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East Terrace
A street in an area of contrasts – the rich, the poor, society figures, outcasts, business, leisure, health and education are…
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Emigration Square
Care for migrants, the unemployed and the destitute was evident from South Australia’s foundation days.
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Flinders Street
From ‘City of Churches’ to the ‘City of Cars’, Flinders Street reflects changes in Adelaide
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Francis Hardy Faulding
Francis Hardy Faulding, the founder of the pharmaceutical manufacturing company, F.H. Faulding & Co., was born in Swinefleet, Yorkshire, England.…
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Freemasonry
The first South Australian Freemasons lodge formed in England, before the colony of South Australia was settled.
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Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity Church is the earliest surviving Anglican Church building in South Australia, and one of Adelaide’s oldest standing structures.
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John McDouall Stuart
On 26th November 1862 ten exhausted, gaunt and ragged men, on their limping, emaciated horses, arrived at a remote stock…
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John Ridley
John Ridley was born on 26th May 1806 at West Boldon, Durham, England, the son of flourmiller John Ridley and…
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Kingston Map
Kingston Map, c. 1842. To her most Gracious Majesty Adelaide, the Queen Dowager, this map of Adelaide, South Australia, shewing…
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Light’s Plan of Adelaide, 1840
Plan of the City of Adelaide, in South Australia: with the acre allotments numbered, and a marginal reference to the…
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Lithuanians in South Australia
Lithuanian migrants came to South Australia as early as the 1840s, numbers expanded significantly following the Second World War.