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Robin Hood Hotel
Norwood is a suburb of Adelaide, about east of the Adelaide city centre. The suburb is in the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters, whose predecessor was the oldest South Australian local government municipality. History Before British colonisation of South Australia and subsequent European settlement, Norwood was inhabited by one of the groups who later collectively became known as the Kaurna peoples. Early settler Edward Stephens (Australian settler), Edward Stephens, who arrived in the colony in 1839, wrote: "Norwood and Kent Town, South Australia, Kent Town were unknown then. The site of the present Norwood was then a magnificent eucalypt, gum forest, with an undergrowth of kangaroo grass, too high in places for a man to see over; in fact persons lost their way in going from Adelaide to Kensington, South Australia, Kensington in those days, through attempting a short or near cut across the country". Norwood is named after Upper Norwood, Norwood, then a village south of Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwood Town Hall
The Norwood Town Hall is the council seat of the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters, and the building includes a number of other venues. It is located at 175 The Parade, Adelaide, The Parade in Norwood, South Australia, Norwood, an inner-eastern suburb of greater Adelaide, South Australia, five minutes east of the Adelaide city centre, city centre. The current town hall building was completed in 1883, with the large concert hall added at the back between 1914 and 1918. The former City of Kensington and Norwood was the first outside of the City of Adelaide to receive the right to set up their own municipal corporation. The charter of the town was given on 7 July 1853 by the Governor, Henry Young, Sir Henry Young, and the original town hall building, constructed in 1859, was the first town hall built in South Australia. The current building was designed by Alfred Wells (architect), Alfred Wells, who then worked as an architectural draughtsman for the firm Bayer and Withall, aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
