Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Hooray heritage: residents call for respect

From the Maitland Mercury report:
Where Hunter Street meets the river, at Horseshoe Bend, stood an 1890s cottage beneath the shade of a huge camphor laurel tree.
The gears of progress however were too hard to stop and now, for David Butler, there is nothing left of the 1890s cottage but dust and the memory of what once was.
Based on a 2010 council determination that the brick, weatherboard and tin cottage had “low to moderate” heritage value it was torn down by All Saints College to make way for an industrial arts facility at the back of its St Peter’s Campus.

Full article by Sam Norris available at Maitland Mercury, 11 May, 2012.