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Fictional histories of Adelaide

Recently my partner Kelly and I painted a park bench in the South West on Sturt St near Whitmore Square…

public art
Film

In October 1896, within one year of the Lumière brothers’ first public screening of film in Paris, the first public…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Find a Furby

Artist Laura Lamington is responsible for a Furby craze that has been sweeping across Adelaide since around 2017. Paste-ups of…

2010s
Fire Cracker Box

Packaging and remnats from firecrackers stocked at Gordon Sym Choon’s Union Street shop.

1960s, 1970s
First aerial ascent

American aeronaut Thomas Gale made South Australia’s first successful aerial ascent in June 1871

flying, hot air ballooning

Adelaide, ballooning, flight, North Terrace

1870s
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Adelaide

Opened in 1957 for 360 people with a Sunday school for 300, the church has a marble porch and a…

1950s
Fish for the Slate Pool Walkway

Within Catherine Truman’s work, Fish for the Slate Pool Walkway, the tentative nature of life is captured brilliantly from the depths…

public art, sculpture

public art, sculptor

1990s
Fishing

Especially in coastal and riverine areas, fishing has always played an important role in the cultural, material and social lives…

Aboriginal Country pre-contact, early nineteenth century, early twentieth century, early twenty–first century, late nineteenth century, late twentieth century, mid nineteenth century, mid twentieth century
Fleurieu Peninsula

From prehistoric times through the Aboriginal Dreaming to a modern region popular for settlement, farming, tourism and recreation.

early nineteenth century, early twentieth century, early twenty–first century, late nineteenth century, late twentieth century, mid nineteenth century, mid twentieth century
Flinders Street

From ‘City of Churches’ to the ‘City of Cars’, Flinders Street reflects changes in Adelaide

City & Town Streets

1830s, 1840s, 1860s, 1870s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, early twenty–first century
Flower Day

Every year between 1938 and 1975 Adelaidians showed pride in their city by beautifying it with mass displays of flowers…

floral displays

Flower Day

1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Fountain – Art Gallery of South Australia

The Art Gallery of South Australia is one of several major cultural institutions that line North Terace between Kintore Avenue…

art gallery, fountain
Fountain – Brookman Building

This fountain is outside the University of SA Brookman Building.

building, fountain, university
Francis Hardy Faulding

Francis Hardy Faulding, the founder of the pharmaceutical manufacturing company, F.H. Faulding & Co., was born in Swinefleet, Yorkshire, England.…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, mid nineteenth century
Freemasonry

The first South Australian Freemasons lodge formed in England, before the colony of South Australia was settled.

1830s, 1840s, early twentieth century, early twenty–first century, late nineteenth century, late twentieth century, mid nineteenth century, mid twentieth century
Freemasons Grand Lodge

Completed in 1927 the Freemasons Grand Lodge, or Masonic Centre, is a well known landmark on North Terrace.

1920s
Frome Road and Rundle Street Mural

Originally painted by Carol Ruff and Barbary O’Brien in 1984 and modified by Driller Jet Armstrong in 1998.

Andrew Parish, Andrew Petrusevics, art, Barbary O’Brien, Brettski, Carol Ruff, Daubism, David Bromley, DJ Driller, Driller Jet Armstrong, mural, public art, street art, surreal art

1980s, 1990s
Gardens

Even if one does not have a ‘green thumb’, gardening has the benefits of growing one’s own produce or contributing…

community, gardens, outdoors
George Cockburn Henderson

George Cockburn Henderson (1870–1914), historian, son of a Newcastle coal-miner, was educated at Sydney’s Fort Street School. Entering the University…

1900-1910, 1920s, 1940s
George Elton Mayo

George Elton Mayo was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 26th December 1880, the son of engineer George Gibbes Mayo…

1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s
George Frederick Hassell

George Frederick Hassell was born on 22nd February 1869 at Leicester, England, the son of printer George Hassell and his…

early twentieth century, late nineteenth century, mid twentieth century
George French Angas

George French Angas was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on 25th April 1822, the eldest son of George Fife…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s
George Hall

George Hall displayed considerable foresight when he founded one of South Australia’s first aerated waters companies in Marryatville in 1851.…

late nineteenth century, mid nineteenth century
George Hannaford

George William Hannaford was born on 4 January 1852, the son of farmer George Williams Hannaford and his wife Ann…

1860s, 1900-1910, late nineteenth century
George Henry Farr

George Farr was born in London, England, on 2nd July 1819, the son of linen merchant George Farr and his…

late nineteenth century, mid nineteenth century
Gepps Cross Migrant Hostel

At the time it operated, Gepps Cross hostel was called a ‘miniature suburb’. It was ‘purpose built’ using Nissen huts,…

migrant hostel

1950s, 1960s, mid twentieth century
Gerard and Goodman

Gerard and Goodman became Gerard Industries, or Clipsal, under Alfred Gerard and his son Geoff’s leadership

1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Germans

The German born community have left a strong cultural legacy in South Australia, evident in many areas today.

Barossa Valley, farming, Germany, Hahndorf, migration, World War I, World War II

early nineteenth century, early twentieth century, late nineteenth century, late twentieth century
Giordano Collection

A collection held by the Migration Museum documenting the life of Antonio Giordano.

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Gladys Elphick MBE

Gladys Elphick was born in Adelaide on the 27th August 1904, the daughter of William Williams and Gertrude Adams, and…

1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s

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Elder Park Migrant Hostel

Elder Park Migrant Hostel

My family – mum, dad, and four children – came out to Australia in 1959 as assisted migrants from UK. The Elder Park Migrant Hostel was our first experience of a new life in Australia. My memories of the hostel are like flashes of lightening illuminating a landscape that is now almost too far away to make out. I have tried to rebuild our experiences of that momentous time with the memories from all of my family and photos taken by my sister.

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