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S.A. Housing Trust home, Rosewater [B 10022] • Photograph

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Summary

Homes erected by the S.A. Housing Trust home, Rosewater in 1937. Photograph taken in October 1937. Homes to be let for 12/6d. per week to workers earning the basic wage. A newspaper clipping from The Advertiser, Nov. 3, 1937 says: "Sir William Goodman, also expressed his satisfaction with the houses and said that he knew people who were paying three pounds and three pounds ten shillings a week for flats which had fewer conveniences and comforts than the houses which the party was inspecting. He added that the houses had been built to conform in every way to the Building Act requirements, except that the bricks in the inner wall had been laid edge on. This step had been taken with the full approval of the local boards of health at Port Adelaide and Enfield, and with the special mortar used, the inner walls were just as stable as walls built in the orthodox way. After the Rosewater houses had been inspected the party motored to Croydon Park North where 38 houses are being built, calling in on the way at Rosewater Gardens, where a start was made yesterday on the construction of the first of another group of 38 houses. All of the houses being built under the scheme are semidetached and of three main types, each being varied with three colour treatments, making nine variations so that in a row of nine houses there are no two alike. Each houses consists of a living room, two bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, hall, wired-in sleepout, laundry, tank and stand, clothes line and posts.The fittings include six electric lights, two power points, cast enamel bath and hand basin, bath-heater and shower, kitchen sink and draining board, cupboard under sink, stove recess and shelf, wash troughs, and 10 gallon built -in copper. The allotment on which each house stands is at least 3,900 square feet, the minimum under the Building Act. Each house costs 450 pounds and this amount covers the cost of land, house, sewers, fencing, architect's fee, overhead administration, roads, footpaths, and other costs. One of the houses at Rosewater has been furnished by an Adelaide firm, the whole house being fitted out with attractive furniture and furnishings for less than 70 pounds".

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Physical description

Photograph; 21.3 cm x 15.9 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1937

Photographer

News and Mail

Collection

Part of Rosewater Collection

Subject

South Australian Housing Trust

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Digitisation information

Date

30/11/2005

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image/tiff

Resolution

3,268 x 2,476 pixels (8.1 MP)

Size

8.12 MB

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