The City of Brighton was a
local government area in
South Australia
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seated at the
Adelaide
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sea-side township of
Brighton from 1858 until 1997.
History
The Corporate Town of Brighton was proclaimed on 25 November 1858
by severance from the
District Council of Brighton,
the latter later changing its name to Marion to avoid confusion.
The town boundaries extended from the modern Yarrum Grove, Boundary Road and Oaklands Road (
Somerton Park), in the north, to Kingston Park reserve,
Kingston House
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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
History and ...
, Scholfield Road (
Kingston Park
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It is home to several large retailers, the largest being one of Tesco's flagship stores—at 11,055 square metres (119,000 sq ft) which was also t ...
) and Arthur Street (
Seacliff Park) in the south. On the west it was bounded by the coastline and on the east by the modern Brighton Road (Somerton Park), MacArthur Avenue (
Hove
Hove is a seaside resort and one of the two main parts of the city of Brighton and Hove, along with Brighton in East Sussex, England. Originally a "small but ancient fishing village" surrounded by open farmland, it grew rapidly in the 19th c ...
), Winton Avenue (Hove), Neath Avenue (
South Brighton) and Davenport Terrace (
Seacliff Park).
The inaugural councillors named in the 1858 proclamation were: Francis Corbet Singleton, Pitt Cobbett, George William Chinner, William Home Popham, and William Voules Brown.
The municipality of Brighton ultimately became the City of Brighton when it crossed the required population threshold in the early 1900s.
Brighton and its northern coastal neighbour, the
City of Glenelg, were amalgamated in 1997 to become the
City of Holdfast Bay
The City of Holdfast Bay is a local government area in the south-western coastal suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.
History
The council was formed 1 January 1997, when the City of Glenelg and City of Brighton councils were amalgamated by ...
, which retained the two civic centres at Brighton and
Glenelg.
Councillors
In 1919
Grace Benny was elected to Brighton council, becoming the first woman to be elected as a councillor in a local government body in South Australia.
References
Brighton, City of
1858 establishments in Australia
1997 disestablishments in Australia
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