Mount Lofty region - SA - Australia
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Mount Lofty (elevation 727 metres AHD) is the highest point of Adelaide. It is located about 15 km east of the Adelaide city centre in South Australia.
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Location: South Australia, Australia
Date Posted: 06/07/2018
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ADELAIDE: The South Australian bushfircs have destroyed a wealth of irreplaceable Australian
history.
A $500,000 art collection was destroyed at Mount Osmond when a $300,000 mansion was burnt to the ground.
In the Adelaide hills, the famous Eagle-On-The-Hill Hotel went up in flames.
The scenic hotel at Norton Summit and the historic home, Eurilla, on Mount Lofty Summit Road, were ruined.
Firemen battled, mostly unsuccessfully, to save antiques from the Wolta Wolta Homestead at Clare, which is classified by the National
Trust, as the fire ripped through other houses towards the towns of Sevenhilts and Mintaro.
The 112-year-old Wolta Wolta home stead was run as a museum and contained antiques, including items 300
years-old, valued at more than $300,000.
Less than a 10th of its contents were saved.
The SSOO.OOO art collection destroyed at Mount Osmond belonged to an Adelaide physiotherapist, Mr Geoffrey Maitland.
The collection was to have been moved soon to an art gallery.
As well as paintings, a 17th-century French clock valued at SS0.000, a price less Russian icon and Persian carpets
worth $100,000 were destroyed.
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The Canberra Times
18.2.1983
page 6