ATP Heritage Issues to be Addressed

  1. A foundation needs to be
    established to administer the Heritage of the site. Tonight we should determine
    the individuals and groups to be invited to be delegates.
  2. The standard license agreement
    has not been signed with RWA and WAW. The annual rental increases are above commercial
    rates, and potentially crippling for a heritage blacksmithing operation. We
    wish to have this reviewed by the Minister.
  3. What happened to the grant money to be spent on getting the
    machinery operational?
  4. When and where are the Henry
    Berry cranes and wheel press     to be conserved and how? As per the CMP. These
    machines are still outdoors. It is possible they are to be dumped. This
    question needs to be asked.
  5. The hydraulic pump room is
    not displayed to the public. The frosted glass in the doors does not allow
    viewing. The ATP does not allow it to be part of the tours. We are told the key
    is lost.
  6. The pebbles need to be removed around the base of the accumulators so that the control cables
    that activate the gouvnor and do not rust beyond repair and the automatic
    filling technology of the system is lost.
  7. The air compressor house
    is mentioned as a must do in the DA consent conditions and be hooked up to the
    Blacksmiths shop to repower the steam hammers. Possibly for annual open day’s. Can
    the strength of this determination be checked? There needs to be conservation
    work on the air compressors, reactivating them makes this a given.
  8. The Air compressor house should feature in the Heritage walk.
  9. The floor repair the ATP
    has finally agreed to in the blacksmithing shop- damaged in the refurbishment
    should include stone sills that prevent dry leaves blowing into the building
    and creating a fire hazard, reusing the cast iron floor plates around the 7cwt
    hammer to level the floor and make it non-inflammable, replacing the asphalt
    from the new concrete to the coal scuttle door and to the annex door. The floor
    must be able to support the 8ton load.
  10. The doors of the
    blacksmithing northern bays should be repaired and sills replaced.
  11. There is no one looking after
    the static machines     on exhibit around the park. Andrew who used to look
    after them was sacked over 5 years ago and not replaced. Graham Stevens the
    asset manager of the Park should be informed of the maintenance schedules in
    the CMP for movable relics.
  12. The Oliver hammer in bay
    2 north and air receiver in the car park are from the carriage works blacksmith
    shop and should be returned to their original locations and conserved.
  13. There is a Wadkin chain and
    chisel mortising     machine in one of the containers that is not being used
    and WAW would like to make it operable at our expense and utilize it.
  14. The State Minister for Volunteers
    needs to be informed of the plight of the 3801 carriages and the treatment of the
    volunteers that worked on them only to have them snatched away.
  15. National listing of the site still needs to be done. The State should request it as
    back up for its own heritage protection. A presentation
    to the Heritage council     could be made by the Foundation to communicate our
    concerns for the lack of vision exhibited by the Landlords.
  16. The landlords make much of the Bricks
    & Mortar     of the building but have no interest in the machinery
    collection.  NSW heritage tourism should have Eveleigh on its site as a
    destination for visitors. An effort needs to be made by the ATP/RWA to make the
    site a stimulating historical experience. The machine display in bay 8 is
    boring and inactive and visitors not encouraged.  Nothing has been made of Bays 1&2
    South.  Once the LES is granted its
    rightful purpose in perpetuity the Gov’t should give a heritage grant for to
    make the Large OHS compliant and to certify the cranes (so 3801 don’t have the
    expense of hiring cranes when required). Tours of the site can include the 2
    active workshops. A paid tour guide with a proper understanding of the site,
    machinery, tools and assemblages needs to be employed on a part-time basis. The
    tours should be charged for.  We are
    working with Michael Mortlock on a
    DVD about the blacksmithing workshop with a view of it going on the History
    Channel.
  17. The State Politicians
    will be looking for vote pulling causes. Liberals/Greens/Independents should be
    approached and asked to make it an election platform. Labor has made a muck up
    of it. We were fortunate with the timing of the Council Election and our
    eviction that the blacksmithing shop got 
    used as an election platform by the Chris
    Harris, Meredeth Burgman and Clover
    Moore.
  18. WAW would like to meet 2010 carbon
    dioxide emission targets     and demonstrate environmental sustainability, a
    grant and advice on this to be sought.