| LOCATION |
| Map |
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| Address |
Churchill Road KILBURN |
| Locality |
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| Accuracy |
H - high level confidence |
| Council Area |
Port Adelaide Enfield Council |
| Polygon Type |
B - Building footprint |
| DESCRIPTION |
| Details (Known As) |
Time Office/Correspondence Room (Building 171), Islington Railway Workshops |
| Registered Name |
Time Office/Correspondence Room (Building 171), Islington Railway Workshops |
| Significance |
The Former Time Office / Correspondence Room is historically significant for its capacity to demonstrate important social and occupational aspects of the history of the Islington Railway Workshops, the largest railway workshops, and one of the largest industrial complexes in the State.
It is representative of work practices once common in large industrial complexes in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which have virtually disappeared as a result of technological changes. It is now rare to find an office building which illustrates the transaction between employer and employees so explicitly. The building is therefore it is not only significant for its associations with Islington, but also with work practices in SA in the twentieth century.
Constructed in 1892 as a single room, and progressively enlarged to its present extent, the building demonstrates the growth of the Workshops from its nineteenth century beginnings to become one of the most important industrial sites, and one of the largest employers, in South Australia. During World War II the reached its peak of 6,300 men and women employed at Islington on Commonwealth defence contracts for production of munitions and aircraft components. |
| Subject Index |
Transport (Rail) - Railway Workshop |
| Class |
State |
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| STATUS |
| Status Code |
REG - Confirmed as a State Heritage Place in the SA Heritage Register |
| Status Date |
23-AUG-2013 |
| REFERENCE |
| LGA |
Port Adelaide Enfield |
| State Heritage ID |
26402 |
| Heritage Number |
26124 |
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| SECTION 16 INFORMATION |
| Section 16 |
a - it demonstrates important aspects of the evolution or pattern of the State's history
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| PLAN PARCEL & TITLE |
| As listed in the SA Heritage Register |
| Plan Parcel & Title Information |
CT 6179/403 D95846 APART ALLOT 144,CT 6179/407 D95846 AROAD,145-146,CT 6179/408 D95846 AROAD,147-151,CT 6179/401 D95846 APART ALLOT 144,CT 6179/402 D95846 APART ALLOT 144,CT 6179/404 D95846 APART ALLOT 144,CT 6179/406 D95846 A161,CT 6221/564 D116985 A160,CT 6221/565 D116985 A161 |