The Miners Memorial

The Line of Lode Association was funded in 2000 by a Commonwealth Federation Grant to undertake a program of preservation on the Line of Lode including a Miners Memorial. The project designer was Christina Carayanides. The project was commissioned to the University of South Australia.

Basic Facts:

The design reinforces the existing positive block and street pattern of the city and reflects its role as a gateway to the history of the community by being visible to the city;

· The Memorial faces its long axis directly north-south in reference to the two residential halves of the city. The short axis faces east-west addressing the rising and setting of the sun in memoriam to those who have died working on the Line of Lode.

· To accomplish the cruciform plan dictated by these two axial references and achieve the dramatic edge experience developed by this theoretical approach the Memorial has been located towards the northern edge of the land.