Category: Social Media

Gallery receives CHART Grant

The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery is proud to announce it has received a grant from the Culture, Heritage and Arts Regional Tourism (CHART) grant scheme.

The scheme is funded by the Australian Government and administered by The Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMaGA).

The grant, valued at just under $3,000, will assist the Gallery in a variety of ways. The grant comes at a time when the Gallery is recovering from the effects of COVID-19 and recent water damage.

The Gallery will be able to purchase a number of scanners with different capabilities, as well as a LED Lighting Box which will enable the Gallery to begin documenting and digitising the collection to make it more accessible. It is our aim to digitise our entire photographic collection, to ensure these valuable insights into our past can continue telling stories into the future.

Another item that the Gallery will now be able to acquire is a Zoom Handy Recorder, which will enable the recording of oral histories. It has been commented repeatedly that too many oral stories, not recorded elsewhere, are being lost. The Gallery will finally have the means to preserve valuable oral stories.

Another major component of the grant allows for the acquisition of archival-quality storage boxes in a number of sizes. The boxes prevent the deterioration of historic objects and artefacts – from irreplaceable photos and handwritten German minute books, to commemorative glasses and empty chemist bottles.

The CHART grant will allow us to continue to safeguard our collection. The Gallery sustained serious water damage in September 2021 and March 2022, with water infiltrating every part of the premises in the March flood. This has forced us to reconsider how we display and store our large collection. Artefacts situated close to the floor or near areas of the ceiling that have been compromised can now be shifted to safer storage. We cannot risk losing artefacts from our collection.

The Gallery would like to sincerely thank The Australian Museums and Galleries Association and the Australian Government for their generous support; their assistance allows us to continue the important work of preserving, sharing, and recording stories from Eudunda and surrounding districts. 

We look forward to sharing more news about the outcome of the grant in the coming weeks.

 

 

Heritage Gallery Launch Online Book Sales

The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery Web Shop is Open Aug 5th 2021
The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery Web Shop is Open Aug 5th 2021

The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery (EFHG) had been planning for quite some time to sell some of the books they have online.

Chairperson of the Gallery, Peter Herriman explained that he and Gallery volunteer Samuel Doering who is currently in London, having successfully completed his undergraduate studies at the New College of the Humanities, had been collaborating online to establish the online sale of books. Peter explained,

“The Gallery has been going for approximately 24 years, and has had a ‘web presence’ quite early on, since the days of the Southern Goyder Telecommunications Network (SGTN) in 1999 to 2000. They took on thier own web identity about 2001, and it remains an active website, sharing news about the Gallery.

“Adding the online sales is a significant step for the Gallery. Samuel & I launched the shop part of the website last Thursday Night without much ‘fanfair’ locally.

“Samuel had done a fantastic amount of work posting regularly, with fantastic research, stories and photos on the Heritage Gallery’s Facebook page over the previous year, and built up a great contact network. When Samuel posted the advert (shown above), we were very happy to see that people were keen to find books about our region, and were snapping them up immediately.

“I truly believe it has been Samuel’s hard work in promoting the Heritage Gallery in the first place which had allowed his post to be seen by so many through Social Media that saw the immediate response we have had. You can image that Samuel and I were beaming from ear to ear.

“Having the online shop will help ‘Future Proof’ the Gallery, especially in the current turbulent times of COVID lock-downs where the Gallery cannot be open, at least we can still spread the word about our great district to the rest of the world through our books.

“We would like to say a big ‘Thank You’ to those who made early purchases and to let you know that the books will be on thier way real soon.”

You too can explore the web shop, it only has 11 book titles at the moment, with more to come and if you are local you can still buy online, any time of the day or night and pick the books up when the Gallery is open without incurring a shipping fee. Please also tell others about this new service.

The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery is run by volunteers and is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am to 2pm.

Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery Shop

We Would Like Historic Stories and Photos Of This District

This present time of uncertainty, where seemingly everything is on pause, provides the opportunity to self-reflect.

Story-telling is just one way that we can continue to connect and learn during this time.

We would love to receive stories and photos from you for the purpose of featuring on our Facebook Page. The potential to create a treasure-trove of stories and personal histories is enormous.

What the photo or story pertains to is up to you. It could be a photo of old farm machinery, the story of a drought, flood or other historic event, or an image of a memento or piece of technology that is no longer in use. The list could go on.

There are only two constraints: the photo, story or memento should have a link to Eudunda or any of the outlying districts, and a sufficient explanation of what a photo, or memento is.

Send your photos and/or stories via Facebook Messenger
to Social Media Editor on the Web Form.

If you have any questions, please feel free to use these channels of communication too.

Get creative, and we look forward to seeing what incredible stories come out of the woodwork!

#welovehistory #sharinghistory #historyisimportant

Fourth Antiques Valuation Day A Winner

On Saturday 27th July 2019 The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery hosted it’s fourth Antique and old wares valuation and information day at the Gallery with antique expert Mr. John Foumakis

John Foumakis with some beautiful items to value
John Foumakis with some beautiful items to value

The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery Committee would especially like to thank Mr. John Foumakis for his generosity and support with these valuation days.

The Heritage Committee were also delighted to have Erin Connellan of Radio Station Magic 105.9, based in Port Augusta visit and do video and audio interview.  We are happy to be able to link back to thier website with the videos below.

Magic 105-9 - Erin chats with Samuel Doering at Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery
Magic 105-9 – Erin chats with Samuel Doering at Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery

Link to Magic 105.9 Web Page with the Video Chat

John valued and gave information about various old treasures that people had bought in to look at. With the cost of entry and unlimited valuations being only $5 people did get a real bargain, whether their items were or not.

Erin from Magic 105.9 Interviewed John – click on image or link below

Magic 105-9 - Erin chats with Antique Valuer John Foumakis at Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery - 270719
Magic 105-9 – Erin chats with Antique Valuer John Foumakis at Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery

Link to Magic 105.9 Web Page with the Audio Chat

Everyone has something old and interesting to share, so when the Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery arrange the next Valuation Day, bring long your knick-knacks and curios to discover more about them and find out thier value.

Magic 105-9 Erin chats with Peter Horne talks about Eudunda to Celebrate 150th Anniversary of Township Nov 2020
Magic 105-9 Erin chats with Peter Horne talks about Eudunda to Celebrate 150th Anniversary of Township Nov 2020

Link to Magic 105.9 Web Page with the Video Chat

Some Photos from the day.

  • John Foumakis with some beautiful items to value
    John Foumakis with some beautiful items to value

Talking About Snow in Eudunda – This is the 80’s

Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery Committee Member – Samuel Doering has been doing a stellar job of posting old news items and photos on our Facebook page. So if you have facebook – check them out at https://www.facebook.com/EudundaHeritage

For those of you who don’t have Facebook or prefer not to – we wanted to share some more modern snow photos here as well.

There is – after all ‘A Story’ even in the modern history, which many of you will have experienced. So – let’s not forget those experiences too.

This is a series of photos from an Early 80’s snow event that a one of our ex locals, Colin Wegener took.

ABOVE: This is one looking from Colin’s back fence across the Railway Triangle toward Morgan Road (as it was known back then (see big gum trees, now called Thiele Highway, named after Colin Thiele). up toward South Terrace

Colin used to work on the Railway back then, as a porter, mainly in the good shed. He was in fact the last person to work at the railway station.

Colin lived in the railways cottages, at number 3 Oval Crescent to be exact. Back then the railway system still had the “Railway Triangle” working, with rail lines crossing the main road and into the area behind the cottages. They used this so they could shunt locos and freight. (You can still see some of that earthworks on the main railway side of Thiele Highway (opposite the new Caravan Park), and that leads us to a bit more Eudunda History.

You won’t find Oval Crescent ‘the road’ or cottages there any more, as all the houses were removed. The area was bare for a long time (early 80’s). It did have a playground established for a few years.

Later the northern side was to become part of the Eudunda Community Centre, and the Eudunda BMX Track was developed on the Southern side.

When the BMX Club closed the area was again eyed off by the Eudunda Community, Business and Tourism Committee (ECBAT) for a caravan park, and after many years of negotiations and fund raising have managed to establish one there, in June 2017. See Eudunda Caravan Park.

Snow - Early 80's - from 3 Oval Crescent Eudunda - Looking across to South Terrace & Ward St - Hospital
Snow – Early 80’s – from 3 Oval Crescent Eudunda – Looking across to South Terrace & Ward St – Hospital
Snow - Early 80's - from 3 Oval Crescent Eudunda, Looking toward Golf Course & Old Playground in front
Snow – Early 80’s – from 3 Oval Crescent Eudunda, Looking toward Golf Course & Old Playground in front
Snow - Early 80's - Eudunda-Marrabel Road
Snow – Early 80’s – Eudunda-Marrabel Road

We hope you have enjoyed looking back into the early 80’s. Thanks to Colin for supplying the photos.