Concord Heritage Society


		Heritage Sub-Committee

This Committee’s aim is to: Identify and record the architectural, cultural and environmental history of Concord and make recommendations, through the Society, to Council, State and Federal Governments as appropriate, for the preservation of any such places considered to be of architectural, cultural and environmental significance within the municipality.

Chairman: Bob Jones

There are currently two projects under way:

The production of a book, Concord Heritage Drive, which will take you on a drive around Concord visiting places of significance in the area and living a little of the history of each. What started out as a minor production with possibly half a dozen places to visit and blossomed into a full-scale production of more than 40 sites. This will be profusely illustrated with pen sketches by our member and local artist Terry Robinson.

Identifying all the streets, lanes, parks and areas in Concord and researching the origin of their name.

There are other projects in the pipeline, as time permits, including locating and recording all monuments, plaques and memorials in the area.

Thanks to one of our keen members we already have a fairly comprehensive set of photographs of these but still want to hear of any further ones.

Concord Memorial Hall

Concord Memorial Hall The possibility of raising funds to build a hall was first mooted in 1927 when two members of the Ex-Servicemen’s Club were given the task of searching for a suitable site. The location, at the corner of Majors Bay Road and Davidson Avenue, was secured for £600 ($1200) and the deposit of £60 was raised by a benefit night at the Ritz Theatre across the road. This was the beginning of many fund-raising efforts which were so successful that work began on the first stage of the hall in 1930. Club members, many of whom were unemployed in the early years of the Depression, dug all the foundations and laid concrete for the building. The Women’s Auxiliary provided a tent from which the workers were served with food and drinks.

With declining membership of the Concord Ex-Servicemen’s Club after World War II, the hall was handed over to Concord Council. Further additions and improvements have been made but the original hall, built with such fervour in the Depression years, still remains. It now operates as a function centre.

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Heritage Sub-Committee

Concord Memorial Hall