Burra is blessed with an abundance of grand civic buildings, quaint bridges, and streets lined with graceful period homes. But, strangely, it hasn't always been a popular tourist destination.
COVID has helped resurrect domestic tourism in small towns like Burra as caravans and 4WDs rumble in.abc.net.au/news/burra-tourism-covid-ghost-town/101874010Some 160 kilometres north of Adelaide, Burra is blessed with an abundance of grand civic buildings, stately stores, quaint bridges, and streets lined with graceful bluestone and sandstone period homes.
"Because people were trapped in their own state in their own country, COVID's been a real boon for regional tourism."The pull of history Burra’s most famous historical site is the ruin that features on the cover of Midnight Oil’s Diesel and Dust album. Perhaps owing to its location on the outskirts of town, for 30 years the Burra railway station was unoccupied following the line's closure in 1980.
Terowie was the junction for three different gauged lines and a well-serviced township supported an extensive workforce and a population of approximately 2,000. Ghost towns in the United States are popular tourist destinations; less so here, which is a pity for Terowie where Main Street has remained a perfectly preserved example of 1960s small-town Australia.
Today there is just one business operating in town. Leanne Adams, a fifth-generation local, has run Murray's Corner Store since she was just a 20-year-old back in 2008. As well as selling groceries, the store is also Terowie's post office and Adams is the town's unofficial community notice board, passing on news of escaped horses, lost dogs and social events.
"Yes, it is very quiet when you go there but what I love about Terowie … is it's very unique in its buildings and there's just been some recent filming for a BBC TV series, The Tourist that features the amazing main street. "We sold the uniqueness of our heritage, and that we're on the way to the outback and the Flinders Ranges, and we've got a changing landscape," she says, "and so we've promoted it as 'come for the wine but come for a totally different experience, too', and people are starting to do that. We've now got a bit more of a brand and have become a bit of a destination."Lockdown was an opportunity for the council to reassess how it promotes the region.
Burra has also won over people wanting to move there permanently, says Raine & Horne estate agent, John Hogarth.
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