Port Adelaide Events

A Chronological list of Port Adelaide things that have happened in Port Adelaide from 1836 until today.

YEAR	DISTRICT	DESCRIPTION	Month	DATE	COMMENT
1831	Port River	Port River inlet possibly sighted from Mount Lofty by Captain Collet Barker and some of his party.	Jan	19
1834	Port River	Captain John Jones claimed to have entered a fine harbour, north of the inlet discovered by Barker.	Jan		Unsubstantiated
1836	Port River	Colonel William Light and his crew explored Port Creek. Light decided on the site of Adelaide with the Port creek as it's harbour.	Nov	21
1836	Port Adelaide	Immigration, Almost all emigrants arrived by sailing ship for the first 30 years of the colony
1837	Port Adelaide	Old Port (First Landing Place), Captain Lipson arrives.	Jan	6	Capt Lipson moved From Buffalo to the landing place.
1837	Port Adelaide	Enoch Pegler murderd by Spear, William & George accussed but escaped custody.	Mar	8
1837	Port Adelaide	Colonel Light's landing place was officially proclaimed 'Port Adelaide' by Governor Hindmarsh.	Apr	25	..at the end of Old Port Road
1837	Lefevre Peninsula	First named after Sir J. G. Shaw Lefevre.	Jun	3	Gov. Hindmarsh
1837	Port Adelaide	Tender let to JB Hack to cut canal at first Landing Place	Jul	29
1837	Port Adelaide	Capt. John Hart, returned to South Australia in Isabella, partnership with Hack, into everything
1838	Port Adelaide	Canal 840ft x 20ft at first landing place, completed by contractor J. B. Hack.	Feb
1838	Alberton	Section 423 (134 acres) selected by the South Australian Company; Named Albert Town	May	12	Subdivided 1939
1838	Queenstown	Section 443 (134 acres) selected on behalf of Richard Blundell. Later named Queenstown	May	12	Subdivided 1940
1838	Queenstown	Section 443 (134 acres: 54ha) selected on behalf of Richard Blundell of Hooton, Chester, England.	May	12
1838	Port Adelaide	Daily "Spring van" service, Adelaide to thePort began	May	21
1838	Port Adelaide	Court Held twice a week	May
1838	Port Adelaide	First Port Adelaide River Regatta held on 2nd anniversary of proclamation of S.A.	Sep	14
1838	Port Adelaide	1st vessel registered, Hero	Oct	3	Owned by John Barton Hack
1838	Old Port	Congregational services conducted at he Old Port (Port Misery) by Rev. O.T. Stow
1839	Alberton	Shipwright's Arms Inn, Commercial (Port) Road.	Mar	23	First licenced in what became Albert Town (Closed 1877)
1839	Port Adelaide	First sod on road to new Port, turned by Governor Gawler	May	25	90 chains long
1839	Port Adelaide	Sect.2011 selected by the South Australia Company for development as a more convenient harbour.	May		Road begun
1839	Port Adelaide	Port Hotel (prior to license), 25 North Parade	Oct		October 1838 to May 1951
1839	Alberton	Ship Inn, Commercial Road(now Port) first licenced in what became Albert Town
1839	Port Adelaide	1st inland mail service in South Australia established between Adelaide and Port Adelaide.			Mounted Police escort
1840	Port Adelaide	Commercial Hotel Commercial Road	Jan	14	Burnt 1857 , and rebuilt 1906.
1840	Port Adelaide	Help Me Through the World, North Parade	Mar	26	To Ship Inn 1842
1840	Alberton	Section 423 (134 acres) subdivided by the South Australian Company as township of Albert.	Aug	15	South Australian Register, 15th August noted "one half of the township has already been sold by private application"
1840	Port Adelaide	Prince Albert Hotel	Oct	1	To 1842
1840	Port Adelaide	New Port officially opened, replacing original landing place. The private McLaren Wharf was on the east and the Governments Queen's Wharf on the west side of a new road that is now Commercial road.	Oct	14
1840	Port Adelaide	Opening of the South Australia Company's road from Adelaide to Port Adelaide.	Oct
1840	Port Adelaide	Opening of the South Australia Company's Wharehouse.	Oct
1840	Port Adelaide	Brig Rapid lost on a voyage to China	Nov	26
1840	Port Adelaide	Courier", First locally registered steamship South Australia			Felix & Van Dieman's Land Steam Navigation Co
1840	Alberton	From papers relative to South Australia, London 1843, page 79 "In Albert Town there are at present 61 houses containing 235 inhabitants; but the town is rapidly increasing in size. The supply of water is obtained from the Half-way House on the Adelaide road. The Inhabitants of Albert Town are principally employed at the New Port"
1840	Port Adelaide	North Parade Bridge, Joined McLaren Parade, to Port Adelaide.			Demolished 1851
1840	Port Adelaide	Cutoms Offices built on the Government Reserve, in New Port
1840	Port Adelaide	Smelters, silver lead discovered Glen Osmond.
1840	Port Adelaide	Stirling Mill, McLaren Parade later became Futcher & Irvine's Mill
1840	Birkenhead	Fresh water discovered on Section 916 and subsequently used to supply Port Adelaide.
1841	Port Adelaide	St Pauls Church opened on the site of the present (third) church. It was the first substantial church building in the Port and the second Anglican church in the colony.	Feb		St Pauls on Piles
1841	Port Adelaide	The Hen and Chickens Hotel, North Parade	Mar	13	To 1846
1841	Port Adelaide	Steamboat Hotel (to Dec. 29), Reopens Dec. 30 as Jolly Tar	Dec	30	To 1842
1841	Alberton	Wesleyan Methodists started meeting in private homes.
1842	Old Port	Ship Inn, End Old Port Rd	Mar	23	To 1842
1842	Old Port	Caledonian Hotel, End Old Port Road	Mar	23	To 1842
1842	Port Adelaide	Ship Inn North Parade, Mildred/Nelson Streets			Burnt '69 To 1906
1842	Alberton	Congregational Chapel built in King Street, Alberton.			Services ceased in 1860s and building subsequently sold as a dwelling
1844	Alberton	J Allen's "The South Australian Almanack and General Directory" for 1844 list of Albert Town residents include Richard Tapley with, 66 acres under crop and running 65 cattle.			65 cattle
1846	Alberton	First burial in Alberton Cemetery, (land officially granted 17 November 1847, cemetery closed to new leases 1874, last burial 1930) Largely cleared in the 1970 and remodelled as a Pioneer Park.	Oct	28	Last burial 1930
1847	Port Adelaide	British Hotel, first licenced	Mar	25	On the corner of North Parade and Nelson St
1848	Alberton	Coromandel Inn, King Street Alberton	Mar	16	First licenced to John Parsons. Closed circa 1862
1848	Port Adelaide	Govt. Schooner Yatala, Launched Mrs Lipson	Jul	28	Jammed on slip
1848	Alberton	Yatala Smelting Works, Erected
1848	Port Adelaide	Coppins erected theatre, White Horse Cellars			Cr St Vin/Comm.
1848	Rosewater	Golden Phoenix, Yatala Newcastle Street			To 1857
1848	Queenstown	Section 443 (134 acres), Bought for 900 pound ($l800) and laid out as Queen's Town by Edward Stephens			Edward Stephens
1849	Port Adelaide	A Private School run by Mr Dallison and sponsored by St Pauls opened.			Closed 1926
1849	Port Adelaide	Railway Hotel, corner of St Vincent street and Commercial road.			Renamed Port Admiral in 1851
1849	Port Adelaide	Congregational Church, St Vincent Street
1849	Semaphore	Government surveyors surveyed much of Lefevre’s Peninsula (the apostrophe ‘s’ was dispensed with many decades later) including the site of the future Township of Semaphore into 10 acre (approximately 4ha) sections.,
1850	Port Adelaide	Land Sect 2112 purchased, Covered most of Port Adelaide	Apr	8	J. Hart & friends
1850	Alberton	Albert Hotel, Commercial Road	Jun	20	Closed 5/4/1860
1850	Port Adelaide	Fisher Bridge, at the entrance to New Dock	Sep	20	Demolished June 1935
1850	Port Adelaide	Britannia Hotel, 130 Lipson Street	Oct	3	Rebuilt 1898
1850	Port Adelaide	Carpenters Arms, but destroyed by fire in 1865.	Dec	18	Rebuilt and renamed the Globe until 1981 when it became the Golden Port Tavern. The building survives and is being renovated.
1850	Portland	Portland Estate subdivided by Port Land Company, adjacent to Tam O'Shanter creek between Old and new Ports
1850	Midlunga	Pier Hotel to 1851
1850	Port Adelaide	Nautical Museum, First nautical museum collection in Mechanics Institute corner Nile Street and Mildred Street
1851	Port Adelaide	White Horse Cellar, corner St Vincent and Quebec Street.	Mar	3	To 10/12/1876
1851	Port Adelaide	Panama first ship on slip, Fletcher's Slip	Mar	5
1851	Port Adelaide	Carpenter's Arms, St Vincent/Robe Streets	Mar	20	Burnt 1856
1851	Port Adelaide	The first Wesleyan Methodist Chappel was built in Quebec Street where the rear entrance to the Port Mall now is. Rev James Haslam was the first appointed minister in Port Adelaide. It opened on 5th October 1851. Prior to this, services where held in the home of businessman C H Goldsmith in Lipson Street.	Oct	5
1851	Lefevre Peninsula	Post Office opened Number given 1857,	Dec		Dec.
1851	Midlunga	Waterman's Arms To 1851,
1851	Birkenhead	First slip established at Birkenhead by Orkeney Islander H. C. Fletcher.
1851	Port Adelaide	Institute opened July 13,
1851	Port Adelaide	Port Admiral Hotel from Railway Hotel,
1851	Alberton	First Post Office Port Road,
1851	Port Adelaide	Prince's Hotel (Var. names), corner of North Parade and Mundy St			To 1906
1851	Semaphore	Semaphore Hotel opened at Scarborough on the south corner of Blackler Street and the Esplanade.			Burnt down 25 November 1859; rebuilt and traded until c1866
1852	Port Adelaide	St Paul's Church, Second building	Feb
1852	Port Adelaide	Trinity House of Port Adelaide appointed under Act No 5 of 1951, to oversee Pilotage and Wharves, superintend lights, marks and deepening, employ and licence tugs, supply ballast and sundry other duties.	Oct	5	Lacked funds
1852	Port Adelaide	Henry Hein, Dennis Wood Hiern, and Henry Holloway drowned after the Cleopatra capsised. Thomas Davies accused of manslaughter but acquitted.	Dec	9
1852	South Australia	Alexander Tolmer appointed as Commissioner of Police, South Australia.
1853	Port Adelaide	George Arnold died after being assaulted by Thomas Whitham, Henry Hunt (Fancy Harry), Sarah Kelly, & Ann Lyman accused but found not guilty.	Feb	19	murder
1853	LeFevre Peninsula	Watte Watte(Nancy) assualted with a waddy, Kanadla (Peter) found guilty of murder, & sentenced to death, which was commuted to two years imprisonment.	Apr	4	murder
1853	Port Adelaide	George Smith was assaulted (with the handle of a pitchfork) & later died. James Searle was accused but found not guilty.	Jun	22	murder
1853	Lefevre Peninsula	Verge Hotel To 1853
1853	Port Adelaide	Wharf Hotel, 18 Todd St Port Adelaide.			on the corner of Todd Street & McLaren Parade. Trading until 1906
1853	Birkenhead	Shipwright's Arms, Site of Jenkin's Slip			Was sited near the approaches to the present Birkenhead Bridgr. Closed in 1857
1854	Port Adelaide	Augusta Bell (Ubrecht) died of Knife wounds. William Bell (husban) accused &found guilty, sentenced to death &executed on 27 December 1854	Nov	9	murder
1854	Exeter	Lefevre Hotel, 152 Semaphore Rd			Changed to 1879
1854	Port Adelaide	Tam O'Shanter Bridge, Between McLaren/Levi Wharves			Demolished 1857
1854	Port Adelaide	Congregational Church, St Vincent Street			Built next to previous building
1854	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Harbor Trust constituted to dredging operations.
1854	Alberton	Wesleyan Methodist Church.
1854	Port Adelaide	Harts Mill, Built the Mill Princes Wharf facing Mundy Street
1854	Semaphore	Lefevre’s Hotel first licensed (Licence transferred to the newly-built Exeter Hotel in 1879).,
1855	Lefevre Peninsula	North Arm Hotel,	Mar	22	to 25/5/1858
1855	Port Adelaide	Thomas King's School, near Grand Junction Road	Jul
1855	Port Adelaide	First railway engines arrive, On board Theodore	Nov	1	From Plymouth
1855	Port Adelaide	A private telegraph line connection Adelaide and Port Adelaide opened, in the customs house building. Australia's first privately-owned telegraph network.	Nov	26	by James McGregor as a private line serving the public and the business community between Adelaide and Port Adelaide.
1855	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide declared a Corporate Town	Dec	27	First Council elected in 1856
1855	Birkenhead	Bridgewater sections 700, 701 and 703 were subdivided.		3	Subdivided By Alfred Watts
1855	Queenstown	The British Volunteer Hotel, Queen's town, first licensed, 215 Port Road			Becomes White Swan in 1856 and Prince of Wales in 1857, rebuilt 1937.
1855	Birkenhead	Lefevre Peninsula School (Private), established by John Millard.			Became a public school in 1862.
1855	Port Adelaide	First Photographer, Thomas Thompson
1855	Port Adelaide	Hart's flour mill operational, Mundy Street
1855	Port Adelaide	Wharf Dock Hotel (Dock Hotel 1860)Todd Street, rebuilt 1883			Delicensed 1906
1855	Port Adelaide	Sailor's Return Hotel Only in 1855
1856	Port Adelaide	First Govt telegraph Adelaide to Port Adelaide. and was then extended to Semaphore on the Le Fevre's Peninsula in early March. Later in the year, Telegraph Offices were also opened at Port Adelaide Railway Station as well as at Bowden and Alberton.	Feb	18	Two construction approaches were used: -between Adelaide and Port, the line was above ground. Four wires were suspended on posts of Singapore cedar or Swan River mahogany with 32 posts to the mile. These posts were well charred and tarred where they entered the ground. -from the Railway Station in Adelaide to the Government Offices in King William Street, a six-wire cable is laid under ground in iron pipes. The same was done at the Port and, as well, 700 yards of submarine cable were carried under the creek to the Peninsula and to Semaphore.
1856	Port Adelaide	White Horse Cellars Fire	Apr	19
1856	Port Adelaide	Railway from Adelaide opened. First steam powered railway service in the colony.	Apr	21st	Feb. 1 test run, then there were 6 trains per day. Port Adelaide Railway station was on the Site of the present Police Station.
1856	Queenstown	White Swan (from British Vol.) 215 Port Rd
1856	Birkenhead	Sandwell (Part Sect.916) Subdivided By South Australia Company.
1856	Port Adelaide	Lass O'Gowrie Hotel, St Vincent St. Opposite presbyterian Church
1856	Portland	Portland Hotel built (Demolished/Rebuilt 1913/4)
1856	Alberton	Alberton Railway Station opened, with separate booking rooms for 1st & 2nd/3rd class passengers.			Of the four wires used for the line, two were for railway use. The poles were square, and were mostly made from Jarrah - then called Swan River mahogany - and Singapore Cedar.
1856	Queenstown	White Swan, 215 Port Road
1856	Port Adelaide	Captain Lipson resigned, Was Harbor Master
1856	Port Adelaide	Globe Hotel, Site of Carp. Arms
1856	Birkenhead	Bridgetown (Sect. 702), Subdivided By Harry Gilbert
1856	Portland	Portland Hotel, 286 Commercial Rd
1856	Port Adelaide	White Hart Hotel			Closed 1880
1856	Port Adelaide	Corporation Formed, Captain French 1st Mayor of Port Adelaide.
1856	Glanville	Glanville Hall built for Captain Hart, 8 Park Avenue			Tower added 1865
1856	Port Adelaide	Port Dock Station, Original Corner of St. Vincent & Lipson Streets remodelled 1880, and renamed Port Dock 1916
1856	Port Adelaide	Signal Station, First Signalman William Uden.
1856	Semaphore	Adelaide to Port Adelaide telegraph line extended to Semaphore under the Port River and underground in iron pipes. A telegraph office was opened near the Pilot Station.,
1857	Port Adelaide	First Presbyterian Church, Leadenhall Street	Feb		To 1882
1857	Lefevre Peninsula	Bridgewater Hotel, Formerly North Arm	Oct	8	Closed 1859
1857	Port Adelaide	North Parade Fire, Fire destroyed North Parade in 1857	Nov	9	https://sahistoryhub.history.sa.gov.au/subjects/great-fires-of-port-adelaide
1857	Port Adelaide	Magazine Creek Bridge J, Destroyed by fire in 1873
1857	Port Adelaide	Exchange Hotel opened, Right at the end of Commercial Road Port Adelaide			In 1935 the hotel, along with other buildings, was demolished to allow for the widening of McLaren Wharf. A new hotel was built slightly to the south and was officially known as the New Exchange from 1941 to 1986. It is now known as the Lighthouse Hotel.
1857	Glebe	Alberton Methodist Church, Port Road
1857	Queenstown	Prince of Wales (White Swan), 215 Port Road
1857	Port Adelaide	Orient, SS Orient vanguard of the liner trade overseas with P & O. Orient. etc.
1858	Queenstown	Queenstown Primitive Methodist Church opened at what is today 193 Port Road.	Apr	4	Later the site of the second 1879 church
1858	Alberton	Alberton Wesleyan Church opened on the northern corner of Port Road and Glebe Street.	Apr	25	From 1900 Methodist, from 1977 Uniting, closed 1994
1858	Lefevre Peninsula	Lennon ( unamed infant) died of suffication. Winnifred Lennon pleaded guilty to concealing the birth of a child & sentenced to 4 months imprisonment.	Sep	15	murder
1858	Alberton	Methodist Church, Now Uniting
1858	Port Adelaide	St Marys Church, Immaculate Concept.			Dale Street
1858	Lefevre Peninsula	Old Fairlop Hotel,			Closed 1859
1858	Port Adelaide	South Australia Company's Swing Bridge, No. 1 Dock
1858	Alberton	Port Rd/Glebe St corner,			Demol. 24/7/1882
1859	Semaphore	The Port Bridge (site of present Jervois Bridge); the first bridge across the Port River; opened for traffic in January.	Jan	11	Wooden Structure
1859	Semaphore	Semaphore Jetty Construction commenced.	Mar	27
1859	Port Adelaide	Public meeting held to form Working Men's association	Jul
1859	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Institute established, after two previous attempts in 1851 and 1954	Sep	3	Library started with 350 books.
1859	Portland	District council of Portland Estate prclaimed	Sep	15
1859	Portland	Portland Estate District Council established.			Closely packed allotments. Annexed 1884
1859	Exeter	Lord Exmouth Hotel, 39 Exmouth Road
1859	Port Adelaide	Duke of Wellington Hotel, St Vincent Street			License was lost during the option poll in 1906
1860	Port Adelaide	Combined Police Station, Customs House and Court House completed on the corner of St Vincent Street and Commercial Road.	Mar	27	Port Adelaide Harbor Trust and Trinity house of Port Adelaide abolished
1860	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Institute granted use of the original customs house.	Mar	27
1860	Alberton	British Standard Hotel licensed, 160 Port Road Alberton	Apr	5	License was lost during the option poll in 1906
1860	Semaphore	Semaphore Jetty completed; 1900ft (580m) long x 9ft (2.7m) wide.	Apr		Extended to 2138ft (652m) in 1874.
1860	Alberton	Alberton & Queenstown Volunteer Rifles formed.			Amalgamated with Port Adelaide Rifles in August
1860	Port Adelaide	Marine Board South Australia established by the Government.			Port Adelaide Harbor Trust and Trinity house of Port Adelaide abolished
1860	Port Adelaide	St Joseph's School
1861	Alberton	Alberton and Queenstown population reaches 1082 (Census)
1861	Port Adelaide	First lighting of English and Australian Copper Company Smelter, Mundy Street
1862	Semaphore	Road from the jetty to the Port Bridge completed in July.	Jul
1862	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Grammar School established.			became Port Adelaide Public School in 1876.
1862	Birkenhead	Township of Birkenhead (Part Sect. 2012), Subdivided
1863	Port Adelaide	Wesleyan Methodist Church, St Vincent Street	Oct	25
1863	Lefevre Peninsula	Government Grant School, Dunniker/Mead Streets
1864	Alberton	Alberton Baptist Church opened, 230 Port Road (North corner of William Street)	Jan	7	Vacated and Sold in 1999. Merged with Semaphore Baptist Church and relocated to 57-59 Old Port Road Queenstown, from 8 October 2000 as Gateway Baptist Church.
1864	Glanville	Glanville District Council established,	Jul	14	Aug. 11 Revised date
1864	Semaphore Glanville	District Council of Glanville formed. The boundaries were incorrectly proclaimed in July and re-proclaimed on 11 August. They encompassed all the land between the sea coast and the ‘Port Creek’ from a little north of the present Grange railway line to a northern boundary running approximately in line with Exmouth Rd Exeter. (The Corporate Town of Semaphore was severed from both it and the DC of Lefevre’s Peninsula 20 December 1883. The remainder amalgamated with the DC of Woodville 5 January 1888.)	Aug	11
1864	Queenstown Alberton	Queenstown and Alberton District Council formed.	Oct	20	Annexed by Port Adelaide 1898
1864	Portland	Private School, Clare Street Sarah Liscombe
1864	Semaphore	Peninsula Literary Institute formed. (Into recess 1880; books transferred to the new Semaphore Institute in 1884),
1865	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide severely flooded when a fierce gale drove up a high tide which breached the embankment.	May	11
1865	Port Adelaide	Town Hall foundation stone, St Vincent Street	Jun	10
1865	Portland	George Smith's leg was broken during an assualt in the Portland Hotel & refused treatment died of gangrene of the foot. Robert Sutcliffe was found guilty of manslaughter & sentenced to 4 years imprisonment with hard labour.	Oct	24	murder
1865	Port Adelaide	Hannay, blacksmith			91 Comm. Road
1865	Birkenhead	Private School Opened, By Caroline Harvey			Closed 1871
1865	Port Adelaide	Cannon Brewery, Comm. Rd./St Vin St.			William Knapman
1865	Semaphore	Semaphore Methodist Church
1865	Port Adelaide	Robin & LeMessurier's timber, Commercial/Lipson Sarnia M			Robin & Hack '74
1865	Port Adelaide	The Globe Hotel, established as the Carpenters' Arms in 1850 but destroyed by fire in 1865. Rebuilt and renamed the Globe until 1981 when it became the Golden Port Tavern. The building survives and is being renovated.
1866	Port Adelaide	Australia's Pride Hotel, Corner of Cannon and Robe Street	Jan	11	Delicensed 1906
1866	Port Adelaide	New born Male Child, found in a bag in the Port River near Fletchers slip by Owen Williams.	Jan	20	murder
1866	Port Adelaide	Town Hall opened, Clocktower 1866	Jun	10	10.6.'65 building comp.
1866	Rosewater	First gas generated.	Nov	17
1866	Birkenhead	Private School Opened, By Mary Millard			Closed 1870
1866	Semaphore	Wesleyan Methodist Church,
1866	Port Adelaide	Congregational Church, Cr. St Vin/Lipson Streets			Burnt in April
1866	Rosewater	Gas works established at Rosewater by SAGASCO
1866	Semaphore	Jetty Hotel on Semaphore Road opened at 25 Semaphore Road.			Built in 1866 by C.L Johnson and the licence transferred to W.M. Carroll in 1867. Renamed the Federal Hotel in 1901
1867	Port Adelaide	Dunn's Mill erected, Lipson Street.	Jan		Demolished 1960
1867	Birkenhead	First vessel on Fletchers Dunniker Slip (Fletchers Second Slip), with the Ship Edinburgh.	Mar	12
1867	Port Adelaide	Fleetwood, Draper. Fire	Sep	27	Neared Powder Mag.
1867	Port Adelaide	Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Alfred visits South Australia.	Oct	31	The Prince docked in Glenelg on the outskirts of Adelaide on the afternoon of 31 October 1867. Massive crowds greeted him and lined the roads on the way into the city.
1867	Port Adelaide	Reticulated water, Important streets
1867	Port Adelaide	Sussex Hotel (Cr Cannon St), Commercial Road			Delicensed 1906
1867	Portland	Harrison's Flour Mill, beside Tam O'Shanter Ck
1867	Portland	Thistle Inn, corner of College Place and Liddon Street Port Adelaide.			Renamed Scotch Thistle in 1882 and delicensed 1906
1867	Port Adelaide	Telegraph Station, 29 North Parade
1867	Port Adelaide	Dunns Mill, Lipson street Mill
1867	Semaphore	Semaphore Hotel on Semaphore Road opened.			Largely rebuilt and third storey added circa 1927
1867	Semaphore	Wesleyan Methodist (now Uniting) Church on Semaphore Road was opened.,
1867	Alberton	Catholic School Started, 30 Students			Founded by Sisters of St Joseph
1867	Port Adelaide	Catholic School Started, 40 Students			Founded by Sisters of St Joseph
1868	Port Adelaide	Congregational Church on Commercial Road (4th building),	Dec		Now Uniting
1868	Portland	Bible Christian Church,
1868	Port Adelaide	Harrison's Mill, N of Portland Commercial Road end of Portland Canal
1869	Port Adelaide	Prince Albert Sailors' Home, Foundation stone	Feb	18	Demolished 1932
1869	Queenstown	Queenstown Church of Christ first meeting, Meeting was held King's Schoolroom, Port Adelaide	Oct	25	Other venues were used down the years until the former Queenstown Primitive Methodist Church was purchased in 1900 following Methodist Union.
1869	Port Adelaide	Royal S.A. Yacht Squadron,	Nov	5
1869	Outer Harbor	Port Adelaide Lighthouse at the entrance to Light's Passage first lit.			Superseded 1901
1869	Port Adelaide	Commercial Hotel reopened after fire
1869	Port Adelaide	Australian Clubhouse Hotel, Rebuilt 1878			Closed 1994
1869	Queenstown	Church of Christ.
1869	Birkenhead	A. McFarlane & Sons Estab., Cruickshank's Cnr			Moved 1932
1869	Portland	Bible Christian Chapel, Clare Street
1869	Port Adelaide	RSAYS, Bucknall organized first Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron
1869	Port Adelaide	St Marys Hall opened, next to Church on the corner of Marryatt and Dale Streets.
1870	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Football Club formed.	Mar	1	at Buck's Flat
1870	Alberton	Yatala Smelting Works, Fire	Jul	27
1870	Semaphore	Post Office opened, Closed 1871	Dec		Stn No. 299
1870	Port Adelaide	Bower Buildings, 8 St Vin. (Dem.2000)			Robe St.1898
1870	Glanville	Pipe Foundry, Ways & Works
1870	Port Adelaide	PA Rowing Club, PA Rowing Club formed 1870. Oldest rowing club in Aust. Bucknall great supporter
1871	Alberton	St George's Mission Church/Schoolroom opened St George's Square, Alberton by St Pauls Church of England, Port Adelaide.	Jan	3	New Church opened 11 October 1917, and another dedicated on 12 October 1958. All three buildings are interconnected, the church closed 23 April 2017.
1871	Semaphore	A Post Office was opened at the Telegraph Station Semaphore.	Apr	3
1871	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Institute established as a Museum
1871	Portland	Gas pipes laid in streets,
1871	Yatala	Gasworks Hotel, Junction Road			Close '81
1871	Port Adelaide	Duke Edinburgh,
1871	Glanville	Cumberland Hotel, 76 Causeway Road
1871	Alberton Queenstown	Alberton and Queenstown’s population at the census 1,341
1872	Semaphore	District Council of Lefevre's Peninsula proclaimed, comprising of the entire peninsula north of the boundary with Glanville. (approximately in line with Exmouth Road Exeter)	Apr	11
1872	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Working Men's Association formed,	#VALUE!		Later Waterside Workers' Federation.
1872	Glanville	Anglican Church built
1872	Portland	Reticulated water available,
1872	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Institute established general museum.
1872	Semaphore	A Church of England ‘Mission Church’ opened on the corner of Semaphore Road and what is now Causeway Road 11 January.
1872	Semaphore	District Council of Lefevre’s Peninsula proclaimed 11 April; comprising the entire Peninsula north of the boundary of the DC of Glanville. (The DC of Birkenhead was severed from it 22 February 1877; while the Corporate Town of Semaphore was severed from both it and the DC of Glanville 20 December 1883. The remainder was added to the DC of Birkenhead 7 August 1884.),
1873	Largs	Township of Margate (sections 2061, 1062, 1096 &1097) was advertised for Sale in the South Australian Register.	Jun	18
1873	Largs	The name Margate was changed to 'Larges' without explanation in the advertisement of 2 July and corrected to Largs the next day.,	Jul	2
1873	Port Adelaide	Charles Withecombe (Wittacombe) died after being assualted with Rolling Pin by Joseph Adams, Thomas McLean,William Edgar & Benjamin Rebbeck Adams and McLean found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. This was later commuted tp life imprisonment. Edgar and Rebbeck charged with accessory to murde and found not guitly.	Jul	26	murder
1873	Largs	Extension of the Township of Largs' (Section 1063) advertised for sale on 25 September at the Semaphore Hotel.	Aug	25
1873	Port Adelaide	Eight Hours movement comm, Applied to workforce	Sep	3
1873	Port Adelaide	New tug Sophia first tow, Hannah Nicholson	Nov	26
1873	Portland	King's Wharf constructed, To land silt for fill
1873	Port Adelaide	North Arm Bridge Burnt,
1874	Semaphore	St Margaret's Hospital, Foundation Stone	Sep	14	Mrs Musgrave
1874	Semaphore	George Shorney; Manager of John Dunn & Co’s flour mill in Port Adelaide; built a two-storey home on the east corner of Semaphore Road and Ward Street.,
1874	Port Adelaide	Erection of a New Institute Building on the Corner of Nile Street and Commercial Road commenced. Completed in 1976.			On the site of the old no. 4 Bonded store.
1875	Semaphore	Timeball Tower operational, 1 o'clock ball drops	Jun	30	Superseded 1932
1875	Glanville	Sinclair Wharf opened.	Jun	30
1875	Semaphore	Timeball Tower at the sea end of Semaphore Road operational 2 August. The ball was dropped daily at a fixed time to allow officers of newly-arrived vessels at the Semaphore Anchorage to check the accuracy of their chronometers.,	Aug	2	Superseded by wireless telegraphy in v1932
1875	Port Adelaide	Formby fountain, Erected in Nile Street
1875	Port Adelaide	Adelaide Steamship Co., Established			with 1st vessel Flinders
1875	Port Adelaide	Coast Steamships, Launched 1 month after Adelaide Steam. Subsidiary ships Ceres and Juno
1875	Alberton	The illustrated Adelaide News, December issue mentioned "the important suburb of Alberton, which will in a short time join the Port…."
1876	Port Adelaide	Family Hotel (White Horse C.), St Vincent/Quebec	Dec	11	To 11/12/1878
1876	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Public School opened.			Port Adelaide Grammer school became Port Adelaide public school under the administration of the state educational system.
1876	Alberton	Alberton Police Station opened in a former Toll House on Port Road.			Used as Police St. Until 1984 when it was superseded by a new building in Queenstown.
1876	Port Adelaide	Kent Hotel (now called Port Anchor), 45 Cannon Street			Now 15 Church Street, Port Adelaide
1876	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Institute opened corner. Nile St and Commercial Road.,
1876	Semaphore	Lefevre’s Peninsula Public School opened on the east corner of Mead Street and Dunnikier (now Semaphore) Road; in the wake of the Education Act of 1875; which introduced compulsory (but not five days a week) schooling for 7-13 year olds. (In 1921 the school was divided into a Primary School and an Infant School.),
1877	Port Adelaide	Dredge Willunga sinks, Last hopper dredge	Jan	11	53 days submerged
1877	Birkenhead	Birkenhead District Council established.	Feb	22	Severed from Lefevres Peninsula District Council, Annexed 1886
1877	Rosewater	Rosewater District Council established,	Mar	22	Annexed to Port Adelaide in 1899
1877	Rosewater	Rosewater Post office opened.	Jul
1877	Port Adelaide	Ferry Unique, First Trial Run	Oct	26	Commercial Road to Birkenhead.
1877	Alberton	Alberton Oval formally opened by Port Adelaide Mayor, David Bower M.P.	Nov	8	See also 1903
1877	Alberton	Alberton Hotel, south corner of Port Road and Sussex Street, Alberton first licensed.	Dec	10	Built alongside Shipwrights Arms Hotel.
1877	Largs	Section 1098 ( Todays Larg's Reserve) was gazetted 'as a place for the recreation and amusement of the inhabitants of LeFevre's Peninsula'.			It was subsequently placed under 'the care, control and management' of the District Council of LeFevre's Peninsula.
1877	Lefevre Peninsula	School, behind Fletcher's SIip.
1877	Glanville	I.0.0.F. Lodge No. 3, met in Thornton Hotel.
1877	Glanville	Thornton Hotel (open prior), Hart Street			Delicensed 1906
1877	Rosewater	Council Chambers, RSL Hall 1937			Restored 1998
1877	Portland	Tam O'Shanter Creek, Scheme to deepen
1877	Port Adelaide	McColl's Hardware, 99 Lipson Street			Now stationers
1877	Port Adelaide	Adelaide Steamship Company Formed, South Australian and Victorian in 1877 early vessels to establish Adelaide Steamship Co.
1878	Semaphore	The Jervois Bridge; an iron swing bridge built to carry the railway line from Port Adelaide to Semaphore was officially opened by and named after Governor Sir William Jervois on 6 February.	Feb	6	It replaced the timber Port Bridge.
1878	Exeter	Exeter Railway Station built, & Semaphore platform extended	Feb	8	from Evening Journal
1878	Portland	Mary Prest died after being assaulted by her husband with metal tongs at their home in Clare stret Portland. Jonathon Prest was found guilty of murder, sentenced to death and executed 16 July 1878	Mar	12	murder
1878	Semaphore	The first Baptist Church; a wooden building in Turton Street seating 200, had its opening service 24 November.,	Aug	25
1878	Semaphore	St Andrews Anglican Church, Foundation stone	Oct	26
1878	Queenstown	Benedict Suck died afterbeing assaulted by David Smith. Smith was acquitted	Oct	28	Murder
1878	Portland	Fire Reel and instructions Acquired,	Dec	12	To 9/12/1884
1878	Birkenhead	Birkenhead Hotel , 3 Elder Road	Dec	17	1968 name change to Tavern
1878	Port Adelaide	Crooks & Brooker showrooms, 81-83 Comm. Road			Later Ezywalkin
1878	Port Adelaide	Royal Arms Hotel opened, 275 St Vincent St
1878	Alberton	Alberton Hotel, 124 Port Road -Prev. Coromandel Inn			Delicensed 1906
1878	Port Adelaide	Brunswick Pier Hotel, 147 St Vincent St
1878	Port Adelaide	Primitive Methodist Church,
1878	Rosewater	Primitive Methodist Church,
1878	Port Adelaide	Black Diamond Hotel Street Vincent/Quebec,
1878	Glanville	Bible Christian Church,
1878	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide News founded, To 1897 - back 1904 - Again in 1913
1878	Semaphore	First major long-distance telephone call in Australia was made from Semaphore to Port Augusta (386 km).
1878	Semaphore	Adelaide to Port Railway extended to Semaphore and opened to general traffic on 7 January. It was routed from the original Port Adelaide Station via St Vincent Street with platforms at Glanville and Exeter being built soon after the opening.,
1878	Semaphore	Chemist shop opened by G.F. Ward at 41 Semaphore Road.,
1879	Alberton	Protestant Benefit Society hall opened in Sussex Street Alberton.	Jan	20
1879	Ethelton	Ethelton Hotel, 25 Carlisle Street	Mar	11
1879	Alberton	Bible Christians commenced services, Services held in in Protestant Hall, Sussex Street, Alberton	May	11
1879	Port Adelaide	A steam tram service was stated by the Port Adelaide, Queenstown, Alberton and Portland Esate Tramway Company. From a depot in Glyde Street Albert Park the route was from Glyde Street along Port Road, High Street Queenstown, Commercial Road Port Adelaide where it terminated near the Black Diamond corner.	May	22	Became horse-powered 1882, electric 1917
1879	Queenstown	Whittaker Memorial Church (Primitive Methodist), 194 Port Road Queenstown.	Jun	1	Bought by Church of Christ in 1900 following Methodist union. In 2007 the Queenstown and Cheltenham Churches of Christ merged to form the Northwestern Community Church. Later moved to a former window factory next door
1879	Port Adelaide	Newmarket buildings, Opened as market	Dec	11	Hotel 1890
1879	Semaphore	First Major Long Distance, Telephone. Call In Aus.			To Pt Augusta
1879	Semaphore	Bute Terrace residences, 176-186 Military Rd
1879	Port Adelaide	Temperance Hotel building, 89 Commercial Rd			Licensed 1886
1879	Rosewater	Royal Oak Hotel, Junc. Rd/ Newcastle			Delicensed 1906
1879	Port Adelaide	Prince Alfred Hotel, Lipson/Russell Streets			Closed 1895
1879	Port Adelaide	Livingstone Arms Hotel, Nile Street			Closed 1889
1879	Semaphore	Kew Hotel, Company Street			Delicensed 1906
1879	Port Adelaide	Company Basin, Company Basin transformed into New Dock
1879	Port Adelaide	Copper Company Wharf, Used for the shipment of ore. later from Burra as well.
1879	Semaphore	St Andrew’s Church of England opened on Military Road. (Renamed St Bede’s in 1881),
1880	Largs	The hulk Fitzjames replaced a site at Magill as the colony's Boys Reformatory from 5 March and was moored in Larg's Bay.	Mar	5	Closed 28 May 1890, when the boys returned to Magill. It had previously served as a quarantine hulk for Port Adelaide.
1880	Alberton	Bible Christian Chapel opened, in Torrens PIace Yatala (now Alberton)	Jul	11	From 1900 Methodist, from 1977 Uniting
1880	Port Adelaide	Railway line to Adelaide duplicated.	Aug	14
1880	Port Adelaide	New Dock opened, fronting Santo Parade.	Sep	20	Reclaimed 1935
1880	Port Adelaide	The opening of the Fisher Bridge by Hon. William Morgan.	Sep	20	Bridge named after Hon. Joe Fisher
1880	Alberton	With the duplication of Adelaide to Port Adelaide Railway the Eastern platform, a passenger terminal and overway bridge were constructed.
1880	Exeter	Exeter Hotel (from Lefevre), 152 Semaphore Rd
1880	Lefevre Peninsula	Fort Glanville operational, 1st of 3 planned forts. 2 x 10 " Guns which fired 400lb projectiles over 6500 yards and 2 x 64 pounder guns.			Largs/Glenelg
1880	Port Adelaide	Elders Wool Store, Santo Parade			Extended 1883
1880	Semaphore	Bute Terrace houses; 176-186 Military Road; built for the Messrs Gray Brothers.,
1880	Semphore	Water Tower in Blackler Satreet was completed.
1881	Largs	Prospectus of the Largs Bay Land & Investment Company advertised in the Port Adelaide News of 28 June, 'We understand That applications for over 100,000 shares have been received'.	Jun	28	Prospectus
1881	Largs	Things are beginning to wear a lively aspect at Largs Bay. Mr Hargrave CE is busily engaged in surveying the roads. It is popularly rumoured that Mr Christie's mansion stands in jeopardy through an encroachment upon the road, but let us hope that rumour may in this case prove as false as it has frequently done before	Aug	6	Port Adelaide News, 6 September 1881
1881	Birkenhead	Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Victoria Road	Aug	21	Opened Jetty Dec. 2
1881	Largs	In a letter to Port Adelaide News of 7 October William Chritie says he is 'the only resident in Largs Bay'	Oct	7	His house stands at 14 Ralston Street
1881	Largs	Railway via Mead Street opened.	Dec	25
1881	Semaphore	Anglican Church of St Andrew renamed St Bedes,
1881	Alberton	Alberton & Queenstown population reaches 2217.
1881	Semaphore	Mail sorting station, Corner Esplanade & Semaphore Road
1881	Portland	Rechabite Hall built, Commercial Road
1881	Semaphore	Fire Station, 76 Hall Street
1881	Rosewater	Rosewater Hotel (open prior), 58 Grand Junc. Rd
1881	Port Adelaide	Jervois Hotel, Lipson/Russell Streets			Closed 1909
1881	Port Adelaide	Criterion Hotel (open prior), 2 Francis Street			Closed 23/3/1951
1881	Port Adelaide	Yorke Pen. SS Co, with James Comrie and Warooka
1881	Semaphore	Water Tower in Blackler Street operational. It was needed to maintain water pressure on the Peninsula when the water main across the Jervois Bridge had to be turned off to allow the bridge to open.,
1881	Semaphore	New Mail Station built on the south corner of the Esplanade and Semaphore Road to handle mail sent by sea.,			Demolished 1967
1881	Semaphore	New Post and Telegraph Office opened on Semaphore Road/Customs Lane corner 8 November. (Service relocated to 38 Semaphore Rd in 1984),
1881	Semaphore	Semaphore Institute formed 15 December. (Amalgamated with the Port Adelaide Institute 1903),
1882	Port Adelaide	Presbyterian Church, St Vincent Street	Feb	5	The old Church became a Salvation Army barracks, later converted to a warehouse.
1882	Birkenhead	Private School Opened, By Mrs Jones	Jul		Wesleyan Chapel.
1882	Port Adelaide	Strike of 600-700 lumpers for increased wages	Nov	17
1882	Largs	Largs Jetty completed,	Dec	2
1882	Largs	Pier Hotel, 198 Esplanade Largs Bay,	Dec	23	changed name to Largs Pier in 1890.
1882	Largs	23 December, the official opening of the three storey, 50 room hotel, 640 Metre long Jetty and railway line from Glanville, built by Largs Bay Land and investment Company.	Dec	23
1882	Semaphore	Marian Todd trampled by horses on the Semaphore beach. John Reid, Adoplh Heise, James ford, John Minnis, Samuel Mead, Henry Purvis and William Baker. Charges withdrawn against Reid and Purvis, Heise,Ford, Minnis, Mead and Baker found not guilty.	Dec	25
1882	Largs	The inaugural Largs Bay Annual Regatta and Sports, attracted about 9,000 people.	Dec	26
1882	Port Adelaide	Salvation Army Corps,
1882	Portland	Paris Hotel (open prior), Clare St/Portland P1.
1882	Semaphore	Lawn Tennis Club Formed,
1882	Port Adelaide	Adelaide Milling Co,			1882 Harts Mill merged with Morgan. Connor & Glyde. Walter Duffield & Jas. Cowan & Co.
1882	Semaphore	Semaphore Lawn Tennis Club formed.,
1882	Semaphore	Richard Jagoe; long-serving shipping reporter for the daily papers and owner of the beach boats that served ships at the Semaphore Anchorage; built a new home (still standing) on the corner of Newman Street and the Esplanade.,
1883	Largs	18 January, Post And Telegraph offices opened	Jan	18	The subsequent stone Post and Telegraph office building at 9 Jetty road was erected 1884-1885 and closed in 1983, when the postal agency was transferred to Largs Bay Delicatessen across the road.
1883	Port Adelaide	James Officer at 4 weeks old was sufocated by drunken mother Margaret Officer. Charges were withdrawn by the attorney-general	Feb	12	Murder
1883	Glanville	Male infant, found on the flats at Glanville. Suffocated by persons unknown.	Mar	7	murder
1883	Semaphore	New Baptist Church opened at 60-62 Semaphore Road 18 March; replacing the Turton Street building. (Merged with Alberton Baptist Church and relocated to Old Port Road; Queenstown; from 8 October 2000 to form Gateway Baptist Church.),	Mar	18
1883	Portland	Martha Scatchheard died fom injuries following a assault by James Oakley, found not guilty.	May	1	murder
1883	Port Adelaide	Telephone Exchange opened	Sep	7
1883	Semaphore Largs Glanville	Semaphore Corporation established from parts of the District Councils of Glanville and Lefevre’s Peninsula. (Using current terminology; its western boundary followed the coast from Jervois Street to Strathfield Terrace, then east to Military Road; south down Military and Fletcher Roads to the Port River; followed the west bank of the River to in line with Recreation Parade; west along that line to Sansom Road; north to Bower Road; west to Military Road; north to Jervois Street and west to the coast.). Largs was one of the wards created.	Dec	19
1883	Port Adelaide	Robinson Bridge, No. 1 Dock , Opened	October		Demolished October 1935, closed March 935
1883	Port Adelaide	Nelcebee Assembled by, Thomas Cruickshank
1883	Port Adelaide	Colac Hotel, 1 Santo Parade
1883	Largs	Two storey building at 11-15 Jetty road, comprising shops and residences completed for the Largs Bay Land and Investment Company
1883	Port Adelaide	Stilling & Co. Wool Store, Santo Parade			Built
1883	Port Adelaide	Dock Hotel (was. Wharf Dock), Todd Street			Delicensed 1906
1884	Port Adelaide	Andrew Kiddle, the abusive husband of Mary Kiddle, was killed by Mary using a pair of scissors. She was found not guilty of manslaughter	Mar	4	Murder, Market buildings Port Adelaide
1884	Portland	Gaskin Child, Suffocated. Emma Gaskin pleaded guitly to concealment of birth & sentenced to 3 months imprisonment.	Jun	15	Murder
1884	Semaphore	Esplanade to Largs Joined,	Jul	19
1884	Port Adelaide	Wesleyan Church, Dale Street, Foundation Stone laid	Sep	22	Demolished 1973
1884	Port Adelaide	Willima Howe died of knife wounds. Johsnned Larsen found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 Months imprisonment. Auguste Wehr found guilty of wounding with intent and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour.	Nov	3	Murder at Commercial Wharf
1884	Port Adelaide	Fire at Hack's Timber Yard,	Nov	6
1884	Port Adelaide	T. Hack's Timber Yard fire, Commercial Road	Nov	10
1884	Queenstown	Queenstown Police Station completed, High Street & Port Road.	Nov	11	Now 131 Port Rd. Closed 7th September 1972
1884	Alberton	Alberton and Queenstown Christian Mission Hall opened on the north corner of King Street and Providence ( now Diamond) Place Alberton.	Nov	30	Later renamed Diamond Jubilee Hall to mark Queen Victoria's 60th year on the throne in 1897.
1884	Port Adelaide	Central Hotel, 74 Commercial Road	Dec	9	To 2002
1884	Largs	Fort Largs became operational.			Became Police Academy in 1961, vacated in 2012 when a new Academy opened on adjacent site
1884	Portland	Portland Estate Council annexed by the Port Adelaide corporation.
1884	Port Adelaide	H.C.M.S Protector arrived, from England
1884	Semaphore	Semaphore Masonic Lodge formed.,
1884	Semaphore	Semaphore and Largs esplanades joined by opening a roadway through the sandhills.,
1884	Semaphore	Semaphore Institute building on the west corner of Semaphore Road and Institute Lane opened by the Governor 15 March.,			Was Ozone Theatre, now Library
1885	Port Adelaide	Male child found in Leadehall Street, cause of death strangulation.	Dec	9	murder
1885	Port Adelaide	Wesleyan Methodist Church, Dale Street			Demolished 1973
1885	Port Adelaide	First Crooks & Brooker Fire,
1885	Largs	Largs cottages (186-196 Mead Street) first listed with occupants in South Australian directory.
1886	Peterhead	Post Office opened,	Jul
1886	Alberton	M Donaghy & Sons (of Geelong) rope works officially opened on a large site on Old Port Road Queenstown by the Mayor of Adelaide.	Aug	26
1886	Birkenhead	Post Office Sub, station open	Dec	1
1886	Birkenhead	Birkenhead Council Annexed by Port Adelaide Corporation.	Dec	9	Dec
1886	Port Adelaide	Walter & Morris timber yard, Robin & Hack's premises.			Later to Minories
1886	Portland	Tam O'Shanter Creek, Canal Bill introduced
1887	Alberton	Alberton Railway station becomes un-staffed after Ticket Office is removed.	Sep	18
1887	Port Adelaide	Port Land Company, Morialta Chambers Adelaide.			App. In Directory
1887	Port Adelaide	Eclipse Mill (Dunn's), corner of Fussell and/Honey Streets Port Adelaide.			Burnt Jan. 2 '20
1887	Largs	Largs Villas' first listed with occupants in South Australian Directory.
1888	Portland	Bible Christians joined with, Methodist.
1889	Semaphore	Semaphore Swimming Baths on the jetty officially opened 26 January.	Jan	26	Destroyed 1917
1889	Port Adelaide	Musical Society Formed, Mr Wyatt Mortimer.	Oct	24
1889	Semaphore	Salvation Army Corps.
1889	Semaphore	Baths on Jetty Opened.
1889	Port Adelaide	Portland Canal completed.			Tam O'Shanter Creek straightened to become the PortLand Canal, named because it ran along the border of the Portland District. Later became the Port Adeladie Canal.
1889	Port Adelaide	S.A. Yacht Club, Opening demo.
1889	Port Adelaide	Commercial Wharf, ASC used Commercial wharf from this time. moved to McLaren Wharf in 1935
1889	Semaphore	Semaphore Institute building sold to Semaphore Corporation to be the Town Hall.,
1889	Semaphore	Rotunda on the foreshore south of the jetty officially opened 18 January.,
1890	Port Adelaide	Jervois Bridge steps named Kestel Steps	Apr	25	Mayor Kestel
1890	Port Adelaide	Docklands devastated by major maritime strike. 10,000 men took part in immense demonstration in Adelaide to show sympathy with the Shipping strike	Oct	18	Labour problems -Port Adelaide working men, v Stevedores and Ship owners
1890	Port Adelaide	Racing Club first meeting, Grand Junction Road
1890	Port Adelaide	Newmarket Hotel, 132 Commercial Rd
1891	Largs	The Government agreed to buy the Largs Jetty and railway in February, as recommended by the Royal Commission on Landing and embarking European mails.	Feb	12
1891	Alberton	Post Office at Railway Station,	Oct
1891	Alberton	Alberton & Queenstown population reaches 2632.
1891	Largs	Census reveals that the Largs Ward of the Semaphore corporation had 34 dwellings and 134 inhabitants.			The Largs ward was much larger than the township of Largs.
1891	Port Adelaide	Australian Stevedoring Co., Captains W. Begg & J. Legoe
1891	Glanville	CSR Refinery opened.			Fire 1926, Demolished 1993
1891	Port Adelaide	Kembla House, 55 St Vincent Street
1891	Semaphore	Fire Brigade Formed,
1891	Semaphore	Police Station west of the Town Hall at 6 Semaphore Road opened in August. (Replaced rented premises opposite the Exeter Railway Station),
1892	Alberton	Opening of Alberton Public School, Queenstown	Oct	3	Infant School opened 1923 and extended in 1930 Redeveloped in 1988
1892	Ethelton	Public School, Harley/Pelham Streets			Prev. Glanville
1892	Largs	Largs Bay Land and Investment Company was voluntarily liquidated.
1893	Glanville	Public School opened, named Ethelton in 1919	Jan	23
1894	Port Adelaide	Dora Sweetapple, D.B.N.S. First Nurse	Jun	21
1894	Semaphore	Warrinilla built, Semaphore Road
1894	Birkenhead	St Andrews Anglican Church,
1894	Glanville	Brewery opened, Later Bronson's
1895	Port Adelaide	South Australian Electric Light and Motive Power Company Formed.	Mar
1895	Cheltenham	Port Adelaide R.C. first meeting,	Nov	26
1895	Portland	Montpelier Square fenced, Planted with trees
1895	Rosewater	St Barnabas Anglican Church,
1895	Port Adelaide	Cannon Brewery, Cannon St. Until 1902			Big Gun Brewery
1895	Port Adelaide	Produce Export Depot established on Ocean Steamers' Wharf,			Moved to Gepps Cross in 1933
1895	Semaphore	Cyclone on 9 December caused considerable damage.,
1895	Semaphore	Dr Percy Bollen built a two-storey home at 43 Semaphore Road.,
1896	Glanville	Post Office opened,	Apr
1896	Ethelton	St Nicholas Anglican Church,
1897	Glanville	Bower Cottages foundations,	Jun	21
1897	Port Adelaide	South Australian Electric Light and Motive Power Company secured contract from the Corporation of Port Adelaide to supply electricity for street lighting.	Sep	10
1897	Port Adelaide	Marist Brothers arrive, S.S. Australian	Nov	8
1897	Port Adelaide	Marist Brothers School, Commercial Road Aug. 15
1897	Port Adelaide	Rowing Club founded,
1897	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Sailing Club formed 1897
1897	Semaphore	Dr Henry Curtis built a two-storey home (’Holmwood’) on the south corner of Dunn Street and Military Road.,
1898	Port Adelaide	Lion Timber Yard Fire.	Mar	24
1898	Alberton Queenstown	Alberton and Queenstown councils annexed by Port Adelaide Corporation	Dec
1898	Queenstown Alberton	Queenstown and Alberton District Council annexed by Port Adelaide Corporation.
1898	Semaphore	Centrals Football Club, Formed.
1898	Port Adelaide	Britannia Hotel, Rebuilt.			Now Dockside
1898	Largs	A Naval Drill shed was erected on the triangle of land bounded by the Railway line, Jetty Road and Military road.			Demolished in 1984.
1899	Port Adelaide	The first power station in Nile street began operating.	Jan	1
1899	Port Adelaide	Electric lighting in streets, Replaced gas	Jan	1
1899	Rosewater	Council annexed, by Port Adelaide Corporation.	Jan	25
1899	Port Adelaide	Charity Concert Company, 1st concert	Jun	13	Orpheus Soc.
1899	Alberton	Railway Post Office closed,
1899	Semaphore	St Bedes Anglican Church, Tracker Organ installed,
1899	Semaphore	Congregational Church opened at 11 Jagoe Street.			Closed 1973
1899	Semaphore	Dominican Convent established in Dr Curtis’ former home on Military Road and school opened 10 July.,
1900	Port Adelaide	Proclaimed a City, population had passed 20,000	May	23	E. Lumbers
1900	Port Adelaide	Corporation Flagstaff named, 115 ft high Town Hall	May	24	Mayoress Caire
1900	Alberton	Sussex Street Post Office,	May
1900	Alberton	Port Road Post Office closes,	May
1900	Port Adelaide	Charity Concert Company, First Performance	Jun	13	In the Port Adelaide Town Hall
1900	Largs	Methodist Services began in the Naval Drill shed on 16 September 1900.	Sep	16
1900	Semaphore	Semaphore Corporation amalgamated with Port Adelaide Corporation.	Nov	1
1900	Port Adelaide	Orpheus Society, 1st concert	Nov	7
1900	Port Adelaide	Jervois Bridge woodwork fire, Spark from train	Nov	25
1900	Semaphore	Wongola Shoal Lighthouse completed.
1900	Alberton	Following Methodist Union, Queenstown Primitive Methodist congregation amalgamated with Alberton Wesleyan Methodist congregation and worshipped in Alberton Methodist Church.
1901	Semaphore	Federal Hotel, 25 Semaphore Road	Mar		From Jetty Hotel
1901	Port Adelaide	R.M.S. Ormuz quarantined,	Oct	9
1901	Semaphore	Port Adelaide Orpheus Societies first concert at the Semaphore Town Hall,	Nov	7
1901	Port Adelaide	Population 2089, an houses builds 4412,
1901	Portland	No Man's Land, Trees planted
1901	Birkenhead	First Fuel storage depot opens at Birkenhead. (Shell Co).
1901	Port Adelaide	Duke and Duchess of York on visits Port Adelaide, transported up Port River on Euro (tug),
1901	Semaphore	Severe cyclone on 25 January damaged several homes.,
1901	Semaphore	Lighthouse on Wonga Shoal; west of the Semaphore Jetty; operational 1 July. (It superseded the Port Adelaide Lighthouse at the entrance to the Port River; which was then removed to South Neptune Island and; when it became redundant; re-erected in 1986 at the end of Commercial Road; Port Adelaide.),
1901	Semaphore	Fire Brigade Station opened on the east corner of Jagoe St and Hall St. (Closed 1988),
1902	Largs	Anglican Services began in the Naval Drill shed.	Oct	12
1902	Lefevre Peninsula	Post Office closed,	Nov
1902	Alberton	Alberton Oval purchased by the Port Adelaide Council, from the trustees of WH Gray's Estate (3000 pound paid).			Previously leased by the Queenstown and Alberton Council for many years.
1903	Largs	A sanatorium for women and a shelter for children, precursor of the Largs Bay Orphanage, were established by the Sisters of St Joseph in a house in Kalgoorlie Road, in February.	Feb	1	The Orphanage moved into the former home of Mrs Harrold on the North corner of Harrold Street and the Esplanade in October 1906 and closed in 1980.
1903	Port Adelaide Alberton	Alberton Oval official reopened by the Port Adelaide Mayoress, Mrs Jurs.	Apr	9
1903	Alberton	Alberton Oval Bowling Club formed.,		7	Called Port Adelaide 1903-7.
1904	Largs	First Methodist Church building opened at 477 Military Road.	Jul	31	Demolished January 1983.
1904	Semaphore	Semaphore Bowling Club Formed,
1904	Semaphore	Croquet Club, Next to Bowling Club I
1904	Port Adelaide	Skating Rink Opened, St Vin./ Todd St. Cr.
1904	Semaphore	Commercial Bank of Australia Sub-branch opened on Semaphore Road near Exeter Railway Station.,
1905	Port Adelaide	St Paul's Church, Third building	Nov
1905	Largs	Sacred Heart College, Military R./Hannay St
1905	Port Adelaide	Croquet Club Lipson Street,
1905	Port Adelaide	Gulf Steamships, Amalgamated with Yorke Peninsula Steam and Coast Steamships to form Gulf Steamships with Karatta 1907
1905	Port Adelaide	Harbor Masters, List of Port Adelaide Harbor Masters P.84 of Port Book
1906	Port Adelaide	Adelaide Milling Company Fire.	Mar		Five Storey Mill
1906	Largs	Dedication of St Bede's Mission Largs Bay Mission Church in Musgrave Street..	Apr	7	Renamed St Albans in 1914, from 1st July 1916 no longer a Mission Church.
1906	Port Adelaide	H. L. Vosz Paint Factory Built Lipson Street,	Nov		Later Dulux
1906	Semaphore	Wolverton Hospital est.,
1906	Port Adelaide	Savings Bank bldg., 98 Lipson Ex Navalmen's 1950			Formby Rest.
1906	Alberton	Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Hall , Kent Street (now 11 Sussex street) opened.			Later used by Greek Orthodox Old Calendar Church of Saints Apostles Peter and Paul. A new church was opened on the site in 1990.
1906	Largs	Largs Bay College opened at 138-139 Esplanade.
1907	Port Adelaide	Sailing ship Norma lying at anchorage was wrecked after being struck by Ardencraig off Semaphore (Norma Welsh Druid Princess).	Apr	21	The Jessie Darling ran over the ran over the wreck and sank, then the Port Chalmers crossed the wreck and was slightly damaged. Norma Figurehead in South Australian Maritime Museum.
1907	Port Adelaide	Nile Street power station ceased operations, and all electricity was supplied from the Grenfell Street power Station. The Nile Street station had been running at a loss.	Aug
1907	Port Adelaide	Muralo Buildings (Vosz Paint), Lipson Street			Now apartments
1907	Semaphore	Church Of the Sacred Heart, Catholic
1907	Port Adelaide	Karatta, most popular vessel with Gulf Steamships
1907	Alberton	Sirrus Private Hospital opened in Buller Terrace Alberton. In 1917 it moved across the railway tracks to 23 Prince Street.			closed 24th December 1954
1907	SA	The Metropolitan Tramways Trust Inc. with representatives of Government and local councils on the Board, took over all the then privately owned horse tramways and began to replace them with electric tramways.
1908	Outer Harbor	Outer Harbor, opened by Premier Peake, the Orient-Royal mail steamer R.M.S. Oruba was there at opening, and was the first ship to berth at the Outer Harbor.	Jan	16	Last Anchoring of Orient Liners in Largs Bay earlier in January.
1908	Port Adelaide	The demolition of chimney on the English and Australian Copper Company's announced.	Oct	6
1908	Outer Harbor	The Semaphoe railway was extended to Outer Harbor and the Osborne Railway Station opened.
1908	Largs	Largs Railway Station opened in Mead Street with the commencement of passenger services to the Outer Harbor.
1908	Port Adelaide	Smith's Motor Co., 58 Lipson Street			Previous Clutterbuck's
1909	Glanville	Post Office closes,	Dec
1909	Glanville	I.0.0.F. Lodge No. 3, Purchase Ang. Ch. Renamed Exeter Hall
1909	Port Adelaide	Tramways Power Station was built, north of dock 2
1909	Portland	Outbreak of plague 2 deaths, Leadenhall Street
1909	Port Adelaide	The Port Scout Group, one of the first in South Australia became large enough to be registered in London and a certificate of registration was issued andsigned by Baden Powell.
1909	Semaphore	Semaphore Scout Troop formed.
1909	Alberton	1st Alberton Scout Troop formed.
1909	Largs	1st Largs Bay Scout Troop registered.			Merged with Semaphore Sea Scouts circa 1926.
1910	Semaphore Birkenhead	Lefevre’s Peninsula District High School opened at the Public School.	Jan	21	Closed 1914; It and the Hindmarsh District High School amalgamated to form Woodville District High School in 1915.
1910	Largs	Largs to Outer Harbor railway line duplicated	Mar	2	Operational from 2 March.
1910	Outer Harbor	Post Office opened	Mar
1910	Port Adelaide	South Africa fire, which was carrying a cargo of 122 tons of explosives, fortunately they did not catch on fire.	Aug	21
1910	Semaphore	Church of Christ, organised in the Masonic Hall on Semaphore Road.	Aug	21
1910	Glanville	Wippet races were started at Glanville by the Port Adelaide Whippet and Athletic club.	Aug	21
1910	Glanville	First Glanville Hotel, purchased By South Australian Government to make way for the Outer Harbor Railway line.	Nov
1910	Semaphore	The Wondergraph Theatre; an open air picture theatre in between the Customs Boarding Station and the Semaphore Coffee Palace; opened 26 December.	Dec	26
1910	Semaphore	Semaphore Coffee Palace opened at 80 the Esplanade. (Became Wondergraph Café and later Evancourt Private Hotel),
1910	Largs	Herbert Dunn opened grocery Shop at 499 Military Road Largs .
1911	Ottoway	Congregational Church,	Apr
1911	Port Adelaide	Railway Bridge, South Jervois Bridge	May	16	Completed prior
1911	Largs Glanville	Glanville to Largs railway duplicated within its own right of way.	Aug	30	This replaces the single track down the middle of Mead Street. A new Largs Station opened west of the previous one.
1911	Semaphore	Coffee Palace, Esplanade			Wondergraph Café Evancourt
1911	Semaphore	Masonic Buildings at 66 Semaphore Road opened.
1911	Semaphore	Ozone Amusements Ltd was formed by local bookseller and stationer Hugh Waterman; grocers Les and Horrie Warn; stationmaster Chris Flaherty and electrician Jim Woods. The firm started leasing the Semaphore and Port Adelaide Town Halls for screening films.,
1912	Rosewater	AdelaideRadio (VIA) maritime radio station system, the sixth built in Australia and one of 19 around the country. Opened 1 October 1912 it operated from 8am to midnight every day of the week, and was one of the first points of contact for ships sailing south from Hong Kong and Japan. Apart from its major function of listening for ships' messages, Adelaide also handled traffic to and from the State telegraph system, and broadcast time signals to shipping.	Oct	1	By 1963 the rapid industrialisation of the Rosewater area had increased electrical interference to the point where a move to a new site became necessary and the operation was moved to McLaren Vale where it operated until 1993 when it was shut down.
1912	Semaphore	The Wonga Shoal Lighthouse was knocked over by the three-masted barque “Dimsdale” on 17 November and the two keepers drowned.,	Nov	19	Keepers Franson and Gowan drowned. Lightouse never rebuilt, an automatic light was mounted on the remains of the old structure until 1963.
1912	Portland	Deep drainage for sewerage, Commenced
1912	Semaphore	Savings Bank of South Australia opened on Semaphore Road.,
1913	Semaphore	Church of Christ at 242 Military Road opened.	Mar	1	Unsure of date closed
1913	Albert Park Port Adelaide	Metropolitan Tramways Trust (MTT) purchased the Albert Park - Port Adelaide horse car line for 4,000 pounds	Aug	22
1913	Birkenhead	R. T. Searles' Shipyard, Jenkins Street			Now Cent. Slip
1913	Port Adelaide	Salvation Army Hall, 84 Lipson Street			Powerhouse P.
1913	Port Adelaide	Ozone Theatre opened, 1st purpose built movie Theatre			1968 Close '79 demolished
1913	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide News, Re-established			1933 ceased publishing
1913	Port Adelaide	Coast Steamships, Formed from Gulf Steamship & West Coast Shipping . vessel Quorna subsidiary of .ASCL
1913	Port Adelaide	West Coast Shipping, Wandana 1913 was Spencer Gulf trader
1913	Port Adelaide	Weston Milling Co., still operating today on Thomas' old site.
1913	Semaphore	Semaphore Lewis Lodge (Masonic) formed.,
1914	Port Adelaide	The Harbours Act, 1913 proclaimed. South Australian Harbors Board established, private wharves acquired.	Mar	26	An act to provide for the acquisition by theCrown of wharves and water frontages and similar properties. Act Reserved December 18th 1913
1914	Outer Harbor	10th Battalion embarked bound for World War I in Europe on SS Ascanius at 4:30 p.m.	Oct	20	Total embarked 1004 made up of 31 officers, 969 men, 2 Sister Nurses, 1 YMCA representative & one man in excess of establishment. The same day the Transport Officer Lieut. Trevor Owen Smyth & 22 transport men embarked on SALDANHA in charge of 108 horses. Five horses for WA – 11th Batt Infantry and 5 horses for 10th Batt Infantry on embarked on ‘Ascanius’.
1914	Port Adelaide	First sod Elec. Tram Track, Mayor I. H. Clouston	Nov	2	Commencment of laying of tram tracks from the Jervois Bridge through Port Adelaide to Albert Park annd Rosewater,
1914	Port Adelaide	Robe. Kingston etc., After WW1 ASC stopped SE trade to Robe Kingston Beachport
1914	Port Adelaide	Lefevre District High School closed.
1914	Largs	St Albans Anglican Church,
1914	Birkenhead	Adelaide Cement Company becomes operational.			Becomes Brighton Cement in 1971
1914	Port Adelaide	Last New Year's Day Regatta.			Regattas had been held fairly regularly since the 1860's
1914	Port Adelaide	Eyre Yorke Pen., After WW1 ASC stepped up service to Eyre & Yorke Peninsulas instead of SE trade
1914	Port Adelaide	Fisher Bridge, Now Ocean Steamers Road runs over
1914	Port Adelaide	Scharzfels, German prize vessel Scharzfels renamed Araluen for Adelaide Steamship Company.
1914	Semaphore	Semaphore Buildings completed. (Adjoin the Semaphore Hotel),
1914	Semaphore	Two-storey kiosk on the inner T-head of the jetty opened 24 December. It included a restaurant; accommodation for the lessee and a dance hall upstairs.			Damaged by fire 10 March 1947 and removed in 1948.
1914	Birkenhead	Darling's Wharf constructed, on Birkenhead side of the river opposite Queen's Wharf.			The last timber wharf built in Port Adelaide by private enterprise.
1915	Port Adelaide	A referendum to close Hotels at 6 p.m. was held. The majority of voters voted YES.		28	From 1915 to 1967 bars and hotels in South Australia closed at 6p.m.. https://sahistoryhub.history.sa.gov.au/subjects/six-oclock-swill
1915	Alberton	Alberton Cheer Up Society formed in October, to provide for "The Comfort and entertainment of Soldiers and Sailors".	Oct
1915	Rosewater	Redhill Bridge Opened, Grand Junction Road Railway Overpass.	Nov	14
1915	Port Adelaide Ethelton	Railway bridge over the Port river completed.
1915	Glanville	Thornton Bridge West Of Jervois Bridge.			Bridge over the Railway line
1915	Semaphore	Catholic Church at 253 Military Road dedicated.
1915	Port Adelaide	First 2 Policewomen employed in South Australia			The first in the Bitish empire.
1916	Port Adelaide	Commercial Road Railway Station opened.	May	1	Demolished and reconstructed in 1971
1916	Port Adelaide	Vacuum Oil Co. Fire Todd Street,	Dec
1916	Birkenhead	Naval Drill Hall Fletcher Road Completed 1919,
1916	Port Adelaide	SA Club Hotel, Bucknall proprietor of South Australian Club Hotel
1916	Port Adelaide	SA Company Wharf , McLaren Wharf
1916	Semaphore	Semaphore to Outer Harbor railway re-routed via Commercial Road Station; replacing the route via St Vincent St and the original Jervois Bridge.,
1916	Alberton	Alberton Drill Hall opened in Kent Street (now 20-32 Sussex Street)			Closed in 1996 and later demolished.
1917	Port Adelaide Semaphore Albert Park	Port Adelaide electric tramway system servicing Semaphore, Rosewater and Albert Park opened 3 April; service to Largs opened 15 May. The Semaphore route was via St Vincent and Hart Streets, Military and Semaphore Roads.	Apr	3	This replaced the horse drawn Albert Park to Port Adelaide Tram. System closed 27 July 1935.
1917	Semaphore	Semaphore Swimming Baths on the jetty destroyed by a severe storm on 18 July.	Jul	18	Jetty was 652 metres long
1917	Port Adelaide	Minnie a Caine caught fire at Corporation Wharf	Sep	3	Scuttled to prevent further damage, but A. McFarlane & Sons repaired the schooner "satisfactorily" by January 1918
1917	Port Adelaide	Sewers connected, Also Portland Alberton & Queenstown
1917	Exeter	Signal cabin installed to control trams crossing the railway track at Exeter.
1917	Alberton	Sewers connected in Alberton.
1917	Semaphore	War Memorial Arch, Semaphore Jetty			Entrance
1917	Portland	Sewers connected in Portland.
1917	Largs	The Largs Bay Progressive Association was formed.
1917	Port Adelaide	Woodblocking of Port Road began with one gang in Adelaide working their way towards Port Adelaide and another gang in Port Adelaide working toward Adelaide.
1918	Port Adelaide	Workers' memorial erected Statue added 1921.
1918	Port Adelaide	End of World War I; 1000 homes Scheme started; State Bank Homes built around Port Adelaide, including Rosewater and Penington.
1918	Port Adelaide	Government subsidy given to enable the institute to dispense education as cheaply as possible.
1918	Port Adelaide	Portland canal shortened at eastern end.
1919	Osborne	Adelaide electric Supply co Ltd obtained land at osborne, on the Port River, to establish a new Power House.	May	9
1919	Glanville	Harbors Board Employee Memorial, at Dockyard	Oct	17
1919	Ethelton	Glanville Public School, Renamed Ethelton 1892
1919	Largs	Largs Bay Adjunct School opened, in Naval Drill Shed as an outreach of Lefevres Peninsula Public School.			Moved in 1924 to Fletcher Road as Largs Bay Primary School.
1919	Port Adelaide	Methodist conference determined that Port Adelaide Church should become a central Methodist Mission.			Rev. F. W. Basher to organise the venture.
1919	Semaphore	Bandstand on the foreshore north of the jetty was erected by the Municipal Tramways Trust for use by the Tramways Band.			Donated to Port Adelaide Council 1924-25; demolished 1970s.
1919	Largs	A mounted Police Constable was Stationed at Largs
1919	Port Adelaide	Education department allowed local board of health to convert Port Adelaide public school to an isolation hospitalfor the treatment of victims of the worldwide influenza epidemic.
1920	Glanville	Glanville Brewery purchased, by E. W. Bronson	May	24	Sold bus. 1975
1920	Port Adelaide	Harbors Board building in Lipson Street, Timeball above.			Timeball discontinued 1932
1920	Semaphore	Hotel extended with 3rd floor,
1920	Port Adelaide	Navigation Act, This Act severely disadvantaged local Australian Shipping lines in competition with Overseas reg. vessels
1920	Semaphore	F.S. Harrington’s drapery on Semaphore Rd opened. (Closed 1973),
1920	Semaphore	Wondergraph Picture Palace on Semaphore Rd opened 22 May with 1246 seats. (Became Odeon Star 1952; closed 1976; reopened 1991),
1920	Birkenhead	The oil storage tanks and accompaning wharves were built in late 192, the first being for Vacum Oil, then C.O.R. (BP) and Texaco
1921	Port Adelaide	The Workers Memorial erected at the corner of Commercial Road and St Vincents Street, was unveiled.	Sep	17
1921	Largs	Oil bore on Jetty, Mayor Lewis opens	Oct	29
1921	Birkenhead	Adelaide Cement Co. Wharf, Completed 1922
1921	Port Adelaide	Poole & Steel, Osborne Shipbuilders Eurimbla 1921. Euwarra 1922. Eugowra 1923 (originally Erina)
1921	Semaphore	Semaphore Girl Guides formed.
1921	Port Adelaide	Lloyd's Timber Mill started on 5 acres of land
1922	Rosewater	War Memorial Unveiled at Reserve (SthW. Cnr).	Apr	15
1922	Semaphore	Semaphore Bathing Pavilion and Palais opened on the foreshore.	Dec	23	Designed to accommodate over 500 bathers; it also included a kiosk; dance hall, roof garden and observation tower.
1922	Taperoo	Methodist Church
1922	Semaphore	Palais Ballroom/Bathing, Foreshore			Now hotel
1922	Alberton	Marist Brothers, Move from Port
1922	Alberton	Alberon Church United Football, Club formed
1922	Port Adelaide	Star Theatre opened in Port Adelaide.			Closed in 1960
1922	Port Adelaide	Aerial Service, Year that first fledgling air services began
1923	Semaphore	Semaphore and Port Adelaide Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia (now R.S.L.) Sub Branch formed.,	Sep	4
1923	Largs	First local Police Station opened in rented premises at 483 Military road.
1923	Port Adelaide	Swim Through Port Carnival, Initiated long swim
1923	Osborne	First Osborne (A) Power Station on line.			Osborne 'A' Power Station was opened in August 1923 by the Adelaide Electric Supply Company, who leased 24 acres of swamp land on the Harbors Board for an 84-year term. The boilers in this power station used black coal imported from New South Wales, but was later modified to burn the poorer quality Leigh Creek, South Australia coal.
1924	Largs	Largs Girls School was opened in Alexander Street, by Miss Jane McInnes and Miss Edith Slater on 12 February.	Feb	12	Renamed Largs Girls college in 1936.
1924	Birkenhead Outer Harbor	Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron (RSAYS) moves from Birkenhead to Outer Harbor.	Nov	24
1924	Largs	Largs Bay Primary School opened on Fletcher Road.
1924	Alberton	Ozone Theatre opened, 33 Fussell Place			Closed 1961
1924	Port Adelaide	Fire and explosion on SS City of Singapore in No.2 Dock kills three firemen.			No.2 Dock was named Tragedy Dock, but not because of the City of Singapore Fire alone, other death in Dock 2 before 1924
1925	Semaphore	Soldiers Memorial on the foreshore near the jetty unveiled on 24 May (Empire Day), by Liet. Col L. D. Betts OBE	May	24
1925	Outer Harbor	Italian seaplane visit, Marchess dePinedo	Jun	8
1925	Alberton	Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (R.A.O.B.) Hall was opened at the corner of Parket Street and Port Road.	Aug	23
1925	Port Adelaide	Municipal Band, Reformed	Oct	13
1925	Largs	Largs Bay Masonic Lodge first met on 6th December in the Semaphore Masonic Building, 66 Semaphore Road.	Dec	6
1925	Port Adelaide	Marine Board of South Australia abolished, and powers transferred to South Australian Harbors Board
1925	Largs	Largs Service Station opened by Don McIvor at 386 Military Road.
1925	Semaphore	Federal Hotel, Remodelled frontage
1925	Port Adelaide	Soldiers' Market opened, 200 Commercial Rd			Lasted to 1943
1925	Peterhead	Presbyterian Church, St Luke's Hall
1925	Outer Harbor	Police Station,
1925	Port Adelaide	Mulcra, ASC's first oil fuelled cargo vessel Operated until 1961
1925	Port Adelaide	Sarnia Timber Mill, Established by Theophilus Hack and Peter LeMessurier. Then Robins Timber Yard. then Walter & Morris
1925	Semaphore	Central School established at Lefevre’s Peninsula Primary School with Girls and Boys Departments. (The latter was the genesis of Lefevre Boys Technical School which ultimately became Lefevre High School.),			Tech Sch.1940
1925	Semaphore	Semaphore District Traders’ Association established 5 February.,
1926	Port Adelaide	First Bus service from Adelaide to Port Adelaide, Semaphore and Largs by Municipal Tramways Trust commenced.	Apr	5	Terminated at albert Park in 1930, connecting with the Tram. Extended to Port Adelaide in 1934 and to Semaphore and Largs in 1935, as the Tram service was progressively reduced.
1926	Cheltenham	Caire family fatality, 5 deaths Cheltenham railway crossing.	Apr	30
1926	Birkenhead	Second Methodist Church, Gunn/Wells Streets Cr.	Apr		Ceased 1990
1926	Port Adelaide	Waterside Workers' Hall, 11 Nile Street	Dec	5	Foundation stone
1926	Largs	Ford Motor Company established at Largs Bay.			On the corner of Jetty and Victoria Roads.
1926	Largs	A Bandstand was erected on the Largs foreshore, just north of the Jetty.
1926	Birkenhead	General Motors Holden established,			Demolished 19??
1926	Semaphore	Slippery Dip/Helter Skelter, On Foreshore
1926	Birkenhead	Methodist Church,
1926	Glanville	Disastrous Fire at CSR refinery, damage estimated at 100,000 pounds.
1926	Alberton	Arthur Wadlow established Wadlow Timber Merchants.			Yard opened in coburg Road Alberton.
1927	Rosewater	Mount Carmel Boys' School, Newcastle Street	Jan
1927	Cheltenham	Unveiling of the Firemans' memorial at Cheltenham	Mar	20
1927	Port Adelaide	Duke and Duchess of York visit	May	3
1927	Port Adelaide	Port Road up track opened
1927	Largs	Largs Bay Dinghy Club formed.			Renamed Largs Bay Sailing Club in 1949.
1927	Largs	Largs Bay Women's Hockey Club formed.			Went into recess in 1981
1927	Alberton	1st Yatala Boy Scouts' Hall, Queen Street
1927	Port Adelaide	Smith Motor Company, Premises Comm. Rd
1927	Portland	Timber yard fire, Near Canal
1927	Rosewater	Railway Marshalling Yards, New Kingston
1927	Port Adelaide	Minnipa, went aground in 1928. A profitable vessel until 1960, when it had become too small for interstate trade,
1927	Largs	1st Largs Bay Sea Scouts formed.
1928	Port Adelaide	New Post Office in St Vincent street officially Opened	Mar	19
1928	Port Adelaide	Waterside Workers' strike.	Sep		When workers refused to accept the "Beeby Award" The Government introduced volunteer labour to break the strike. Tension mounted on the waterfront resulting in full scale battle between Waterside Workers and the Police. The Port Dock Railway Station was used as an ambulance center for casualties. Themounted Police constabulary were stationed at the so called volunteer camp organised at Dock 1, at a timber yard owned and run by Lewis and Reed.
1928	Port Adelaide	Passes issued to allow people on the Whaves.	Oct	1
1928	Port Adelaide	Masonic Lodge. Second hall, Comm. Rd/Lipson	Oct	16	1st meeting
1928	Semaphore	Lutheran Church,	Oct
1928	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Football Club win the Grand Final.
1928	Outer Harbor	Mission To Seamen,
1928	Portland	Riverside Football Club formed,
1928	Queenstown	Seventh Day Adventist Church, Webb Street Queenstown.			Renamed Queenstown church in 1969 and replaced by present church in 1970
1928	Largs	Second Methodist Church opened at 477 Military Road.			Closed 1989
1928	Largs	1st Largs Scout Troop formed, E. C. Barney.			Disbanded 1998.
1928	Portland	Montpelier Square, Children's Playground,
1928	Port Adelaide	RAF Southampton Seaplanes + 1 RAAF land in Port River,
1928	Port Adelaide	Government Ships, This was the year Govt. sold all vessels to White Star Line. Out of Shipping Trade.
1928	Port Adelaide	Largs Bay Sailing Club formed. First commodore Tom Fisher,
1928	Osborne	Gas Works opened at Osborne by SAGASCO
1929	Port Adelaide	Some 300 or more Waterside Workers marched through the streets of Port Adelaide in protest over the use of volunteer labour.	Jan	11
1929	Port Adelaide	Subscribers concerts held regularly in the Port Adelaide Town Hall by the Port Adelaide Orpheus Society.
1929	Port Adelaide	Manunda, Built in 1926 entered service With Adelaide Steam in 1929 interstate coastal trade
1929	Port Adelaide	Manunda, Sunk 1 ketch and damaged 2 others in serious berthing accident
1929	Largs North	Work started on the Esplanade, north of Roslyn Street, Largs North.
1929	Port Adelaide	Moonta, joined fleet did Gulf Trips
1929	Port Adelaide	Westralia, Opposition to Adelaide Steam on Coastal interstate trade
1929	Port Adelaide	W M Thomas & Co., Leadenhall Street. Later took over Harrison's Mill in 1888
1929	Port Adelaide	Yatala, An area near Alberton and Rosewater
1929	Semaphore	Soldiers Memorial Hall and Institute Library at 10 Semaphore Rd opened 7 December.,
1929	Semaphore	Former Semaphore Town Hall remodelled as an Ozone Theatre and opened 9 December. It sat about 1100. (Theatre refurbished in 1952 following Hoyts Theatres Ltd acquiring a substantial financial interest in 24 of Waterman Bros Ozone theatres. It closed in 1960.),
1929	Port Adelaide	Work starts on the reconstruction, in concrete, of Ocean Steamers Wharves (No 18, 19,20)			Was timber construction.
1930	Port Adelaide Birkenhead	Bus route from Port Adelaide to Birkenhead.	Feb	1
1930	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Corporation £42,450/ 4/11 in debt, due mainly to money spent creationg employment.	Feb	21
1930	Port Adelaide	Antartic Exploration Party arrives to a Civic reception.	Apr	1
1930	Port Adelaide	Official opening of the Mothers and Babies Association Portland Cottage	Apr	21	Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Friday 23 May 1930, page 6 The cottage at Portland which has been placed at the disposal of the Port Adelaide branch of the Mothers and Babies' Health Association, was occupied yesterday for the first time, sister Kimber was in charge, and was assisted by a member of the local committee, one of whom will help the nurse daily. In the afternoon about 100 mothers and their children visited the centre. They were welcomed by the branch president (Mrs. H. Covemton), and voiced their feelings of gratefulness for the splendid facilities which had been provided. After an inspection of the place, the visitors were entertained at afternoon tea by the branch.
1930	Port Adelaide	Moonta, Popular Moonta acquired by ASCL
1930	Portland	Log Pound constructed, Mouth of Canal
1930	Semaphore	Back to Semaphore Celebrations held and 64 page souvenir booklet written and compiled by JE Trotman for the Back to Semaphore Committee published.,
1931	Port Adelaide	Beef Riot!. A march from Port Adelaide to Adelaide protesting the withdrawal of Beef from the ration allowance. A riot began and 17 people were injured. Other processions were held over this matter, but they were peacful	Jan	19
1931	Ottoway	Congregational Church, Red brick building	Dec
1931	Rosewater	First Housing Trust homes, 35-37 McNicol Terrace.
1932	Port Adelaide	Flagstaff removed from the wharf at the end of Commercial Road.	Aug	5	Dismantled & fell
1932	Port Adelaide	Strassfort Fire, Tragedy Dock	Sep	20
1932	Port Adelaide	Wanganella, Opposition to Adelaide Steam on Coastal interstate trade
1932	Semaphore	Timeball service ceased 31 January. (Superseded by wireless telegraphy),
1932	Port Adelaide	Wheat shipping firms first experimented with the bulk loading of wheat at Port Adelaide. The elevating convyor usually used to handle coal for the Metropolitan Tramways trust was used to load the wheat.
1933	Port Adelaide	Decision to make Port Road Plantations reserve into a stretch of gardens.	Jul		Originally reserved by Colonel Light for a canal to take shipping into Adelaide.
1933	Port Adelaide	Institute Museum reorganised, to Nautical Museum
1933	Port Adelaide	Depression. 33.2% no work,
1934	Albert Park	Last electric Trams ran on the Port Adelaide System, replaced by busses.	Nov	11
1934	Cheltenham	Ex Navalmen's Assoc., Until 1940 then to old Savings Bank Lipson St.
1934	Largs	Magpie Hockey Club was formed.			Renamed Largs Bay Hockey Club in 1937 and as Port Adelaide District Hockey Club in 1949 when it combined with Motors Limited Hockey Club.
1935	Semaphore	Electric tram service from Port Adelaide closed 27 July and was replaced with petrol buses as an interim measure.	Jul	27
1935	Largs	Electric tram service from Port Adelaide.	Jul	27
1935	Port Adelaide	Robinson Bridge Closed, No. 1 Dock	March		Demolished October 1935, closed March 1935
1935	Port Adelaide	Model purchased, Council Chambers.
1935	Semaphore	Semaphore/Largs TocH, Formed
1935	Port Adelaide	Duntroon, Opposition to Adelaide Steam on Coastal interstate trade
1935	Port Adelaide	Eclipse Flour Mill, Honey Street at Commercial Wharf Dunn built it
1935	Port Adelaide	Kanimbla, Opposition to Adelaide Steam on Coastal Interstate Trade
1935	Port Adelaide	Manoora, popular vessel with Adelaide Steamship Company, interstate coastal trade
1935	Port Adelaide	Manoora, First passenger orientated vessel. Open decks. dance space. etc.
1935	Port Adelaide	McLaren Wharf, Adelaide Steamship Company moved here from Commercial Wharf.
1935	Port Adelaide	Miller & Spiller, Mill operating in Baker Street
1935	Port Adelaide	Miller's Produce Mill, Honey Street site flour Mill
1935	Semaphore	Semaphore & Largs Toc H founded.,
1935	Port Adelaide	Company Dock filled in.			Was dug in 1880
1935	Osborne	I.C.I. Limited, a British company, decided to set up a large Alkali works at Port Adelaide to produce chemicals for Australian industries.
1936	Outer Harbor Largs	Lady Gowrie Drive officially named and opened, running from Largs Bay to the Outer Harbor.	Sep	16	A centenary Year project, that commenced on July 19th 1935, 400 Norfolk Island pines had been planted along Lady Gowrie Drive.
1936	Alberton	Patrick's Square fountain,
1936	Glanville	Waterloo Bridge Lamp, Pres. to Council			Birkenhead. Br. orig.
1936	Semaphore	Centenary Regatta, part of the South Australian Centenary
1937	Osborne	Start of building of the wharf at Osborne for I.C.A.N.Z. South Australia Branch.	Jan		later to become I.C.I. of Australia
1937	Outer Harbor	Melbourne. Steamship Duntroon, Fire Outer Harbor	Mar	1
1937	Rosewater	R.S.S. & A.I.L.A. Sub, Branch Granted Charter	Mar	10
1937	Glanville	Trains collide at Glanville	Sep	11
1937	Semaphore Outer Harbor	Semaphore Signal Station adjacent to the Timeball Tower superseded by one at the Outer Harbor.,
1937	Port Adelaide	Duco Plant built 67 Lipson Street,
1937	Largs	Largs Bay Hockey Club To Port Adel. In 1948,
1937	Alberton	Convent, Girl's School
1938	Semaphore Largs Port Adelaide	An electric trolley bus service from Adelaide via Port Adelaide to Semaphore and Largs, following similar routes to the former trams began 3 April.	Apr	3
1938	Birkenhead	Central Slip shifted to next to Fletcher's slip.			This move was to allow the construction of the Birkenhead Bridge.
1938	Queenstown	Prince of Wales Hotel, Current façade
1938	Port Adelaide	Morialta, Ship ordered for ASC. Not delivered because of War
1939	Port Adelaide	Corp. Flagstaff removed, Donated to Boy Sc.	May	1	1st Kensington
1939	Port Adelaide	Silent Cop, Black Diam. Cr Third one in 1939	Sep	5	Removed 1968 Nile St. Entrance
1939	Port Adelaide	Cheerup Hut in Council Cha., Council Offer To west of Memorial
1939	Semaphore	Protector gun moved,
1939	Port Adelaide	Municipal Offices completed,
1939	Port Adelaide	Lion Timber Mill burnt down
1940	Port Adelaide	Inaugural Meeting of the Cheerup Hut Committee.	Jun	26
1940	Port Adelaide	Birkenhead Bridge completed.	Dec	14	Opened
1940	Osborne	ICI alkali factory operational.
1940	Birkenhead	LeFevre Boys Junior Technical School opened; replaced Central School.
1941	Port Adelaide	A new hotel was built south of the original and opened as the New Exchange Hotel at, 1 Commercial Road Port Adelaide.	Mar	4	Changed name to the Lighthouse Hotel in 1987.
1941	Semaphore	New red brick Semaphore Railway Station building opened west of the Post Office.	Oct	29	Closed in 1978 and later demolished
1941	Outer Harbor	Pilot Station, New Pilot Station at Outer Harbor in 1941 alongside Signal Station opened in 1937.
1942	Port Adelaide	Morialta, HMAS Morialta used for Review of Fleet by King George VI.
1942	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Central School becomes Port Adelaide Primary School.
1943	Largs North	Bus service extended to Largs North	Nov	1
1944	Largs	Former Largs Girls College in Alexander Street Closed. Re opened as St Albans Girls School in 1945. Incorporated as St Albans Church of England Girls Grammar School in 1947			Closed 1967
1944	Port Adelaide	Morialta, Hit by mine during war service. Did not sink. Repaired but did not finally arrive in SA until 1946.
1946	Port Adelaide	Cheer up Hut Apprec. Social, For 320 Volunteers	Feb	9	Final Function
1946	Ethelton	Swimming Club Mem. Hndcp, W. Peterson	Nov	25	He died in WWII
1946	Portland	Embankment demolished, Fill for Port Adelaide Reserve
1946	Portland	13 acres purchased to extend, Port Adelaide Reserve
1947	Semaphore	Jetty Kiosk fire, Destroyed	Mar	11
1947	Portland	Portland Sub Branch of R.S.S.& A.I.L.A. (R.S.L.) chartered	Apr	11
1947	Osborne	Power delivered from "B" Station	Apr	26
1947	Largs	Largs Bay Sub Branch of R.S.S.& A.I.L.A. (R.S.L.) Chartered
1947	Portland	Town Rubbish Tip Closed,
1948	Outer Harbor	Wansford Coal Fire	Jun	10
1948	Birkenhead	Atlantic Air , Greek Freighter Chilean Nitrates	Sep	2	Fire
1948	Alberton	Section 443 (134 acres, 54 Ha) bought for £900 by Edward Stevens and subdivided as Queens Town
1948	Outer Harbor	Willesden, Fire At Sea
1948	Largs	Largs Bay Branch of the Country Women's Association formed.			Believed to be the first metropolitan branch.
1948	Portland	Montpelier Square, Children's Playgr'd Re-established
1948	Portland	Rugby ground formed, Port Adelaide Reserve
1948	Port Adelaide	Barcoo, Navy survey vessel Barcoo aground off Glenelg in 1948
1948	Port Adelaide	Blue Sheaf Mill Co., probably Lipson St. St. Vincent Street corner
1948	Port Adelaide	Bucknall, Lost his life on the Waratah
1949	Port Adelaide	Greater Port Adelaide Plan announced by SAHB, Including West Lakes and North Haven.
1950	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide ship's bell, Presented to Port Adelaide Council.	Jan	17
1950	Semaphore	Lefevre Community Hospital, Draft constitution adopted at a public meeting, this replaced Wolverton.	Sep	1	June '95 closed
1950	Semaphore	Coles Variety Store Opened,			Closed 1974
1950	Port Adelaide	Moonta, Gulf Trip with Moonta ended 1955
1950	Port Adelaide	Quorna, Used by RAAF as bombing practice. End of Quorna off Kangaroo Island.,
1950	Semaphore	Coles Variety Store opened at 31 Semaphore Road.			Closed 1974
1951	Birkenhead	Memorial Cairn erected by the employers of the LeFevre Peninsula, in front of the MBHA on Fletcher Road Birkenhead, in recognition of "their" employees involved in World War II.	May	5
1951	Port Adelaide	Messenger newspaper commences.
1951	Largs	Belmont Hospital opened at 184 Esplanade Largs.			Circa 1951
1952	Semaphore	Semaphore Retail Traders’ Association formed 18 November.	Nov	18
1952	Albert Park	Oldfields Bakeries Combine, New Plant.	Dec
1952	Semaphore	Wondergraph changes to, Odeon Star Theatre
1953	Semaphore	Mariner's Memorial,	Apr	29
1953	Semaphore	Storm damages Semaphore and Largs jetty.	May	18
1953	Largs	Largs Bay Jetty badly damaged in severe storm.	May	18	Rebuilt as a narrower and taller structure circa 1957.
1953	Portland	Girls' Technical School, Wooden classrooms
1953	Taperoo	Taperoo Primary School established,
1954	Port Adelaide	Meals on Wheels began, Off Langham Place
1954	Portland	Portland Canal, Filling began
1955	Largs	Mothers & Babies' Centre, Fletcher Road	Apr	5
1955	Pennington	Flinders Hotel, 174 Junction Road	Oct	8	Renamed Grand Junction Hotel in 2002
1955	Port Adelaide	Council Centenary Until 1956,
1956	Largs	St Albans Parish Hall opened in Musgrave Street.	May	31
1956	Semaphore	National Bank opened at 32 Semaphore Road.			Closed 18 April 2001.
1956	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Bus depot constructed.
1957	Largs	400 seat Largs Methodist Youth Centre was opened to the north of the Church.	Dec	8
1957	Port Adelaide	AO Foresters Lodge building on corner of Ship street & St Vincents streets, opened by Bro. Hon. C.G. Conlon	Dec	14
1957	Taperoo	Hotel Osborne, 481 Victoria Road Taperoo	Dec	17	Renamed Boathouse in 2000 and redeveloped as the Peninsula 2021
1957	Portland	Kindergarten opened, Wellington Street
1957	Semaphore	National Bank Opened.
1957	Port Adelaide	Adelaide Ship Con., ASCL subsidiary Adelaide Ship Construction began operations 1957 closed 1973
1958	Osborne	The Harbourline Drive-In Theatre at Osborne, opened.	Nov	16	Closed 16 May 1982, see image at SLSA_B 70890/35
1958	Semaphore	Closure of the Adelaide Tramway system.	Nov	22	Last Tram to Cheltenham.
1958	Semaphore	Gawler to Semaphore Sunday Beach Service by train commenced.	Dec	7
1958	Port Adelaide	Loft Cranes built by Gibb & Miller for No. 13 & 14 Berths	Dec	7
1958	Port Adelaide	Nautical Museum, collection moved to St. Vincent Street. Curator was Vernon Smith. ,			Closed 1979
1959	Neptune Island	MV Yandra founders in the Neptune Island area.	Jan	24	All Hands Safe
1959	Port Adelaide	The last mob of sheep to walk from Port Adelaide to Gepps Cross.	Feb	7
1959	Port Adelaide	The last mob of sheep to walk from Gepps Cross to Port Adelaide.	Feb	8
1960	Port Adelaide	Trolleybus via Birkenhead Br.,	Aug	29
1960	Portland	Princes Street Reserve, Sold to Housing Tr.
1960	Birkenhead	Adelaide Ship Construction Ltd. Established.			Closed August 1973
1960	Portland	LeMessuriers move from Port Adelaide to Port Road.			Site sold 2003
1960	Taperoo	Taperoo High School established.
1960	Semaphore	Commonwealth Bank opened.			Closed 30 March 2001
1960	Semaphore	Semaphore Squash Centre opened at 24 Semaphore Road.,
1960	Semaphore	Semaphore Ozone Theatre closed 21 May.,
1960	Birkenhead	Shell Chemical was opened.
1961	Alberton	Alberton Ozone Theatre closed.	Feb	23	Became Tom the Cheap supermarket in 1964
1961	Largs	Second St Albans Church was opened on Jetty Road.
1961	Port Adelaide	Troubridge, Roll on Roll off Ship begins route to Port Lincoln and Kingscote Kangaroo Island,
1961	Semaphore	Woolworths Semaphore Supermarket opened.			Became Triple Seven 1986; later IGA.
1961	Largs	South Australian Police Force establishetraining academy at Fort Largs.
1962	Queenstown	Slavic Evangelical Baptist Church, 11 Broad St, Queenstown opened.			Congregation formed 1950.
1962	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Girls Technical High School Moved to Portland Road from Grand Junction road.			Renamed Port Adelaide High School in 1974, became Port Adelaide Girls High School in 1990 and closed in 1995
1962	Birkenhead	Torpedo Station 6" gun situated on the Birkenhead reserve.			Now called Birkenhead Naval Reserve.
1963	Port Adelaide	Bower Road Causeway, Linked Old Port road with Bower Road.
1963	Port Adelaide	Port Dock Station Demolished, Police Station opened on this site in 1992
1963	Port Adelaide	Princes Wharf, Bend of the River North Parade / Mundy Street Corner
1963	Port Adelaide	Queens Wharf, Where lighthouse is now
1963	Semaphore	‘Permanent’ sideshow stalls constructed on the foreshore south of the jetty.,
1963	Semaphore	Geoff Taylor’s book ‘Sir’ published. (It centres on Taylor’s schooldays at Rhaiadore Grammar School in the 1930s when the Signal Station was located across the road. The school was conducted in Richard Jagoe’s former home, see 1882 above, to which it had relocated from Stirling in 1932. Taylor called the school St David’s in his book.),
1964	Port Adelaide Semaphore Largs	Electric Trolley bus service from Adelaide to Port Adelaide, Semaphore and Largs ceased.	Jul	12
1964	Port Adelaide	Mrs Anna Rennie elected Mayor, City of Port Adelaide.			First Female Mayor of Port Adelaide, retired as Mayor in 1969.
1964	Taperoo	Coles Supermarket opened.			Closed 1984, reopened as BILO in 1985
1964	Largs	Dunn's Shop at 449 Military Road closed.
1965	Birkenhead	HMAS Encounter commisioned	Mar	1	Decommisioned 21/3/1994
1965	Birkenhead	HMAS Encounter Commisioned	Mar	1	Decommisioned 21/3/1994
1965	Port Adelaide	Garden Island Bridge, North Arm	Jun
1965	Birkenhead	Adelaide Chemical and Fertiliser Co. and Wallaroo Fertilisers Ltd merge to become Adelaide Wallaroo Fertilisers Inc.	Nov	12
1965	Glanville	Municipal Band Hall, Phillips Reserve Swan Terrace.	Dec	1
1965	Alberton	Slavic Independent (now Evangelical Pentecostal Church) at 97 New Street	Dec	24	Church burnt down 18 January 1988, new church dedicated 24 December 1989.
1965	Port Adelaide	Long Swim Through Port, Last event			River polluted
1965	Birkenhead	GMH Birkenhead ceased production, Fri			Friday, August 13, at 4.03 p.m.
1965	Peterhead	Austbuilt Maritime Museum, 95 Fletcher Road Peterhead			Created by Keith LeLeu
1966	Torrens Island	Construction underway for Torrens Island Power Station.
1967	Torrens Island	A' Power Station came on line.	Apr		First Turbo-Generator
1967	Port Adelaide	Coles Supermarket opened.
1967	Largs North	Largs North Primary School opened.
1967	Port Adelaide	Department Marine & Harbor, replaces Harbors Board.
1967	Largs	Largs North Primary School,
1967	Largs	St Albans Church of England Grammar School closed.
1968	Osborne	Last operation of the Osborne "A" Power Station.	Oct		After 45 years of service.
1968	Taperoo	Assemblies of God,
1968	West Lakes	Westlakes scheme announced.
1969	Port Adelaide	Traffic lights installed on Black Diamond Corner	Jan		Corner of St Vincent Street & Commercial Road Port Adelaide
1969	Semaphore Port Adelaide	The original Jervois Bridge was closed to traffic on 28 July and two lanes of the New Jervois Bridge opened for traffic. The completed bridge was made of pre-stressed reinforced concrete, was officially opened 22 December.,	Dec	22	Premier Steele Hall "open" the third Jervois Bridge.
1969	Port Adelaide	Moomba Natural Gas on-line.	Dec	22	Conversion of Appliance continued until 1970. The Gas Company continued to supply coke to ICI
1969	Port Adelaide	A Berth Wharf Shed Demolished ,
1969	Birkenhead	Lefevre Primary School, 2 storey building built.
1969	Queenstown	Myers started seeking land at Queenstown for a regional shopping centre.			Eventually this resulted in a large proportion of the triangle of land bounded by Port and Old Port Roads and Tapleys Hill Rd being cleared of housing and new houses being built when the State Government did not allow the shopping centre to be constructed.
1969	Taperoo	Lutheran Church.
1969	Largs	The Rotary Club of Largs Bay formed.
1969	Semaphore	Semaphore District Traders’ Association formed 26 May.,
1969	Semaphore	Lions Club of Lefevre Peninsula formed.
1970	Port Adelaide	Polaris Oil Survey Ship Fire, No. 1 Berth	Jan	7
1970	Rosewater	Woolworths Supermarket opened.
1970	Rosewater	Fire Station Opened.
1970	Portland	Rechabite Hall sold to investor,
1970	Port Adelaide	Seventh Day Adventist Church.,
1970	Lefevre Peninsula	F. A. Vickery Hall, built at LeFevre Boys' Tech High School.,
1970	Port Adelaide	Cruising Yacht Club formed.,
1971	Torrens Island	Completion of the 4 units of the Torrens island "A" station.	Mar
1971	Port Adelaide	Annie Watt Purchased by the Ketch Preservation Society.,
1972	Port Adelaide	Pedestrian lights installed on Grand junction road for the Port Adelaide Primary School.,	Feb	9	Mayor Martin
1972	Ottoway	New E. & W.S. Foundry, Pipe production moved From Glanville.,	Mar	28
1972	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Historical Society formed.	Apr	27
1972	Port Adelaide	Metropolitan Tramways Trust Control Box removed Black Diamond Corner.,	Jun	21
1972	Birkenhead	Police Station Closing Announced,	Sep	13
1972	Queenstown	Police Station Closing Announced,	Sep	13
1972	Alberton	Maughan Thiem takeover Bowden Ford Prem.,	Sep	20	1013 Port Rd.
1972	Port Adelaide	Archway Port, Dale St. Rehab. Cent	Oct	4	New Premises
1972	Exeter	Beehive Corner (Sem4 Rd.), Demolishment Notice	Nov	29	Emblem to PAHS
1972	Port Adelaide	Smith Motors 50th Anniversary,	Dec	6
1972	Port Adelaide	Tug Fearless Welcomed to Port,	Dec	20
1972	North Haven	North Haven development announced.
1972	Port Adelaide	Showboat Lady Chelmsford began operating.
1972	Largs	Lutheran Church,
1972	Port Adelaide	Troubridge, South Australian Government purchased vessel as Adelaide Steamship Company Limited out of the shipping business.
1972	Port Adelaide	Verco's Flour Mill, Honey Street.
1973	Outer Harbor	Outer Harbor Passenger Terminal opened.
1973	Semaphore	F. S. Harrington’s drapery at 124 Semaphore Road (second site) closed after 53 years of trading.,
1974	Glanville	Exeter Hall Purchased By Mr Keith LeLeu,
1974	Glanville	Annie Watt at Corner of Semaphore & Causeway roads.
1974	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Community Welfare Consultative Council formed.			Later became Community Development Board.
1975	West Lakes Shore	Legtrap Hotel, built on Bartley Terrace,	Nov	20
1975	Semaphore Park	Semaphore Park Primary School established.
1975	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Centre Joint Committee formed to Oversee redevelopment of central Port Adelaide.
1975	Semaphore	Former Customs Boarding Station saved from demolition after a prolonged campaign.
1976	Largs	Largs Bay Police Station Closed.	Jun	12
1976	Largs	Mini Tornado at Largs Bay, in December damaged over 20 homes.	Dec
1976	Semaphore	Odeon Star Cinema Closed.
1976	Port Adelaide	Information Centre established.
1976	Semaphore	Colonel JC Lovely’s former home at 89 Esplanade (south corner of Dunn Street); a local landmark with sculptures of a kangaroo and emu flanking its entrance stairs; was demolished.
1976	Port Adelaide	New Port Adelaide Central Mission building completed.
1977	Outer Harbor	Outer Harbor Container Terminal opened, and Container Crane commisioned.	Mar	24
1977	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Conservation Study issued by State planning Authority.			By Elizabeth Vines
1977	Port Adelaide	Steam Tug Yelta Purchased by the National Trust,
1977	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Redevelopment Scheme allocated $1.3 M.
1977	Semaphore	Semaphore Cinema opened in the upstairs portion of the former Ozone Theatre on 26 December. (Closed 1985),
1978	Semaphore	Centenary of the Semaphore Train Service	Jan	7	https://www.flickr.com/photos/henkg/13955622799
1978	Semaphore	Train service from Glanville to Semaphore ceased 28 October and was replaced by a feeder bus to Glanville on the 29th.	Oct	28	Railway line removed in 1981 after a protracted campaign to retain it.
1978	North Haven	Shopping Centre opened on Osborne Road North Haven
1978	Port Adelaide	Marine & Harbors Department moved from Port Adelaide.
1978	Semaphore	Semaphore Public Library opened 19 August in the former Central Provision Stores (CPS) building at 34 Semaphore Road.			Moved to ground floor of former Ozone Theatre in 1994.
1979	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Library Established in Institute building at 135 St Vincent Street.	Jan	8	Port Adelaide Institute Dissolved
1979	Osborne	The dredge HC Meyer capsizes in the Port River	Oct	2
1979	North Haven	North Haven Trust established to promote and undertake development around the North Haven Harbour.
1979	North Haven	North Haven Shopping Centre opened.
1979	Port Adelaide	Coles Supermarket enlarged Quebec Mall opened Stage 1,
1979	North Haven	Primary School opened.
1979	Portland	Canal filling ceased section retained,
1979	Semaphore	Semaphore Promotions Committee formed.
1979	Largs North	Sulphuric Acid Plant closed down
1980	Largs North	Wee Willie's Tavern 563 Military Road opened.	Nov	11
1980	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Market opened.
1980	Largs	Largs Bay Orphanage closed.
1980	Port Adelaide	Recreation Centre opened, 50 St Vincent St.,
1980	Fort Glanville	Fort Glanville Historical Association formed,
1980	Port Adelaide	Ferguson's Bond Store, Lipson Street Purchased State Planning Authority.,
1980	Semaphore	Semaphore Foodland opened on Semaphore Road east of Institute Lane.,			Becomes Drakes in 2019
1980	Semaphore	Semaphore Progress Association formed.,
1981	Port Adelaide	C.B.A. Bank, Lipson Street Purchased by State Planning Authority.,	Apr	21
1981	Glanville	Annie Watt Removed from Semaphore Rd Corner, by SA Film Corporation,	Aug
1981	Port Adelaide	Weman's Buildings Lipson St Purchased by State Planning,	Dec	21
1981	Port Adelaide	Port Mall shops opened.
1981	North Haven	Woolworths Supermarket opened.			replaced by Foodland in 1985, and Drakes in 2019.
1981	North Haven	North Haven Marina opened.
1981	Portland	Walter & Morris timber mill closed,			Demolished later
1981	Largs	Largs Bay Women's Hockey Club went into recess.
1982	Osborne	The Harbourline Drive-In Theatre at Osborne, closed.	May	16	Opened on 16/11/1958, , see image at SLSA_B 70890/35
1982	Birkenhead	Part of the Fletcher Slip North facing Stone wall was moved and replaced with a concrete wall. This was to allow the railway line to be moved to the southern side of what is now Semaphore road ( was Dunniker Road)	Jul
1982	Port Adelaide	Council memorial, St Vin. St. To Cap. Barker Sturt	Sep	29	& Col Light
1982	Birkenhead	Finger Jetties For Tugs Cons., Cruickshank's Cnr			Completed 1983
1982	Port Adelaide	State Heritage Area declared, this was first in State.
1982	Port Adelaide	Greek Orthodox Church,
1982	Birkenhead	Annie Watt to Cruikshank's, Corner
1982	Port Adelaide	Community College opened, McLaren Parade
1982	Largs	Largs Bay Centenary Celebrations were organised by the Rotary Club of Largs Bay Centenary Committee.
1983	Largs	Largs Bay Centenary Monument, Unveiled	Jan	1
1983	Rosewater	New Redhill Bridge Opened.	Sep		Grand Junction Road straightened.
1983	Fort Glanville	Visitor Centre announced.
1983	Port Adelaide	S.A. Maritime Museum, the purchase of the ketch Falie, and a visitor centre for Fort Glanville announced as an Australian Bicentennial project.
1983	Alberton	Trinity Uniting Church created by merging Yatala, Rosewater and Ottoway uniting churches into the Yatal Church at Alberton.
1983	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Historical Society. transfers most of Artefacts to S.A.M.M.,
1983	North Haven	Gulf Point Marina Pty Ltd and the Cruising Yacht Club of South Australia bought major portions of the North Haven Marina area.
1984	Port Adelaide	Dale St Women's Health Centre Opened new building on the corner of Dale and Church streets.
1984	Port Adelaide Alberton	Bower Roads linked to Grand Junction Road.			The Bow string arch iron bridge for Grand Junction Road traffic over the Outer Harbor Railway line was replaced as part of this Project.
1984	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Primary School moves From Grand Junction Road, to co-locate with Port Adelaide High School.			The Primary School closed in December 2004, nine years after the High School.
1984	Semaphore	New Post Office at 38 Semaphore Road opened 9 January.,
1984	Port Adelaide	Sinclair street buildings constructed - Customs, K Mart Coles and Port Canal Shopping centre.
1984	Port Adelaide	1st Commercial Hotel refurbished.
1985	Portland	Port Adelaide Reserve Extra land purchased,	Mar	19
1985	Port Adelaide	Railway Museum for Port Dock railway yard announced as an Australian Bicentennial project.
1986	Port Adelaide	Former Port Adelaide Lighthouse re-erected at the end of Commercial Road, Black Diamond Square.	Mar	13	Q. Eliz. II
1986	Port Adelaide	Black Diamond Square named by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II	Mar	13
1986	Port Adelaide	Port Dock Brewery Hotel, 10 Todd Street	Oct	23
1986	Port Adelaide	The Old Port Centre opened by John Bannon	Nov	21
1986	Port Adelaide	Super Kmart opened	Nov	22
1986	Alberton	Foodland Super market unroofed, Fussell Place Alberton.	Dec	6	Was Ozone Theatre.
1986	Port Adelaide	Nautical Museum, taken over by Maritime Museum, in Bond Store corner Lipson and Divett Street. Opened 1986
1986	Semaphore	Semaphore Road Development Committee formed.
1987	Port Adelaide	MV Troubridge last trip to Kangaroo Island. MV Island Seaway then operated Troubridge's route from 1987 to 1995	Jun	1
1987	Port Adelaide	Jervois Bridge Keeper's Gallery, relocated Near Birkenhead Bridge.			Opposite British Hotel.
1987	Port Adelaide	Jackett Bros, Baker Street Flour Mill (later Wm. Jackett & Sons)
1987	Semaphore	EJ Woodroffe’s drapery on the east corner of Semaphore Road and Jagoe Street closed 7 March after over 60 years of trading.,
1988	Port Adelaide	Port Dock Railway Museum, Lipson Street opened.	Dec	10
1988	Port Adelaide	Lipson House Restaurant, Former Bank of Adel.	Dec		Lipson Street
1988	Port Adelaide	Greater Port Adelaide Heritage Study Mc Dougall & Vines,
1988	Semaphore	Semaphore Fire Station closed after a new station opened at Largs North.,
1989	Port Adelaide	Cugini's Restaurant Lipson Street, was Lipson House
1989	Largs Bay	Largs Bay Uniting (Methodist) Church Closed.
1990	Port Adelaide	Troubridge, Kangaroo Island ferry sold.	Jun	20	Sailed to Famagusta, Cyprus.
1990	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Historical Society held its last meeting (AGM) in the Port Adelaide Congregational Church Hall.	Jun	20
1990	Port Adelaide	Gundi joined the Port Adelaide Historical Society. Receipt Number 520723 $6.00	Jun	20
1990	Port Adelaide	No. 1 Shed Re-Development Announced,
1990	Osborne	Submarine Corporation First Keel Laid February,
1990	Birkenhead	Birkenhead Uniting (Methodist) Church Closed
1991	Glanville	Colonial Sugar Refinery Closed,	Apr	26	Six months short of 100 years of production of sugar, 3/11/1891 to 26/4/1991
1991	Port Adelaide	Quebec Mall fountain 100 yrs Thomas Mill,	Jul	21	John Dowis
1991	Port Adelaide	McKell's Flour Mill Engineers, Timpson Street Closed.
1991	Birkenhead	GMH Birkenhead Demolished,
1991	Port Adelaide	New Library Opened Church Street & Dale Street Corner.
1991	Semaphore	Upstairs portion of former Odeon Star Theatre reopened 19 December as the Odeon Star Cinema (later expanded to ground floor).,
1992	Birkenhead	Anchor Presented by Keith Leleu,	Oct		Aug. '95 erect.
1992	Portland	Wellington St Kindergarten, Closed
1992	Semaphore	Semaphore and Fort Glanville Tourist Railway; a 457mm gauge steam-powered railway, opened on the foreshore in December.
1993	Birkenhead	Decommisioning of HMAS Encounter	Mar	21	Naval establishmewnt on the corner of Fletcher and Semaphore Roads.
1993	Semaphore	Façade Repiars/restoration to the Semaphore Institute Building.
1993	Port Adelaide	Submarines, Submarine construction began. First sub launched by Lady Phyllis Collins
1993	Port Adelaide	Timber Mills, Globe. Reid Bros. Barretts. Lloyds. Cowell Bros. Wadlow. Gunnersen LeMessurier.
1994	Birkenhead	Anchor. Pres. by Keith Leleu,	Jun		Aug. '95 erect.
1994	Port Adelaide	Regency Institute of TAFE, Moved to Mundy St.	Aug
1994	Port Adelaide	Post Office moved, St Vincent St. To Old Port Canal
1994	Semaphore	New Library Established, Old Institute Building			Was Ozone Theatre.
1994	Exeter	Derrick Memorial, Unveiled			Rod Sawford
1994	Semaphore	Semaphore Mainstreet Association formed.,
1994	Port Adelaide	Closure of the Club House hotel.			Australasian Clubhouse built circa 1870 & known as "the Sardine Tin" because of its galvanised iron construction. In 1878 the second building was erected & name changed to the Clubhouse Hotel.
1995	Port Adelaide	Island Seaway was once Kangaroo Is. Ferry,	Jun	11	Sold to Malta
1995	Semaphore	Lefevre Community Hospital, Closed	Jul
1995	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Centre Heritage Survey, McDougall & Vines
1995	Port Adelaide	Jervois Br. Keeper's Gallery, Inst. Engineer. Plaque
1995	Portland	P. A. Girls' High School, Closed
1996	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide/Enfield Councils Merge, City of Port Adelaide/Enfield	Mar
1996	Semaphore	Timeball Tower Renovated, Resumed Operation	Jul	1
1996	Osborne	HMAS Collins, 1st Submarine Commissioned	Jul
1996	Port Adelaide	Queen Adelaide Launched, Twin Hulled	Jul
1996	Portland	Meals on wheels Kitchen, Langham Place	Aug
1996	Port Adelaide	Magpies Football Club, West Lakes	Oct		34th SANFL Pre
1996	Port Adelaide	Canary Is. Palms planted, Comm. Rd. Median	Nov		Main St. Prog.
1996	Osborne	HMAS Fancomb launched, Second Submarine	Dec
1996	Semaphore	Palais Re-opened Restored,
1996	Alberton	43rd Batt. Drill Hall Demol., Cr. Sussex/ Angus
1996	Semaphore	Protector Gun, Removed from f/shore			To North Parade
1997	Port Adelaide	Sheds Nos 2 and 3, Demolished	Feb
1997	Osborne	HMAS Waller Launched, Submarine Corp.	Mar
1997	Port Adelaide	Undergrounding Powerlines, Commercial Road	Apr		Stage 1
1997	Peterhead	Council Depot Closed, Tracey Street	Jul
1997	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide -Enfield Civic Centre, Opened Sir E. Neal	Nov	9
1997	Port Adelaide	Four PAHS Plaques, Unveiled			Mayor Stock
1998	Port Adelaide	Fisherman's Memorial, North Par. Dockside	Apr	30
1998	Port Adelaide	Fishermen Memorial, Memorial to Fishermen
1998	Osborne	Osborne House changed to, Lefevre Comm. Cent.
1998	Osborne	Osborne B Station demolished.			Work on the Osborne 'B' Power Station on the same site started in 1947 and was completed soon after. The plant was decommissioned in 1989-90, and demolished from 1998.
1999	Port Adelaide	Wool Sale, Last conducted	Jul	23
1999	Osborne	Osborne House changed to, Lefevre Comm. Cent.	Aug	10	Mayor McCluskey
1999	Port Adelaide	Magpies Football Club, West Lakes	Oct	4	35th SANFL Pre
1999	Osborne	B' Power Plant, Demolished	Nov
1999	Birkenhead	War Memorial restored, Naval Reserve			From Dockyard 1920s
1999	Port Adelaide	Tour Down Under, Stage 4 Black Diamond Square.
1999	Port Adelaide	S.A. Troops to Boer War, Departure Memorial			Black Dia. Square.
2000	Semaphore	Semaphore Park and Ethelton Schools, Combined	Jan	31	Westport Primary
2000	Semaphore	Baptist Church Sold, Sem4 Road	Mar	26
2000	Port Adelaide	Dulux Paint factory, Comm. Rd/Lipson St	Apr		Demolished
2000	Port Adelaide	Tauondi College, Grand Junction Road opened (formerly Port Adelaide Primary School),	Jun	16	includes new Building
2000	Alberton	Baptist Church, Port Road Sold	Jul	8
2000	Birkenhead	HMAS Encounter, Naval Reserve sold,	Jul
2000	Port Adelaide	Australian Museum of Childhood, Dale Street,	Sep		Alan Griffiths
2000	Port Adelaide	Magpies Football Club, Westlakes,	Oct	3	36th SANFL Pre
2000	Port Adelaide	Olympic Torch Relay, Through most dist.	Nov	4
2000	Port Adelaide	Uniting Church 150th Ann., Cong. Comm. Rd.	Nov	4
2000	Port Adelaide	Clubhouse Hotel Saint Vincent Street demolished. (Closed 1993),	Nov
2000	Alberton	Railway footbridge, Repaired & Restored,
2001	Semaphore	Commonwealth Bank Semaphore Road closed,	Mar	30
2001	Semaphore	National Australia Bank Semaphore Road closed.,	Apr	18
2001	Port Adelaide	Garden Is. Ship's Graveyard Officially opened.,	Aug
2001	Port Adelaide	Maritime Heritage Trail. Garden Island,	Aug
2001	Outer Harbor	No. 4 Shed demolished,
2002	Semaphore	PAHS Society Rooms, Ceiling collapse.	Jan		Council repaired
2002	Ethelton	Maritime Heritage Trail, Five plaques unveiled.	Sep	25	PAHS financed
2002	Osborne	Lefevre Community Centre, upgrade opened by Governor Eric Neale.	#VALUE!
2002	Port Adelaide	Port Dock Railway Museum.			Comm. R/ways Pay.
2008	Semaphore Birkenhead	Port River Expressway road bridge opened to traffic.	Aug	3	This makes Semaphore more directly accessible to the northern suburbs.
2008	Exeter	Last Service at St Lukes Uniting Church	Dec	7	The Taperoo ladies provided the morning tea. The majority of the St Luke’s congregation came down to us and we had a Congregation meeting on 8th February 2009 when I think we changed the name to Lefevre UC, which made it inclusive for us both. The St Luke’s church was sold eventually to a developer for units on that property. Rev Jenny Walker was inducted on Wednesday 14th January 2009 and was instrumental in merging the two congregations
2009	Exeter	St Lukes Uniting Church, 84 Hargrave St was sold for $968,000,	Sep	9	it was demolished at some stage and a house was constructed in 2015.
2011	Port Adelaide	South Australian Government terminates its Port Adelaide waterfront development agreement with the Newport Quays consortium. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-31/newport-quays-weatherill-port-river/3610688	Oct	31	The Government's Land Management Corporation struck the development agreement to remediate and transfer about 50 hectares of former industrial waterfront land to the consortium for redevelopment.
2013	Port Adelaide	Loop Path Completed, runs along the foreshore on the north & south side of Birkenhead Bridge.	Apr	1
2014	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Precinct Plan published.	Jan	1	A long-term framework to guide and prioritise renewal activities over the next 20 years.
2014	Port Adelaide	City of Adelaide Clipper Ship, arrived in Port Adelaide aboard the ship MV Palanpur and transferred to the barge Bradley, which was then moved to Dock 1 Port Adelaide.	Feb	3
2016	Port Adelaide	State Government Office announced. 21-25 Nile Street in Port Adelaide is a new six level building located in the commercial and civic heart of the Port Adelaide Waterfront Precinct.	May	20
2016	Port Adelaide	Quest Apartment Hotel opened, 103 rooms & 5 Storeys High,	Nov	24	$24 million Complex
2017	Port Adelaide	MV Port Princess ceases Dolphin cruises in Port Adelaide.	May	13	MV Princess sank off Port Mac Donnell on the way to new owners in Melbourne, 16th May 2017.
2017	Port Adelaide	A $40 million, seven-storey, independent living development is proposed for Queen’s Wharf, Port Adelaide, by Hans Ehman.			More Information
2018	Port Adelaide	Plans for a $1.5 million revamp of the Golden Globe Hotel released by the developers for the first time.	Dec	18
2019	Port Adelaide	Stage 1 of the Port Adelaide Plaza opened	Apr
2019	Port Adelaide	City of Adelaide Clipper Ship, on the barge Bradley, was moved from Dock 1 to its new home Dock 2 Honey St, Port Adelaide.	Nov	29
2019	Semaphore North Haven	Semaphore & North Haven Foodland becomes Drakes
2020	Port Adelaide	Birkenhead Bridge Upgrade completed, Timber roadway deck replaced	Nov	4
2020	Port Adelaide	Dock one Redevelopment, 1st Residents move in	Nov	30
2020	Port Adelaide	Colac Hotel redevelopment gets underway in Port Adelaide. 14 Apartments & Hotel upgrade to be built on Southern side of the property.,	Dec
2021	Taperoo	Peninsular Hotel opens at 481 Victoria Road Taperoo.	Jun	2	Remodelled Boathouse hotel, formerly the Osborne Hotel.
2021	Port Adelaide	Dolphin Explorer, ceased operation in Port Adelaide.	Oct	6	Sold and moved to Brisbane
2021	Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Plaza Shopping Centre, Final Stage complete	Oct		Total 60 retailers and 17 dining restaurants.
2023	Port Adelaide	Big W and Woolworths to replace Coles & Kmart in the Port Adelaide Plaza announced	Feb	29
2023	Port Adelaide	Quest Hotel II plan, adjacent to British Hotel Announced	May	7	To be integrated with the British Hotel
2023	Semaphore	Major upgrade to the Federal Hotel.			The Federal Hotel, a long-standing favorite on Semaphore Road since 1866, is poised for an exciting renovation. Plans submitted by Anthea Perkas and architect Tony Zappia suggest a significant upgrade to this historic establishment. https://glamadelaide.com.au/semaphores-iconic-federal-hotel-set-for-massive-transformation/#:~:text=Central%20to%20the%20renovation%20is,mezzanine%2C%20and%20first%20floor%20levels.