Akira
Isogawa and Collette Dinnigan.
Curator Talks: 2pm on 3 and 17 July, 9 and 21 August, 11 and 20 September and late night
(6 – 8 pm) openings on Fridays 4 and 18 July, 1, 15 and 29 August and 12 and 26
September.
Admission is $15 adults, $12 concession, $9 child and $35 family of two adults and two children with discounted admission for Trust members. Additional charge for the Curator
Talks and bookings are recommended.
For further details see www.nationaltrust.org.au/vic/LoveDesireandRiches
Museums Australia Victoria workshop: An Introduction to Oral History Interviewing, 2 – 5 pm Friday 18 July, Chinese Museum, Melbourne.
Presented by Sarah Rood, professional historian from consulting historians Way Back When, this workshop is suitable for both staff and volunteers and promotes best practice standards for interviewing. Learn how to prepare questions, about the forms, ethics and permissions involved, and the top tips to a good interview. Cost: Members $55, Non Members $110.
See www.mavic.asn.au/events?mode=Day&d=18&n=7&y=2014
Deakin’s Cultural Heritage Seminar series : Regular lectures at Deakin Prime City
Campus, 3/550, Bourke Street, Melbourne, generally last Wednesdays 5.30pm start.
30 July : States of Conservation: Protection, Politics and Pacting within UNESCO’s World
Heritage Committee – Prof. Lynn Meskell, Stanford University, USA & Thinker-in-Residence,
Deakin University.
( The seminar will be followed by dinner around 7 p.m. at Bar Humbug.
Please RSVP for dinner booking.)
27 August: Recent approaches to consideration of heritage amendments and planning
permits
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Jenny Moles, Planning Panels Victoria
See www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/chcap/seminars/index.php
Immigration Museum Symposium : Can we Talk? Language: the Great Divide , 9 am – 5 pm 30 September, explores what it means to be a multi-lingual society and covers topics in community language, citizenship, rights, education and services and profiles best practice across sectors. $80 early bird registration until 30 July, then $100. For tickets or more information: www.museumvictoria.com.au/can-we-talk or call MV Bookings on 131102.
Inherit is published by the Heritage Council of Victoria. Next issue August 2014.
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