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 |
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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. |