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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…

1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Semaphore Migrant Hostel

Semaphore migrant hostel appears to have been home to young single men working in the area. Its proximity to the…

migrant hostel

1940s, 1950s
Serbians in South Australia

Serbians migrated to South Australia from the 1940s – 1990s to escape various forms of prosecution and have since established…

migration, Serbian

1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1990s, early twentieth century, Second World War
Sir Archibald Grenfell Price, CMG

Archibald Grenfell Price was born at ‘Tutuila’, near Crafers in the Adelaide hills, on 28th January 1892, the son of…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir Donald Bradman

Donald George (Don) Bradman (1908–2001) was worshipped as the most dominant batsman in cricket history and an Australian hero from…

1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir Douglas Mawson bust

The spirit of Antarctic explorer and professor of geology, Sir Douglas Mawson, is captured in the bust by John Dowie

bust

Antarctica, expedition, geology, glaciation, mineralogy, petrology

1880s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1980s
Sir Henry Newland, CBE, DSO

Henry Simpson Newland was born at Kensington, South Australia, on 24th November 1873, the son of pastoralist Simpson Newland of…

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Sir Hugh Cairns, KBE

Hugh William Bell Cairns was the only child of a Scottish father and an Australian mother. His father, William, was…

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Sir John Cleland, CBE

John Burton Cleland was born in Norwood, South Australia, on 22nd June 1878, the son of medical practitioner William Lennox…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir Kenneth Wills, KBE, MC

Kenneth Agnew Wills was born in Adelaide on 3rd March 1896. His father, R.J.H. Wills, was a partner in the…

1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir Mark Oliphant bust

The bust of Sir Mark Oliphant on North Terrace honours an eminent scientist and the state’s first South Australian-born governor.

1900-1910, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Second World War
Sir Mellis Napier bust

The bronze bust of Sir Mellis Napier, sculpted by eminent South Australian artist John Dowie, commemorates his distinguished community service,…

bust

bust, sculpture

1880s, 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir Mellis Napier, KCMG

Thomas John Mellis Napier was born at Dunbar, Scotland, on 24th October 1882, the son of medical practitioner Alexander Disney…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir Thomas Playford

Thomas Playford was Premier of South Australia from 1938 to 1965. He led his party to victory in eight successive…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Sir Walter Crocker, KBE

Born at Silverton, New South Wales, on 25th March 1902, the son of grazier and farmer Robert Crocker and his…

1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000-2010
Sir William Mitchell, KCMG

William Mitchell was born in Inveravon, Scotland, in March 1861, the son of hill-farmer Peter Mitchell and his wife Margaret…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Smithfield Migrant Hostel

Smithfield, when the migrant hostel opened, was an isolated rural area. It took about an hour by train to get…

migrant hostel

1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
South Terrace

Mansions at one end and cottages at the other, with businesses, welfare, medical and educational institutions in between, all overlooking…

City & Town Streets

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000-2010
Steam Tug Yelta

Once an integral component of Port Adelaide’s fleet of working vessels, this sole-surviving example of an operational South Australian steam tug…

1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Susan Grace Benny

Susan Grace Benny (1872–1944), known as Grace, was the first woman local government councillor in Australia. Her achievements are honoured…

1870s, 1890s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Sym Choon Collection

A collection of objects related to the Sym Choon family, reflecting their lives as first generation Australians with Chinese heritage.

1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Sym Choon Shops

In 1925/26 Thomas Sym Choon bought his four children a shop each.

1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Tom Kruse

Esmond Gerald ‘Tom’ Kruse was an outback transport operator. Tom began driving the Birdsville Track Mail Run for Harry Ding…

1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s
Torrens Lake Fountain

The Torrens Lake Fountain commemorates the first time South Australia was visited by a reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II in…

fountain

1950s
Tourism

The South Australian Tourism Commission, established in 1993, focuses on marketing South Australia as a tourist destination to interstate and…

1880s, 1900-1910, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010
Tricycle

Tricycle, painted red and white.

1950s
United Trades and Labor Council

Carpenters, tailors, bakers, carriers, cordwainers and coachmakers had formed unions within ten years of European settlement of South Australia, and…

employment, industry, workers’ rights, workplace

1890s, 1910s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
Victor York Richardson, OBE

Vic Richardson remains South Australia’s greatest all-round sportsman. Educated at Kyre (now Scotch) College, he became an entertaining personality and…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Walter Hervey Bagot

Walter Hervey Bagot was born at North Adelaide on 17th March 1880, the son of pastoralist John Bagot and his…

1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Weman Building

Once home to one of colonial Port Adelaide’s highly regarded sail-making and ship’s chandlery businesses, the Weman Building has been faithfully…

private building

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s

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Adelaide City Council

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Adelaide Festival Centre

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Adelaide Steamship Company

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Adelaide Festival Centre

Often considered as the ‘Heart of the Arts’ the Adelaide Festival Centre is home to an eclectic range of cultural performances. The building was erected in 1973 on the banks of the River Torrens in support of the unity of South Australia and Adelaide communities and the thriving culture of the arts. It was under the architectural vision of John Morphett and the profound enthusiasm of the general public that the Festival Centre was built.

Coopers Brewery

Coopers Brewery has survived where many others have failed; it is now the only Australian-owned major brewing company.

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