Heritage Award winners announced
The biennial Tamworth Regional Heritage Awards winners have been announced at today’s awards ceremony. The awards recognise those who have made significant contributions to the preservation, sharing and promotion of heritage in the region.
Award: Warren Newman Memorial Award for Contribution to Heritage within the Region is awarded to a person who has made a significant and ongoing voluntary contribution to the conservation, promotion and/or understanding of cultural heritage in the community.
Winner: Eric Scott for his considerable commitment and contribution to the preservation of the Australian Country Music Hall of Fame as a volunteer and his dedication as President and Archivist of the Australian Country Music Foundation.
Award: Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Award recognises projects that seek to promote understanding, appreciation, conservation and/or awareness of Aboriginal heritage.
Winner: 2 Rivers Pty Ltd who are a boutique community development company based in North West NSW. Their aim is to encourage economic and social independence to communities, groups, organisations and individuals. Their mission is to create economic and social opportunity and outcomes for regional and remote communities.
Award: Adaptive Reuse Award recognises projects that complement and utilise existing heritage fabric, repurposing, and new developments which are sympathetic to the traditional uses of a site and its structures and which protect the heritage integrity.
Winner: Narree & Campbell McIntosh for their project site of Dungowan Station. The historic Dungowan Station’s woolshed has been transformed into a micro-brewery and an event venue that can cater for weddings and other functions.
Award: Building Conservation Award recognises projects that relate to conservation of our built heritage. Such projects may include a range of conservation works to buildings, structures or sites, commercial items, churches, houses interiors, or collections.
Winner: Paula Pengilley for the Somerton Slab Hut project, for the restumping of the Slab Hut.
Award: Heritage Resources and Publication Award acknowledges projects which may include historical research or conservation management plan documents.
Winner: Evelyn Keane & Tony Orr for their publication 'The Good Farmers of Gowrie: Passing Down Their Acres' as told by the current crop. This is a 624 page book paying tribute to the early settlers of Gowrie, with stories told directly by their descendants, the 'current crop'.
Award: Heritage Tourism, Education and Interpretation Award recognises publications, exhibitions, displays, site interpretations and school-based programs. This may be a walking track, historical trail, festival, event, bed and breakfast, hotel, tourist accommodation, performance or business that provides visitors with access and/or interpretation of a heritage place.
Winner: Leanne Summers - Bendemeer Hotel.
For repairs and restoration of paint work on the western side of the Historic Bendemeer Hotel, facing Caroline Street, Bendemeer. Featuring Historic building designs around windows, entrance door and solid veranda posts which have now been highlighted.
Award: New Sympathetic Development Award appreciates infill design projects where new buildings have preserved the special qualities that give a place character in a way that respects the old while reflecting the new and meeting the amenity needs of its users.
Winner: Nicholas Brown, Studio Two Architecture – Paradise Pump Station project.
Studio Two Architecture designed a new publicly accessible outdoor structure in place of the former building. Filling of the existing tanks and demolition of the former pumpstation was undertaken by contractor to repurpose the site that was constructed in 1935 on top of the roof of the existing tanks.