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LOCATION
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Address Andrews Road MACDONALD PARK
Locality
Accuracy H - high level confidence
Council Area Playford Council
Polygon Type B - Building footprint
DESCRIPTION
Details (Known As) Buildings No's 29 & 33, Smithfield Magazine Area
Registered Name Buildings Nos 29 and 33 Smithfield Magazine Area
Significance The Smithfield Magazine Area is an integral part of (although located some distance away from) the former munitions factory built at Salisbury during the Second World War for the production of ammunition. The factory was an enormous complex of some 1500 buildings built very rapidly with enormous effort and expense, during the period of 1940 to 1942. All manner of ammunition was manufactured there. The site was tremendously important to the War effort and, apart from supplying personnel to fight in the War, it was South Australia's major contribution to the War effort. It had a profound social effect on neighbouring towns and the development of the district as a whole. The later uses of the site by the Long Range Weapons Organisation (later the Weapons Research Establishment and now the Defence, Science & Technology Organisation) and Edinburgh Airfield are also of high significance. The Magazine Area must be considered as a part of the former munitions factory site and shares its history and hence significance.
Subject Index Military - Magazine [Military]; Manufacturing and processing - Munitions Manufacture
Class State
STATUS
Status Code REG - Confirmed as a State Heritage Place in the SA Heritage Register
Status Date 11-JUN-1998
REFERENCE
LGA Playford
State Heritage ID 16201
Heritage Number 13313
SECTION 16 INFORMATION
Section 16 a - it demonstrates important aspects of the evolution or pattern of the State's history
b - it has rare, uncommon or endangered qualities that are of cultural significance
PLAN PARCEL & TITLE
As listed in the SA Heritage Register
Plan Parcel & Title Information CT 6306/912 D136065 Q5140

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