Ninety‑three places, marked in blue.

These bluestone terrace houses were constructed in 1882 for Captain William Ernest August Krause and his wife Annie (Hannah) by contractor John Deslandes at a cost of approximately £1500.

John Deslandes, of Penny Street, Semaphore, known as the "The Grand Old Man of Glanville," was born on the Island of Jersey in the English Channel on October 19, 1836. He arrived in Port Adelaide with his parents and 10 other children in 1854 aboard the sailing ship the Evening Star, which he had assisted to build while apprenticed as a shipwright. In Port Adelaide he first worked as a shipwright but later became a contractor, building many of the roads in the district, including Military and Semaphore Roads, and also significant residential buildings such as this one.

Constructed after a period of strong population growth, these houses are a rare example of this type of residential housing in the district. They feature details typical of the period including bluestone construction, render detailing, timber joinery and cast-iron balustrading. They were built near the railway line that ran along Mead Street from Glanville Station to the end of the Largs Bay Jetty. The line operated from 1882 until after passenger services were extended to the new Outer Harbor, then nearing completion, in 1907. In 1910 the single line down Mead Street was moved to its own right-of-way and duplicated. In 1899 one of the properties suffered a fire in an upstairs bedroom.

William Ernest Krause, a German immigrant, lived in the property until his death in 1898 aged 60. Captain Krause was a master mariner sailing ketches between Port Adelaide and South Australian ports for many years. They included the Lady Robinson, Spindrift and the Freebridge, which was wrecked at Waterloo Bay in 1877. He later went on to sail to interstate and international destinations including Mauritius and New Zealand in the barque the Waratah. It is said that Krause Rock in the Great Australian Bight is named after him.

The children of William and Hannah Krause were:

Hannah Sophie Wilhelmina born1867, died 1872

William Edward Ernest was born 1865

Beatrice Frances was born1869

Hannah Krause and her daughter Beatrice were signatories to the Women’s Suffrage Petition in 1894, which was signed by 10,600 South Australians, contributing to South Australia becoming the first Australian colony to grant women the vote in the same year. Hannah (Annie) died in 1908.

Their son, Captain Albert Krause was also a ketch captain for many years, plying the waters of Gulf St Vincent. He was one of the owners of the original One and All which was built in 1878 and had a working life of almost 100 years until she was tragically lost off the Queensland coast in 1971. He also owned and captained the ketch Mary for 30 years. Albert died in 1949.

All three of these properties remained with various members of the Krause family until 1946, when they were sold to Stanley Edgar Bowes.

This building was constructed in the 1880s for the Port Adelaide and Lefevre Peninsula Cooperative Society. The Co-operative Society was one of many which functioned in the Port Adelaide district, formed as part of the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth-Century world-wide Co-operative Movement. The Societies were formed by local communities to assist locals to save and provide money for the purchase of their own home, and funeral, sickness and unemployment benefits.

The design and construction characteristics of this single storey symmetrical bluestone building are an example of nineteenth-century commercial premises in suburban Port Adelaide. Its raised parapet façade, tall arched shop-front windows and capacious dry cellar are indicative of its use for several years as a store providing groceries and other necessities to members of the cooperative and local residents in Exeter.

1884 Port Adelaide and Lefevre Peninsula Cooperative Society

1887 William Berry, John Carrfish, George Edwin Pollard, Richard

Thompson and Edwin Timothy Ede

1947 James Bernard Keneflick

1960 George Charles Smalley

37 - 39 Exmouth Road, Exeter

Council Reference: 143368

The Lord Exmouth is representative of the historic and social theme of providing services and facilities for the local community. The hotel has played an important role in the social lives of the people of Exeter as a place of recreation and entertainment.

The Lord Exmouth Hotel was first licensed to William Knapman in September 1859 with materials supplied by Haddy.

In October 1864 it was put up for sale as a concrete House, formerly known as the Lord Exmouth Hotel, now altered into a private House and the two adjoining cottages which are currently let to Messrs. Haddrick A. Hutt and other tenants.

In 1866 Elizabeth Bowen applied for a new licence with a signed memorial from local people and a favourable police report. The licence was granted on the understanding that another room should be built. In 1867 she advertised the Hotel as providing comfortable accommodation for three or four boarders.

The Lord Exmouth was central to the local community. It provided food and accommodation for drivers and travellers, and was the venue for functions, meetings, inquests and land sales. People could have letters and messages left there on their behalf and it served as a meeting place and information point for Glanville Council (1864 – 1883)

The Hotel was replastered in 1879 and advertised as having the best Beer, Spirits, Wines, &c., in stock

Additions and Alterations were made in 1880 which required bricklayers, plasterers and lathers for day or piecework

In 1882 T H Heritage was granted a billiard licence

In July 1882 the first quoits tournament took place offering a silver cup valued at £10 as first prize

The handicap quoit match for the silver cup was contested at the Lord Exmouth Hotel, Glanville, on Saturday, July 22, when the cup was won for the first time by Mr. McKenzie. There was some capital play during the afternoon. The following are the results McKenzie beat W. Wright by 10 points, and Giblin beat Wardle by 6 points. In the final contest McKenzie beat Giblin by 2 points, after a very close game, amidst great excitement. Mr. A. Barcau acted as umpire.

Tenders for the erection of a new veranda, and painting and papering were undertaken in 1891

South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Friday 20 May 1892, page 8

AT THE LORD EXMOUTH HOTEL, GLANVILLE.

TO HOTEL-KEEPERS AND OTHERS.

FURNITURE, BEER-ENGINE, FITTINGS, BAGATELLE TABLE, STOCK.

ON ACCOUNT OF EXPIRY OF LEASE.

UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM MRS. TOMKINS. WITHOUT RESERVE.

C. G. Gurr & Co. will sell as above.

Full particulars in future advertisements.

In 1908 tenders were called for the erection of a two storey veranda 118 lineal feet Claude Lindsay Architect

1908 Local Option Poll: William Phillip Wooldridge, his sister Mary and licensee John William Tamblyn argued that the Lord Exmouth was one of the three oldest hotels on Lefevre's Peninsula.

William purchased it in 1876, that it had been in the family since then. It was let to Tamblyn at £5 10/ per week, and during the past two months Mary had spent £532 in improvements. The licensee said the house was free and was situated in the centre of a thickly populated portion of the district, for which it was a necessity. He was assisted by four servants and his wife. He did a large jug .and bottle trade. Other evidence as to improvements was called. -He had received a, memorial from residents of' the neighbourhood stating that the house was a great convenience to them.

Lord Exmouth Hotel, J. W. Tamblyn, licensee; Mrs. Mary Wooldridge, owner. Mr. S. H. Bleechmore appeared for the owner, who contended that her house was necessary for the convenience of residents in the vicinity. The licensee said he was perfectly satisfied to accept the police report on the premises. Inspector Edwards said he believed the hotel was a convenience for the public. It was well conducted.

It has been the setting for three Australian films — The Territorian, Australian Rules and Wolf Creek.

It was also once the site of an infamous pickled razor fish swindle.

The monkeys too are full of stories and most of them have been given to the hotel over the past forty years by patrons and their children.

The land on which this property was built was purchased by William Diverall in 1868. William Diverall was an architect and land agent who was the honorary architect for the Peninsula’s first Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (now the Semaphore Uniting Church) next door, opened in 1867. In 1875 William Diverall’s properties on Semaphore Road were advertised as two well finished stone houses of seven rooms each, with spacious verandas and balconies and wash houses attached. After selling them in 1876, William Diverall, his wife and their son left for London.

Robert Harry Allen, a butcher, owned the properties from 1876 until 1890 and advertised one of the houses for rent in 1881.

Medical Practitioner, Dr Robert Kendray Archer purchased the properties in 1891 and served the Semaphore district for eight years as a medical practitioner. At various times he was chairman of the committee that oversaw St Margaret’s Convalescent Home and a visiting surgeon and Honorary Medical Officer there. When he bought it the property was described as a stone house of 12 rooms, indicating the two houses were converted into one by then. Due to ill health Dr Archer retired in 1899 and sailed for London with his family on RMS Australia.

In 1899 Dr Frederick Lucas Benham purchased the property and named it Camden House. Dr. Benham was born in London, educated in Brighton, and became a distinguished student of the University College Hospital, London, receiving his Doctor of Medicine at London University. Before becoming a GP he was second-in- charge of the Marylebone Infirmary. In London he translated the French medical textbook, Death and Sudden Death, by Brouardel, into English, and contributed articles to English medical journals.

On his arrival in Adelaide Dr Benham was the only member of the Royal College of Physicians in South Australia. He was also a member of the Medical Society of London.

He served the Semaphore district as a local medical practitioner and practised medicine at St Margaret’s Convalescent Hospital, serving as Visiting Medical Officer 1899-1933.

It is claimed Dr Benham was the first person in Semaphore to own a motor car (1915). In 1938 at the age of 83 he appealed a decision by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles who had refused to renew his licence. He won his appeal. At that time he claimed to be in the oldest doctor practising in South Australia.

Dr Benham amassed a personal library of 7000 books as well as pictures, coins, medals, natural history specimens, stamps, jewellery, clocks and furniture, and was considered an authority on philately and heraldry. Following his death the Advertiser reported:

‘After providing several cash bequests to relatives and employes and presenting sections of his cultural collections to public organisations, Dr. Frederick Lucas Benham, late of Semaphore road, Exeter, who died on November 21, left the residue of his estate of £75,269 to the University of Adelaide. … In his will, Dr. Benham expressed the wish that, after the legacies to his relatives, the residue of his estate should be devoted to encouraging and supporting the study of natural history under the control of the University. He desired the money to be spent on some sort of laboratory, or its furnishing or maintenance, for the scientific study of biology and comparative anatomy—animal rather than vegetable—in preference to scholarships. …

Certain pictures and a model cutter were bequeathed to the Royal Yacht Squadron of South Australia. Books on travel, maps and geographical papers and certain pictures and bookcases, will go to the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society, and coins, medals, any natural history specimens and curiosities of interest are given to the Museum. Books on the post office and stamp collecting, with two volumes of post office news cuttings, have been left to the Philatelic Society of South Australia. Medical and other books, prints, a microscope and slides, are bequeathed to the University.’ (‘Big Bequest to University’, Advertiser 5 April 1939, p23)

This house was built on Allotment 66 of Section 704 in the Hundred of Port Adelaide.

Section 704, containing 80 acres, was granted to John Hart and Henry Kent Hughes on 29 January 1855. Richard Hicks purchased the land on 5 June 1855 (McDougall & Vines 1994). In 1879 Thomas Allsop Brock and David Reed, purchased the land and transferred it to the Port Adelaide Land Company who subdivided it according to the Deposited Plan No. 933 dated 31 May 1880. The land was sold over the next 20 years.

Port Adelaide Mayor, John Cleave, said when he built his house in the area, the first on Section 704 in the late1800’s, the area was a tea tree swamp.

Timber merchants Theophilus John Walter and Charles Richard Morris (Walter & Morris) purchased allotments 65, 66, 67 and 68 in 1898 (CT V629 F123) and built workers cottages on these allotments. The cottages were constructed of corrugated iron, pressed tin, and timber, and consisted of three rooms.

Theophilus John Walter and Charles Richard Morris managed Walter and Morris Timber Yards in Port Adelaide from 1886. Walter and Morris timber yards were originally built as the Sarnia Timber Yards, Steam Saw, Moulding, and Turnery Mills established by Captain Peter Le Messurier and Theopholis Robin in 1865. Robin bought out Le Messurier and continued business on his own until he died in 1874. Theodore Hack joined the business, which then became known as Robin & Hack. Theophilus Walter and Charles Morris purchased the firm in 1886, naming it Walter and Morris. The business was first located between Lipson Street and Commercial Road and later the Minories, including their own wharf, the Walter Morris Wharf.

Theophilus John Walter (left) served as Councillor for the Alberton and Queenstown Council, was Chairman of the SA Timber Merchants’ Association and director of several companies. He was also a committee member and later a life member for the Port Adelaide Racing Club 1887 – 1893 and 1916 – 1937.

Charles Richard Morris (below) was a successful timber merchant, and served as Councillor, Alderman and Mayor for the Corporation of Port Adelaide. He was elected to the Legislative Council in 1911 to fill a casual vacancy but was not

He represented Port Adelaide on the fire Brigade Board, was a founding member of the Port Adelaide District Cricket Club, serving as its President and delegate to the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) and later became the chairman of SACA. He was president of the Port Adelaide Sailing Club, a member of the Orpheous Society, served on the committee of the Port Adelaide Institute and the Adelaide Hospital, and a Deacon of the Port Adelaide Congregational Church.

Ownership of these properties remained with the Walter and Morris families until they were subdivided and sold off individually from the 1940’s. Allotment 66 was sold to Ellis and Berryl Maud Gardner in 1953. Ellis was a driver for the firm Walter and Morris since 1940.

The area bounded by Bower Crescent, and Aberdeen and Crozier Streets, Port Adelaide were known locally as “Tin Town” as the area contained mostly corrugated iron workers cottages, and sheds for the wool stores. The area was originally intended as a residential suburb but with the expansion of the wool industry the area was taken up by Woolstores.

The wrought iron lighthouse is an iconic landmark of Port Adelaide’s waterfront. It was prefabricated by Chance Brothers of England, and lit for the first time in 1869 at the entrance to the Port River. The lighthouse replaced the lightship Fitzjames which had been moored at the mouth of the Port River, marking the entrance to the harbour.

Following damage from a storm in April 1896, and subsequent deterioration, the lighthouse was dismantled and relocated in 1901. The lantern was installed in the new Port Adelaide Lighthouse located on Wonga Shoal, off Semaphore Jetty, and was in operation until 17 November 1912, when the light house was struck and destroyed by the barque Dimsdale, killing the two lighthouse keepers Henry Franson and Charles McGowan

The iron structure was re-erected on South Neptune Island with a new lantern and served there until 1985. In 1986, the lighthouse was restored and reassembled on this site by the South Australian Maritime Museum.

This house was built on allotment 180 on part Sections 704 and 2112 in the Hundred of Port Adelaide. Section 704, containing 80 acres, was granted to John Hart and Henry Kent Hughes on 29 January 1855. Richard Hicks purchased the land on 5 June 1855 (McDougall & Vines 1994). In 1879 Thomas Allsop Brock and David Reed purchased the land and transferred it to the Port Adelaide Land Company who subdivided it according to the Deposited Plan No. 933 dated the 31 May 1880. The land was sold over the next 20 years.

Port Adelaide Mayor, John Cleave, said when he built his house, the first on Section 704 in the late 1800’s, the area was a tea tree swamp.

Timber merchants Theophilus John Walter and Charles Richard Morris (Walter & Morris) purchased allotments 175, 176, 177 and 180 in 1900 (CT V629 F123) and built workers cottages on these allotments c1903. These houses were constructed of corrugated iron, pressed tin, and timber, and consisted or four rooms.

Theophilus John Walter and Charles Richard Morris managed Walter and Morris Timber Yards in Port Adelaide from 1886. Walter and Morris timber yards were originally built as the Sarnia Timber Yards, Steam Saw, Moulding, and Turnery Mills established by Captain Peter Le Messurier and Theopholis Robin in 1865. Robin bought out Le Messurier and continued business on his own until he died in 1874. Theodore Hack joined the business, which then became known as Robin & Hack., Theophilus Walter and Charles Morris purchased the firm in 1886, naming it Walter and Morris. The business was first located between Lipson Street and Commercial Road and later the Minories, including their own wharf, the Walter Morris Wharf.

Theophilus John Walter (left) served as Councillor for the Alberton and Queenstown Council, was Chairman of the SA Timber Merchants’ Association and director of a number of companies. He was also a committee member and later a life member for the Port Adelaide Racing Club 1887 – 1893 and 1916 – 1937.

Charles Richard Morris (below) was a successful timber merchant, and served as Councillor, Alderman and Mayor for the Corporation of Port Adelaide. He was elected to the Legislative Council in 1911 to fill a casual vacancy but was not

He represented Port Adelaide on the fire Brigade Board, was a founding member of the Port Adelaide District Cricket Club, serving as its President and delegate to the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) and later became the chairman of SACA. He was president of the Port Adelaide Sailing Club, a member of the Orpheous Society, served on the committee of the Port Adelaide Institute, was a member of the school board of advice and the Adelaide Hospital, and a Deacon of the Port Adelaide Congregational Church.

The area bounded by Bower Crescent, and Aberdeen and Crozier Streets, Port Adelaide were known locally as “Tin Town” as the area contained mostly corrugated iron workers cottages, and sheds for the wool stores. The area was originally intended as a residential suburb but with the expansion of the wool industry the area was taken up by Woolstores.

This property was sold to the South Australian Farmers Cooperative on the death of Charles Richard Morris on January 4, 1919.

Ownership then transferred to Elsie Maud Anderson and Mary McLachlan in 1924; the children of Mary Mclachlan, Alexander Marston Patrick, Fergus Ward and Mary Flora in 1947; Stanley and Lillian Beatrice Humphreys in 1961 and Andre Dugar in 1964.

Richard Charles Elliss purchased the property in November 1990 and has proceeded to restore it to its present state hopefully to leave a little bit of the past for the future generations.

The water tank was put on the rooftop because local water pressure was too weak to push water throughout the house.

1900 Theophilus John Walter and Charles Richard Morris

1919 South Australian Farmers’ Cooperative Union Ltd

1924 Elsie Maud Anderson and Mary McLachlan

1947 Alexander Marston Patrick, Fergus Ward and Mary Flora McLachlan

1961 Stanley and Lillian Beatrice Humphreys

1990 Richard Charles Ellis

This former coach-house, stables and loft, built of random stone, rubble and brick, was constructed for what is now the Port Admiral Hotel, which is still located nearby on the intersection of St Vincent Street and Commercial Road. Originally named the Railway Hotel, in December 1849 it was reported that:

This splendid hotel, erected in a style of great magnificence, is now opened for the accommodation of the public. We are informed that the interior appointments are on a scale equal to the first-rate hotels in the mother country; and we trust the expenditure which has been lavished therein and thereon, will meet that return to which the spirited proprietor is entitled. A commodious family hotel was much wanted at the Port – a want which the Railway Hotel is well calculated to supply.

Charles Calton purchased the Hotel in 1851 and renamed it the Port Admiral Hotel. He had emigrated from England on the Royal Admiral, which arrived in the colony in 1838, and had been the licensee of the Royal Admiral Hotel in Hindley St, Adelaide. This is presumably the reason for its name.

Image courtesy of State Library of South Australia:

The provision of stables was a legal requirement under the 1839 Act to regulate the Retail of Liquors and to preserve good Order in Licensed Public Houses:

XXIV. And also, That if any licensed person being an innkeeper shall, without lawful excuse, refuse to receive and provide for a traveller and his horse, or a traveller without a horse, or the horse of a traveller not becoming a guest at the house, or shall refuse to receive any corpse which may be brought to his public house for the purpose of a Coroner’s Inquest being held thereon, such licensed person shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than One Pound nor more than Twenty Pounds.

There is a reference to the hotel having a ‘stable keeper’ in the Adelaide Times, 4 March 1853, p3. However, it is likely that the present building was constructed some years later, after the ground level had been raised to match that of the street frontage of the hotel. As local historian Ron Ritter records in his book ‘Triumph, Tragedy and Port Adelaide’, the original stables may have been in the current basement and accessed from the rear of the hotel.

The chamfered brickwork on the Calton St corner allowed coaches to turn more easily. The round metal discs on the building’s sides are anchor plates for the interior tie rods that were installed to prevent the walls spreading.

The building underwent extensive restoration and stabilisation work in 2003.

This property is located on allotment 50 (previously portion of allotments 141 and 142) of Section 2112. Section 2112 was first granted to John Hill on 15 May 1841 by Governor George Gawler, the Commissioner of Public Lands in South Australia. John Hill put the land up as security for payment of a mortgage taken out from Jacob Hagen. The mortgage was foreclosed, and the land conveyed to Captain John Hart in July 1843 for £999.

In 1850 the land was transferred to a trust that later became known as the Port Land Co. which included shareholders John Hart, Jacob Hagen, John Bentham Neales, Robert Forsyth MacGeorge, Joseph Barrow Montefiore, Robert Stuckey, Thomas H Williams, Gregory Seale Walters, Emanuel Solomon, William Paxton and William Henry Clark. In 1850 John Hart and John Neales were appointed trustees and empowered to sell land allotments.

Recorded in Port Adelaide Centre Heritage Survey 1993 – 1994, prepared for the Corporation of the City of Port Adelaide by McDougall & Vines Architectural & Heritage Consultants 27 Sydenham Road, Norwood South Australia.

18 Cannon Street was purchased by Mary Ryan and Thomas Fisher on 13 October 1879. They lived in the property until Mary died in 1894, aged 66, and Thomas died in 1895, aged 84. Ownership then passed to their children Mary Ann and her husband James Tonkes a moulder, and Mary Ann’s brother, Charles Henry Fisher in 1896.

In 1915 ownership of the property transferred to George Harrison, a dairyman. Harrison gave evidence before a price regulation Commission hearing into the price of milk. He gave quite detailed evidence relating to the price of milk in the Port Adelaide area and factors affecting the price. At this time his rounds covered the area from Cheltenham to Largs Bay and surrounding districts. George Harrison owned the property until his death in 1974 when ownership transferred to Kenneth Mervyn Leslie and Audrey Edith Elliot in 1976, Guy Noel and Susan Yvonne Mary Field in 1978 and then the South Australian Housing Trust also in 1978.

This house is an example of the provision of modest residential housing in Port Adelaide, providing accommodation for the working class. While the house has undergone renovation over the years it retains the original design materials and features such as high ceilings, a return verandah with timber posts, a corrugated iron roof and picket fence. It also retains original subdivision arrangements.

The simple, primitive building, made of stone with cement-rendered window surrounds, is significant for representing the development of spiritualism in Port Adelaide. The use of basalt formerly used as ships ballast in its walls adds to its interest.

Prior to its use by the church, the building is first listed in Sands & McDougall’s South Australian Directory for 1922 as a gymnasium, proprietor F. Leach. From 1923-26 H.G. Leach is the proprietor, and then in 1927 St John’s Spiritual Church is the occupier. The discrepancy with the church dates below may simply reflect a lag in updating the Directory or possibly shared use for a period.

In addition, the gymnasium might have been operating even earlier, as this advertisement from the Port Adelaide News of 24 September 1920 could indicate.

The Spiritual Society of St John was founded in Adelaide in 1915. In June 1924 the Adelaide branch laid the foundation stone for their Church in Carrington Street, Adelaide in the presence of a large number of members and friends.

From 1919 the Spiritual Society of St John, Port Adelaide Branch, began holding meetings in the Institute of Marine Engineers Building, still standing at 22 Divett Street, at the corner of Timpson Street, Port Adelaide. Sessions included socials, talks, auric readings and music.

Over the next few years, as well as regular meetings, the Spiritual Society of St John hosted special events including bazaars, dances, socials, and fancy-dress parties to raise funds for the society. Mrs. Duncan (leader of the congregation), said she hoped it would not be long before they would have their own building.

In February 1925 the Port Adelaide Branch of the St John Spiritual Church was opened on the corner of Ship and Cannon Streets, Port Adelaide by the Rev. J. B. Duncan and Mrs. R. Francis (President of the Port congregation). Both spoke highly of the enthusiasm of the Port members who made the establishment of the church possible. The first service in the new building conducted by Mrs. Francis was mainly a service of song, including solos and musical items. The church was specially decorated and supplied with an organ and piano.

Events hosted in 1925 included a fancy dress carnival, oriental evening and a bazaar which were held to raise funds for the church building.

In 1926, as recorded in the Port Adelaide News of 6 August, the Port Adelaide Branch of St John’s Spiritual Church gave notice of seeking incorporation under the Associations Incorporations Act:

ST. JOHN'S SPIRITUAL CHURCH

"The Associations Incorporation Act 1890" and

"The Associations Incorporation Amendment Act 1897."

I, JEANNE BROWN DUNCAN of Seventh Avenue St. Peters in the State of South Australia Minister of Religion one of the Trustees of St. Johns Spiritual Church Port Adelaide

DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that I am desirous that such church should be incorporated under the provisions of the Associations Incorporation Acts 1890 -1897. JEANNE BROWN DUNCAN.

The following is a copy of the memorial intended to be filed in the office of the Registrar of Companies under the provisions of the said Acts:

MEMORIAL of St. John's Spiritual Church Port Adelaide filed in pursuance of the Associations Incorporation Acts 1890 -1897.

1. The name of the Church is St. John's Spiritual Church Port Adelaide.

2. The object or purpose of the Church is the investigation and advancement of Spiritual truths and research, the religious, moral, and intellectual training of its members, the calculation of a belief in a Supreme, Beneficent, Intelligence, and the essential spiritual nature of man, and with this end to hold public services and meetings in regard to Spiritualism and Spiritual Services conducted by accredited speakers and psychics and generally to hold meetings for the purposes abovementioned.

3. Where situated or established-Port Adelaide.

4. The names of the Trustees are — Jeanne Brown Duncan, George Anderson and Joseph Reubenicht.

5. In whom the management of the Church is vested and by what means whether by Deed of Settlement or otherwise: —

The Management of the Church is vested in a Board of Management consisting of the President, two Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Minute Secretary, Treasurer, Librarian, the Trustees, the Minister of the Church, the Conductor of the Lyceum and two other members all duly elected and holding office under the Rules of the Association.

The church celebrated its second anniversary in February 1927, with a large attendance. The Secretary, Mr Reubenicht,

“…explained the progress that had been made in the two years. It was very gratifying to those who had worked hard to help the cause, and had made the church free from encumbrance. It was hoped in the near future to have the church clear of debt. There was no doubt that spiritualism had had a lot of setbacks and was vastly misunderstood, but to those who were in doubt about its genuineness they gave a cordial welcome to their services. Thanks were expressed to the various speakers who had so kindly attended each Sunday night to give the address”. (Port Adelaide News, 25 February 1927, p6)

The leadlight windows were added to the Church in 1984.

The first Church of England (Anglican) services in Port Adelaide were held in the Customs House shed.

When the first St Paul’s opened at 1 Church Street, Port Adelaide in 1841, Port Adelaide was a small new settlement largely confined to the area between the river and St Vincent St. St Vincent street doubled as an embankment to protect the Port Adelaide settlement from high tides.

On January 31, 1841, in front of a large gathering, Captain Charles Sturt drove the first pile of the wooden building known as ‘St. Paul’s on the piles’ making St. Paul’s the third oldest Anglican parish in Adelaide. The first service was performed by the Reverend Messrs Howard and Farrell.

“This church was erected by the exertions and voluntary subscriptions of the inhabitants of New Port Adelaide”

The church opened for divine worship on May 9, 1841. Mrs Smith of Angaston, said the first service was held in stormy weather, the water risen to the floor so we had to go home in boats. According to documents uncovered when the first church was demolished, the carpenters of the first church were George Hedley and Walter Scott.

In March 1851 the first church was moved back four feet to enable a second church, designed by architect, Henry Stuckey Esq, to be built in front of it. The foundation stone for the second church was laid April 3 1851 by Lord Bishop Augustus. In June 1851 an extreme high tide inundated and destroyed the original wooden church. Services were held in the iron store opposite the new church until it was complete. The new stone church was opened in March 1852 by the Lord Bishop of Adelaide

In 1861 a committee was formed to plan for the enlargement of the church to allow room for the growing congregation of strangers, crew and masters of vessels arriving in Port Adelaide. The second St Pauls Church became the transept, with the addition extending transversely from the centre. The new additions were opened in December 1861.

The present St. Paul’s was built in 1905 through a generous gift from Samuel Tyzack who also donated the stained glass windows. The Lady Chapel (1915) and the War Memorial (1919) were added later.

St Paul's Church 1885. Photo courtesy of State Library of SA

SA Heritage Database St Paul's Church

62 College Street Port Adelaide

This building forms part of the Portland Historic Precinct.

Constructed in the 1880’s as a bakery, these premises served as Oldfields Bakery from the 1880’s until 1941, and then as the De Souza Bakery until 1991.

Oldfield’s were an early established bakery family in Portland and also established other bakeries in the Port Adelaide district.

Former bakery residence featuries a distinctive curved verandah to protect displayed baked goods and a rear carriage entrance for carts

In 1953 fresh bread was delivered locally to 12,000 homes by 42 horse-drawn vehicles and 7 motor lorries

In 1994 featured in a scene from the award winning movie Bad Boy Bubby.

The De Souza Bakery was famous for its pies and pasties until it closed in 1988. The former bakery residence features a distinctive curved verandah to protect the displayed baked goods and a rear carriage entrance for carts

A number of allotments and owners

There have been at least 5 versions of Customs House at Port Adelaide. The first was a wooden structure at the old Port built during the late 1830s. The second, built in 1840, on the same location as this, the fourth Customs House, was a two-storey stone building which house the Harbour Masters residence and Telegraph Office. The third Port Adelaide Customs House, was for a time, located in the current Port Adelaide Visitor Information Centre along with the Police Station and Courthouse. The need for larger premises led to the erection of a new Customs House and Court House.

This, the fourth Customs House and Marine Board building, designed by architect-in-chief George Thomas Light in August 1877, and constructed by Williams and Cleave, was completed on 29 May 1879. It has been extended and renovated over time to accommodate the expansion of shipping activities.

The building is an excellent example of a Victorian Italianate public building and is constructed of Dry Creek bluestone and Sydney white freestone dressings. The scale and style of the building reflect the significant role of Port Adelaide as the State’s chief port and main entry point for goods and immigrants entering the State. The Customs Department played an important role in the economy of early South Australia, collecting Customs duties on goods imported into the colony, which was a principal means of raising public funds. After Federation in 1901, the Port Adelaide Customs House was used as a Commonwealth Customs House.

The premises were originally shared with the Marine Board, Surveyors and Harbour Master. The Customs Office initially was accommodated on the ground floor of the building, with the ‘Long Room’ used for conducting customs’ business, including processing forms, receiving payment, and issuing receipts that allowed goods to be unloaded or collected from the Bond Stores.

The Customs House and Institute Building were originally separated by a narrow lane, but around 1890 a ground floor extension of the Customs House connected this building to the Institute, with a second storey added later. By 1901 the whole of the building was occupied by the Customs Department, and in the 1950s Customs were also renting a number of rooms of the Institute Building.

In 1987 the Customs Department moved to a new Customs House Complex at 220 Commercial Road.

Architect: George Thomas Light

Builders: Williams and Cleave

Port Adelaide State Heritage Area

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Photographs from the State Library of SA

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“Mechanics’ Institutes” of the early nineteenth century were libraries and public educational establishments for the adults to learn and receive education in scientific thinking. Many residents of Port Adelaide were keen to establish a library and Mechanics’ Institute:

“…a sturdy band of pioneer Portonians, comprising representatives of the navy, church, and stage, members of the legal and medical professions, commercial, mercantile, and other interests – men of giant intellects, resourceful, determined, and with every confidence in the land of their adoption – assembled at the court house, North-parade, on Monday evening, May 26, 1851, for the purpose of establishing an Institute.”

The first Port Adelaide Institute was formally opened on 31 July 1851, when a crowded audience filled a large room adjoining Coppins theatre in the White Horse Cellar Inn, now the Central Buildings. However, this Institute closed in early 1852, when much of South Australia’s adult population left for the Victorian gold fields. Over the next 20 years further attempts were made to re-establish a library and institute. Popularity for an Institute increased and in 1872 a week-long bazaar was held to raise funds to build a new purpose-built library and Institute. Along with the aid of local benefactor David Bower, a merchant, former Mayor, politician and commissioner of public works, the fundraising was successful and the laying of the foundation stone ceremony was held on 31 October 1874.

The purpose built two storey building was designed by Robert George Thomas. Thomas arrived in South Australia in 1836 along with Colonel Light’s survey party. Completed in 1876, in the Venetian-Italian style, the Institute was constructed using stone from Dry Creek and Tea Tree Gully, and bricks from Bowden.

The Institute featured a librarian’s residence, library, reading rooms, lecture halls, museum and art gallery. It was home of the first nautical museum and the first children’s library in Australia, the Institute provided educational services for local adults.

The Institute offered more than just a library, it served as a community centre and artistic and cultural hub, an important source of entertainment, news, education and enlightenment. The Institute provided education for adults, providing evening classes in a wide range of topics including drawing, languages, arithmetic, geometry and algebra, and also classes covering occupations such as navigation, nursing, bookkeeping and typewriting.

The Institute also catered to children: in 1896 librarian Arthur Rose persuaded local businesses and groups to donate a ‘juvenile library scholarship,’ which would provide free membership to a child who could not afford to use the library. And in 1901, the Port Adelaide Institute was the first Children’s Library in Australia.

By 1902 the Port Adelaide Institute was home to over 18,000 volumes, along with paintings, drawings, photographs, statues, gadgets, scientific apparatus and collectibles from Australia and around the world, along with its own art gallery and museum.

During World War I any ‘pro-German’ material was deemed ‘unsuitable’ and taken off the shelves. The library also became an important hub to keep up with the news from Europe, and the reading room was stacked with illustrated newspapers and reports from the Great War.

In 1959 the Customs Department took over the Institute Building, and internally linked this building with the adjacent Customs House. That building has not been used since 1987.

Architect: Robert George Thomas

Builders: Cleave and Williams

Photographs from the State Library of SA

Photographs from the City of PAE Libraries Flickr Page

Port Adelaide Institute Bazaar 1872

Laying foundation stone in 1874

Opening of building in 1876

The Port Adelaide Institute

55 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide, SA, 5015

Hotels were important places in the development of the new Port. They were more than just a place for a drink. They provided accommodation for the traveller from Adelaide or the new arrival from interstate and overseas, meals and drinks, somewhere to stable your horse while you conducted your business, or a place for meetings, auctions, elections, inquests or land sales to name just a few.

The provision of stables was a legal requirement under the 1839 Act to regulate the Retail of Liquors and preserve good order in Licensed Public Houses:

XXIV. And also that if any licensed person, being an innkeeper, shall without lawful excuse refuse to receive and provide for a traveller and his horse, or a traveller without a horse or the horse of a traveller not becoming a guest at the house, or shall refuse, such licensed person shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than one pound nor more than twenty pounds.

The Port Admiral Hotel’s Coach House is located behind the Hotel in Calton Street.

This simple constructed early Victorian hotel is the oldest existing building in Port Adelaide. The 1850 engraving above by Samuel Calvert after T W Gloystein shows

the building when it was named the Railway Hotel. The chimneys have been removed and a parapet, verandah and balcony have been added.

The Port Admiral was originally built as the Railway Hotel in 1848-49 for Robert Sanders who believed the location would be the terminus for the proposed single line, horse drawn train from Adelaide, however, the idea for a horse drawn train was withdrawn due to funding issues. This, along with the exodus of people to the Victorian gold diggings caused financial difficulties for Sanders.

On 15 December 1849 it was recorded in the South Australian Gazette and Mining Journal, “This splendid hotel erected in a style of great magnificence is now opened for the accommodation of the public. We are informed that the interior appointments are on a scale equal to the first-rate hotels in the mother country, and we trust the expenditure which has been lavished therein and thereon will meet the return to which the spirited proprietor is entitled. A commodious family hotel was much wanted at the Port – a want which the Railway Hotel is well calculated to supply.”

The hotel was officially opened on 3 June 1850 by J. H. Fisher Esq with a ball and “most sumptuous” dinner where above forty gentlemen sat down for the “substantials and dainties, so elegantly arranged before them”.

In 1850, the South Australian reported an order of insolvency had been issued on Robert Sanders, “who has clandestinely left the colony for India very deeply in debt, and carrying with him, as is reported, a considerable sum of money.”

In 1851 ownership of the hotel transferred to Charles Calton. Calton, who previously operated the Royal Admiral Hotel in Adelaide, renamed the Railway, the Port Admiral Family Hotel, and later the Port Admiral Hotel. When the ship the Marion sank of Troubridge Shoal in 1851, Calton provided “substantial assistance” to the survivors who were transported to Port Adelaide. Charles Calton, who was elected the first auditor for Port Adelaide Council when it was established in 1856, put the hotel up for sale in 1860 due to ill health and died in 1862 at Kadina at 54 years of age.

A fire occurred in one of the ground floor bedrooms in 1860. The fire, which was quickly subdued, was caused by plaster falling from the ceiling hitting ‘lucifers’ on the mantelpiece, causing them to ignite. The falling plaster was caused by daily trains passing near the hotel causing the Hotel to shake.

In 1860 ownership transferred of the hotel transferred to Richard Blackler who arrived in South Australia with his parents in the ship the Caroline in 1839. In 1863 he advertised the hotels stables and that saddle horses and traps were available for hire. The photo below is from when the hotel was in his possession.

Photograph courtesy of the State Library of South Australia B 41793

John Yeo became manager of the Hotel in 1868. Yeo arrived in South Australia on the ship the Theresa and settled on Torrens Island with his parents. He sailed with Captain John Germein in his schooner Agenora before becoming Captain of his own vessels including the schooner Omeo, which foundered in Spencer Gulf, the Eclipse, trading between Port Adelaide and west coast ports and later the steamer Kangaroo.

Licensee John Dyer, was first engaged in contracting for road-making and carting.

From 1874 – 1880 he and his brother Isaac managed the Port Admiral Hotel together. John and Isaac were members of an old Port Adelaide family, his mother being Mary Yeo.

In 1885 licensee Charles Howe Mead was charged and fined £5 for supplying beer during prohibited hours, to someone who was not a bona fide traveller.

Charles Mead called for tenders for additions to the Port Admiral Hotel in 1886 and in 1891 Duncan Reid engaged architects R Garlick Holwell to tender for the building of a verandah around the Hotel. Less than one year later the first of many accidents involving the verandah occurred when the horse and cart of While Charles Whitford, a bottle-dealer, collided with the corner verandah post, knocking it out of position.

In 1893 the hotel was advertised:

James Williams, a native of Ulverstone, Gloustershire, passed away in 1898 whilst licensee of the Hotel. He arrived in South Australia c1863 and first worked as a butcher for his uncle. He then established his own butcher shop in Portland, before managing first the old Exchange Hotel at Port Adelaide, then the new Exchange, the Criterion and then the Port Admiral Hotel, of which he was landlord for nearly seven years. R. J. Holwell, Architect for James Williams called for tenders to paint the Hotel in 1894,

When electric lighting was first switched on in Port Adelaide in 1900 the Port Admiral Hotel, along with many other buildings, and bicycles and vehicles were illuminated by Chinese lanterns to add to the spectacle of the illumination.

Licensee Andrew Mitch managed the hotel 1898 – 1899. He was born in Port Adelaide and educated at Mr. Dallison's school. He worked on the excavations at the New Dock and later contracting and roadmaking. In 1891 he became licensee first for the Thornton Hotel, then the Glanville; Port Admiral Hotel; Talana Hotel, Mount Pleasant; and then the Australia Hotel, Goolwa. He served as councillor for the Semaphore Corporation taking an active interest in municipal affairs.

The South Australian Brewing Co, Ltd. called for tenders for extensive alterations and additions to the Port Admiral Hotel from plans drawn up by Claude Lindsay, an architect of Adelaide in 1908.

In 1909, at a special bench - Messrs. J. Gordon. S.M. (chairman), A. McDonald. M.P., and G. F. Claridge met to consider reducing the number of hotels in the Port Adelaide District as outlined in the new Licensing Act. Mr. G. W. Dempster appearing for William McAulay stated:

“the hotel had been licensed for 60 years, was a landmark at Port Adelaide, and people from Kangaroo Island and Yorke Peninsula made it their home. The licensee said he employed eight hands, and had had no convictions recorded against him. There were 16 rooms for boarders in the hotel, and splendid living accommodation at the back. Over £1,000 had lateiy been spent in renovating the hotel. Several associations met at his hotel. The sanitary accommodation was the best. Messrs. V. Y. Jones, L. Hains, and R. Delevante told the bench the house was well conducted, and the license should be continued. It was a favourite house with the wharf laborers. Sub-Inspectors Edwards, called by Mr. Bleechmore, said the conduct of the house was good and the sanitary arrangements very good. It was situated opposite to the police-station.”

William McAulay managed the hotel from 1903 -1925. He was born and worked in Port Adelaide all his life. On the evening of his retirement on 27 May 1925, a large number of people joined him for last drinks. Mr. F. Condon, M.P., said he “had been a valuable citizen, and his many acts of kindness would never be forgotten.”

In 1919 Walter Johnson, labourer, of Queenstown, William Howell, labourer, of Portland, and Walter Albert Maggs, barman of Yatala were caught playing a game of "two-up" in rear yard of the Hotel. They each pleaded guilty and were fined £2, with £1 costs, in default of seven days' imprisonment

In 1924 William McAulay engaged Architects Garlick & Jackman of Adelaide to draw up plans for extensive additions and alterations to the hotel.

George Miller was charged with betting on a horse in a race in the Port Admiral Hotel in 1924. Miller was viewed by constables Regan and Lindsay receiving money from a pundit and Miller writing something in his book. The book, seized by police, revealed hundreds of bets. As it was Millers third offence he was fined £100 plus costs.

In 1926 Motor Lorry driver Mr. William Stiller collided with a post of the verandah of the hotel after turning around the “silent cop".

Licensee Patrick Cyril Gillespie was born at Whyte-Yarcowie. One of the most prominent all-round athletes in the country districts , he won many Sheffields. In 1929 he was charged with supplying alcohol during prohibited hours and fined £6, in default of 10 days imprisonment. Charles Irvine, Leigh Martin, and John Hosie were each fined £6. in default 10 days' imprisonment, for having been unlawfully on the premises.

In 1929 the hotel was registered as a company, the Port Admiral Hotel, Limited, with a nominal capital of £25,000 in £1 shares. The purpose of the registration was to “purchase or otherwise acquire the hotel,,,, to carry into effect certain agreements, and to carry on the business of licensed victuallers and hotelkeepers. The subscribers planned to build a new Hotel.

In 2002 the Port Admiral closed for 13 years because of a dispute between the owner and the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. In 2015, the hotel was purchased by Adam Freeman and Alison Sloley, and restored and a balcony added. The Port Admiral Hotel was reopened in 2017 by the Port Local Group.

This land was first granted to John Hill on 15 May 1841 by Governor George Gawler. In 1861 it was purchased by Richard Tapley who maintained a store and weigh bridge at this location. In 1869 Tapley applied to the Port Adelaide Corporation for a crossing over the footpath in St Vincent Street to his store so that he could back drays to his door. His request was granted provided “the drays… be removed from the footpath on the arrival of the train, or at any other time when necessary.”

When Captain Richard Tapley passed away on 1 December 1874 his store and land were put up for lease for 20 years and his weigh bridge for lease annually. The property was purchased by Alfred Charles Evans and Richard Edward Tapley in 1875, and leased to Joshua Evans for twenty years for the property and one year for the weigh bridge.

Alfred Charles Evans was originally employed by shipping agent Captain Peter Le Messurier and John Formby. In 1875 he commenced his own business as a shipping and land agent in Port Adelaide, and also managed a branch of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society.

Joshua Evans, (father of Alfred) who was born in Cheshire, arrived in South Australia by the Condor in 1851. He had been manager of the shipping agency owned by Richard Tapley, which he then managed himself.

Joshua Evans sublet portions of the property to individual businesses. In 1875 Crooks Burton & Co leased a portion for a hardware establishment, Ironmongers, Importers and manufactures of ridging, guttering &c.

The above image from “a Bird's eye view of Port Adelaide, South Australia,” engraved by A. C. Cooke, and published as a supplement to the 'Illustrated Adelaide News', May 1879 by Frearson & Brother provides an indication of what the premises looked like in 1879 before further development.

In 1879 two shops were “built by Mr. W. E. Mattinson for Joshua Evans in St. Vincent-street, costing about £1,200. Mr. Beattie designed them, and they complete a block of substantial and roomy shops, between Commercial and Hart street.” In 1880 a further three shops were added on either side of the first two shops and in 1881 permission was granted to erect a verandah in front of the shops.

In 1880 a fire began in the cellar of Crooks, Burton & Co. Stored in the basement were flammable items including oakum (loose fibre from untwisting old rope) and lucifers. One of the staff struck a match as he entered the basement so he could see and the head of the match fell on to the oakum which started a fire. The reel was called for and the fire quickly put out. John Burton, who was born at Doncaster, Yorkshire, first worked for Padman & Co., in Adelaide. In 1876 he formed Crooks, Burton, and Co and in 1882, Burton, Shorney, & Co. In 1890.

In 1885 ownership of the property transferred to Alfred Charles Evans and Edward Andrew Devonshire Opie.

Edward Andrew Devonshire Opie was employed by land agent George W Cotton who served in the South Australian Legislative Council. Cotton began the working men’s blocks scheme in South Australia which was set up to provide blocks of land to working men at low rent so that they could generate an income to support their family. 31 blocks were allocated in Port Adelaide, Semaphore Largs Bay and Glanville. Opie became a partner in the firm which became Cotton & Opie. He also published works including “The Early Pioneers” and “South Australian Records prior to 1841”

In 1880 G. V. Schutlz opened the Criterion Restaurant and Dining Rooms next door to Messrs. Crooks, Burton, and Co offering four course dinners and the best quality tea, coffee, &c,

Photograph courtesy of the State Library of South Australia B 21960 c1897

Robert Fraser established his drapery in the shop on the corner of Kyle Place (formerly Hart Street) and St Vincent Street in 1885. His business was advertised as “the good value store” and he was declared "the first draper of any importance in the Port to issue Co-operative coupons as a discount, and to encourage cash trading".

William Herbert Bruce purchased the premises in 1923 and ran a butcher shop and a tailors and mercers shop. In 1926 Bruce had plans drawn up for alterations to the shops and to make the three shops in Commercial-road a uniform height to those in St Vincent Street.

“Checks” Frocks and Millinery occupied 75 Commercial Road from 1933 to 1960. Reg D Farquharson managed his workshop and retail outlet from these premises. Advertising in 1940 Frocks – coats - ensembles and costumes designed and made to your satisfaction.

In 1961 the building became well known as the Sanitarium Health food Company which is fondly remembered by many Port Adelaide locals.

1926 – Council, Street forming.

This location was formerly occupied by Reid Bros., Ltd. timber merchants who relocated to new premises at the new dock in 1920. The premises were surveyed into 10 business sites, 8 of which front Commercial Road, one Butler Street, and one Godfrey Street. The property was advertised as “close to the Dock Railway Station and St. Vincent Street, within easy distance of the new Overhead Station, and right alongside the fine new Co-operative Stores, in the heart of Port Adelaide's business centre.” suitable for shops, offices, or bulk stores. The land was auctioned on 9 June 1920 at the Town Hall, Port Adelaide.

This row of shops 125 – 129 Commercial Road was purchased by Robert William Alfred Linton in 1922. Linton first worked for Harris Scarfe before starting business for himself. His shops provide an excellent example of commercial construction including 1920s design shopfronts, continuous verandah, elaborate parapet, tiled stallboards, metal shop fittings and patterned entry tiles.

Over the years this group of shops has accommodated a diverse range of businesses including:

125 Mrs E M Bray – Florist

129 E W Russell – Public Accountant

125 Argosy Cycle Store – H Northeast

129 E W Russell – Public Accountant

129 E W Russell – Public Accountant

127 E S & A Bank – PA Branch

129 E W Russell – Public Accountant

125 Refridgeration and Sales Service co

127 E S & A Bank – PA Branch

125 Refridgeration and Sales Service co

127 – 129 C M Lowe – Radio Sales and Service

129 Elsa Ladies Hairdresser

125 M E Jones - Hairdresser

127 Miss N Smith - florist

129 Elsa Ladies Hairdresser

The English, Scottish and Australian Bank commonly known as E S & A Bank occupied no 127 from 1947 – 1957 before moving to 131 Commercial Road in 1958. E S & A amalgamated with ANZ in 1970 forming the ANZ Banking Group in what was the largest merger in Australian Banking history at that time.

The Renovial rubber Company occupied No 125 for many years before moving to No 137 in 1954 offering not only new tyres and related products but services such as the re rubbering of wringers, sponge rubber cushions, Dunlopillo mattresses, rubber floors and garden hoses.

The current businesses are Dominion Homes, Leasecorp and National Realty.

1922 Robert William Alfred Linton

1925 Arthur Henry George Martin

1927 Lease Albert Clark 1928 William Bronson

1927 Lease Henry Salkeld Martin

1927 Lease William Edward Warby

1947 English, Scottish and Australian Bank

1968 Lowe Investments Pty Ltd

1989 Nicholas George and Gregory Allan Walkington

1989 Francis Paul Cienciala

The Port Adelaide Masonic Centre is constructed in the Art Deco style, in the shape of an Egyptian Temple. The architect was C W Rutt and construction was by E. Colgate, both of them were Freemasons. The shape of the building is the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyph for “Temple”. The building cost was £19,607 ($39,214). Incorporated into the design are symbols consistent with Freemasonry i.e the Square and Compasses at the main entrance are the “All seeing Eye”, and the “Winged Disk” the door way flanked by two pillars with the “Celestial and Terrestrial Globes on top. The original Port Adelaide Masonic Hall was built in 1881 on the corner of Commercial Road and Russell Street. The Foundation Stone was laid on March 5, 1881 and the building consecrated on November 18. The building was designed by Brother Beattie D. G. Architect S. C. and built by Brothers Burge and Kestel. Due to the expansion of Freemasonry in Port Adelaide in the 1920’s discussions were begun to build new premises.

This led to the construction of the second Masonic Temple in 1928, on the corners of Commercial Road, and Dale and Marryat Streets. A trust was formed to raise funds for the construction and administer the complex. The foundation stone was laid by M W Brother Hermann Koeppen Wendt on February 6 1928. The new Port Adelaide Masonic Temple was constructed in the Art Deco style, in the shape of an Egyptian Hieroglyph meaning Temple. The building was designed by architect C W Rutt and constructed by Wpl Bro E. Colgate, both of whom were Freemasons.

There are many shapes and lines on the building’s exterior which are rich in symbolism. Some of the shapes include: Heaven, Four World Pillars, Fifth World Pillar or Axis of Munde, the Winged Disc, The Square and Compasses, The Sacred Gateway, the All-Seeing Eye and the Two Pillars, all representing not only ancient Egyptian Mythology, but practical processes such as the Square and Compasses. The architect, C W Rutt, a Freemason and Master of St. Peter’s lodge, also designed a number of other well-known South Australian buildings, including Henley Beach Town Hall and Burnside Town Hall. The builder, Wpl. Bro. E. Colgate, was one of 11 tenderers for the construction. The first regular meeting of the Adelaide Lodge no 2 took place in the new temple on Tuesday, October 16, 1928.

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Architect: Charles Walter Rutt

This church building was constructed from 1867 to 1868 for the Congregational worshippers in Port Adelaide. The life of the Port Adelaide Congregational Church began on 13 November 1849. The congregation met in two successive buildings before the present church was erected. Their church on the corner of St Vincent Street and Lipson Street burnt down in April 1966. After purchasing land along Commercial Road from the Port Land Company in 1866, notable colonial architect James MacGeorge designed their new building, and Mr Frank Reynolds built the church from 1867 to 1868. The foundation stone was laid on 16 July 1878, and the church opened on 13 December 1868.

Architect James MacGeorge had been practicing in South Australia since 1854. His design is an excellent example of an 1860s Church of the Gothic Revival. Original plans included a tower and spire, but these were never built. The building is constructed of Dry Creek sandstone, and external embellishments included red and black painted bricks. There is a small brick parish office behind the Church, and a 1920s Hume strapped iron fence is along the Charlotten Street side.

The Church demonstrates the importance of the Congregational faith during the settlement of the Port Adelaide area. The opening day service was attended by approximately 2,600 people, and the Church became the focus of the Congregational community worship. The Reverend Matthew Henry Hodge was the first minister of the Congregationalists, working from 1849 to 1877, and was involved of the three buildings used by the church. Another significant Minister was the Reverend Joseph Coles Kirby, pastor from 1880-1908, who developed the Young Christians Union, the Young Men’s Christian Society, and the Sunday School at the Church. He was also a leader in the social reform movement in South Australia, involved with the Women’s Suffrage Movement, prison reform, and Aboriginal welfare.

By 1973 the Port Adelaide United Parish was formed, combining the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist worshippers in Port Adelaide, and subsequently became part of the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977. In December 2018, the worshipping congregation celebrated the building’s 150th Anniversary.

This house was built on portion of allotment 91 and allotment 92 of Section 2112. Section 2112 was first granted to John Hill on 15 May 1841 by Governor George Gawler, the Commissioner of Public Lands in South Australia. John Hill put the land up as security for payment of a mortgage taken out from Jacob Hagen. The mortgage was foreclosed, and the land conveyed to Captain John Hart in July 1843. In 1850 the land was transferred to a trust that later became known as the Port Land Co which included shareholders John Hart, Jacob Hagen, John Bentham Neales, Robert Forsyth MacGeorge, Joseph Barrow Montefiore, Robert Stuckey, Thomas H Williams, Gregory Seale Walters, Emanuel Solomon, William Paxton and William Henry Clark. In 1850 John Hart and John Neales were appointed trustees and empowered to sell land allotments.

From the 1860s Dale Street was known as an upmarket area in Port Adelaide, because of its prime residential destination and its educational establishments and boarding houses which offered accommodation for seamen and commercial visitors. (McDougall & Vines).

This house was built on portion of allotment 91 and allotment 92 c1865, of random stone with red brick quoins. The first occupant was Thomas Loaring Coombe a miller who set up the Devon Steam Flour Mill in Commercial Road, Port Adelaide in 1864. The Mill, built by Francis Reynolds with Dry Creek stone, was four storeys high. When the Mill burnt down in August 1865 Thomas left the district.

Joseph Stone, who founded a successful stevedoring business in Port Adelaide, which later became the South Australian Stevedoring Company, purchased the property in 1871. He was born in Kensington, London in 1819, and arrived in Australia in 1835. He was first engaged in trading between Sydney, Hobart and Port Adelaide, before settling in Port Adelaide in the 1840s. He was one of South Australia’s earliest ship owners and sheep farmers. He was also a life Deacon and Trustee of the Port Adelaide Congregational Church and served as councillor for the Municipality of Port Adelaide from 1866 – 68. When Joseph Stone died in 1911 aged 92, he was described as among the few surviving pioneers of Port Adelaide, known to almost every resident in the chief seaport. The Reverend J. C. Kirby conducted his memorial, and a brass tablet was unveiled in the Congregational Church in recognition of his service to the Church.

George Edward Carlisle Stevens purchased the property in 1876. While at Port Adelaide he was appointed 4th assistant landing waiter for the Customs Department and was a member of the Port Adelaide Dramatic Company performing in plays including “Who’s Who”.

Thomas William Mitchell purchased the property in 1881. During this time a portion of the building was used as a private school for young ladies operated by Mrs Anna Mapleson Sweetapple and her daughters. Mrs Sweetapple began her school in the early 1870s, first in St Vincent Street, then St Pauls Square and from 1882 – 1892 in these premises (McDougall & Vines). Mrs Sweetapple was associated with St Pauls Church of England where she ran bible classes and was also a published author and poet who was described as a woman of culture, respect and beloved in the community.

In 1897 ownership of the property transferred to the Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart for use as a convent. The nuns named the building Howard House after Sister Mary Ephrem Howard who was a teacher at St Marys for 16 years, who died in 1896.

In 1902 ownership of the property transferred to the Carmelite fathers who decided not to use the building as a priory.

The property was then bought by a seamen George Henry Smith (died 1917) and his wife Barbara Allen Smith (died 1945) in 1907 who ran a boarding house.

Subsequent owners included the son of Barbara Smith, John Turner Fletcher in 1945, then to carrier John Watkins and his wife Violet Victoria Watkins in 1946. The building was auctioned in 1951 following the death of John Watkins and subsequently occupied by a series of commercial enterprises including steel and hardware merchants Stansfield-Smith & Co who occupied the property 1940 – 56.

At the time of auction in 1951 the property was described as two storied, solid bluestone and brick commercial premises which consisted of 8 main rooms on the ground floor and 6 rooms on the first floor. Suitable for offices, builkstore, warehouse, factory or residential purposes.

The verandah was removed post 1951

As Port Adelaide’s population grew it developed a range of community organisations, including institutes, churches and lodges. Built by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Manchester Unity) Victoria Lodge in 1866, the hall provided facilities for meetings, concerts and entertainment for the Order, other groups and the public.

Friendly societies, commonly known as Lodges, pre-dated government welfare and were a form of self-help, with workers banding together to pool their funds via regular subscriptions. Amongst other things, the funds were used to provide medical services and medicines, to support members when sickness prevented them working, and to provide funeral benefits to their families. In addition, the lodges provided a focus for social activities, including the regular meetings of members and the rituals associated with them.

Australian lodges were generally modelled on those already operating in Britain. Lodges active in South Australia included the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), Manchester Unity Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOB), the United Ancient Order of Druids, the Ancient Order of Foresters, the Independent Order of Rechabites and the Australian Natives’ Association (ANA). Recent decades have seen these groups subsumed into larger organizations. (eg The Foresters, Rechabites, Druids and ANA merged into Lifeplan Community Services in 1984.)

Dr George Nott, who provided services to several lodges at Gawler, a town of similar age to the Port, gives a sense of the friendly societies’ importance:

In a young community like ours, where Government has organised no regular system for the relief of sickness and distress in the country districts, Friendly Societies are of incalculable benefit. How many homes in the colony have they shielded from poverty and want! How many, through their aid, have been able manfully to struggle through long sickness, receiving only their just due, earned by their own economy and prudence, which thus enabled them to maintain the contest without calling upon the cold hand of charity, or tardy aid of Government, for relief! - G Nott ‘Rise and Progress of Gawler’ (1860) reproduced in GE Loyau The Gawler Handbook … (Adelaide, 1880, p15)

D. Green & L. Cromwell’s Mutual Aid or Welfare State: Australia’s Friendly Societies (North Sydney, 1984, p10) states that South Australia’s first friendly society was established in 1840. In that context, Port Adelaide’s Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Manchester Unity) Victoria Lodge, formed in 1843, was a very early one. Prior to establishing their own halls, many lodges met in hotels, as did the Port’s.

The Hall was built in the Victorian Classical Revival style to the design of James Macgeorge with Messrs. Hibbs, Hope and Ramsay as contractors. The front façade of the hall is of a temple design with Doric columns. The interior was plainly but tastefully finished for accommodation and acoustics, with the ceiling inclined at the sides and flat in the centre. The building was lit with gas.

The hall was officially opened on 19 November, 1866 with a grand banquet. The evening began with a procession from the Globe Inn which was headed by the Adelaide Regimental Band. About 100 people sat down for a dinner provided by John Lavin. The chair of the event was His Worship the Mayor of Port Adelaide, Mr. J. W. Smith, supported by Mr. David Bower, M.P., and Captain Douglas; and the vice-chair was Captain Hugh Quin.

Toasts were made to the Queen and Royal Family, His Excellency the Governor; the Army, Navy, and Volunteers; the Mayor and Corporation of Port Adelaide; the Parliament of South Australia and Mr. Bower, M.P. amongst others. They also paid a toast to the Provincial Officers. (Provincial Officers were the Government of the Order, which had 66 Lodges in South Australia.)

Captain Bickers said “the Hall was a credit to the Oddfellows of the Order… He liked to encourage such Societies and everything which was good. They had the effect of ennobling the mind, and of making them all better men.” Mr Bower said the Hall “kept young men from public houses and demoralising company”. Dr Mortimer said “No man could be a good father or a good husband unless he made some provision for his wife and children, if anything should happen to him.”

In 1874 the Hall was painted and renovated by Messrs. Eve & Kitson including colourfully painting and gilding the coat of arms above the stage.

In March 1875 tenders were sort by architect William Beattie for two houses to be built adjoining the hall and in October 1885 permission was sort from the Port Adelaide Council to build a retaining wall in front of the hall and two new houses.

In 1883 improvements were made to the Hall itself, to the design of architect William Beattie and under the management of Mr. William Edward Mattinson, builder. A new entrance was created, along with ladies and gentleman’s rooms, which were furnished by Haddy Bros, and a thoroughfare off Marryat St for the tenants of the new houses.

The property was sold to Alexander McAulay in December 1943 and to the Legacy Club of Adelaide in October 1949.

The Legacy Club of Adelaide formed its first suburban branch in Port Adelaide in 1945 to care for the widows and children of deceased servicemen in the district. The Legacy Hall was formally opened by the Mayor of Port Adelaide, Harold Moore, in 1952, with entertainment supplied by Port Adelaide Legacy boys providing a gymnastic display and girls providing folk dancing.

Oddfellows Hall c1880

[This early image of the Hall highlights the rise of ground level in the Port Centre area. It may date from the 1860s.]

This land was purchased by Bishop Murphy, the first Bishop of Adelaide, in 1855. Designed by George Strickland Kingston and built by Charles Farr, the Church of the Immaculate Conception was dedicated on August 15, 1858. It was partly built from Glen Osmond stone and partly from vitrified building stone from Melbourne.

The church hall, which was built by Mr Gowling with the architects being Wright, Woods and Hamilton, features cavity wall construction that was not widely used in South Australia at that time, and provides an early example of this technique. The foundation stone was laid by Bishop Shiels in August 1869 with Father Julian Tenison-Woods in attendance.

Father Julian Tenison-Woods was the first parish priest officially assigned to Port Adelaide in 1867. He worked previously with Sister Mary Mackillop in the Catholic school at Penola. Together they worked to form the Sisters of Saint Joseph to provide education to the poor.

Sister Mary Mackillop came to Port Adelaide in 1867 to help establish a school. Port Adelaide was the first Josephite school in South Australia and one of the first in Australia. Sister Mary Mackillop then went on to set up convents and schools in various parts of South Australia, but visited Port Adelaide regularly.

Initially the school was located in another hall. Then, in 1868, a friar of the Order of St Augustine, Ambrose Nowlan, became the first resident parish priest. Part of the funding for the construction of the surviving hall/schoolroom came from a collection gathered by the congregation for Nowlan’s legal costs when he was challenged by parishioner William Butler. Butler raised objections regarding the fact that the three primary schools in the area were ‘Catholic’ schools. Those at Alberton and Queenstown were run by the Josephites and one ‘open to all-comers’ in the Port Town Hall by a Catholic layman. This led to him disrupting mass and Nowlan ordering him out of the church. When he attempted to disrupt mass again, a policeman was called to remove him. When the matter came to court the magistrate found in favour of Nowlan, so the funds collected for his potential legal costs were put towards the construction of the hall/schoolroom instead.

ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL, PORT ADELAIDE. - Adjoining the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Dale-street, Port Adelaide, there is now in course of erection a commodious schoolhouse for the children of Roman Catholics resident in the Port and its vicinity. The contract has been taken by Mr. Gowling, who is bound to complete it in the early part of September. Messrs. Wright, Woods, and Hamilton are the architects, and the building when completed will have a very neat appearance. It will have a frontage of 27 feet by depth of 57 feet. The foundations are of concrete, made of broken slag from the Smelting Works, upon Swan River jarrah bond-timbers, and the wall of hollow brickwork with white brick dressings. The height of the side walls will be 15 feet, and of the gable ends 24 feet The front will be surrounded by a cross, and ventilation will be obtained through louvre-boards at each end. An arched door is to afford entrance to the building, which will be lighted by windows along both sides. The interior will be ceiled, and the walls coloured. The cost of the building is to be about £400.

South Australian Register, Saturday 24 July 1869, p2

The school attracted many students which eventually led to the construction of a larger school and convent in Quebec street, Port Adelaide. The hall was then used for various other purposes for many years.

The Statue of the Madonna was donated by the Molfettisi community in 1958 for the centenary of the Church. Originally from the Molfetta region of Italy, the community had developed strong ties with the church and the statue has featured in the annual blessing of the fishing fleet for many decades.

On Friday August 15, 2008 the Church of the Immaculate Conception (St Mary’s) celebrated its 150th Anniversary, representing a century and a half of Catholic ministry to the Port Adelaide and surrounding communities.

In 1858 Abraham Scott opened the first branch of the National Bank of Australasia in Adelaide, the first colonial bank to be established in South Australia. The three existing banks at the time were governed from London.

On 24 February 1863, the National Bank of Australasia opened a branch office in Port Adelaide in rented premises on North Parade. On 21 October 1865 they purchased a portion of SA Company Reserve for £1788.

This purpose built bank was designed by architects Messrs. Wright & Woods, with Mr. Francis Reynolds as the contractor (tendering for £3250). Following the Anglo-Italian style, it employs Dry Creek stone with cement dressings. The central doorway and arched freestone pillars on either side are approached by four Macclesfield marble steps. The large double windows also have freestone pillars on either side. The upper storey has three windows each with ornamental dressings. The front windows retain the original ‘disappearing’ sliding shutters.

The bank was formally opened on 22 October 1866 providing bank services, and accommodation for the Manager, his family and their servants. The ground floor consisted of a public office which was fitted with polished cedar carved counters and desks; a manager's office, strong room, dining-room, and a private side entrance which lead to a lobby, pantry, and staircase to the apartments above. At the rear were kitchens with a separate staircase to the servants' quarters. On the upper floor there was a drawing-room, bedrooms, bathroom, and toilets. Ventilation was accessible via double sash windows and vents built into the chimneys.

During WWII the branch temporarily closed (1943-46) to provide offices for the Department of Import Procurement. In 1959, the Bank moved to 92-94 Commercial Rd and the property was sold into private hands for £8,250.

The building subsequently hosted the Departments of Labour & Industry and Social Welfare, Police Court #3 (1966-1990?) and most recently Port Adelaide Serviced Offices. In 2014 it transitioned into a private residence.

The building retains fragments of the original ‘tight wire’ mechanical servant call bell system and gas lighting plumbing.

1866 – 1893 National Bank of Australasia

1893 ​ Nationwide banking crisis caused the bank to close and be liquidated. It reopened as the National Bank of Australasia Ltd.

1943 - 45 ​ Commonwealth Government: Division of Import Procurement – During WWII the bank closed and the building was dedicated to the war effort.

1946 The National Bank of Australasia reopened on November 25.

1947 – 48 ​ Commonwealth Government and National Bank Ltd – shared occupancy

1949 – 59 ​ National Bank of Australasia Ltd –

NBA relocated to new premises at 92 Commercial Road in 1959

1960 - 61 ​ Vacant - building owner Arthur George Owen Grey

1962 – 65 ​ Commonwealth of Australia Department of Labour and Industry

and Child Welfare and Public Relief - building owner Arthur George Owen Grey

1966 – 1973 ​Commonwealth of Australia Department of Labour and Industry

and Child Welfare and Public Relief - building owner Arthur George Owen Grey and Police Court no 3

1990 – 1992 Adelaide Medical Centre for Women & Children CT V1684 F49

The building was included in the South Australian Jubilee Measured Drawing Competition in 1986 - 9 Divett St was selected as a competition entry by Michael Zeman et al, using the technique of photogrammetry. See Heritage Australia Vol 6.

McDougall and Vines 1992, Port Adelaide State Heritage Survey: existing condition assessment and recommendations, Nowood, South Australia.

South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Tuesday 16 January 1866, page 3

South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Tuesday 15 January 1867, page 3

National Bank reopens - News (Adelaide, SA : 1923 - 1954), Friday 15 November 1946, page 5

Divett Chambers Offices (originally the Advertiser Building) 1881

11&13 Divett St Port Adelaide

This building was built for the Advertiser in 1881 by Messrs Williams and Cleave to the design of architects English and Soward. Built in the Gothic style with Dry Creek stone and cement dressings on the front.

The building is divided into two wings, each with their own entrance, staircase and ornamental iron gates leading into a central hallway with offices on either side. The western wing was originally let to the Bank of Australasia (prior to the completion of their building next door) while the Advertiser occupied the eastern wing.

The two wings are united by a central Gothic pediment and finial. The roof projects over the walls, the water draining through ornamental cast iron down pipes secured by fleur de leus brackets.

Beneath the building were a series of large well-lit basements, two entered from Divett Street and two beneath the warehouses from the roadway at the back. In the mid-1970s when the buildings were converted into residential properties the original two storey warehouses at the back were removed.

Originally known as the “Advertiser Buildings” this building was renamed Divett Chambers in the mid-1930s.

Located in the commercial centre of Port Adelaide, this building was built for the Bank of Australasia, Port Adelaide branch, by Messrs. Mattinson & Cleave, under the supervision of Wright, Reed and Beaver, in 1891 as a bank and offices. The bank faced Divett Street and part of Lipson Street, the offices, Lipson Street. It was sold privately in 1916 and later became the offices for R. Fricker and Co. Ltd.

The walls are made of brick and stone with cement dressings, and are constructed on foundations of heavy jarrah timbers bedded in concrete. The stone came from the Dry Creek Quarry.

Decoration surrounding the main entrance to the bank, on the corner of Divett and Lipson Streets, includes Doric columns on either side of the doorway, bold cornices, a pediment, cedar panels and massive swing doors.

The ground floor housed the bank, the manager's office, a large strongroom and a lobby. The first floor was set up as a residence with a sitting and bedrooms, bath, and other conveniences.

The entrance to the offices lead into a wide hall with a staircase and offices on either side. All the rooms were large, with high ceilings, well lit, and heated by gas stoves.

This building, once made up of this property and the one next door, was built in the heart of maritime Port Adelaide close to the wharves, railways, Customs and Harbors Board offices, serving the needs of its customs and shipping agents, and railway and general carriers.

J. L. Lewis & Co., Customs and Shipping Agents

John Llewellyn Lewis worked for W. Cave & Co., then A. E. Le Messurier Ltd., before starting J. L. Lewis & Co, Customs and Shipping Agents in this building, first on his own and later with his sons Gordon, Malcolm and Norman.

H. Graves & Co. Ltd., Railway and General Carriers

H. Graves & Co. Ltd, Railway, General Carriers, and Forwarding Agents purchased this property in 1908

Born in Britain, Henry Nathaniel Graves, came to South Australia as a young man. He worked as a labourer, a painter, and then started carting sand with a single horse and dray from the sandhills at Alberton to the boats in Port Adelaide to serve as ballast. He then purchased his own trolley and started carrying flour until he secured a Government contract to deliver parcels between Adelaide and Port Adelaide.

When Henry Nathaniel Graves died, his sons James, Henry, William and Frederick took over H. Graves & Co. Ltd. who removed, stored and delivered goods of all sizes all over Australia. They also supplied horses, vehicles and/or drivers by the day, week, month or the year, and had working relationships with steamship companies to collect and deliver passengers' luggage.

Graves, Hill & Co, Railway and General Carriers.

In 1912 H. Graves & Co. amalgamated with John Hill & Co. to become known as Graves, Hill & Co. Ltd. Railway and General Carriers

John Hill was born in Port Adelaide on March 16, 1847 and educated at Alberton. At 15 years of age he was employed by Cobb & Co. who delivered mail between Adelaide, Strathalbyn, Willunga, Normanville, Clare, and Port Augusta. John’s father, Henry Hill purchased Cobb & Co with Messrs. Fuller and Mills and later changed its name to John Hill & Co.

In the Register of November 3, 1921, the business was advertised as:

“The Extensive and Very Massive Stone Bulk Store and Offices (formerly so well known as the premises of Graves, Hill, Co., Ltd.), occupying an important commercial site, close to the Port Dock Station, the principal wharfs, the Customs, and principal business houses. Allots. 30 and 32, with frontage of 100 ft. to Divett St. by a depth of 90 ft along Timpson st., and frontage of 100 ft. to Mempes St. at rear, the whole of which is covered by the massive Bluestone Bulk Store, with good Office accommodation, Lavatories, Electric Light, &c. There is a fine loading platform running the entire length of the store, and the floor of the building is specially reinforced to permit the passage of heavily laden trollies. The whole Property is in perfect order, and is designed to carry additional storeys.”

This corner Property is in the heart of Port Adelaide, close to Wharfs, Railway, Customs House, Harbours Board, and other public Offices, and is eminently suited to a carrier, manufacturer, or warehouseman.” [Note: Mempes St and Harbours Board were common misspellings and should have read Menpes and Harbors Board.]

In 1923 the premises were purchased by George Wills & Co, Merchants and Shipping Agents. George Wills & Co were shipping agents for many of the large international and national shipping companies including the Blue Funnell Line and P & O.

Portion of a larger photo showing Divett St c1924, prior to it being surfaced with woodblocks. Photograph courtesy of the State Library of South Australia B 28690/205 See full image at

Divett St after woodblocking Photograph courtesy of the State Library of South Australia B 28690/207. See

921 'Advertising', The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), 9 April, p. 12.

News (Adelaide, SA : 1923 - 1954), Tuesday 16 March 1926, page 6

John Llewellyn Lewis Obituary - 1927 'OBITUARY', Port Adelaide News (SA :1913 - 1933), 24 June, p. 5.

J L Lewis & Co. - 1927 'BEFORE THE PUBLIC', News (Adelaide, SA : 1923 - 1954), 22 June, p. 1. (HOME EDITION).

News (Adelaide, SA : 1923 - 1954), Saturday 2 June 1928, page 4

The Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers

22 Divett Street, Port Adelaide

This building appears to have been first occupied by William Morgan & Co, Wholesale Grocers and Provision Merchants, in the 1870s. In 1884 they were taken over by Wilkinson & Co, Wholesale Grocers. It was later purchased by Rofe & Co, Railway and General Carriers, Forwarding and Shipping Agents, who advertised “Goods entrusted to us forwarded with care and dispatch”.

In 1913 the property was bought by the Australasian Institute of Marine Engineers for £3400, with the purchase and extensive renovations utilising accumulated funds supplemented by members purchasing interest free debentures for £5, redeemable within two years.

Conversion of the building included a major refurbishment of the front façade and the development of a reading room, members room, scientific and technical library, billiard-room, and all up-to-date conveniences. On 29 August 1913 the third issue of the newly-revived Port Adelaide News [1913-33] waxed lyrical:

As if by a touch of the magic wand, the forbidding-looking three-storied building, which for many years was used as a carriers' store, has been transformed into one of the handsomest structures in Port Adelaide. The opening took place last week, and was a brilliant success. Splendidly ventilated, lighted throughout with electricity, the institute will be the rendezvous for engineers who go down to the sea in ships, and where social intercourse, interchange of ideas on their profession, and lectures on the developments of engineering will take place. There are commodious billiard, social and reading rooms, and a kitchen. The ceilings are lined with Wunderlich, and the walls are handsomely ornamented. A new roof has been put on, the facade has been made ornamental, and the motto of the institute, "Non sibi sed omnibus," is displayed conspicuously on it.

The building prior to its transformation.

Source: H.T. Burgess (ed) The Cyclopedia of South Australia (Adelaide, 1909), vol. 2, p237.

The Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers [Current title]

The advent of steamships in the mid-1800s was accompanied by a need for ships’ engineers. In 1877 a number of engineers serving on steamers operating from Port Adelaide met to consider forming a body to collectively represent their needs, driven by a downward pressure on wages by ship owners in the 1870s. As a result, the South Australian Institution of Marine Engineers was formally established in 1878.

In December 1880 representatives of similar associations in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington and Auckland formed a national organization, the Australasian Institution of Marine Engineers, with a head office in Sydney. There have been several variations to the name since then.

The preamble of their first rules and constitution defined their objective and purpose. "The institution is established to watch over and guard the interests, promote and further the welfare, elevate and improve the conditions, of all connected therewith by the diffusion of sound practical knowledge, the exposition and sustentation of fraternal sympathy, and the discussion of reliable principles affecting our mutual good."

In 1913 what was then called the ‘Adelaide District’ of the organization purchased 22 Divett Street Port Adelaide with funds provided by members and engaged workmen to convert the premises for its use.

Though there are less ships today than 100 years ago, there are 175 members in the SA Branch of the Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers who continue to debate matters of advancement, professional and industrial interest. Employment today is increasingly centered around the offshore oil and gas industry in Victoria and Western Australia.

In 2013 AIMPE celebrated the centenary of their ownership of the building in Divett Street by hosting an event and inviting the Mayor of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield, Mr. Gary Johanson, to unveil their centenary plaque attached to the AIMPE building.

William Morgan obituary - South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Saturday 10 November 1883, page 2

James George Rofe Obituary - South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Monday 14 June 1897, page 6

Death of William Berry - Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931), Saturday 3 November 1928, page 21

From 1863 to 1875 this land was owned by Robert Burfield, a hotel keeper, ship owner and speculator who arrived in Port Adelaide in 1839 in the Somersetshire. He was licensee of the nearby Wharf Hotel on the corner of Todd St and McLaren Parade from 1853-8 and 1865-68.

In 1875 the land was sold to David Bower, who had arrived in Port Adelaide in 1846 and immediately began business in the timber and building industries. David Bower was a strong advocate for the progress of Port Adelaide, including the formation of the Port Adelaide Council, the building of the railway from Adelaide and deepening of the Port harbour. He also served as the member for Port Adelaide in the House of Assembly from 1865 – 1870 and 1875 – 1887, and as Mayor of Port Adelaide from 1877 – 1878.

In 1877 the property was listed as fenced land with stables and in 1880 – 1881 it was listed as iron stores, which were leased to shipping merchants, J De Young & Co.

W. R. Cave & Co. purchased the property in 1882 and in August advertised it as a large store with offices to let. Edwin Henry Derrington leased a portion of the property from 1882 – 1885 as printing offices for the Port Adelaide News. Smart, Webb & Co, importers of oats, ham, bacon, potatoes and onions leased the store.

David Bower purchased the property again in 1885. Portions of the property were leased to a succession of businesses including:

Kennedy, Jones & Styles, Port Adelaide News Printers 1885 – 1888

George Arthur Willsmore – Willsmore Carrying Co 1886 – 1890

Matthew Morgan – Accountant 1888

Thomas J. Lindsay & M. J. Cain – workshop 1892 - 1894

William Tulloch - Office 1892 - 1893

Henry Hill & Co., railway and general carriers, forwarding and shipping agents, who delivered goods to all parts of the colony - Store 1892 - 1898

Chas Paris, stevedore - Top Floor 1893 - 1894

John McNally - Smithy 1893 - 1898

Fred Morphett - Restaurant 1895 - 1896

Thomas Sharp - Sail loft 1895 - 1910

William Strong - Restaurant 1897 - 1898

John Clarke - Restaurant 1900 - 1901

Fletcher - Restaurant 1904

Sam Kellett - Office 1904 -1910

Jas Partage - Restaurant 1906 - 1910

On David Bower’s death in 1898 ownership of the property transferred to the Executor Trustee & Agency Co. of South Australia.

The property, which is on allotment 52, was sold to J. Rawlings & Son Ltd. in 1935 and the South Australian Harbors Board in 1953.

The longest-standing occupier of the current building has been the Port Adelaide Cooperative Carrying Co, general carriers to or from the city and suburbs from the early 1920s, later in the decade changing their name to Port Carriers, customs, shipping and forwarding agents. They first occupied no 29 and later 31 as well, remaining there until the mid-1970s.

Port Adelaide Fire Plans 1940 [Map], compiled by the Fire Insurance Agency, Insurance Planning Association, South Australia.

Constructed in the 1870s Henry Weman’s warehouse was built to store sail making materials and bulky ships stores. The warehouse abuts the rear wall of Weman’s sail-making shop and faces onto Jane Street. This two storey building is constructed of brick and features a large entryway on each floor, used to transfer sails into the sail loft on the upper floor, and ships’ stores and bulky items into the warehouse on the ground floor. The warehouse also featured a basement, and smaller wooden double-doors provided easy entrance for horse-drawn carts and other vehicles to load and deliver supplies. Goods were loaded using the large loading doors first-floor hoists.

Henry Weman & Co. traded as sailmakers, ships' chandlers, riggers, grocers and general storekeepers until 1906, when the buildings were occupied by L.E. Small, French Polishers and Furniture Repairers. The warehouse and adjacent shop were joined in the 1980s when they were restored for use by the SA Maritime Museum, with care taken to retain the original character and features of the building.

SA Maritime Museum (former Elder’s Bond & Free Stores)

126 Lipson Street Port Adelaide

The Mission to Seamen was first established in 1895 by Archdeacon Samwell, who was in charge of the parish of Port Adelaide. Initially the mission had a room at St. Pauls church.

On 26 March 1908 the first mission was opened at premises located on North Parade somewhere near where the Birkenhead Bridge now stands.

In December, 1909 the committee of the Mission to Seamen, secured, initially on a rental basis, the use of the building (then known as the Darling building) which they subsequently purchased for £1,500. The Todd Street building which became the Seamen's Institute, was a two-story stone building, which in its early history was occupied by the Commercial Bank of South Australia and then the property of Messrs J Darling & Son, from whom the building was purchased.

In October, 1913, a new hall was formally opened next to the Institute by Lady Bosanquet.

Photograph Courtesy of the state Library of South Australia B 10087

On Friday, 13 February1914, a fire which had started in the adjacent premises of Berry, Hodgson’s timber and milling yard spread to the Institute, destroying the new hall and substantially damaging the main building.

Shortly after the fire an appeal was made to assist in the financing of a new building and to re-establish the institute building. Less than a year later, on 3 February 1915, the new institute and reconstructed Missions to Seamen, Port Adelaide, was formally opened by His Excellency the Governor (Sir. Henry Galway).

In 1957 the missions to seamen committee agreed that a special appeal was to be held to raise funds for a war memorial building for seafarers who lost their lives in the first and second world wars. It was agreed that the appeal be entitled “The Missions to Seamen Seafarers War Memorial appeal”

In 1957 the aim of the appeal was to raise £50,000 for the erection of a public war memorial on the mission’s land in Todd Street, Port Adelaide, being the land comprised of Title 269, folio 160. “The memorial shall consist of a club, chapel for seafarers and an inspirational centre, where, as a complete record as possible of the state’s role in the history of the sea, particularly the two world wars, shall be kept in the form of a book. In addition, showcases and a plaque will be incorporated in the design of the war memorial to furnish exhibits of significance in South Australia’s part in the story of the sea. ”

In 1958, the Missions to Seamen’s committee were gravely concerned as to the state of the Institute. After a careful survey of the premises by the architect Mr. James S. Hall it was determined that it would be futile to consider any repairs or renovations to the structure and the only alternative was to demolish and reconstruct the building. It was decided to launch a state-wide appeal for funds under the title of the “The Missions to Seamen War Memorial Building Appeal” with an emphasis of the inclusion of a building of a Memorial Chapel to honour the memory of seafarers who lost their lives during the two world wars.

The cost of new building alterations as identified by the architect James S. Hall £17,500.

By October 1959 demolition of the Todd Street Institute commenced.

On Tuesday, 26 April 1960 in the presence of a large number of friends and helpers, Sir Thomas Playford opened the War Memorial Building, and the Right Reverend ·T. T. Reed re-dedicated the Chapel of St. Andrew and blessed the other rooms. Music was provided by the band of the Returned Naval men’s Association, Port Adelaide Branch, and a guard of honour was formed by Sea Cadets.

Port Adelaide Building Improvements. — The branch building of the Bank of Adelaide at Port Adelaide, which is now approaching completion, is one of the latest and most important improvements in the architectural development of the town.

It is situated in Lipson-street, opposite the Union Bank, and comprises a banking-room, 37 ft. x 23 ft. 6 in. and 16 ft. high, fitted up with moulded and panelled cedar counter, screens, and desks. The ceiling is divided into nine panels, with chastely enriched cornices in each bay. The Manager's room is 14 ft. x 11 ft. and 16 ft. high, with moulded cornice, American walnut mantel, tiled hearth, and marble fender. Out of the clerks' department access is obtained to the luncheon and safe rooms.

The entrance to the Bank is a large framed and moulded cedar lobby, with pilasters in the Ionic order, surmounted by an enriched cornice. The floor has a parquetry edging. Access is obtained from this lobby to the caretaker's quarters upstairs, consisting of living, bed, and bath rooms, averaging 11 x 10 and 13 feet high. Independent of the Bank accommodation is a main staircase leading to six well-lighted first-floor offices, about 11 x 10 and 13 feet high in each case, with speaking tubes communicating to the entrance. Gas is laid on to each office, and safes are provided, as also lavatory accommodation, while a hose is attached ready for fire. At the foot of these stairs access is had to superior fireproof cellars, which are divided into three sections, each well lighted, spacious, and of good height.

Goods can be taken in and out at the back to and from each section. The draining of the subsoil and cellars into wells, which are siphoned out on to the water tables in Lipson - street, is a marked improvement at the Port.

It allows the floors to be cemented, and renders them always dry. At the back are two circular staircases communicating with yards, in which earth-closets have been placed, the unhealthy privy system having been abolished there. The appearance of the lofty front elevation, in the Queen Ann style, is exceedingly chaste and original in detail. At each side are the respective entrances, with well proportioned, moulded, and enriched pilasters, forming deeply recessed and pedimental doorways. Between these are three semicircular windows, divided by fluted pilaster with enriched caps and moulded bases with entablatures. The first-floor windows are pedimented with carved trusses, surmounted by cornices and balustrading. The front is built with Mitcham freestone and cement dressings. The back elevation is rather nice, with red brick towers on either side. The ornamental ironwork, safe-doors, walnut mantelpieces, and the whole of the fittings are of colonial manufacture.

Mr. James Haslam, C.E., of Selborne Chambers, Adelaide, designed and superintended the construction of the building. Messrs. Burge and Kestel were the contractors, their accepted tender being for £3,555.

Builders: Kestel and Burge

This two-storey building is a notable example of an early, small mercantile property in Port Adelaide. It was purchased by the Bank of Adelaide in 1877 and used for the business of the bank until their premises next door were completed. It was later used by Alfred Charles Evans, land and share broker, and estate agent until the 1930s and then Lewis ad Webb auctioneers and estate agents.

Henry Weman was a British sail-maker who immigrated to South Australia aboard the ship Challenger in 1854. Henry Weman built this loft and shop front in the 1870s to expand on his successful ships chandlery and sail making business. It was possibly erected over an earlier stone building that housed his original business. The building has a unique style, featuring brick walls on the ground floor, with the first floor built of timber fames and corrugated galvanised iron walls.

The ground floor housed the Chandlery’s assortment of nautical essentials including tar, pitch, whale oil, tools, leather goods and other galley supplies. The first-floor workshop, built for sail making, features large double doors used for loading raw materials into the loft and taking out finished sails. The large first-floor windows provided ample natural light for sailmakers.

After the death of Henry Weman in 1891, the Weman Building remained a sail-making and ships’ chandlery business until it was leased to a furniture polishing and repair business operated by L.E. Small, until about 1933.

The building fell into disrepair, but owing to its historical importance to Port Adelaide’s maritime community, the building was restored to its former glory in the early 1980s, retaining its overall appearance, with great care taken to retain the original character and features of the building. The Weman Building now forms part of the South Australian Maritime Museum’s Lipson Street complex.

Links: SA Heritage Database

Weman Building (SA History Hub)

Former Weman’s Warehouse and Sail Loft

Located on the corner of Lipson and Divett Streets, these buildings are impressive examples of early blue stone warehouses, built as bonded and free stores for Elder & Company. The corner building, designed by George S. Kingston, was built in 1857. The southern store was designed by Edmund Wright and was constructed later, in approximately 1863, replacing the original timber and iron building owned by Elders in that area dating from 1854, which had been damaged in 1858.

Bonded warehouses allowed merchants to unload ships and store their goods until they were sold, deferring the payment of customs duties. Free stores held goods on which duty had already been paid. Stored in barrels and casks, goods held in bond were primarily luxury items like tobacco, sugar, coffee, beer and fine china.

Customs duty was the colony's main source of revenue until income tax was introduced in 1915. The government’s first bonded store was made from timber and steel and people complained that their goods were often damaged and pilfered. Elder and Co. built the Lipson Street store after the government declared in 1853 that its own store was bursting at the seams.

In 1866 the warehouses were sold to George Ferguson & Sons. In the early 20th century the warehouses were leased to H. Muecke & Co. who later purchased the property in 1959, and then sold it in 1973. During the 1970s the building was home to the Port Auction Mart. In the 1980s the warehouses were purchased by the State Government and extensively restored and converted for use as the South Australian Maritime Museum, as part of the State’s Jubilee in 1986. Since 1986, the warehouses have been home to the South Australian Maritime Museum, where they are affectionately known as the 'Bond Store'.

Images from City of PAE Flickr

Article from SA History Hub

Former H Muecke & Co. Warehouse

12 McLaren Parade, Port Adelaide

This building, which was originally constructed of brick, was built for Captain Henry Simpson as two stores with offices and cellars. The construction date is unknown; however, the buildings appear in the 1879 “Birdseye View of Port Adelaide” which was reproduced in the Illustrated Adelaide News, Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier. While the front and sides of the building have been redeveloped, its early brick construction is still evident on the rear.

Captain Henry Simpson arrived in South Australia as second officer of the John Pirie in 1836. He was master of several vessels before becoming a wharfinger, first at the Old Port and later the New Port. He began his shipping business importing coal from Newcastle for the smelting works and the increasing number of steamers arriving at Port Adelaide. These stores were used by Henry Simpson and Son as well as several other shipping agents.

In 1924 these premises were purchased by Louis Hugo Muecke, son of Hugo Carl Emil Muecke, and redeveloped for H Muecke & Co. Hugo Carl Emil Muecke, son of Dr Carl Wilhelm Ludwig Muecke and his first wife Emilie, was born near Berlin on July 8, 1842. He arrived in South Australia with his parents in 1849.

The Muecke business is historically notable for being a direct continuation of John Newman’s business opened by 1839, making it the longest-established business in the Port, involving five generations of the Muecke family until they sold it in 2001.

John Newman arrived in South Australia in the Canton in 1838, and began working as a Merchant and Shipping Agent at the original landing place, later known as the Old Port. On the establishment of the New Port he commenced business trading as John Newman & Co, with premises in both Port Adelaide and Adelaide. He was well known in the district, being active in public matters concerning Port Adelaide, as well as being an accomplished sportsman.

By late 1853 the business name had changed to John Newman & Son. When he required a clerk who could speak German to assist with communicating with overseas companies, Newman employed the young Hugo Carl Emil Muecke, who could speak both English and German. Hugo developed an interest in the business and was made a partner in 1866.

Following the death of John Newman at his home ‘The Brocas’ on Woodville Road in 1873, H. C. E. Muecke continued the business of John Newman & Son which was located further down McLaren Parade, changing its name to H. Muecke & Co in 1877. H. Muecke & Co handled consignment and customs business, were agents for a number of shipping companies including Nord-Deutscher Lloyd and Archibald Currie and Co, and owned and operated small coastal vessels.

McLaren Parade 1865. A portion of a larger photograph courtesy of the State Library of South Australia B 5644.

McLaren Parade 1935. A portion of a larger photograph, courtesy of the State Library of South Australia B 9265. Muecke & Co’s building is at the extreme left.

In 1879 H. Muecke & Co commissioned two substantial stores in Timpson Street which were designed by architect Carl Ludwig Luehrs and built by Robin & Hack at a cost of £3000. The stores measured 50 x 100 feet each and included cellars.

Hugo Muecke was South Australia’s German Consul for many years, President of the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce, the first representative of the Chamber on the Marine Board of SA, a Director of the Bank of Adelaide, the Broken Hill Proprietary Company (B.H.P.), the Adelaide Steamship Company, the National Mutual Life Association, and the South British Insurance Company. He was also a prominent Freemason, serving as District Grand Master in South Australia under the Grand Lodge of Scotland, and a member of the Legislative Council from 1903 – 1910 for District No. 1 (Central). He also served on the Port Adelaide, Rosewater and Walkerville Councils.

In April 1914 Muecke became chairman of B.H.P. At the beginning of World War One suspicions were raised about his German heritage and trade activities, despite him being naturalised and living in South Australia for nearly 65 years. He resigned from B.H.P. and the Chamber of Commerce. His youngest son, a surgeon, wounded at Gallipoli, was then serving with the British forces in France. Hugo was interned in 1916, first at Fort Largs and later at home under military custody. Two sons, Ludwig and Louis, carried on his business and in 1926 his grandson, Jim also joined the business.

With the business expanding rapidly, this building was purchased in 1924 and remodelled by 1927, a new storage shed was erected on North Parade in 1927 and Fergusson’s Bond Store (now the South Australian Maritime Museum) was purchased in 1939. In 1955 the firm commenced H. Muecke Carrying Co, establishing a fleet of trucks and cargo carrying equipment, with a new bond and free store constructed in Lipson Street in the 1960s. A Container Park was also established in Birkenhead reflecting the growth of containerisation as the dominant means of cargo handling.

After more than a century at the McLaren Parade offices, in 1998 H. Muecke & Co moved into new premises on Elder Road at Birkenhead. The business remained in the family for 128 years encompassing 5 generations. In 2001 it was taken over by Fox Finance Group.

This house is built on portion of allotments 120 and 121 of Section 2112 in the Hundred of Port Adelaide.

Section 2112 was first granted to John Hill on 15 May 1841 by Governor George Gawler, the Commissioner of Public Lands in South Australia. John Hill put the land up as security for payment of a mortgage taken out from Jacob Hagen. The mortgage was foreclosed, and the land conveyed to Captain John Hart in July 1843 for £999.

In 1850 the land was transferred to a trust that later became known as the Port Land Co which included shareholders John Hart, Jacob Hagen, John Bentham Neales, Robert Forsyth MacGeorge, Joseph Barrow Montefiore, Robert Stuckey, Thomas H Williams, Gregory Seale Walters, Emanuel Solomon, William Paxton and William Henry Clark. In 1850 John Hart and John Neales were appointed trustees and empowered to subdivide and sell the land.

This portion of Section 2112 was subdivided in 1850 and this block sold to Charles Hains in 1874.

Charles Hains was one of the founders of the Port Adelaide Working Men’s Association which was formed to improve the conditions of working men in Port Adelaide. Hains offered the use of his shop for 12 months free of charge, including gas and water for Association meetings. Charles Hains was also instrumental in the formation of the Coasting Seamen’s Union and the Federated Seamen’s Union with his image depicted on the South Australian Seamen’s Union banner. Charles was also involved in municipal matters serving as a Councillor for East Ward for the Port Adelaide Corporation for seven years. He was also active in a number of community organisations and friendly societies.

On his death in 1893 “flags were flown at half-mast throughout the Port and shutters were put up at the windows of all the business places out of respect for the deceased”. His funeral attracted 2000 mourners, with 80 carriages forming a cortege up the Port Road to West Terrace Cemetery. Charles Hains name was recorded on the Port Adelaide Workers Memorial in 1918.

In 1891 ownership of the property transferred from Charles to his sons Joseph and Louis. Joseph was also heavily involved in unionism. He also joined the Working Men’s Association in 1872, progressing to the office of treasurer which he held for 20 years. He was also treasurer of the Coasting Seamen’s Union. He was a councillor for Portland Ward for the Port Adelaide Corporation in the 1880’s and 90’s. He was also an active member of many community organisations Friendly Societies, as well as managing the Dock Hotel for 35 years. Joseph’s name was also added to the Port Adelaide Workers Memorial in 1918.

Louis Hains was an auctioneer and commission agent at Port Adelaide. He also served on the Port Adelaide Corporation, first as a Councillor for four years and then as Alderman for seven years. He assisted in securing the annexation of the Rosewater, Semaphore and Port Adelaide councils. He was a firm supporter of friendly societies and connected to several Labor organisations.

James Frederick Scrymgour, a builder, purchased allotment 120 in 1907

In 1911 Allotment 121, a vacant block of land, was advertised for sale. James Sidney Walker purchased both allotments 120 and 121 in 1911 and 1912 repsectively. James was a tobacconist and hairdresser with premises in Commercial Road, Port Adelaide.

This property retains original features including the use of lightweight metal sheet cladding on a timber frame, including imitation stone patterned pressed metal on the front wall, horizontal laid corrugated iron on the side walls and a corrugated iron verandah with wrought iron lacework as typical features.

Allotment 120 Allotment 121

1891 Joseph and Louis Hains

1907 James Frederick Scrymgour

1911 Charles Sidney Walker 1912 Charles Sidney Walker

Portion of Allotments 120 and 121.

1951 William and Ada Gardiner

1984 Dudley Francis James and Helen Marguerite Dodd

Discussions regarding the need for a bridge connecting Port Adelaide with Lefevre Peninsula began seriously in the 1850s. The arrival of migrants from interstate and overseas, the growing population and the expansion of industries on the Peninsula all contributed to the need, resulting in the first bridge to cross the Port River, the timber Port Bridge, completed in line with St Vincent Street in 1859. It was replaced by the first Jervois Bridge, an iron ‘swing bridge’ – the central section could rotate to allow vessels to pass through either side – in 1878. It was built to carry the extension of the Adelaide to Port Adelaide railway line along St Vincent Street to Semaphore.

As the traffic crossing the Jervois Bridge steadily increased and new industries developed in Birkenhead from around the turn of the century, several locations for another bridge, including from Commercial Road to Victoria Road and Nelson Street to Victoria Road, were considered before the current location was selected. Ron Ritter’s book ‘Spanning Time and Tide: the Bridges of the Port Adelaide River’ provides a good summary of the decades of discussion. The Commercial Road location was not chosen as it would have obstructed navigation in the Gawler Reach.

Before the bridge was built row boats, steam and then motor ferries transported people and goods across the river from the Commercial Road ferry steps to Birkenhead and back. The last ferry, the Lena M, which had worked in the river since 1922, completed her final journeys decorated with bunting and carrying capacity loads, and was one of the first vessels to go under the new bridge.

The Birkenhead Bridge, the first double bascule bridge of its kind in Australia, was designed by Architect R. H. Chapman, Chief Engineer of the SA Railways and built by Adelaide Constructions Ltd., Perry Engineering and Noyes Brothers. The bridge is characterised by two spans, hinged at opposite ends. The weight of the bascules is balanced by counterweights which sink into pits on either side of the spans.

The bridge is 808 feet long, 53 feet wide and originally carried four lanes of traffic and two footpaths. Recent modifications have decreased the bridge to two lanes of traffic and a wider path on one side which includes bike lanes as well as a footpath.

The advent of World War Two did not significantly disrupt construction, with the bridge opening only a few months behind schedule.

The bridge was officially opened on December 14, 1940 by the Governor of South Australia, Sir Malcolm Barclay Harvey, who was provided gold scissors by the Premier of South Australia, Mr (later Sir) Thomas Playford, to cut the ribbon and open a more direct link between Port Adelaide, Birkenhead and northern Lefevre Peninsula. The Premier, in presenting the gold scissors, said “the State was making great efforts to become highly industrialised, and to foster this more than £1,000,000 a year had been spent on roads, and the Birkenhead Bridge was one of the projects founded under that scheme.” (Advertiser, 16 December 1940)

The bridge was originally operated by staff in the control towers at each end of the bascules. To open the bridge today you need to contact the Manager of Traffic Operations and provide at least two hours notice.

This bridge underwent a significant upgrade in 2020 by McMahon Services Pty Ltd which included the replacement of timber roadway deck with fibre reinforced polymer deck and timber footpath with aluminium.

The land on which this property stands, portion of allotment 7 of Section A (2011), was originally granted to George Fife Angas and others on 24 September 1839.

A four roomed weather board house was built c1842 on this site, which was then known as the New Port. Customs Officer, Captain Beaton occupied the premises for many years.

Thomas Henry Parker purchased the property from Annie Edmunds in 1888. Parker was born in Deal, Kent, on 7 December 1822. He was a butcher by trade, as was his father and also his grandfather. He was also civic minded, serving as a Councillor for the Municipality of Port Adelaide 1860 – 1866 and 1867 – 1871. A news report at the time of his death in 1912, at 90 years of age, described Parker as “one of the oldest inhabitants of Port Adelaide”, having lived at the Port since his arrival in the Cromwell in 1848.

The four roomed weather board house burnt down in 1907.

John Woollatt purchased the property from Thomas Henry Parker in 1909. John Woollatt was also a butcher. His butcher shop (right) was located on the corner of North Parade and Albert Streets at Port Adelaide. John Woollatt transferred ownership of the property to his wife Sarah in 1911.

This house, built in the distinctive Italianate style, represents a rare example of a substantial stone house built in this part of Port Adelaide compared to the workers cottages which dominated the area.

Sarah Woollatt died in June 1923 aged 57, John died in September 1935 aged 76 years.

When Sarah died in 1923 ownership of the house transferred to Ruby Nora Anderson who operated a restaurant in the former Criterion Hotel.

In 1950 the property was advertised in the Advertiser for sale as:

MASSIVE STONE VILLA RESIDENCE, containing 7 rooms, bathroom fitted with cast enamel bath and gas heater: laundry complete with concrete troughs and copper: gas and wood stoves and sink and drainboard installed in kitchen, E.L. power points…. This Property is in good condition and situated in a section of Port Adelaide which is rapidly becoming industrialised. It ls adjacent to the new Birkenhead Bridge, wharfs, and shipping activities of all kinds; one minute from St. Vincent St. shopping centre. It will undoubtedly rise in value in the future, owing to the rapidly decreasing number of available sites in this much-sought-after area.

Dora May Cooke, licensee of the Port Hotel (1943-1951) on North Parade purchased the property in 1950. The Port Hotel had the distinction of being the earliest recorded hotel in Port Adelaide operating from 1839 – 1951. The hotel was demolished in 1951 to make way for the redevelopment of Queens Wharf by the South Australian Harbours Board. After the closing of the Port Hotel, Dora May operated the property as a guest house.

The Australian Timber Workers Union owned the property from 1977 – 1984.

D & J Fowler, who received and distributed cargo from merchant vessels, originally set up their business in King William Street, Adelaide. In 1873, due to their expanding business, they rented a building of 7,500 square feet on McLaren wharf, Port Adelaide, for the storage of both bonded and free goods. In 1875 the premises were extended by 6,000 feet and in 1877 a further two buildings were rented. The inconvenience of storing merchandise in a number of premises caused Fowlers to buy land and build their own purpose-built warehouse in the new Port Dock area in 1880.

The new premises had a frontage to Santo Parade and St Vincent Street of 150 feet and a depth of 214 feet. One quarter of the premises was for bonded store and the remaining three quarters for free goods.

The Architect of this extensive warehouse was Mr. James Cumming, who provided for the handling, storage and transportation of goods. Dry Creek hard stone was used for the walls, which were built strong to enable a second floor should the need arise. The dressings are of Italian character.

The bulk store had a cellar, used for the storage of heavy goods, 7 ½ feet high, under three quarters of the building. Heavy rolled girders, supported by 120 cast iron columns, were used to carry the joists in the main floors. The ground floor is 18 feet high and the total flooring, including, the cellar, is about 1 and 1/3 acres, providing a storage capacity of 21,000 tons.

A railway, which was connected to the main government lines, ran through the centre of the bulk store to facilitate the transportation of goods, and hydraulic lifts and hoists, were used to load, unload and transport heavy goods.

The offices faced the dock, and the windows, and lights which ran along the entire roof, provided lighting.

D & J Fowlers sold the warehouse to Elder Smith & Co in 1942 for use as their Merchandise Store.

Built c1870s this shop once featured a two-storey verandah with iron lace balustrade, brackets and moulded timber posts that was removed post 1963. The façade of the building, including the parapet mouldings and french doors, remains largely intact.

This shop has played an important role in the longevity of the St Vincent Street retail shopping precinct providing local residents access to a range of small businesses including hairdressers, tobacconists, fancy goods, delicatessens and cafes.

The shop can be seen in this 1879 etching “Birdseye View of Port Adelaide” published in the Supplement to the Illustrated Adelaide News on May 1 1879.

From 1883 John Henderson and Anne Sharp operated a Tobacconist and Fancy Goods store until they moved further up St Vincent Street in 1905. John Henderson Sharp ran for Centre Ward in the 1899 municipal elections but was unsuccessful. He also gave testimony in support of the Brunswick Pier Hotel (now the Kirby Building at 147 St Vincent St) before the local option poll special bench hearings in 1909.

Those hearings led to the closure of thirteen of the district’s hotels, including the Brunswick Pier. John died at Glanville, aged 89 years, in July 1933, having been a Port Adelaide resident for 60 years.

Charles Sidney Walker leased the premises from 1905 and purchased them in 1923, where he operated his hairdresser and tobacconist business. In 1907 he was part of the Master Hairdressers Association which formed to propose to Parliament, for the Early Closing Act amendments, that 98% of hairdressers supported the hours of work for a hairdresser in the suburbs to be 8.00 am to 8.00 pm weekdays, 8.00 am to 10.00 pm Saturdays, 8.00 am to 1.00 pm Wednesdays and closed on Sundays.

The shop when it was owned by Charles Sidney Walker showing the two-storey verandah. Photograph courtesy of the State Library of South Australia B 11438

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From 1946 to 1951 the shop was owned by Alfred Ernest Roy and Lillian Agnes Cassidy who also operated it as a Hairdresser and Tobacconist.

In 1951 Charles Benjamin and Rene Craigie purchased it to operate a ladies and gentlemen’s hairdresser.

Unfortunately, Charles Benjamin died a few months after purchasing the business.

Jan and Eudoxia Rakowski, Polish immigrants, began their business in the premises from 1952 and purchased the building in1953.

The Rakowskis operated the shop as a restaurant with dancing, a hairdresser, haberdashery and delicatessen selling music, beads, earrings, bracelets, wallets and various other gifts. They also sold European delicatessen foods including Polish cookies and pies, flatbread, croissants, buns and cold meats, and books and magazines in different languages.

The photo below by Michael H Lockley from May 1964 shows the two-storey verandah.

Photograph courtesy of the State Library of South Australia and Michael H Lockley B 70890/30

In 2021 the shop is the home of Delicia Café

Birdseye View of Port Adelaide

Photograph showing 126 St Vincent Street Port Adelaide when it was owned by Charles Sidney Walker.

Photograph showing 126 St Vincent Street, Port Adelaide taken by Michel H Lockley.

Thomas Henry Parker was born in Deal, Kent, on 7 December 1822. He arrived in South Australia in the Cromwell in 1848, and purchased the property below, which occupied this site, on 3 July 1866. Thomas Henry Parker was a butcher by trade, as was his father and also his grandfather. He was also civic minded, serving as a Councilor for the Municipality of Port Adelaide 1860 – 1866 and 1867 – 1871.

In 1867 Parker commissioned builder John Cleave to construct this building under the direction of architect James MacGeorge. At that time St Vincent Street was described as the King William Street of Port Adelaide – broad, well situated and rapidly filling with superior buildings. The new building, consisting of 12 rooms, was built of Dry Creek stone with brick quoins, of two storeys, with a balcony and verandah to both St Vincent and Robe Streets and arched 8 pane windows.

In 1876 Parker advertised the property for sale “a First-Class Stone and Brick Shop and Dwelling of 12 Rooms — 11 rooms and shop — Balcony, Stable, &c. The House is splendidly situated for business purposes, and the greater portion of it is new.”

The Property was purchased by Theodor Johann Scherk on 31 August 1877.

George Sefton opened his restaurant the Brunswick Pier in these premises in 1877.

He applied for and was successful in gaining a hotel license in 1878. To secure the licence he had to enlarge the property. A further nine rooms were added, including two dining-rooms and seven bedrooms.

In 1878 the property was advertised “This First-class Restaurant has just been extensively enlarged to accommodate families and boarders, and a hotel licence obtained to meet the wants of patrons, who will now find every comfort in London style”, “plunge and shower baths, &c. Ales, Wines, and Spirits of the choicest brands and brick stabling.”

In February 1906, as a result of campaigns by the Temperance Movement to stamp out the evils of excessive drinking, a local option poll was held where it was agreed15 hotel licences in Port Adelaide were to be cancelled.

Mr. F. G. Downer, who represented the licensee (Mrs. Winslet), said the Brunswick Pier Hotel was convenient, well established, substantially built, largely patronised and bore an excellent reputation during her tenancy. He also provided a petition signed by 270 local residents urging the hotel not be closed. Despite their best efforts, the Brunswick Pier was one of the fifteen hotels closed in 1909.

In April 1909 the former hotel was advertised as “valuable property known as the Brunswick Pier Hotel, corner of St. Vincent-street and Robe-street, Port Adelaide. These premises are most substantially built, and contains 15 rooms, cellar, stable, coach house, &c., and would pay handsomely if converted into shops.” Bevan Kirby, a local chemist, purchased the building in May 1909.

Following the hotels closure the building resumed its previous existence as a butcher, the Adelaide Meat Store (Port Adelaide), operated by F Hancock with “the best quality meat always obtainable” from 1911 - 1924.

Bevan Kirby operated Kirby B, and Co, Chemist and photographic importers on the opposite corner of Robe Street to the former Brunswick Pier Hotel until 1924. In 1925 he relocated his chemist to this building. Bevan Kirby was born in Port Adelaide in 1881 to the Reverend Joseph Coles Kirby and Margaret Hale. Bevan attained his chemist diploma at the Sydney University in 1901. He then worked as a dispenser at the Royal Adelaide Hospital until 1908 when he opened his chemist shop in Port Adelaide. Kirby was noted for developing a teething powder ”Calcarea” for Port Adelaide children which became known throughout Australia. He served as Chairman of the Port Adelaide Master Chemists Association, was a member of Port Adelaide Rotary, president of the Port Adelaide Institute, and supporter of the Port Adelaide Seamen’s Mission and the Shiplovers’ Society.

From 1925 Kirby Chambers are also listed in the South Australian Almanacs and Directories at this location. Kirby Chambers provided rooms for professional services including doctors, dentists, opticians, solicitors and land agents.

In 1947 Birks Chemist leased the premises and purchased the Pharmaceutical business from Bevan Kirby, offering the district efficient dispensing and pharmaceutical services. The building remained a chemist until 1996.

In more recent years the building has been a café including the Saucy Sailor opened in 2018 and currently the Banksia Tree café in 2019.

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William Blackler (1827-96)

William Blackler’s obituary in the South Australian Register records that he and his parents emigrated from England and arrived in South Australia in 1839, where his father started farming at Unley. More importantly, it also says that he visited Bendigo in Victoria in 1851 and ‘being fortunate on the goldfields he returned to the colony and took the Port Hotel at Port Adelaide’. He was there 1854-61 and then moved to two other local hotels, the Semaphore (1861-62) and the Britannia (1863-69). Presumably it was that good start in a new career that allowed him to employ former Colonial Architect (the title of the Government’s Chief Architect), Edward Hamilton, to design his new warehouses in St Vincent Street.

Hamilton had recently demonstrated his abilities on another local building, the combined Police Station, Court House and Custom House in Commercial Rd [opened 1860: currently the Visitor Information Centre], which had innovative timber and lime cement foundations to cope with the soft soil. This 1865 newspaper report documents his approach to Blackler’s commission and shows how he approached the fundamental requirements of warehouses: to be secure, bear heavy loads, and allow for easy movement of goods. His provision of lifts powered by water under pressure was one of the earliest instances of that in the colony.

‘New Buildings at Port Adelaide. — Mr F Reynolds has just completed the erection of three large and substantial warehouses at Port Adelaide for Mr William Blackler. They are situated in St Vincent-street, nearly opposite the Railway Station, and their size and design render them one of the most conspicuous of the buildings at the Port. The two largest are adjoining each other, but the other is separated by a narrow street. The dimensions of the two large warehouses is 91 feet frontage, by an average depth of 73 feet. The other has a frontage of 29 feet 6 inches by a depth of 71 feet. They consist of three floors, beside cellars. The cellars are 8 feet in height; the ground floor, 13 feet; the first floor, 9 feet; and the second floor, 8 feet.

Photo courtesy Port Adelaide Historical Society (Possibly 1860s)

The foundation is of concrete and double timbers bolted with iron straps and bolts. The walls are of Dry Creek stone, with cut freestone dressings and brick quoins and arches to the windows and doors, and brick cornice and coping. In order to equalize the bearings inverted arches are also placed beneath all the lower doorways and windows. The floors are heavily joisted, and at intervals of 10 feet iron straps are bolted across the buildings, and in fact every precaution has been adopted to secure strength.

On the ground floor will be fitted an hydraulic lift capable of raising 15cwt to the top floor. Rails will also be laid on each floor, so that a truck raised from the ground floor by the lift can be moved with its contents to any part of the stores. There are also openings to the side street. The work has been carried out under the able superintendence of Mr. Bradley, the architect being Mr. E. A. Hamilton.’ - South Australian Register, 26 April 1865, p5

This building, no 225, has had several tenants down the years, including J Rawlings & Sons, Customs and Shipping Agents, who used it as a Free Store, and M Donaghy & Sons of Geelong, Victoria, who set up a rope manufacturing business making cordage and harvest twine in nearby Queenstown. They opened the business in 1886 due to a duty of £8 per ton being imposed on the importation of rope into South Australia at that time. As a result of post-federation free trade the factory closed in 1907 as M Donaghy & Sons found it more economical to manufacture rope in Geelong and transport it South Australia. They retained their offices at 225 St Vincent Street Port Adelaide until 1916.

Since 1918, 225 St Vincent Street has been occupied by Smith, Channon & Co., Customs Shipping and Real Property Act Agents, one of Adelaide’s longest established International Freight Forwarders and Customs Brokerage firms. The business was constituted c1885.

The original founders were:

George Warren Smith, a town clerk of Port Adelaide, a member of the Port Adelaide Institute and a foundation member of the Port Adelaide Seamen’s Mission;

his younger brother Charles Trafford Smith, a prominent member of the Church of England and a ministers warden under Canon Green and the Reverend F. W. Samwell, and also a member of the parochial chapter of the Brotherhood of St Andrew; and

John William Channon, a councillor and alderman for Centre Ward for the City of Port Adelaide, a member of the Port Adelaide Institute Committee, a member of the Importers and Agents Association, a senior justice at Port Adelaide, a deacon of the Congregational Church and an enthusiastic member of several bowls clubs.

Current services include International Freight Forwarding, Barrier Clearance – Customs and Quarantine and Land-based Logistics Services.

Architect: Edward Angus Hamilton

William Blackler - Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), Saturday 4 July 1896, page 18

The Late Mr. William Blackler - South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Monday 29 June 1896, page 7

James Rawlings - Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Wednesday 29 January 1896, page 6

John William Channon - News (Adelaide, SA : 1923 - 1954), Saturday 8 December 1923, page 6

Mr. John William Channon: obituary - Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Tuesday 24 December 1929, page 19

Charles Trafford Smith - Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), Saturday 29 February 1896, page 20

George Warren Smith - Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Saturday 21 April 1928, page 12

The first Railway Hotel, built in 1849, is the current Port Admiral Hotel situated on the corner of Commercial Road and St. Vincent Street. The second Railway Hotel was built in 1856 on the corner of Lipson and St. Vincent Streets, opposite the then Port Adelaide Railway Station, later becoming the Port Dock Railway Station, which provided the hotel with much of its clientele.

While the building is of stone and brick construction, the ground floor is described as of random stone work construction, while the upper floor is entirely brick, indicating two stages of construction. The building exhibits a two –storey verandah, featuring simple cast iron work and plain detailing including scalloped fascia boards to the first floor. Stables were originally located outside at the back of the building, but over time were gradually subsumed into the basement as land reclamation between 1850 and 1880 raised the surrounding ground level by as much as two metres.

The hotel attracted a diverse range of locals and visitors, with this popularity possibly saving it from closure, as occurred to 15 other Port Adelaide hotels in 1909, due to the Local Option Poll. This was due to the rise of the temperance movement in South Australia, which aimed to outlaw the liquor trade, and ameliorate the social consequences of alcohol consumption. The temperance movement was particularly active in the late 19th- early 20th Centuries, with the introduction of six o’clock closing in 1916 as one of their successes.

Since the hotel’s first licensee William Wooldridge, the hotel has had many licensees over the decades, while maintaining its popularity over that time, and can boast nearly 160 years of continuous operation. However, containerisation of the shipping industry in the 1970s caused a downturn in trade for many of Port Adelaide’s hotels, including the Railway. The hotel was purchased by Fred Hiscock and Sue O’Reilly in 1989, put up for sale in 2010, and sold to Tony Bond in 2014.

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This early bluestone building incorporates red brick quoins highlighting the windows and doorway. Its construction date is unknown. At some stage the doorway was modified, as a 1929 photo shows the doorway with a rounded door head.

John McKell, was born in Falkirk, Scotland in 1866. He learnt the trade of pattern maker at the age of 12 at the Springfield Ironworks. He was just 18 when he migrated to South Australia in the 1880s in the Loch Sloy. In South Australia he worked for James Martin’s engineering business at Gawler, and at Fletcher’s Slip, Port Adelaide, before joining Mr Schumacher, a manufacturer of flour milling machinery at Kilkenny. John McKell managed the Kilkenny business for 12 years before starting his own business in these premises in Timpson St in 1901. His sons later joined him.

Flour milling was one of the most important industries in early South Australia where large quantities of wheat was produced. The colony was known as ‘the granary of Australia’ in the 19th century. Machinery and grindstones were imported from Europe until businesses such as John McKell’s began to produce flour milling components. John McKell used the adjacent iron shed for his mill building and furnishing enterprise.

In 1925 John McKell & Sons was awarded a bronze medal for their “Marvel” flour centrifugal dressing machine and “Marvel” self-raising flour mixer at the All-Australian Exhibition in Adelaide.

In the 1920s they were agents for overseas manufacturers of antifriction metals, belting, pulleys, high speed twist drills and other inventions. In 1925 they constructed a large mixing and blending machine, the largest of its type made or operated in Australia, for manufacturing chemists A M Bickford & Sons. The machine, which was designed by McKell & Sons in collaboration with Messrs. Bickford's engineers, embodied all the latest improvements and had a capacity of approximately one ton of material. The machine was created to assist with the manufacture of Bickford’s famed effervescent — Sal Vital. It was conveyed from Port Adelaide on a special trolley, and had to be dismantled to fit in the goods lift for installation on the third floor of Messrs. Bickford's modern laboratories in Waymouth Street.

In 1928 John McKell & Sons constructed a Tattersall flour mill at Merredin, Western Australia. Imported from England, it was capable of treating 20,000 bags of wheat annually. The buildings were substantially built and the foundations for the machinery were all cement blocks. Money had not been spared (or wasted) in providing for the most efficient and economical working of the plant.

In 1930 John McKell and Sons expanded their business to include a new office and store at 129 Currie Street, Adelaide.

The business ceased operations in 1990 with some of the equipment donated to the SA Maritime Museum and some sold to San Remo Pasta. In 1997 the building was converted into a private residence.

The first (1878) Jervois “swing” Bridge across the Port River also carried 150mm water pipes to supply Lefevre Peninsula with water. Whenever the bridge was opened to allow shipping manoeuvres, Peninsula folk had no water until the 30m high, octagonal, red brick tower, with 2 metre thick walls at the base, narrowing above ground floor level, topped by a 66,000 gallon (300,000 litre) gravity fed “reservoir” tank, was built in 1880.

Captain John Hart, Premier of South Australia for several terms, was one of the disgruntled Peninsula residents as his home, “Glanville Hall”, now in Park Street, Semaphore South, affected by the water outages. “Lady Hart” couldn’t make a “cuppa” for her croquet guests until the bridge was closed again, often hours after her guests had departed!

Water was originally supplied from North Adelaide. In 1898, a main along Military Road, from the new Happy Valley Reservoir provided the Peninsula a permanent supply of water and this was supported in 1916 by the pipeline across the Port River which was realigned to the railway bridge. After 1916 the Water Tower tank was used for storage to boost the water pressure in case of fire in the area. Engineering and Water Supply employees used the site as a holiday camp during the depression.

The Commissioner of Works sold the property to Alexander Whittle in 1936, who built apartments around it. The Tower was used as an Observation Point during WW II for plane spotting and as a landmark for masters of incoming ships. The Tower itself became a residence in 1972. It was sold for $1.2m in November 2018.

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This two-storey house forms an important part of the Semaphore Pier Historic Precinct. It was built from sandstone, with a timber verandah and balcony and corrugated iron roof for Edith Emily and Sarah Tamzzine Marshall circa 1916, for a boarding house.

The land on which this property was built was first purchased by Uriah George William Marshall in 1866. Uriah was a mariner, who joined the English navy early in life, then emigrated to South Australia. He worked for the pilot service at Semaphore, and while there, was a member of the rescue party to the wreck of the ‘Admella’, for which he received three medals for his lifesaving work. He was later head lighthouse keeper at Cape Northumberland for 25 years.

Edith and Sarah named the building Tamerton Folliott, the birthplace of their father Uriah George William Marshall.

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1978......Malcolm Robert Milligan, Margaret Elizabeth Milligan, Cecil Eugen Wood, Marjorie Elaine Wood, Oriel Atkinson Hewson, Glenville James Day, Thelma Dorothy Day,Otto Roth, Eleanor Frank Roth, Kevin Incledon Smith, George Phillip Rolf, Mabel Butters,& Blanch Emily Bradfield

1979......Clarence Reinhold Geue , Margaret Christina Geue, Murray Talbot Seymour, Margaret Gwendoline Seymour, Maza Hamra, Roger Corbet Whittem, Mala Hendel & Joseph Hamra

1979......George Masen & George Contos 1979......Mario DiRubbo Antonia DiRubbo & Catherin Phoeb e Hensel 1979......Lien Lodged Leslie Morris

Council Reference Number: 155353

This house represents the substantial two-storey buildings constructed along this section of the Esplanade at a time of expansion in Semaphore, due to factors such as improved transport via the extension of the Adelaide to Port Adelaide railway line to Glanville and thence to the sea end of Semaphore Rd in 1878. Construction materials include faced sandstone, timber verandah and balconies, and a corrugated iron roof.

This house was built for George and Rosa Foulis on land purchased from Uriah George William Marshall in 1869. Uriah Marshall served in the pilot service at Semaphore and was a lighthouse keeper on the Port Adelaide Lightship, head keeper at Tipara Lighthouse, and spent 25 years in charge of Cape Northumberland Lighthouse. He was also in charge of the rescue boat which attended the wreck of the “Admella” in 1859, receiving three medals for the bravery he displayed on that occasion.

Uriah Marshall and George Foulis were part owners of the boarding boat Unity which Foulis raced in the Port Adelaide Regatta. Richard Jagoe, a well-known Semaphore identity affectionately known as the “Sandhill Savage”, used the Unity until he was able to secure a boat of his own.

George Foulis, a mariner who was Master of the schooner “Hawthorn”, engaged in trade with the regional ports of Port Pirie and Port Augusta, shipping goods such as wheat, wool and copper.

In 1885 he leased this property for 7 years to William Patterson Lyons, a noted musician who appeared in the Theatre Royal. When George died in 1887, ownership of the property transferred to Rosa.

In 1927, under the Trustee Act of 1893, ownership of the property was shared between Rosa Foulis and Stephen Martin, a Methodist Minister of McLaren Vale.

In 1946 Stephen Martin subdivided the property and sold this portion to Harold William Thomas Heritage in 1946. On Harold’s death in 1979 ownership transferred to Gordon Heritage and then to Doris Heritage in 1980.

Photograph courtesy of the State Library of South Australia B 40902

Photograph Courtesy of the State Library of South Australia B 26518

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This house is historically significant as it was built for Richard Jagoe c1881 by Mr John Deslandes to the design of Mr Carl Ludwig Leuhrs. It was one of the first to be built on the Esplanade, providing Richard Jagoe access to shipping anchored offshore, enabling him to fulfil his roles as a newspaper shipping reporter; honorary health, officer and proprietor of a fleet of 'beach boats' which transported goods and passengers to and from vessels at the Semaphore Anchorage

Richard Jagoe, one of the earliest residents in Semaphore, was born in Truro, Cornwall England, on 15 March 1833. He arrived in South Australia with his parents in 1849 on the Troubadour.

As a shipping reporter for Adelaide newspapers for many years, it was his role to board incoming ships to collect and share information. Newspaper operators in each state would supply shipping company’s free national and international newspapers on the understanding the papers would be passed on to other newspaper operators at the next port of call. Newspaper companies did this so that information could be freely exchanged without having to set up a branch newspaper office or local representative in each state.

As assistant Health Officer Rchard Jagoe served under Doctor Handyside Duncan.

Known as the “Sandhill Savage” Richard Jagoe was the owner of a fleet of 'beach boats' which transported goods and passengers to and from vessels at the Semaphore Anchorage. His business began with whaleboats, which were later replaced by sailing craft and then steam launches.

From 1933 – 39 the property was known as Rhaiadore Grammar School, Primary and Collegiate for young gentlemen, whose pupils aim was to achieve outstanding success. Accommodation was available for boarders, “who had a family place in our home life.”

This property has also been used as a boarding house and is now a private residence.

Photo above of Mr. Richard Jagoe courtesy of the State Library of South Australia

Photos: Mr. Richard Jagoe Richard Jagoe photo signed Jagoe’s prior two-storey house and the adjacent Timeball Tower and Signal Station in 1877 SLSA B2408 Jagoe’s house is right of centre, on the corner of Newman St and the Esplanade. c1910 A busier day c1920

Former Semaphore Customs Boarding Station

The Semaphore Customs Boarding Station represents the era of shipping on Lefevre Peninsula prior to the establishment of Outer Harbor in 1908. The tender for the building was awarded to Burge and Kestel in June 1882.

This building formerly housed the Semaphore Customs Boarding Station from 1883 to 1908. It was built to house officers performing customs and quarantine checks of passengers landing from ships off Semaphore. The work of customs and quarantine duties were handled in offices downstairs while living quarters including living rooms, scullery, water closets, a bathroom, galvanised iron tank and out offices were located upstairs.

The building eventually fell into disuse, and following a concerted campaign by community groups, it was saved from demolition in 1978. It was subsequently bought and restored by the South Australian Housing Trust.

During its period of disuse, the building was described as one of the few remaining tangible links with the past on Lefevre Peninsula.

Constructed in 1922 after the destruction of the Semaphore Baths in 1917, the Palais was officially opened by the Mayor of Port Adelaide (Mr H Slade) on 23 December that year. The Palais was built to complement the existing seaside recreational complex surrounding the Semaphore jetty entrance and foreshore, which included a fairground, bandstands, rotundas, shops, and a picture theatre.

Constructed as a Bathing Pavilion, Palais, and café, and run by the Fricker brothers and William Dunn, the lower story had lockers for 500 bathers and changing cubicles for 110 persons. The second floor comprised the café, kitchen and a very large dance floor with access to the roof garden. The original interior included jarrah flooring and seating, leadlight windows and swing doors, and large porthole windows in the tower.

The bathing pavilion offered hire of lockers for bathers to store clothing and belongings, as well as changing cubicles, towels and bathing costumes. Dances were another popular form of entertainment and were held regularly during the 1920s and early 1930s.

Popularity declined in the 1930s and the Palais was used intermittently as a dance hall until the 1960s, when it was renovated and leased to the Semaphore Surf Life Saving Club. Renovations included removal of the square-based tower.

The Palais represents a time when going to the seaside was a popular form of entertainment and is the last remnant of this complex of beachfront entertainment, and example of a social and historical phenomenon which has changed in modern times.

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The Semaphore Beach: Bathing Pavilion opened 1922

Semaphore Baths Pavilion: Opening Ceremony 1922

Semaphore Palais circa 1926

Photos from State Library of South Australia

Warrinilla (formerly Doctor Bollen’s Surgery)

43 Semaphore Rd Semaphore

Warinilla (restful sleeping place) was purpose built as a doctors surgery and residence, in1894 for Dr. Percival and Elizabeth Bollen. Dr. Bollen was the son of George Bollen, a former Mayor of Port Adelaide and President of the Port Adelaide Institute.

Built by J Cleave for £1500, the house served as a doctor’s surgery for Dr. Bollen and later his son Dr. Kenneth Bollen. In 1954 Dr. Vivian Lee Hawke purchased the house and continued the medical tradition. The Vickridge-Smiths purchased the residence in 1998.

Original interior joinery and external decorative detail including rendered quoins and window surrounds, paired eave brackets, and cast iron work on the balcony and verandahs have been retained. A rear extension was added in 1910.

The Semaphore branch of the Masonic Lodge was founded in 1884 when a meeting to discuss the formation of a masonic lodge at Semaphore was first discussed at Roses, Semaphore Hotel in July 1884. Philip Sansom presided over the meeting. He said he had secured a room at the Semaphore Institute on the last Thursday night of each month for meetings.

Semaphore Lodge, No. 33, the third lodge to form in South Australia after the consummation of Masonic Unity, was formally consecrated on 29 August 1884 at the Semaphore Institute in the presence of about 100 members. The ceremony was performed by the Right Worthy Deputy Grand Master H. Downer MP. Many of the members already belonged to the Adelaide Lodge but decided to form a lodge at Semaphore. Phillip Sansom was elected the first Master.

In October 1909 a building committee comprising Bros. E. T. Woods, W. Mussared, H. J. King, F. W. Tabor, Dr. P. Bollen, A. J. Ashburton, and W. Berry (hon, secretary) was formed with power to act in taking steps for the erection of a Masonic Hall in Semaphore. Five of the building committee, F. W. Tabor, E. T. Woods, W. Mussared, W. Berry and H. J. King became trustees and were personally responsible to guarantee the mortgage payments incurred in the erection of the buildings.

Local Freemasons pledged between £800 and £900 and a three-day bazaar held in October 1910 held in the Semaphore Town Hall, for the furtherance of the building scheme, provided a further £135 toward the cost of the premises. The bazaar was opened by Port Adelaide Mayoress Jane Rofe.

In January 1910 land on Semaphore Road was purchased for £525 on a location described as “one of the finest sites in Semaphore”.

Plans for the temple were created by Charles Walter Rutt and tenders were called for in December 1910. Bro Firth Tillotsen was the successful Tender.

The foundation stone was laid with full ritual by the M. W., the Grand Master, Right Hon. Samuel. J. Way, on 25 September 1911, before a large gathering of Grand Lodge officers and members and the general public. Prior to the ceremony the Semaphore Lodge met at Jagoe Street Hall, and thence marched in procession to the site of the new building.

A casket containing a record of the proceedings, newspapers of the day, and coins of the realm, was deposited in the cavity underneath the stone, which bore the following inscription in gold letters:— ''This stone was laid by the Right Hon. Sir S. J. Way, Bart., P.C, M.W. Grand Master of A. F. and A. Masons in South Australia, 25th February, 1911.

Design features include a masonic temple above with four ground level shops which flank an arched central entrance which leads to the hall upstairs and the building behind. The verandah is supported by square cast iron columns. Ancient Egyptian features including columns with symbolic globes atop either side of the archway entrance and symbols on the upper left front of the building with smaller windows compared to the upper right side.

The first regular meeting of Semaphore Lodge no 33 was held in the Semaphore Road Temple in June 1911.

Architect: Charles Walter Rutt

Phillip Sansom - Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931), Saturday 25 October 1913, page 39

William Mussared - Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), Saturday 19 January 1929, page 60

The introduction of the trainline to Semaphore from Port Adelaide and Adelaide via the Jervois Bridge in 1878 enabled the development of properties along this section of Semaphore Road. These substantial residences were built of bluestone and sandstone and incorporated bay windows, rendered masonry trim, wrought iron fences, and corrugated iron roofs.

Allotment 20 was advertised for sale as vacant land in 1872

Richard Henry Barrett, a master mariner, purchased portions of allotment 19 and 20 Semaphore Road in 1881. Barrett, master of the Brig Lochinvar, engaged in the interstate coastal trade visiting Newcastle and other major interstate ports before becoming one of the earliest pilots in the South Australian Pilot Service where he served for 37 years from 1862 – 1899. He died in 1905 in Perth aged 73 years.

Ownership of the property then transferred to Josephine Tier 1905 – 1912.

In 1912 George Wafford Dempster purchased the property as an investment property as he lived in Queenstown. On his passing in 1918 his obituary in the Port Adelaide news read:

Port Adelaide has lost a valued citizen, A true sport and a polished courteous gentleman… He earned the love and esteem of many and had no enemies. He was the oldest established solicitor at Port Adelaide, and he lived the whole of his life at the Port… Dempster began practice as a solicitor in 1872 with his father James law firm Dempster & Dempster. His clientele included leading shipping companies and Port Adelaide identity David Bower who specifically instructed in his will that Dempster be appointed solicitor to his estate.

Dempster was also an accomplished sportsman, including as a player with the early days of the Port Adelaide Football Club when they played on Bucks flat at Glanville near Harts paddock. He was an all-round sportsman... He was involved in horse racing... He sailed his own yacht and was an enthusiastic promoter of the Port Adelaide regatta and was a member of the Alberton Oval Bowling Club.”

Subsequent owners of the property include Isabel Hussey in 1919 and then Mary Ann Keal, who was one of the most valued workers of the Rosewater Methodist Church. Mary Ann was born at Bristol on 26 September, 1837, and arrived at Port Adelaide in the ship Utopia, on 10 July 1858 as Mary Ann Swaffield. Her husband William Hurst Keal arrived on the same ship. They married soon after arrival.

Monika Molloy purchased the property in 1943. She managed the property as a boarding house. A noteworthy incident took place in March 1946 when one of the boarders, Cyril Humphries Smith, a labourer with the Port Adelaide Corporation, died in a stabbing at the property. A 21 year old man, Alexander Thomas Tucker, was subsequently charged with manslaughter, with the charge ultimately dismissed on the grounds of self-defence.

Arthur Stanley and Grace Leila Ross purchased the property in 1955, Vincas and Lindovinka Gudiskis in 1956 and Arthur Rosenzwieg in 1970.

1881 Richard Henry and Elizabeth Barrett

1912 George Wafford Dempster

1943 Monica Molloy (died 1955)

1955 Arthur Stanley and Grace Leila Ross

1956 Vincas and Lindovinka Gadiskis

1970 Arthur Clemence Rozenweig

The land on which this house was built was originally granted to Robert Thornber on 9 May 1850 by Sir Henry Edward Fox Young Lieutenant Governor of South Australia. Mariner John Yeo purchased this allotment 114 (8 and 9) of section 115 (1110) in 1878.

These stone buildings with bay windows, rendered masonry trim, and corrugated iron roof represent the development of substantial residential properties along this section of Semaphore Road due to the introduction of the railway to Semaphore from Port Adelaide and Adelaide via the Jervois Bridge in 1878.

Captain John Yeo was a colonist of 54 years. He arrived in South Australia on the ship Theresa and settled on Torrens Island with his parents. He went to sea with Captain John Germein in his schooner Agenora.

Yeo then purchased his own schooner Omeo, which foundered in Spencer Gulf. He then purchased the Eclipse, trading between Port Adelaide and west coast ports including Wallaroo. He then purchased the steamer Kangaroo. In the 1860’s he managed the Port Admiral Hotel for about eight years and served as a councillor for the Semaphore Corporation 1885 – 1888 and 1899 – 1900.

Thomas Arthur Spritch purchased the property in 1893. He was born in Water Street Semaphore in 1879 and attended Lefevre Primary School. He worked for Crooks and Brooker in Port Adelaide while gaining accounting qualifications and then worked for the Union Bank of Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland. He played lacrosse for the Semaphore Lacrosse Club, was a rower with the Port Adelaide rowing club and a member of the Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron regularly competing in the Port Regatta, sailing the ‘viper’. He served in WW1 in the 15th Infantry Battalion, reaching the rank of sergeant. He was killed in action at Gallipoli on 6 May 1915 Thomas Arthur Spritch is honoured on the Australia War Memorial Roll of Honour and Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey.

The property was purchased by Sabina Maud Spritch (Thomas’s sister) in 1905, Arnold John and Mary Annie Job in 1946 and William Peter and Joanne Ruth Villani in 1988. The current owner is Tracy Halliday.

1893 Thomas Arthur Spritch

1905 Sabina Maud Spritch – 1907 Married Teazel Andrew Crow

1946 Arnold John and Mary Annie Job

1988 William Peter and Joanne Ruth Villani

This bluestone building with bay windows, rendered masonry trim, decorative parapet and corrugated iron roof represents the development of substantial residential properties built along this section of Semaphore Road due to the introduction of the railway to Semaphore from Port Adelaide and Adelaide via the Jervois Bridge in 1878.

The land on which this house stands allotment, 117 (7) of Section 1115 (1110), was originally granted to Robert Thornber on 8 October 1851 by Sir Henry Edward Fox Young Lieutenant Governor of South Australia. It was advertised for sale, “the position of this allotment renders it valuable as an investment”, on 9 June 1854 and purchased by William James Turner on 14 April 1866.

Frederick James Sanderson purchased the property later that year in October 1866. Sanderson began his career in the public service in 1854 as a clerk in the Treasury, then in the Lands Titles Office, the Attorney-General's Department where he was appointed the first Commissioner of Patents, from 1878 Collector of Customs and then President of the Marine Board. He was also appointed a Special Magistrate where he adjudicated many maritime cases

Jane Ching purchased the property in 1872. On her passing in 1896 the property was sold to John Yeo and Thomas Weetman in 1897.

Captain John Yeo was a colonist of 54 years. He arrived in South Australia on the ship Theresa and settled on Torrens Island with his parents. He went to sea with Captain John Germein in his schooner Agenora. Yeo then purchased the schooner Omeo, which foundered in Spencer Gulf. He then purchased the Eclipse, trading between Port Adelaide and west coast ports including Wallaroo and later the steamer Kangaroo. In the 1860’s he managed the Port Admiral Hotel for about eight years and served as a councillor for Semaphore Corporation 1885 – 1888 and 1899 – 1900.

Thomas Weetman was also a master mariner, commanding the ship Argyle. The house was then divided into two with this portion sold to Amy Weetman wife of Thomas and No 100 Semaphore Road sold to Mable Lewis.

Dorothea Klingberg managed the property as a guest house from 1955 – 1965.

We believe this property was one of the first residential property on Semaphore Road the stone used was from the ballast of ships

119 Semaphore Road

The extension of the Adelaide to Port Adelaide railway to the sea end of Semaphore Road in 1878 via the original Jervois Bridge, which was built to carry it, boosted the residential, commercial, and tourist potential of the district. These shops served the increasing population requiring goods and services at the eastern end of the Road.

William Hastie’s bakehouse and grocery, now 119 Semaphore Road, opened in 1883 in a newly-built two-storey stone building with red brick quoins and an iron lace decorated verandah. The building included living quarters and had extensive sheds and stabling. The store sold general goods as well as hiring out horses and traps.

The erection of a fine two-storied shop and dwelling-house for Mr. Hastie (Baker), at Exeter, may be taken as an indication of the progress and development of that portion of the suburbs of Port Adelaide. The building will be the finest two-storied structure in the neighborhood. The height of the structure is 25 feet from the foundation to commencement of parapet, and it has 47 feet frontage. A large division of the building, 22 feet by 28 feet, is devoted to the purposes of a shop. The building is erected to a design of Mr. W. Beattie, and the contractor, who appears to be doing good work, is Mr. Johansen. In addition to the shop Mr. Hastie has had extensive shed and stabling accommodation provided, and it is quite evident that he intends to keep pace with the times.

- Port Adelaide News, Tuesday 12 December 1882, p1, col 4

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Around 1897 William Hastie sold his business to Edward Oldfield, the genesis of the business that became Oldfields Ltd, which grew to be one of the largest breadmakers in South Australia by the time their new Albert Park factory was opened in 1953.

Photograph c1886 courtesy of the State Library of South Australia, B8248. Donated by Mrs. J.G. Grundy.

A later tenant was A C Fraser & Co, whose business was described in the ‘Review of the City of Port Adelaide 1901’ that was published to celebrate the district becoming a City having exceeded the requisite 20,000 inhabitants.

MESSRS. A. C. FRASER & CO., DRAPERS, SEMAPHORE.

About six years ago Mr. Robert Fraser induced his brother (Mr. A. C. Fraser) to leave “Burlington House” Adelaide, to become managing partner in the firm of A. C. Fraser & Co., drapers, of Semaphore. A small store was first started, but the venture proved so successful that it was found necessary to make an addition to the store. This was done, and the interior of the store is now one of the best arranged in the state.

It is well lighted in such a way that all goods can be shown to advantage and the customer is enabled to see just what class of goods she may be buying. Six assistants are now employed in the store. All drapery lines, dress goods, household drapery, and hosiery are shown in the front room, and in the extensive showroom in the rear are shown fancy goods, millinery, and all showroom requisites, capes, mantles, jackets, and underclothing.

No store in the place can boast of a more up-to-date stock of goods, and in selling these lines the assistants treat customers in such a courteous way that they are sure to call again. Goods are sold at bed-rock prices, and to encourage cash trading a discount by means of coupons is given from these prices.

Mr. A. C. Fraser has had a wide experience in drapery business, having started as an assistant in a drapery house in Port Adelaide in 1879. A large part of his time has been spent in establishments in Rundle Street, where he was for eight years prior to engaging in business at Semaphore. His long experience there enables him to buy in the markets in an intelligent way goods which are the best suited for the Semaphore - that is the very best class of goods that can be obtained.

117 Semaphore Road

The extension of the Adelaide to Port Adelaide railway to the sea end of Semaphore Road in 1878 via the original Jervois Bridge, which was built to carry it, boosted the residential, commercial, and tourist potential of the district. These shops served the increasing population requiring goods and services at the eastern end of the Road.

William Jenkins butcher shop, now 117 Semaphore Road, opened in 1886 when he moved from Harris St, Exeter. He advertised that he had “a commodious and convenient shop, and is prepared to execute, as heretofore, all orders entrusted to him. Families waited on daily. None but the best meat, at lowest prices. Patronage solicited. Note the Address—Semaphore, road next Mr. Hastie's, and near the Exeter Railway Station”. In the photo below uncovered carcasses can be seen hanging from the verandah, a common practice at the time.

Butchers after Jenkins included Hollis & Co, V H Colegate, and A. F. (Bert) Nash. Businesses after Hastie included A C Fraser, Draper and Milliner; Frank Haines, Grocer; Sallyanne Dressmakers and Gambier’s Guest House.

R Maurovic ‘The Meat Game : a history of the Gepps Cross abattoirs and livestock markets’ Wakefield Press, Kent Town 2007

10 Union Street, Semaphore

Council Reference No: 146294

Section 1058 was purchased by Alfred Watts in 1850 for £17.

Alfred Watts arrived in South Australia in 1838 and worked as an accountant for the South Australia Company until around 1857 when he joined the partnership of Philip Levi & Co. He later formed the firm of Watts and Wells, Percy Wells being the other partner. Alfred Watts was elected a member for Flinders in 1855.

In 1878 Section 1058, was subdivided into the Township of Plymouth with an auction conducted by Green & Co at the Jetty Hotel, Semaphore on Saturday, 26 October 1878.

In 1882 the part of Section 1058 (encompassing the land on which 10 Union Street is situated) and also incorporating all of Section 1059 was purchased by Isabella Matilda Hope, on 10 March 1882.

Isabella Matilda Kenney, who was born in 1828, married John Hope in Ireland on 13 January 1859. John Hope first arrived in South Australia in 1839 bringing with him a large store of useful goods, savings, and letters of recommendation. By 1843 John Hope was grazing more than 1000 sheep on a run near Clare. He returned to Dublin in the 1850s where he met and married Isabella. Returning to Australia John and Isabella settled at Wolta Wolta. Isabella became friends with the Hawkers, for whom John Hope managed Bungaree. Isabella’s time was spent caring for their children, entertaining visitors from Clare and Adelaide and running a Sunday school. John Hope passed away in 1880. [Advertiser 23 Jun 1880] and Isabella in 1899 [Advertiser 11 Dec 1899]. Two stained glass windows, “Hope and Faith”, were unveiled in their memory at St. Barnabas Church, Clare, by their daughter Mrs Francis Diana Christison in March 1914. [Observer 28 Mar 1914]

The land purchased by Isabella in 1882 was subdivided and put up for sale in 1895. The land encompassing 10 Union Street was purchased by William Kither, a Butcher of Adelaide.

William Kither was born in London in 1843. He arrived in South Australia with his father, mother, and six brothers and sisters. He was the proprietor of a well-known butchering business in Rundle Street. He represented Hindmarsh ward in the City Council serving as alderman for 10 years and was a life member of the Blind, Deaf, and Dumb Institution and the Children's Hospital, supplying the meat required for the Children's Home, Walkerville, gratis. He also started a soup kitchen in 1884 to provide soup to deserving people.

In 1895 the land was transferred to Edmund and Lena Marian Elkan who had this house built c1896.

In 1914 Mrs. Elkan requested ladies of the district send her old linen which could be made into charpeese for the soldiers at the front. In 1915 the Elkans offered their home for conversion into a Military Hospital and Convalescent Home for wounded soldiers. Edmund Elkan described his house:

“12 rooms and an acre of ground for the wounded, soldiers to the military authorities on May 27, 1915, free of charge, furnished… My house is within a stone's throw from the beach, with verandahs all round, lawns, gas, wire blinds and doors, and deep drainage. It is an ideal house for the purpose… xxx

In 1917 ownership of the property transferred to Arthur Laughton Black, Bank Manager of Port Adelaide.

In 1940 ownership transferred to David Joseph Low, out of business of Beaumont.

In 1943 ownership transferred to Mavis Ellen Broadbent, a munitions worker of Moonee Ponds, Victoria.

In 1954 the house was advertised:

Three self-contained flats

10 UNION STREET, SEMAPHORE (WITH REAR ACCESS FROM DALY ST.)

CLOSE TO THE ESPLANADE and BATHING BEACH, ana CONVENIENT to shops and trolly bus route. A LARGE RESIDENCE. SUBSTANTIALLY CONSTRUCTED of stone and brick and at present disposed as 3 comfortable self-contained flats. THE LARGEST FLAT contains hall 5 WELL-DIMENSIONED rooms, sleepout. pantry, scullery bathroom, back verandah. ' and conveniences. FLAT No. 2 has 4 rooms, bathroom, and conveniences; and the other flat comprises 2 rooms, kitchenette, bathroom, and conveniences. SHARE LAUNDRY with troughs and copper Double O.I. garage and woodshed. AN OPPORTUNITY FOR INVESTORS. Rentals total £339/6/ per annum SUBJECT TO EXISTING TENANCIES. xxxi

In 1954 ownership transferred to John Carlis Hynes, storekeeper of Gumeracha.

In 1968 ownership of the property ownership transferred to the Seaview Building Co, King William Street, Adelaide. The block was subdivided into two blocks, one facing Union Street and one facing Derby Street. This block was then sold to Peter Ben Hartshorne, school teacher and Heather Lorna Hartshorne his wife.

This house is representative of the historical and social themes of the provision of significant residential accommodation within Semaphore in the late 1800.