Southern Heritage Trust

Trustees

BARRY CLARK is the Chair of the Trust. He is an accountant, educated in Dunedin, and is involved with a number of Charitable Trusts, particularly in Heritage preservation. He has recently been elected Chair of the Dunedin Gasworks Museum Trust.

ANN BARSBY was instrumental in the setting up of the Trust in 2002 and continues to be the inspiration and driving force behind most of our activities. She is also active as a committee member of several other local heritage organisations. She was formerly head of the Tourism Department of Otago Polytechnic.

JOHN BARSBY has been Secretary and Treasurer of the Trust from the beginning. He was a member of the Classics Department of Otago University until his retirement in 2002 as an Emeritus Professor. He was awarded the ONZM in 2003 for services to Classical Studies.

CRAIG BUSH is an Events Manager and teacher with an interest in information technology , who has played a big part in the development of the Trust’s website. He has recently moved down to Dunedin from Auckland together with his partner and fellow trustee Carol Robinson.

LOUISE CROOT, resident in Dunedin since 1951, is an Otago regional Councillor, a Trustee of the Otago Community Trust and the President of the International Federation of University Women. She was awarded the MNZM in 2008.

GARTH LUCAS is a Dunedin lawyer whose family have lived in Dunedin for over 140 years. He is an enthusiastic supporter of the Trust and assisted in its incorporation back in 2002

LOIS ROBERTSON is an archivist with a background in the archives, records, and library sector. She is interested in the preservation and use of heritage places and items, and in making them and their related stories accessible.

CAROL ROBINSON is a teacher by profession and a great lover of Dunedin, to which she moved two years ago in advance of her partner Craig Bush. She has already played a large part in Trust activities, notably in the Harbour Trails project.

DEBRA SIMES is the manager of the Dunedin City Council’s marketing and communications agency.

Latest News
EVENT OF THE MONTH The Event of the Month for September will be the Savoy Afternoon Tea on Wednesday 8 September, which will be a Celebration of Spring. There is no Special Event in August.

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.