Beaumont Bowling Club were all erected elsewhere. Several attempts over the years to build public lavatories and entertainment facilities were also rebuffed. Burnside Council refused to agree to any further trustee appointments as trustees died. The remaining trustees attempted to appoint Gordon Ditter (Ditters Nuts). Council refused. Fearing an attempt to obtain control of the Common by attrition, residents petitioned the State Government in 1971 to remove Burnside Council as a trustee by act of SA Parliament. Burnside Council objected. Several heated meetings between Council and residents ensured. To resolve the impasse the State Government declared Beaumont Common a public park under the Parks and Gardens Act with clauses prohibiting any future building to ever take place on Beaumont Common. Later revisions of the Act have had those clauses removed. No resident consultation on their removal ever took place. In popular culture Beaumont is mentioned in the Redgum song "Beaumont Rag" featured on the band's 1978 album If You Don't Fight You Lose. References Notes General The Paddocks Beneath, Elizabeth Warburton Cockburn, Rodney (1999) South Australia – What's in a Name? Axiom Publishing Beaumont House, E R Simpson (1993) Suburbs of Adelaide