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Perry Engineering Co.
Samuel Perry was an Adelaide born manufacturer whose business made munitions during the Second World War.
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Pirie Street
Pirie Street has been home to cottages, churches, commerce and clubs
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Playford Family
A Baptist minister and Waterloo veteran with a dragoon’s pension, South Australia’s first Thomas Playford arrived in 1844 to claim…
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Retail Trade
In the early years of European settlement the distinction between retail trade, wholesale trade and importing in South Australia was…
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River Murray
The River Murray has been central to South Australia’s existence. Named in 1830 by Charles Sturt after Sir George Murray,…
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Robert Barr Smith
When Robert Barr Smith died in 1915 at the age of 91, long obituaries extolled his role as an astute…
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Royal Adelaide Show
The Royal Adelaide Show has become the annual meeting place for country and city.
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Rundle Street
Rundle Street has been a centre of shops and arcades, theatre and cafes, as well as acrimonious debate
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Sailors’ Aid Societies (Port Adelaide)
Sailors’ aid societies were first established at Port Adelaide in the 1860s to provide accommodation, entertainment, moral guidance and religious instruction to…
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Sir Claude Gibb, KBE
Claude Dixon Gibb was a man whose prodigious energy, flair for publicity and wide experience brought him many honours and…
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Sir Edward Hayward
Edward Waterfield Hayward (known as ‘Bill’) was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 10th November 1903, the son of Arthur…
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Sir Edward Holden
Edward Wheewall Holden was born on 14th August 1885 at College Town, South Australia. He was educated at Prince Alfred…
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Sir George Brookman, KBE
Staunch capitalist George Brookman was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 15th April 1850, the son of printer Benjamin Brookman and…
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Sir Lloyd Dumas
At the end of a long life Sir Lloyd Dumas described himself as ‘the luckiest man in the world’. He…
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Sir Robert Richard Torrens
Robert Richard Chute Torrens was born on 31st May 1812 in Cork, Ireland, the son of Robert Torrens, of the…
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Sir Roland Jacobs
Roland Ellis Jacobs was born at North Adelaide on 28th February 1891, the son of company director Samuel Joshua Jacobs…