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Are you interested in heritage buildings, the conservation process, or the stories of people who lived long ago? Browse through these pages and discover treasures of the past.
1920’s Light Pass – Wilf Mader’s fabulous mud map
If you wanted to step back in time to Light Pass in the 1920's, you could do no better than to follow this map and guide. It was prepared by Wilf Mader, a Light Pass local, for the book Light Pass Revisited.* The map is beautiful, and Wilf's memory is amazing....
Conserve, Preserve or Restore? What to do with an old building.
How do you decide what to do with a heritage building? Do you conserve or restore it? Or just preserve it? What do these terms even mean? Conservation. This is the process of maintaining and managing change to a heritage asset in a way that sustains and where...
A Day at the Races
Race days were a highlight on the Light Pass calendar. They were held twice a year at at the Light Pass Racecourse. situated on Sporns’ paddock, on the corner of Light Pass & Willows roads. The races began as a spontaneous event, with local lads pitting their...
The Recipe Books are back!
20th September 2022: We're happy to say the Rechner recipe books are available again, and now you can also purchase them as a downloadable PDF. Originally produced in 2018 for a Rechner family reunion, they have been available to purchase since then as a fundraising...
The Willow’s hospital at Light Pass
The Willows Private Hospital was begun by an early settler, Johann Gottfried Scholz, who settled at Light Pass in 1845. He had gained experience in bone setting and remedial massage in the Prussian army, and his skills were very much in demand in the local Barossa...
What matters is the story
What matters is the story... "Honour your own stories, and tell them, too" says Madeleine L'Engel. "Don't worry if they seem unimportant - they are what binds families together". And communities, too. Discovering the stories of the Rechner Family, the cottage and...