Publications

Kandahar and some of the people who lived there: a brief history is a booklet compiled by members of the West Torrens Historical Society detailing the background of the historic house and the land surrounding it. From 1849 through to 2021, the booklet gives information about the Earl of Kandahar, whom the house was named after, and includes maps and pictures through the years. Pick up a hardcopy from the Society or download a copy.

The Scent of Eucalyptus Walk:  an historical walk of Barbara Hanrahan’s Thebarton is an update of a booklet prepared by Friends of the Thebarton Library, Thebarton Historical Society University of South Australia, 1994. On this walk you will visit places which were important to Barbara Hanrahan as she grew up in the 1940s and early 1950s. The walk seeks to give you an impression of how the suburbs of Thebarton and Mile End would have appeared in those days. It was an environment which Barbara described so poetically and with incisive accuracy in her semi-autobiographical book The Scent of Eucalyptus. Pick up a hardcopy from the Society or download a copy. 

Download The Church at the Third Section : Brooklyn Park Methodist Church Diamond Jubilee 1973 (by John Andrewartha and Robert Goldsmith)

Download Much to be proud of : West Adelaide Methodism, Holder Memorial Uniting Church 1883-1983, edited by Arnold D. Hunt.