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and police departments and to needy families in the area. In
September 1955 a report to the General Manager of the Housing Trust calculated that, out of the initial allocation of 1000 houses, 850 were now home to employees of LRWE and its associated industries. At first the estate’s social mix was wider than had been envisaged. With the absence of anything better to go to, every class rubbed shoulders there, from the men of the Commonwealth Investigation Service to graduate Experimental Officers to toolmakers. But eventually many employees tired of the conditions and went to live in better housing far from the estate.
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parks. No public telephone was installed until the end of 1952. Until 1955 the estate was not even sewered; before April 1953, when nearly 300 families were living there, tenants were instructed to bury sewage themselves in their backyards. Since the area is low lying and prone to flooding, the unmade roads could be quagmires in winter. Bagster’s Road, the main thoroughfare to LRWE, was a mud track. Employees used to come to work in heavy gum boots, walking because the road was impassable to vehicles.
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and housing materials were in short supply. The small, semi-detached "maisonettes" subsequently built at
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Salisbury North was very high for years after it was established. In 1951 three-quarters of the houses were allocated as soon as they were finished to families nominated by LRWE and contractor companies. The other quarter went to staff of the state education
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The slovenliness of the domestic architecture was matched by the absence of even a rudimentary attempt at town planning. The powers of the
Housing Trust were limited at the time merely to putting up houses: it could not build shops or roads or footpaths, or community amenities halls, play-grounds or
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Salisbury North becoming a ghetto. But these advanced notions did not persist, for the economies inherent in making it an estate development were too great to ignore when both money
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had its advantages – the pay was very much better than private employers were offering – but unless one could find somewhere to live locally, working at
Penfield involved a commuting trip from the city. From the beginning the authorities recognised that recruitment of staff demanded inducements, and
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established in 1947 gathered pace, the need to recruit large numbers of employees increased. However, the post-war labour market in
Adelaide was buoyant and the price of housing high. Every kind of worker was in short supply, and the project had to compete with electronics and engineering firms that
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on a greenfield site in the early 1950s, mainly to house employees of the nearby Long Range
Weapons Establishment. It is bounded on the north by the Adelaide–Port Augusta railway line; on the east by the Gawler railway line; on the south by the Little Para River and Waterloo Corner Road; and on the
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low cost structures ... of monotonous form, being identical to each other, endless in their rows, all with a rusting chainwire mesh fence and weathering to that insipid yellow/brown of weathered limestone. Their appearance could be said to be the trademark of any
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Salisbury North explicitly to house the "industrials" (sub-professional employees) of LRWE, on the argument that these grades would be most attracted by the idea of housing close at hand. Starting in 1949, the job was undertaken by the
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In the 1980s, the South Australian Housing Trust started to offer houses for sale to their tenants. Since then many of the original houses have been extended, and in some cases rebuilt, made practicable by the low real estate market.
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During the war years, many hundreds of workers had been conveyed each day by train to and from Penfield since most of the workforce lived in Adelaide. There had been a post-war lull when munitions manufacture ceased, but as the new
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Bagster's Road in 1956, seven years after it was laid out. As an important road leading to the estate's sole shops and service station it had been bituminised, but there was no kerbing and storm-water drainage was a ditch.
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was built on a picturesque riverside site between the estate and the town of Salisbury. Before then most secondary students had gone to
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Salisbury North's reputation was adversely affected when it was revealed in 1999 that the leader of a group of four serial killers,
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