Dear Reader, if you are not familiar with my propensity for an occasional (some would say frequent) foray into the obscure in my reviews you may be wondering why I have used a picture of a piece of empty parkland as my main image illustrating this review. Do bear with me and all will be revealed. Continue reading “The Goat Lady”
Outer Harbor Station, on the northern tip of the Lefevre Peninsula on the Gulf St Vincent, is the terminus of the Outer Harbor Line which starts in the city at Adelaide Railway Station. Continue reading “Outer Harbor Station And Its Artwork”
Given its abundance of churches, of all persuasions, Adelaide is frequently referred to as the City of Churches. St Peter’s Cathedral, a landmark on the city’s north side, is the most spectacular of all these churches and has, arguably, the richest history. Continue reading “St Peter’s Cathedral – Church of Churches”
Between the 1860s and the 1920s around 2,000 cameleers, with over 20,000 camels, came to Australia from Afghanistan, Baluchistan and what is now Pakistan. In those days, before motor vehicles, camels were the ideal pack animal and were well equipped to cope with the harsh environment of the Australian Outback. Continue reading “Voyagers – A Tribute to Australia’s Cameleers”
The Adelaide Mosque, the first mosque in any Australian city and the oldest surviving mosque in Australia, opened in 1889.
Visitors to Central Australia may be aware of the role played by cameleers from Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Pakistan in the opening up of the Red Centre of Australia and, in particular, the construction of the 3,200kms Overland Telegraph Line between Port Augusta (outside Adelaide) and Darwin which was completed in 1872. Between the 1860s and the 1920s around 2,000 cameleers came to Australia. A fitting tribute to the role played by Afghan cameleers can be seen in nearby Whitmore Square. See my separate review on ‘Voyagers’. Continue reading “Adelaide Mosque”
As you admire Adelaide’s beautiful Town Hall do imagine being here in 1904 when ‘the Prophet Elijah’ dropped by to provide wise counsel to the good people of Adelaide. Continue reading “The Prophet Elijah Visits the Adelaide Town Hall”
This classically styled Victorian building, featuring Corinthian style ornamentation and built of local Tea Tree Gully freestone and Dry Creek bluestone, was designed by Edmund Wright, a former city mayor. The building opened in 1866 and was touted as the largest municipal building in the southern hemisphere at the time. In 1872, writer Anthony Trollope, who was touring Australia at the time, rated the building, and town halls he had seen in Australia generally, as greatly beating those in Britain at the time. Continue reading “Adelaide Town Hall”
Lest you think I have attached the wrong pictures to this review I should point out that this is not a palace in the real sense of the word. I will explain further, later in this review. This quaint, rather plain and indeed rather rundown looking clothes shop was formally a tearoom run by one of Adelaide’s most flamboyant sons – Albert Augustine (Bert) Edwards. Edwards, on the right, with one of his employees are depicted in my second picture, outside the tearooms as they were in 1912 – picture courtesy of the State Library of South Australia. Continue reading “A Royal Palace in the West End”
By the time we reached Adelaide’s Chinatown we had been walking around the city for about four hours and were famished. It was well and truly time for lunch.
As I indicated in my separate review on Chinatown, the area is comparatively small. That said it has a number of eateries of various Asian ethnicity, not just Chinese though we chose the T.Chow Chinese Restaurant for lunch. Continue reading “T.Chow Chinese Restaurant: “Yum Cha in Chinatown””
The Adelaide Central Market first opened in 1869, though was called the City Market until 1965.
In earlier days, besides selling produce, the market area doubled up as a venue for public meetings and outdoors entertainment, such as Wilson’s Circus troupe with its man-eating lions. I have seen nothing to suggest that they actually ate any men. Continue reading “A Place of Insidious Temptation”
The Rambling Wombat 