Flinders Street is a main street in the
city centre of
Adelaide, South Australia. It runs from the northern end of
Victoria Square to
East Terrace, Adelaide
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. It is one of the intermediate-width streets of the Adelaide grid, at wide.
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of the Adelaide
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CBD, North Adelaide
North Adelaide is a predominantly residential precinct and suburb of the City of Adelaide in South Australia, situated north of the River Torrens and within the Adelaide Park Lands.
History
Surveyor-General Colonel William Light of the colo ...
and the Adelaide Parklands
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.
History
The street is named after the
navigator
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and
cartographer Captain
Matthew Flinders.
On 22 November 1878 the East Adelaide Model School, later Flinders Street Public School or Flinders Street Model School, was opened in large bluestone buildings designed by
E. J. Woods. A primary school occupied the premises until 1969, when the Flinders Street Adult Education Centre was established there. In 1978 it became the Flinders St School of Music, a campus of
TAFE.
[
Many churches were built on Flinders Street in the 1860s and 1870s, and several survive today.]City of Adelaide
The City of Adelaide, also known as the Corporation of the City of Adelaide and Adelaide City Council is a local government area in the metropolitan area of greater Adelaide, South Australia and is legally defined as the capital city of South ...
renamed a laneway off Flinders Street, behind Adelaide Town Hall, Paul Kelly Lane. Previously named Pilgrim Lane after the adjacent church, the lane is now called Paul Kelly Lane. It is the fourth such renaming after musicians associated with the city, the others being Sia Furler
Sia Kate Isobelle Furler ( ; born 18 December 1975) is an Australian singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Adelaide, she started her career as a singer in the acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990s. In 1997, when Crisp disbanded, she re ...
, No Fixed Address, and Cold Chisel
Cold Chisel are an Australian pub rock band, which formed in Adelaide in 1973 by mainstay members Ian Moss on guitar and vocals, Steve Prestwich on drums and Don Walker on piano and keyboards. They were soon joined by Jimmy Barnes (at the ...
.
Historic buildings
Churches
churches on Flinders Street include:
* Bethlehem Lutheran Church, at no. 170, on the corner of Sudholz Place[ includes manse, now Baptist Church Offices, and Mead Hall; all heritage-listed.
*]Pilgrim Uniting Church
Pilgrim Uniting Church is a church in the heart of the City on Flinders Street, Adelaide in South Australia. It is a church of the Uniting Church in Australia.
Social justice, as articulated by the Uniting Church in Australia in the inaugural ...
, at no. 12[
]
Other historic buildings
*Flinders Hall, originally built as school accommodation for St Paul's Church of England, sold to Hamilton Laboratories in the 1950s[
*Observatory House, at no. 84-86, originally built for a scientific instrument-making business run by Otto Boettger, who emigrated to South Australia from Germany in 1877][
*Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs, originally the manse of the Stow Memorial Church (now Pilgrim), used as a sanitarium 1901–1911. before being sold to the state government][
*St Paul's Church, built 1972, known as a ]High Anglican
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church, whose congregation included many prominent families; converted into a nightclub during the 1980s; now St Paul's Creative Centre,[ accommodating people working in the arts and creative industries]
Junction list
See also
Footnotes
References
Streets in Adelaide
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