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This month in South Australia’s history

Trades Hall is opened

The foundation stone for Trades Hall was laid on Eight Hours Day, 2 September 1895 and the completed building was officially opened on 4 March 1896. From 1896 the completed Trades Hall housed offices of the UTLC, numerous individual unions, the United Labor Party and workers welfare organisations. In 1964 the South Australian Parliament legislated to enable the sale of the building and in 1972 a new building was opened on South Terrace.

New Saint Patrick’s Church is consecrated

By the early twentieth century St Patrick’s Church was too small for its congregation. A much larger building, said to be based on the Church of the Holy Spirit in Florence, was designed by the architects Woods and Bagot. The foundation stone for the new church was laid on 10 November 1912. The completed church was dedicated on 15 March 1914.

First ‘Silent Cop’

In response to a series of traffic accidents at Black Diamond Corner, a directional aid is installed to remind drivers to ‘Keep Left’ when transiting the intersection