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Adelaide General Post Office
The classically styled freestone Adelaide General Post Office housed both the post and telegraph offices which connected South Australia with…
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Anglican Church
An important shaper of South Australian society, particularly in religious circles, education, welfare, the professions and politics.
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Anzac Arch
Anzac Arch was built as a monument of appreciation to the men who fought in the First World War.
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Archibald Watson
Archibald Watson (1849–1940), anatomist, eldest son of Sydney Watson, a wealthy Victorian pastoralist of Scots-Indian descent, became involved in ‘blackbirding’…
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Armistice Day 1918
Huge crowds gathered on the streets of Adelaide on 11 November 1918 to celebrate the armistice of the First World…
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August Wilhelm Pelzer
Landscape gardener and horticulturalist August Wilhelm Pelzer was appointed by the Adelaide City Council as ‘City Gardener’ in August 1899.…
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Brown Street
Brown Street, running from South Terrace to Grote Street, morphed into Morphett Street in 1967 but the area retains its out-of-the-way feel
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Cecil Thomas Madigan
Cecil Thomas Madigan was born on 15th October 1889 at Renmark, South Australia, the son of fruitgrower Thomas Madigan and…
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Cheer-Up Hut
It started in a tent and grew – meals, clothes, accommodation and recreation for servicemen on the move.
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Clara Bartholomaeus
In researching First World War knitting I came across the story of Clara Bartholomaeus, the secretary of the Soldiers Aid…