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Sturt Street, Adelaide
Sturt Street is a street in the south-western sector of the centre of Adelaide, South Australia. It runs east-west between West Terrace to King William Street, passing through Whitmore Square. After crossing King William Street, it continues as Halifax Street. History The street is one of the many geographical locations in South Australia that are named after the explorer Charles Sturt. There was once a length of tram line along the western end of Sturt Street, which on 18 September 1918 was extended via West Terrace and then Anzac Highway (then Bay Road) to Keswick. It was used to transport soldiers returned from World War I to the military hospital there. There are also residential properties and small businesses, including boutiques and small galleries in the street. School Sturt Street is home to the Sturt Street Community School, which was established in 1883 as one of four model schools in the CBD, called Sturt Street School. Educationalist Milton Moss Maughan (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide City Centre
Adelaide city centre (Kaurna: Tarndanya) is the inner city locality of Greater Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It is known by locals simply as "the City" or "Town" to distinguish it from Greater Adelaide and from the City of Adelaide local government area (which also includes North Adelaide and from the Park Lands around the whole city centre). The population was 15,115 in the . Adelaide city centre was planned in 1837 on a greenfield site following a grid layout, with streets running at right angles to each other. It covers an area of and is surrounded by of park lands.The area of the park lands quoted is based, in the absence of an official boundary between the City and North Adelaide, on an east–west line past the front entrance of Adelaide Oval. Within the city are five parks: Victoria Square in the exact centre and four other, smaller parks. Names for elements of the city centre are as follows: *The "city square mile" (in reality 1.67 square miles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick, South Australia
Keswick() is an inner south-western suburb of Adelaide, adjacent to the park lands, and located in the City of West Torrens. The suburb is home to the Keswick Barracks, the headquarters of the Royal District Nursing Service, the Keswick Cricket Club and Richmond Primary School. The Adelaide Parklands Terminal for interstate passenger trains, formerly known as Keswick Terminal, was within the boundary of the suburb until 1987 when, inclusive of adjacent business sites and covering a total area of , it was declared a suburb in its own right. History The area was inhabited by the Kaurna people before settlement by Europeans. Keswick railway station was opened on Sunday 6 April 1913. It serviced the local Adelaide train network before being eventually closed and demolished in March 2013. The District Headquarters of the 4th Military District, known as Keswick Barracks or "The Home of the Brass Hats", was completed in 1913, and was the first substantial Commonwealth building t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahomet Allum
Mohamet Allum ( – 21 March 1964), also known as Muhammad Alam Khan and nicknamed "The Wonder Man", was an Afghan herbalist based in Adelaide, South Australia. He arrived as one of the Afghan cameleers brought into Australia to work on the camel trains which were being used to explore the interior of the continent in the late 19th century, and worked around the country before settling in Adelaide in 1899. Early life Allum was a Pashtun born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, around 1858. He travelled through Asia selling Arab horses and camels to the British Army, before sailing to Australia, arriving between 1884 and 1890. He was known to be in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia,Online version of 2010 ed. at Google Books (Over half available online - includes short biographies of a large number of cameleers.) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbalist
Herbal medicine (also herbalism) is the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine. With worldwide research into pharmacology, some herbal medicines have been translated into modern remedies, such as the anti-malarial group of drugs called artemisinin isolated from ''Artemisia annua'', a herb that was known in Chinese medicine to treat fever. There is limited scientific evidence for the safety and efficacy of plants used in 21st century herbalism, which generally does not provide standards for purity or dosage. The scope of herbal medicine commonly includes fungal and bee products, as well as minerals, shells and certain animal parts. Herbal medicine is also called phytomedicine or phytotherapy. Paraherbalism describes alternative and pseudoscientific practices of using unrefined plant or animal extracts as unproven medicines or health-promoting agents. Paraherbalism relies on the belief that preserving various substa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afghan Cameleers In Australia
Afghan cameleers in Australia, also known as "Afghans" ( ps, افغانان) or "Ghans" ( ps, غانز), were camel drivers who worked in Outback Australia from the 1860s to the 1930s. Small groups of cameleers were shipped in and out of Australia at three-year intervals, to service the Australian inland pastoral industry by carting goods and transporting wool bales by camel trains. They were commonly referred to as "Afghans", even though a lot of them originated from the far western parts of British India, primarily Balochistan and the NWFP (now Pakistan), which was inhabited by ethnic Pashtuns and Balochs. Nonetheless, many were from Afghanistan itself as well. In addition, there were also some with origins in Egypt and Turkey.Afghan cameleers in Australia 3rd September 2009. Australia.go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Clifford (theatre Entrepreneur)
Dan Clifford (1887 – 9 December 1942) was a well-known cinema entrepreneur and philanthropist in South Australia. He was also a keen promoter of the cinema industry, and owned 20 cinemas across the state at the time of his death, including several in Art Deco style, such as the Piccadilly Theatre and the Goodwood Star (now the Capri). He founded the Star chain of picture theatres in 1917, which became Star Pictures Ltd in 1922 and then D. Clifford Theatres in 1923. The business was also referred to as the Clifford Theatre(s) Circuit, the Dan Clifford Cinema Circuit or Star (Theatre) Circuit in newspapers. Five years after his death, in 1947 his theatres were bought by Greater Union; however, the business name of Clifford Theatres Ltd and the Clifford Theatre Circuit continued to be used until at least 1954. Early life Clifford was born in Adelaide in 1887, to a large family in the western suburbs. One of his sisters was Ellen, who married John Walkley, who had attended Rostr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklin Street, Adelaide
Franklin Street is a main street in the centre of Adelaide, South Australia. Extent Franklin Street terminates at its western end at West Terrace. The eastern end merges into the northern edge of Victoria Square and continues across King William Street as Flinders Street. This completed an Australian Tesla charging network that stretches as far as the Brisbane, over away. Notable buildings Franklin Street is the location of the Adelaide General Post Office, Eynesbury Senior College, the Adelaide Central bus station, and various companies. Gallery File:AdelaideGPO.jpeg , Adelaide GPO File:Eynesbury.JPG , Eynesbury College File:Maughan Church, Adelaide photograph by Ernest Gall.jpg , Maughan Church, 1896 File:Maughan uniting church.JPG , Maughan Church, 2010 (built 1965) Image:Maughan Church, Adelaide.jpg , Maughan Uniting Church, 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Maughan
Rev. James Maughan (October 1826 – 8 March 1871) was a Methodist minister in Adelaide, South Australia. His name was commemorated in the Maughan Church, Franklin Street, which has since been demolished. Biography James Maughan was born at Seaton Burn, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne and from an early age attended the Methodist New Connexion Sunday-school. He was a brilliant speaker, and at age 20 was called on to replace the ailing Rev. J. Hilton. In 1848 he was appointed minister on probation, preaching in the Bradford circuit. In 1849 he became minister at Macclesfield, followed by a year in Derby, another year in Dewsbury, two years in London, two years in Leeds, and three each in Dudley and Bristol. He was sent to Melbourne, Victoria aboard the ''Blanche Moore'' to serve as a New Connexion missionary, arriving in August 1862. He visited Adelaide in November 1862, and found he could be more usefully employed there. Within weeks the congregation had swollen to such an extent they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Advertiser (Adelaide)
''The Advertiser'' is a daily tabloid format newspaper based in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. First published as a broadsheet named ''The South Australian Advertiser'' on 12 July 1858,''The South Australian Advertiser'', published 1858–1889 National Library of Australia, digital newspaper library. it is currently a tabloid printed from Monday to Saturday. ''The Advertiser'' came under the ownership of in the 1950s, and the full ownership of in 1987. It is a publication of Advertiser Newspapers Pty Ltd (ADV), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Christian Commonwealth
The ''Australian Christian Commonwealth'' was a weekly newspaper published by Hussey & Gillingham in South Australia from 1901 to 1940. History The ''Australian Christian Commonwealth'' was first published on 4 January 1901. Although "new", the masthead of the first edition included the subtitle ''"with which are incorporated The Christian Weekly & Methodist Journal, The Primitive Methodist Magazine, The Bible Christian Monthly"'' and that it was ''"The Organ of the Methodist Church in South Australia, and the Champion of Evangelical Christianity."'' The Methodist Church of Australasia had been formed by combining several Methodist denominations in Australia. The three incorporated titles belonged to the three South Australian branches of merging denominations :– Wesleyan Methodist Church, Primitive Methodist Church and Bible Christian Church. The newspaper began as "Vol. XIII, No. 660, ew Series maintaining the publication order, alongside content and design continuity, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Register (Adelaide)
''The Register'', originally the ''South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register'', and later ''South Australian Register,'' was South Australia's first newspaper. It was first published in London in June 1836, moved to Adelaide in 1837, and folded into '' The Advertiser'' almost a century later in February 1931. The newspaper was the sole primary source for almost all information about the settlement and early history of South Australia. It documented shipping schedules, legal history and court records at a time when official records were not kept. According to the National Library of Australia, its pages contain "one hundred years of births, deaths, marriages, crime, building history, the establishment of towns and businesses, political and social comment". All issues are freely available online, via Trove. History ''The Register'' was conceived by Robert Thomas, a law stationer, who had purchased for his family of land in the proposed South Australian province after be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Library Of South Australia
The State Library of South Australia, or SLSA, formerly known as the Public Library of South Australia, located on North Terrace, Adelaide, is the official library of the Australian state of South Australia. It is the largest public research library in the state, with a collection focus on South Australian information, being the repository of all printed and audiovisual material published in the state, as required by legal deposit legislation. It holds the "South Australiana" collection, which documents South Australia from pre-European settlement to the present day, as well as general reference material in a wide range of formats, including digital, film, sound and video recordings, photographs, and microfiche. Home access to many journals, newspapers and other resources online is available. History and governance 19th century On 29 August 1834, a couple of weeks after the passing of the ''South Australia Act 1834'', a group led by the Colonial Secretary, Robert Gouger, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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