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Hawthorn, South Australia
Hawthorn is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, in the City of Mitcham. It is bounded to the north by Cross Road, Adelaide, Cross Road, to the south by Grange Road, to the west by Sussex Terrace and to the east by Belair Road. To the west is Westbourne Park, South Australia, Westbourne Park, and to the east is Kingswood, South Australia, Kingswood. Brown Hill Creek runs through the suburb. Hawthorn is an upper-middle-class suburb, with a median weekly income of $1,475. The median household price is the fifteenth-highest in the city, at approximately $1,012,700. Several parks are situated here, including the Mitcham Memorial Gardens and Price Memorial Oval, home of the Mitcham Hawks Football Club. The closest primary school to the suburb is Mitcham Primary School and the nearest high schools are Unley High School and Mitcham Girls High School. Private schools such as Scotch College, Adelaide, Scotch College and Mercedes College (Adelaide), Mercedes College are also close by. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Elder
Elder is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after nineteenth-century businessman and philanthropist Sir Thomas Elder. Elder is an 18.3 km2 suburban electorate in Adelaide's inner south, taking in the suburbs of Clapham, South Australia, Clapham, Clovelly Park, South Australia, Clovelly Park, Colonel Light Gardens, South Australia, Colonel Light Gardens, Cumberland Park, South Australia, Cumberland Park, Daw Park, South Australia, Daw Park, Hawthorn, South Australia, Hawthorn, Lower Mitcham, South Australia, Lower Mitcham, Melrose Park, South Australia, Melrose Park, Mitchell Park, South Australia, Mitchell Park, Panorama, South Australia, Panorama, Pasadena, South Australia, Pasadena, St Marys, South Australia, St Marys, Tonsley, South Australia, Tonsley, and Westbourne Park, South Australia, Westbourne Park. Elder was created as a marginal Australian Labor Party (South Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Mitcham
The City of Mitcham is a local government area in the foothills of southern Adelaide, South Australia. Within its bounds is Flinders University, South Australia's third largest, and the notable, affluent suburb of Springfield which contains some of the city's most expensive properties. History Before the arrival of European settlers, the Kaurna people lived in the region. The first Europeans to settle in the area were a group of sailors who jumped ship in 1837 and founded a settlement at Coromandel Valley as a hiding place. Mitcham village was established on Brown Hill Creek in 1840, named after Mitcham, a village in Surrey. The council was founded on 10 May 1853 as the District Council of Mitcham and was the first local government area formally founded in South Australia after the City of Adelaide. The council initially covered an area of 108 square kilometres, stretching from the Adelaide Park Lands in the north to Mount Barker Road in the east, with the Sturt River f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawthorn Railway Station, Adelaide
Hawthorn railway station was located on the Belair line, in the inner southern Adelaide suburb of Hawthorn, 7.5 kilometres from Adelaide railway station. History Hawthorn was opened sometime in the 1910s. It runs parallel to Egmont Terrace, and is located 500 metres south of Unley Park station. It consists of two earth-filled concrete faced platforms, one each side of the dual lines, which were originally both broad gauge. Each platform had a timber and iron open passenger shelter, and there was a ticket office at the foot of the western platform which was staffed only at peak hours in the 1960s. These shelters were later replaced with bus stop style shelters and public address speakers were added. It closed on 28 April 1995 along with Millswood and Clapham when the line was converted to two single lines as part of the standardisation of the Adelaide-Wolseley line. On Adelaide Metro Adelaide Metro is the public transport system of the Adelaide area, around the capi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belair Line
The Belair line is a suburban rail commuter route in greater Adelaide, South Australia, that runs from the Adelaide railway station to Belair in the Adelaide Hills via the Adelaide-Wolseley line using diesel 3000/3100 class railcars. This part of the Adelaide–Wolseley line comprised two broad-gauge tracks until the Adelaide–Wolseley line was converted to standard gauge in 1995. Now two separate single-track lines run in parallel from Adelaide to Belair: the Belair commuter line – still broad gauge – and the line to Wolseley thence interstate – standard gauge – line. The latter carries freight except for four long-distance passenger trains per week. History The first part of the Adelaide-Wolseley line – from Adelaide to Belair and Bridgewater – opened in 1883. In 1919, a new alignment was built around Sleeps Hill as part of the duplication of the line. This involved a double-track tunnel being built to replace two tunnels and two viaducts. The new alignme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercedes College (Adelaide)
Mercedes College is an independent Roman Catholic co-educational primary and High day school located in the Adelaide inner-south suburb of Springfield, South Australia, Australia. Established by the Sisters of Mercy in 1954 as a boarding school for girls, it is now a co-educational day school. Mercedes is an International Baccalaureate (IB) school, and offers the PYP, MYP, and IB Diploma programmes as well as the South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE). History The school was established by the Sisters of Mercy in 1954. The purchase of the site at Springfield brought to fruition the dream of finding a healthier environment for the girls' boarding school until that time part of Saint Aloysius College in Angas Street, Adelaide. With the eighty boarders on opening day were sixty day scholars, mostly girls but with a group of boys in the infant section. After twenty-one years the boarding school was phased out when rising costs and a decline in the rural economy mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotch College, Adelaide
Scotch College is an Independent school, independent, Uniting Church of Australia, Uniting Church, co-educational, Day school, day and boarding school, located on two adjacent campuses in Torrens Park, South Australia, Torrens Park and Mitcham, South Australia, Mitcham, inner-southern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1919 out of the earlier Kyre College (1902–1918), and incorporated under an Act of Parliament in 1922, Scotch currently caters for approximately 1000 students including more than 100 boarders in Years 7 to 12. Scotch College is affiliated with the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Association of Independent Schools of South Australia (AISSA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Independent Schools Sports Association (South Australia), Independent Schools Sport Association (ISSA) and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitcham Girls High School
Mitcham Girls High School, located in Kingswood, is the only single-sex government high school in the state of South Australia. It has approximately 850 students in grades 7 to 13. As the school is unzoned, it attracts students from all across the Adelaide metropolitan area as well as some regional locations. History Mitcham Girls High School was founded in 1964. The site was previously Kingswood High School from 1914 to 1917, and then from 1918 to 1963, it was a co-educational site incorporating nearby Unley High School before becoming a girls-only technical high school in 1964. In 2015, 18% of students were from non-English-speaking backgrounds, as well as students from overseas studying under an international education program. The school is a member of the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia. Since 1993, the school has regularly had teams participate in the World Solar Challenge The World Solar Challenge (WSC), named the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unley High School
Unley High School is a public coeducational secondary school, located in the Adelaide suburb of Netherby in South Australia. It is administered by the Department of Education, with an enrolment of 1,562 students and a teaching staff of 114, as of 2023. The school caters to students from Year 7 to Year 12. History In response to a decision by the State Government to provide secondary education to children living in the Adelaide suburbs, Unley High School (then Unley District High School) was founded in 1910 as one of four secondary institutions established for this purpose. Initially it was housed and under the control of the Headmaster of the Unley Primary School but was operated by "special staff" who carried "on the secondary work". The school officially opened on Tuesday, 25 January 1910 with Lionel H. Jeffries as the school's first teacher in charge, who had transferred from Adelaide High School and remained in charge until 30 June 1911. Another teacher from Adelaide H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitcham Primary School
Mitcham Primary School is a South Australian State school serving the Mitcham, South Australia, Mitcham area and situated on Hillview Road, Kingswood, South Australia, Kingswood. It is the oldest continuously operating school in South Australia. It has an enrolment of approximately 766 students from Reception to Year 7 and an Out of School Hours Care Program. The school predominantly serves the suburbs of Kingswood, South Australia, Kingswood, Mitcham, South Australia, Mitcham, Hawthorn, South Australia, Hawthorn, Netherby, South Australia, Netherby and Torrens Park, South Australia, Torrens Park. The school opened in 1847 with Thomas Mugg as the teacher in a hut on Mitcham Reserve. The school moved to the Mitcham Institute in 1870 and then to a purpose built school on Bulls Creek Road (Belair Road) in 1880. A new Primary school opened on the current site in Kingswood in 1953 and the Infant school and Primary came together on this site in 1981. History South Australia was first s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown Hill Creek
Brown Hill Creek, also known as ''Willawilla'' in the Kaurna language, is a watercourse flowing from the Adelaide Hills through in the inner south suburbs of the Adelaide metropolitan area, in the Australian state of South Australia. It is part of the Patawalonga River catchment. Course and features The creek rises on the western slopes of the Mount Lofty Ranges near Crafers and flows generally in a west-north-west direction through the suburb of Brown Hill Creek, south of Brown Hill, a prominent hill rising immediately south-east of Mitcham village, and beneath the historic Keystone Bridge in Mitcham itself, the vicinity traditionally known as Wirraparinga. From Mitcham the creek continues along a north-western path through Torrens Park, Hawthorn, Unley Park, Millswood and Forestville before flowing into a constructed drain at Forestville Reserve. From there the flows are directed through inner south-west suburbs to join the Patawalonga River on the southern edge of Ade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Road, Adelaide
Cross Road is a major arterial road that travels east–west through the inner southern suburbs of the Australian city of Adelaide. It is designated route A3. Route Cross Road starts at the intersection at Anzac Highway in Plympton and heads directly east, crossing the Glenelg tram line shortly after, then crossing the Flinders railway line and Seaford railway line at Emerson Crossing under the South Road underpass, and the Belair and Adelaide-Wolseley railway lines in Unley Park. It continues east through Highgate and eventually ends at Glen Osmond and the Adelaide Hills, at the junction of Glen Osmond Road, Portrush Road, and South Eastern Freeway South Eastern Freeway is a freeway in South Australia (SA). It is a part of the National Highway network linking the state capital cities of Adelaide, SA, and Melbourne, Victoria, and is signed as route M1. It carries traffic over the Adel .... History In a 1949 street directory, Cross Road had its current route, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which includes some of the most arid parts of the continent, and with 1.8 million people. It is the fifth-largest of the states and territories by population. This population is the second-most highly centralised in the nation after Western Australia, with more than 77% of South Australians living in the capital Adelaide or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second-largest centre, has a population of 26,878. South Australia shares borders with all the other mainland states. It is bordered to the west by Western Australia, to the north by the Northern Territory, to the north-east by Queensland, to the east by New South Wales, to the south-east by Victoria (state), Victoria, and to the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
