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Pubs
JM Freeland characterises Australian pubs as among ‘the most socially significant, historically valuable, architecturally interesting and colourful features of Australian…
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Queens Wharf
Queen’s Wharf was one of the first two wharves built in Port Adelaide, providing the foundation of the Port we…
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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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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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Singaporeans in South Australia
Singaporean migration to South Australia has occured from the early nineteenth century, however, when the Restriction Act 1901 was relaxed…
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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…
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South Australian Jam Company
On 28 September 1869, Mr T Collins held a meeting at the East-End Market Hotel to gauge interest among fruitgrowers…
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Strikes
South Australian workers have usually been less militant than their interstate counterparts.
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Sylvia Birdseye
Sylvia Birdseye was born Sylvia Jessie Catherine Merrill near Port Augusta on 26 January 1902, the daughter of station-hand Charles…
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Synagogue Place
Synagogue Place, named after the Synagogue built in 1850, has been the centre of the Jewish community in South Australia…
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The Gardeners’ and Market Salesmen’s Association
On 24 November 1883, the East-End Market Hotel reflected the Australian surge in union participation in the 1880s, and increasing…
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was an international economic crisis that effected capitalist countries including Australia. The generally accepted peak of the…
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The Second World War
This major international conflict officially began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on 3 September 1939. It lasted for six years,…
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy lectured and wrote on the wine business and olive growing, was a member of the Phylloxera Board, Wine…
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Thomas Quinton Stow
Thomas Quinton Stow was born on 7th July 1801 at Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, a descendant of an old farming family.…
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Time
Within a year of settlement, Adelaide’s residents were synchronising their timepieces by a bell rung in North Terrace near West…
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