PARHAM STREET WALK

PARHAM STREET WALK

Interpretive Center

The Parham Interpretive Centre is a tourist facility located at the entry to the township of Parham (also known as Port Parham) in South Australia. It provides visitors with information regarding the region's history, natural environment, and unique local inventions.

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The Esplanade

60 Wheat buyers house, built 1880s, owned in 1950s by Dave Magery, Bennett and Fisher agent at Mallala. Dave was a keen fisherman, had one of the few private power boats in the area which he launched with a jacked up 1920’s Chevrolet chassis.This house was not rented out but may have been in earlier days. Demolished and replaced about 2014

62 Nairnes house “the house with the veranda all around” Nairnes came from Nairne Road Grace Plains, and Fred Nairne died in WW1 as a POW in Germany. Grace Plains and Mallala have memorials. The house was used for lunches at School Sports days and Sunday School picnics. It was rented out and often occupied by the Jenkin family (photos and newspaper articles in 1920’s). Thought to be built about 2010. Memories are of a galvanised iron hip bath, an ice chest replenished with ice by someone from Dublin, and a 3 hole long drop toilet (Dad, Mum and Kids seats at different heights).

FIRST STREET

Port Parham Sports and Social Club came into being c1984 as a successor to the Progress Association, and the Progress Association funded the first part of the building of the club which was completed in 1990. The PPSSC has continued many of the activities established by the Progress Association. The facility has grown over the years to have a separate bar and beer garden. Open on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings with bar facilities and meals available.
In 1995 a Remembrance Flagpole was erected in front of the Social Club and commemoration services are held there every year on Anzac and Remembrance Days.

70: The Webb Family home built c1924 by Theodore Greue and occupied from 1933 by Albert Webb and family until sold in 1977 to Kevin and Marylin Collins. This is a quality stone home and the foundation on 60 The Esplanade was to the same design and intended to replicate the building but was never used. The rear of this property (3 First Street) had a truck shed which had been converted to rental accommodation by 1950. This now forms the central part of the residence at 3 First St. Between the main house and the shed was a Kiosk operated by the Harris (nee Webb) family of Dublin in the 1950’s. (photo sought!) In the 1950’s there was also a well for watering horses. The water was brackish but the horses would drink it.

72/74 was subdivided in 1953. Prior to this in about 1950 two tramcars were placed on site by a Mr McMillan to create the basis of a home. They proved to be incompatible for the purpose and one was relocated to 6 Primer Street where it still exists. The remainder forms the basis of the Tram Shack at 74 The Esplanade. Grain was carted through what is now 72 The Esplanade in early days by horse wagon resulting in the soil being very compressed. 72 was first built on in about 1957. Mervin Jenkin purchased no 74 in 1953 and built the tram into a home.

76/78 The Shack was vacant in the 1950s apart from a public toilet facing the Esplanade. This was a corrugated iron long drop. The first building on this block was an Ex Mallala Airodrome Married quarters placed there c1964 by the Jenkins Brothers who had inherited the property through the Forster family, storekeepers, of Wasleys who had owned the land since 1896. Alvin and Sylvia Jenkin now occupy this property in a home built in 2007.

80 Parkin’s Shack. In 1950s this was a shack constructed of flattened petrol tins with tilt out panels for windows. The Parkin Family used it exclusively. No other provenance known. The building has been rebuilt on the same footprint with bricks but still looks similar to the 1950s

MAIN STREET

Churches were active in the last half of the 20th Century. The Methodist Church in Mallala built a hall in Second Street in the late 1950’s and ran beach missions in the summer holidays which entertained the young people. Evening services were also held in season. St Malachy Catholic Church in Mallala established a facility at 14 Main Street in a transportable home relocated from Salisbury, and this operated from the mid 1960s to about 1990. The Lutheran Church met at the residence of Noel Schiller in 3 First Street for several years from 1980

CAMP GROUND

The Parham Camping Ground, (124 The Esplanade), provides a different alternative to camping. The campground is located at the northern end of the township of Parham. It is a great place to overnight when travelling to and from Adelaide along the Port Wakefield Highway, or to spend a few days holidaying in the area, enjoying opportunities to rake for blue crabs, observe the fantastic sunsets, and meet up with the local community. It forms a good base for day trips to the Barossa or Clare Valleys, or to observe events at the Mallala Raceway, or to take in the rural attractions of the Adelaide Plains.
The camping ground offers over 27 individual non powered Recreation Vehicle sites including 7 sites for large RVs. All sites are numbered and you will be allocated a site when booking. There are also 4 tent sites together with 6 powered sites totalling 33 sites altogether and free BBQ facilities, coin operated showers, and a RV dump point are also available.

PARHAM STREET WALK

	1. Interpretive Center	The Parham Interpretive Centre is a tourist facility located at the entry to the township of Parham (also known as Port Parham) in South Australia. It provides visitors with information regarding the region's history, natural environment, and unique local inventions.	MAP
	The Esplanade	60 Wheat buyers house, built 1880s, owned in 1950s by Dave Magery, Bennett and Fisher agent at Mallala. Dave was a keen fisherman, had one of the few private power boats in the area which he launched with a jacked up 1920’s Chevrolet chassis.This house was not rented out but may have been in earlier days. Demolished and replaced about 2014 62 Nairnes house “the house with the veranda all around” Nairnes came from Nairne Road Grace Plains, and Fred Nairne died in WW1 as a POW in Germany. Grace Plains and Mallala have memorials. The house was used for lunches at School Sports days and Sunday School picnics. It was rented out and often occupied by the Jenkin family (photos and newspaper articles in 1920’s). Thought to be built about 2010. Memories are of a galvanised iron hip bath, an ice chest replenished with ice by someone from Dublin, and a 3 hole long drop toilet (Dad, Mum and Kids seats at different heights).

	FIRST STREET	Port Parham Sports and Social Club came into being c1984 as a successor to the Progress Association, and the Progress Association funded the first part of the building of the club which was completed in 1990. The PPSSC has continued many of the activities established by the Progress Association. The facility has grown over the years to have a separate bar and beer garden. Open on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings with bar facilities and meals available. In 1995 a Remembrance Flagpole was erected in front of the Social Club and commemoration services are held there every year on Anzac and Remembrance Days.
		70: The Webb Family home built c1924 by Theodore Greue and occupied from 1933 by Albert Webb and family until sold in 1977 to Kevin and Marylin Collins. This is a quality stone home and the foundation on 60 The Esplanade was to the same design and intended to replicate the building but was never used. The rear of this property (3 First Street) had a truck shed which had been converted to rental accommodation by 1950. This now forms the central part of the residence at 3 First St. Between the main house and the shed was a Kiosk operated by the Harris (nee Webb) family of Dublin in the 1950’s. (photo sought!) In the 1950’s there was also a well for watering horses. The water was brackish but the horses would drink it.
		72/74 was subdivided in 1953. Prior to this in about 1950 two tramcars were placed on site by a Mr McMillan to create the basis of a home. They proved to be incompatible for the purpose and one was relocated to 6 Primer Street where it still exists. The remainder forms the basis of the Tram Shack at 74 The Esplanade. Grain was carted through what is now 72 The Esplanade in early days by horse wagon resulting in the soil being very compressed. 72 was first built on in about 1957. Mervin Jenkin purchased no 74 in 1953 and built the tram into a home.
		76/78 The Shack was vacant in the 1950s apart from a public toilet facing the Esplanade. This was a corrugated iron long drop. The first building on this block was an Ex Mallala Airodrome Married quarters placed there c1964 by the Jenkins Brothers who had inherited the property through the Forster family, storekeepers, of Wasleys who had owned the land since 1896. Alvin and Sylvia Jenkin now occupy this property in a home built in 2007.
		80 Parkin’s Shack. In 1950s this was a shack constructed of flattened petrol tins with tilt out panels for windows. The Parkin Family used it exclusively. No other provenance known. The building has been rebuilt on the same footprint with bricks but still looks similar to the 1950s
	MAIN STREET	Churches were active in the last half of the 20th Century. The Methodist Church in Mallala built a hall in Second Street in the late 1950’s and ran beach missions in the summer holidays which entertained the young people. Evening services were also held in season. St Malachy Catholic Church in Mallala established a facility at 14 Main Street in a transportable home relocated from Salisbury, and this operated from the mid 1960s to about 1990. The Lutheran Church met at the residence of Noel Schiller in 3 First Street for several years from 1980
	CAMP GROUND	The Parham Camping Ground, (124 The Esplanade), provides a different alternative to camping. The campground is located at the northern end of the township of Parham. It is a great place to overnight when travelling to and from Adelaide along the Port Wakefield Highway, or to spend a few days holidaying in the area, enjoying opportunities to rake for blue crabs, observe the fantastic sunsets, and meet up with the local community. It forms a good base for day trips to the Barossa or Clare Valleys, or to observe events at the Mallala Raceway, or to take in the rural attractions of the Adelaide Plains. The camping ground offers over 27 individual non powered Recreation Vehicle sites including 7 sites for large RVs. All sites are numbered and you will be allocated a site when booking. There are also 4 tent sites together with 6 powered sites totalling 33 sites altogether and free BBQ facilities, coin operated showers, and a RV dump point are also available.