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Elder Park Rotunda

Celebrated at its opening in 1882, and again a century later, the rotunda remains a focus point for events in…

Rotunda

band, boat, brass, jazz, rotunda

1880s, 1980s
Elder Park.

From dumping ground to pleasure gardens

park

1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2020s
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.

private building

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, early nineteenth century, late twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Eldred Norman

Eldred de Bracton Norman was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 9th January 1914, the son of solicitor William Ashley…

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Elements and Being

Akio Makigawa invites audiences to move within and around this 5.8-metre-high marble sculpture.

public art

1980s, late twentieth century
Emigration Square

Care for migrants, the unemployed and the destitute was evident from South Australia’s foundation days.

historic site

1830s, 1840s
Epworth Building

The building is a noticeable reminder of the influence of the Methodist Church on South Australia’s early colonial history.

building, historic site

1920s
Essington Lewis, CH

An outstanding work ethic drove Essington Lewis to devote his whole life to developing industry in Australia, in particular the…

early twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Estcourt House

Estcourt House has been a landmark along the seafront, in the area now known as Tennyson, since 1882.

1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, early twentieth century, early twenty–first century, late twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Estcourt House patient 1970

I spent 3 Months at Escourt Estcourt, I was sent there for the sea hair to clear my double pheumonia…

1970s
Exhibition Building and Grounds

Now lost, the Exhibition Building once dominated North Terrace

exhibition hall

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Eyrie

Bronwyn Oliver’s copper and bronze sculpture floats above the walkway that links North Terrace to the River Torrens and Elder Park.

public art

1990s, late twentieth century
Farnese Hercules

One of three statues given to Adelaide by WA Horn, Hercules was unveiled in October 1892 in Victoria Square.

gardens, sculpture

1890s, early twentieth century, early twenty–first century, late twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Federation

Throughout the 1890s South Australia was at the forefront of the Federation movement that created the Commonwealth of Australia from…

early twentieth century, late nineteenth century, mid nineteenth century
FH Faulding & Co.

From a humble origin to major international status within the pharmaceutical industry

early twentieth century, early twenty–first century, late nineteenth century, late twentieth century, mid nineteenth century, mid twentieth century
Film

In October 1896, within one year of the Lumière brothers’ first public screening of film in Paris, the first public…

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

Artist Laura Lamington is responsible for a Furby craze that has been sweeping across Adelaide since around 2017. Paste-ups of…

2010s
Fire Cracker Box

Packaging and remnats from firecrackers stocked at Gordon Sym Choon’s Union Street shop.

1960s, 1970s
First aerial ascent

American aeronaut Thomas Gale made South Australia’s first successful aerial ascent in June 1871

flying, hot air ballooning

Adelaide, ballooning, flight, North Terrace

1870s
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Adelaide

Opened in 1957 for 360 people with a Sunday school for 300, the church has a marble porch and a…

1950s
Fish for the Slate Pool Walkway

Within Catherine Truman’s work, Fish for the Slate Pool Walkway, the tentative nature of life is captured brilliantly from the depths…

public art, sculpture

public art, sculptor

1990s
Flinders Street

From ‘City of Churches’ to the ‘City of Cars’, Flinders Street reflects changes in Adelaide

City & Town Streets

1830s, 1840s, 1860s, 1870s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, early twenty–first century
Floods

Paradoxically, the only parts of South Australia to experience occasional serious disruption of by flooding are the far distant sparsely…

1840s, 1860s, 1870s, 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, 1970s, 2010s
Flower Day

Every year between 1938 and 1975 Adelaidians showed pride in their city by beautifying it with mass displays of flowers…

floral displays

Flower Day

1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Fountain – Art Gallery of South Australia

The Art Gallery of South Australia is one of several major cultural institutions that line North Terace between Kintore Avenue…

art gallery, fountain
Fountain – Brookman Building

This fountain is outside the University of SA Brookman Building.

building, fountain, university
Francis Hardy Faulding

Francis Hardy Faulding, the founder of the pharmaceutical manufacturing company, F.H. Faulding & Co., was born in Swinefleet, Yorkshire, England.…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, mid nineteenth century
Frederick May

John Frederick May was born in 1840 in Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England, the son of copper miner Henry May and his…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s
Freemasons Grand Lodge

Completed in 1927 the Freemasons Grand Lodge, or Masonic Centre, is a well known landmark on North Terrace.

1920s
French war memorial

This memorial is dedicated to the men and women of South Australia who fought and died in France during World…

First World War, Second World War

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‘Street Art Poetry Project’ Location 3

‘Street Art Poetry Project’ Location 3

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‘The Apron’ by Karen Genoff

‘The Apron’ by Karen Genoff

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‘Street Art Poetry Project’ Location 3

‘Street Art Poetry Project’ Location 3

Mark Niehus’ four-part series cemented his status as a prominent poet and artist in Adelaide.

Matthew Flinders Memorial

Matthew Flinders Memorial

A statue to honour Matthew Flinders, the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia, was a long time coming in Adelaide

Port Adelaide Lighthouse

Port Adelaide Lighthouse

Installed in the 1860s as Port Adelaide’s first fixed navigational beacon, and later used at South Neptune Island, the Port Adelaide Lighthouse today functions as an iconic museum display in the heart of the Port.

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