Southern Heritage Trust

Welcome to the Southern Heritage Trust

The Southern Heritage Trust was set up in December 2002 and incorporated as a Charitable Trust in May 2003.

We have an attractive base in the Sexton’s Cottage at Dunedin’s Northern Cemetery. This is by arrangement with the Dunedin City Council, and in return we maintain an information centre and website on burials in the cemetery. You are most welcome to call in to the Sexton’s Cottage whenever you can find us open: you can view there a display of our heritage products and make purchases if you wish.

The Southern Heritage Trust is devoted to the appreciation and protection of Otago’s social, cultural, architectural and industrial heritage. In particular

* we research and publish heritage materials

* we set up and maintain heritage websites

* we collaborate with other agencies, groups and individuals in heritage activities

* we take upon ourselves an advocacy role in heritage matters.

Latest News
RETURN VISIT OF SIR NEIL COSSONS Sir Neil Cossons, former Chair of English Heritage, visited Dunedin again in November and made a great impact with a series of talks and discussions. LAUNCH OF PENINSULA HERITAGE TRAIL The second of the Trust's Otago Harbour Heritage Trails, featuring the Peninsula, was launched on 26 November and is now available for purchase. SAVOY AFTERNOON TEAS The last of the 2009 Savoy Afternoon Teas was held on 25 November with a Scottish flavour and attracted another sell-out attendance. The 2010 progamme will be annouced shortly.

Latest News

RETURN VISIT OF SIR NEIL COSSONS

Sir Neil Cossons, former Chair of English Heritage, visited Dunedin again in November and made a great impact with a series of talks and discussions.

LAUNCH OF PENINSULA HERITAGE TRAIL

The second of the Trust's Otago Harbour Heritage Trails, featuring the Peninsula, was launched on 26 November and is now available for purchase.

SAVOY AFTERNOON TEAS

The last of the 2009 Savoy Afternoon Teas was held on 25 November with a Scottish flavour and attracted another sell-out attendance. The 2010 progamme will be annouced shortly.

Who's Online

Southern Heritage Sites: Otago Trails

This website offers a number of carefully designed themed trails which will allow you to explore selected aspects of heritage throughout Otago or simply to investigate the heritage of a particular locality.; Northern Cemetery

This website brings together information from many different research sources to offer you a unique view of one of New Zealand's most interesting cemeteries.
The cemetery remembers many of Dunedin's and New Zealand's early settlers and founding residents, such as entrepreneur William Larnach, Charles Speight and Poet, Legislator and Journalist Thomas Bracken.; Dunedin Gasworks Museum

"The Dunedin Gas Works Museum is one of only three preserved gasworks in the world, and by far the best and most complete", says Sir Neil Cossons, former Chairman of English Heritage and a noted authority on the history of industrial archaeology, museums and conservation. The Dunedin Gasworks Museum is important as the only surviving and preserved example of a city gasworks where the process is explained and the equipment demonstrated.