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‘Great Fires’ of Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide has been ravaged by fire several times in its history, but three blazes in particular, in 1847, 1857 and…
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181 Sturt Street
181 Sturt Street was the home of Mahomet Allum, an Afghani herbalist and healer. It was later the office for…
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Adelaide 1876
Adelaide: supplement to the Illustrated Sydney News; ‘A Capital View of the City of Adelaide’. Image courtesy of the State Library…
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Adelaide Arcade
Adelaide Arcade was opened in 1885 and was hailed as the most modern shopping precinct in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Adelaide Brewery
Adelaide Brewery was an early colonial enterprise. While brewing has long ceased there, the building survives in a different guise.
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Adelaide Hills
The Adelaide Hills (known in early colonial times as ‘the Tiers’) is a region of the Mount Lofty Ranges east…
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Adelaide Steamship Company
The Adelaide Steamship Company was Australia’s largest shipping company and one of South Australia’s most successful business ventures.
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Adelaide Workers’ Homes Inc.
Providing housing for ‘industrious and deserving’ workers since 1899
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Adelaide Workmen’s Homes
Cottages built for workers through a bequest from businessman and philanthropist Sir Thomas Elder
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Alfred Edward Gerard
Alfred Edward Gerard was born on 11th August 1877 at Aberdeen, near Burra, South Australia, the son of labourer William…
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Alfred Hannaford, MBE
Alfred Hannaford was born on the 23rd June 1890 at ‘Wattle Vale’ near Riverton, South Australia, the son of farmer…
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Amos William Howard
Amos William Howard was born on 31st May 1848 at Silk Mills, Watford, Hertfordshire, England, the son of gardener William…
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Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick
Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick was born in London, England, on 4th January 1848. His mother, Mary Ann Gildin (née Stinton), was…
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Architecture
The distinctive architectural character of Adelaide and its suburbs has disappeared since 1980 – city high-rise offices and derivative styles…
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Austral Hotel
Constructed from east to west in January 1880, Adelaide’s most distinctive commercial complex of14 shops and hotel, heading west along…
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Ayers House
Acquired and extended on the back of copper mining from the mid 1840s, Ayers House has had three main occupancies…
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Barque South Australian
A former mail transport and Royal Navy vessel, the barque South Australian was integral to the early colonisation of South…
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Beehive Corner
Built in 1896, Beehive Corner with its Neo-Gothic facade has been a famous meeting spot since the early 20th century.
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Bonython Family
Bonython Family is distinguished by a capacity for hard work, a leaning towards public service and significant benefaction to the…
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Breweries and beer
How did Lion and Coopers come to be South Australia’s only major brewers of beer today?
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Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd
South Australia has very close historic and daily links to the mining and processing activities of BHP Billiton.
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Brookman Building
Developing technical education via a School of Mines and Industries leading to SAIT and then UniSA
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Central Market
The Central Market is a distinctively Adelaide institution, renowned for fine food and produce and a bustling cosmopolitan atmosphere
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Charles Allan Seymour Hawker
Charles Hawker was born on 16th May 1894 at Bungaree Station, near Clare, South Australia, the son of station manager…