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Our community project - a village of 34 homes and a Community Centre, enclosed with electrically operated gates, in the outer north-eastern suburb of Hope Valley is virtually complete.
Today, Sunday 1st June 2003, the official opening and dedication of the Community Centre and the site took place.
On the left we can see the cover of the impressive looking prospectus Warrina Homes issued to each of us... and indeed there is a large greyscale version of this image used as the background to this document...
The website has been up for some eight months now, so much of the original material to help people moving here from afar to find their way around the wider locality can be removed shortly. This will free up the small amount of space a "free" web site offers, and will allow us to put up more recent photographs from the end of the contruction phase. this has been denied to us until now because we have used up all the space provided generously by freeservers.com
A paid website upgrade could permit a number of what are called POP mail boxes to be established - proper email as opposed to web-browser email collection (like hotmail) which is very slow compared to using a proper mail program such as eudoraŽ.
A real advantage of using an email address associated with a site like this one is that it can be very easily changed when you start getting too much unwanted "spam" or junk mail. Worth considering from that point.
A previous Warrina Homes development on the other side of Reservoir Road in about 1993, where nine houses were constructed on what had previously been vacant land owned by the City of Tea Tree Gully. Here are two photos, the first looking at the south-western corner of "The Grove" on the corner of Reservoir and Hoover Roads, and the second being a shot of the land opposite which the Council's Parks and gardens people have since beautified.
Perhaps advice to the community of events that are scheduled in the magnificent community centre that isn't quite finished... and a notice board where new folks can be welcomed.
There is also a row of links at the bottom of the page, some of which may not work.
The north-eastern terminal of the unique Guided Busway mode of travel which the then State Transport Authority extended to Tea Tree Plaza in the late 1980s-early 1990s is not far from our front gate.
The initial O-Bahn concept was German in design, and was built with a very short test track in Essen, but it never caught on. The South Australian government bought the rights to it in the 1980s, opting to use it instead of a light rail system to connect these north-eastern suburbs with the city centre. In South Australia, Australian ingenuity has developed it into a workable system, and here you can see an articulated bus hurtling towards Adelaide at about 90km/hr, the photo having been taken from the bridge over the track further up Reservoir Road to the north of the estate.
Below we can see the view to the north (towards the Modbury hospital and Tea Tree Plaza) on the left) and to the south (towards Grand Junction Road, on the right) - both of which were photographed during the early days of construction of the estate.
