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Mrs Elizabeth Bridgland

Mrs Elizabeth Bridgland was Lady Mayoress of the City of Adelaide (married to the Lord Mayor) between 1966 and1968. Early…

1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
Mrs Jean Beatrice Barrett

Jean Beatrice Barrett was Lady Mayoress of the City of Adelaide (married to the Mayor) between 1937 and 1941 Early…

1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Second World War
Mrs Kathleen Agnes Irwin

Mrs Kathleen Agnes Irwin was the Lady Mayoress of the City of Adelaide (married to the Lord Mayor) from 1963-1966.…

1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Mrs Mabel Hayes

Mabel Lorna Hayes was Lady Mayoress of the City of Adelaide (married to the Lord Mayor) between 1971-1973. Early Life…

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Mrs Rosemary Boucaut

Mrs Rosemary Boucaut was Acting Lady Mayoress of the City of Adelaide (appointed by the Mayor) from 1983-1985. Early Life…

1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Mrs Ursula Hargrave

Mrs Ursula Hargrave was Lady Mayoress (married to the Lord Mayor) from 1957-1960. Early Life and Career Ursula Lloyd was…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
Mrs Valmai Roche

Mrs Valmai Roche was the Lady Mayoress of the City of Adelaide (married to the Lord Mayor) between 1975-1977. Early…

1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Murdoch Stanley McLeod

Murdoch McLeod was born at Carrieton, South Australia, on 18th October 1893, the son of farmer John McLeod and his…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
North Terrace East

North Terrace east is Adelaide’s premier cultural boulevard

main street

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
North Terrace West

Stretching from Adelaide’s first survey point to Parliament House, the character of this part of North Terrace continues to evolve

main street

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, early twenty–first century
Old Parliament House

The site of countless debates, Old Parliament House dates from 1855

parliamentary building

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Owen Broughton Sculpture

This Owen Broughton work won the 1976 Rundle Mall sculpture contest alongside Bert Flugelman’s Mall’s Balls and John Dowie’s Girl…

Don Dunstan, Gallery Without Walls, Owen Broughton, Rundle Mall

1970s, 1980s, 2000-2010
Percy Begg

Percy Raymond Begg (1898–1983) is a great figure in the history of orthodontics. Born in Coolgardie, Western Australia, he attended…

1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Percy Raymond Begg AO

Percy Raymond Begg was a brilliant orthodontist who discovered a unique method of moving teeth. He provided many thousands of…

1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Peter Nelson

Peter Nelson was born on 26th April 1931 at Black Forest, South Australia, the son of wheelwright and automotive manufacturing…

1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Pirie Street

Pirie Street has been home to cottages, churches, commerce and clubs

City & Town Streets

1930s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, early twentieth century, late nineteenth century, mid nineteenth century
Popeye

‘Popeye the Sailor’ was a popular cartoon at the cinema in the 1930s when Gordon Watts introduced a tourist pleasure…

boat

Popeye, river boats

1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010
Port Adelaide Institute

The Port Adelaide Institute served as a centre for social and cultural activities within Port Adelaide for over a century,…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Port Adelaide Lighthouse

Installed in the 1860s as Port Adelaide’s first fixed navigational beacon, and later used at South Neptune Island, the Port…

1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Presbyterian Church

The Presbyterian Church has a long history in South Australia, owing much to the early Scotish community.

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Proud Parade

Adelaide’s very first Gay Pride March took place on Saturday 15 September 1973.

1970s
Queen’s College

Designed in 1892, Queen’s School became one of South Australia’s leading private schools.

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

Radicalism has been inherent in South Australian history from its founding as a free settlement. Based upon the English radical…

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1930s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s
Railway Hotel (Port Adelaide)

The two-storey historic building located at 247 St. Vincent Street was the second in Port Adelaide to bear the name…

Hospitality establishment

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Refugees

In general refugees have enriched and diversified South Australia’s religions, universities and schools, food, the arts, newspapers, clubs and sports.

1830s, 1840s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, early twentieth century, early twenty–first century, late nineteenth century, mid twentieth century
River Torrens

The River Torrens has dominated the development of Adelaide and its metropolis, often in subtle or little recognised ways

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Ronald Max’y Sharpe

Ronald Sharpe was born at Goodwood, South Australia, on 11th March 1905, the son of chargeman John Crutchfield Sharpe and…

1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
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
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

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