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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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Edmund William Wright
Edmund William Wright was born on 4th April 1824 near London, England, the son of Stephen Wright, who is said…
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Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Edward Gibbon Wakefield was born into a family of English Quaker reformers. Following his elopement with a young heiress who…
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Elder Family
Elder Family of Scots merchants and ship owners saw the infant South Australia as an opportunity to expand their business…
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Elder, Smith and Co’s Bonded and Free Stores
The Bond Store building once used to store goods is now the South Australian Maritime Museum.
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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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Hindley Street riot
Violence and election irregularities marred the process when, in 1855, South Australians got their first chance to elect politicians drawn…
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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 Morphett
John Morphett, namesake of the Adelaide suburb Morphettville, contributed widely to the cultural and economic support of early south Australia.
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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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Julian Edmund Tenison Woods
This creative priest who has left an enduring legacy to education, to science and to the history of the Catholic…