The Paddocks Beneath: A History of Burnside from the Beginning by Elizabeth Warburton

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Scratches to book spine. Very light foxing to top foredge. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Dust jacket is now enclosed in protective covering. Interior and binding are also very good.

Commissioned by the Corporation of the City of Burnside, this book traces the area’s transformation from rural grazing land and orchards into an established suburban municipality. It explores the Indigenous Kaurna presence and early 1840s interactions, the arrival of early European settlers, and the founding of individual villages and suburbs.

Through detailed research, local stories, and historical records, Warburton documents the origins of street and place names, prominent landmarks, civic development, and the community's everyday life across the 19th and 20th centuries.