Established in 1980, the Burnside Historical Society has a membership of around 120 and new members are most welcome. General meetings, which feature an address from a visiting speaker, are free and are held at the Burnside Community Centre at 7.30pm on the third Monday of each month (not January or December). Members of the public are welcome to attend any of the general meetings. A Bulletin is p
ublished at regular intervals during the year. Half day or full day trips to points of historical interest are also organised each year.
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- Holds monthly meetings with a speaker โ normally a visitor. Subjects are varied, sometimes a Burnside subject, sometimes Adelaide, sometimes Australia.
- Produces an annual journal
- Conducts guided day trips to places of historic interest.
- Co-operates with the City of Burnside on matters of historic interest, for example the installation of historic plaques.
- Donates items to the Burnside Library.
- Produces self-guided walking tour leaflets around Burnside areas.
- The Society does not get involved in genealogy but does research and record local history of the City of Burnside.
- Conducts guided walks and bus tours in the Burnside area.
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The Burnside Historical Society was established in 1980 at the time when the City of Burnside was about to celebrate its 125th anniversary. The writing of the local history book The Paddocks Beneath by Elizabeth Warburton led to interviews with many long term residents of the community. This generated a spontaneous interest in local history and subsequently the society was formed under the Chairmanship of Dr Roger Angove. Further interest in local history was generated by the events surrounding the Australian bicentenary in 1988 and the society peaked with a membership of over two hundred members. The main focal point of the society has always been the monthly meeting with a visiting speaker, but day and weekend trips to other parts of the state have always also had a good following. Research projects have led to a number of publications and self guided walking tour leaflets, and members also lead conducted bus tours through the leafy suburbs of Burnside. The society has been instrumental in the installation of many plaques in the Burnside area, providing historic information to the local residents, and for many years also conducted tours into the historic silver/lead/zinc mines on the slopes of Glen Osmond. These later had to be suspended for safety reasons. There has always been close liaison with the Burnside Council, and the Local History Collection in the Burnside Library is a prime source of research material and the display of historic artefacts.
