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Footy was once played on the Jubilee Oval in Adelaide including one Grand Final! The first game was #OTD 7 May 1898 - Norwood v Westies. Eventually deemed too small. The last was in 1921. It was between the Exhibition Building and the Torrens. On #KaurnaCountry. 📸 @SLSA
Raise a glass for SA icon Coopers Ale - first brewed #OTD 6 May 1862. Thomas Cooper, shoemaker and dairyman from Yorkshire, brewed the first Sparkling ale in Norwood, Adelaide. It was intended as a tonic for his ailing wife Ann. Now enjoyed across the globe. On #KaurnaCountry
Norwood Football Club played its first game on Norwood Oval #OTD 4 May 1901. Before that it was a vineyard. Opponent @SturtFC was playing its first game in SAFA pre @SANFL. Redlegs history pics from its2023 exhibition. On #KaurnaCountry. #SAHistoryFest
Adaide was the first city to build a crematorium in the Southern Hemisphere. The first cremation was held #onthisday 4 May 1903. Built on the north side of West Tce Cemetery with an Italianate tower to disguise its chimney, it was demolished in 1969. On #KaurnaCountry.
The gruesome first hanging in Adelaide in 1838 was witnessed by about 500 people. If that was not bad enough, it went badly wrong. On #KaurnaCountry. Read on: discoversouthaustraliashistory.org.au/chronology/apr… 📸 @SLSA 2/2
Footy history. The 1st Australian football game in SA was played in the North Park Lands #OTD 28 April 1860. As the newly formed Adelaide Football Club was the only one in existence, the players dividing into north of the Torrens versus south. On #KaurnaCountry. 📸 SANFLHistory
It is the 186th anniversary of the South Australian Police Force, formed #OTD 28 April 1838 - 10 mounted constables and 10 on foot. Our founders didn’t include one, but felons from the convict colonies and sly grog shops soon called for law and order. On #KaurnaCountry.
An 'Australian football' first for SA - the original Adelaide Football Club was formed at an historic meeting #OTD 26 April 1860 in the Globe Inn on Rundle Street. The club helped found the SAFA comp in 1877. Dissolved 1894. On #KaurnaCountry. 📸 @SANFL History Centre
At the unveiling of the National War Memorial in Adelaide on ANZAC Day in 1931 Governor Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven, a VC recipient, gave a powerful speech, hoping for no more “international slaughter”. On #KaurnaCountry. #AnzacDay anzacday.org.au/national-war-m… 📸 @CityofAdelaide
The Cross of Sacrifice Women’s War Memorial in Adelaide was unveiled on Anzac Day 1922. Women had placed small violet bags into the base of the cross, which contained names of loved ones who died in World War I. A State Heritage Place. On #KaurnaCountry. #otd 📸 @SLSA
The Anzac Centenary Memorial Walk in Adelaide links the 1931 National War Memorial on North Tce with the Torrens Parade Ground and includes the 1915 Dardanelles Memorial (first placed in the South Park Lands). Opened #OTD 23 April 2016. On #KaurnaCountry.
! South Australia’s 1st Parliament met #OTD 22 April 1857 in Old Parliament House. After self government legn was passed in in Westminster in in 1856, SA had ‘a Constitution which was one of the most advanced in the world’. 0n #KaurnaCountry. parliament.sa.gov.au/en/About-Parli…
In the storm that destroyed the Glenelg jetty in 1948, naval frigate HMAS Barcoo was pushed ashore in front of the West Beach shacks. Thousands walked to see it. After dredging and removal of parts of the ship, it was refloated 9 days later #OTD 20 April. On #KaurnaCountry
Blue and gold. The bluestone wall of the 19th century lying in hospital in Adelaide and a golden elm lit by the autumn sun. On Kintore Avenue at the entrance to the Migration Museum of South Australia. On #KaurnaCountry. More on the museum; migration.history.sa.gov.au/events/haza/
If you think our weather is a bit confusing, so does a Flinders Rangers wattle in the Adelaide Park Lands opposite the Hackney Hotel. It has burst into bloom this week – when normally it would be brightening our July (pic 3 is from 8 July 2020). On #KaurnaCountry. #treeride
An important moment for an historic garden suburb in Adelaide - #OTD 19 April 1921 South Aus Attorney General Barwell noted that "Colonel Light Gardens" was to be its name. The project was to go on Grange Farm, which had housed Mitcham Army Camp in #WI. On #KaurnaCountry.
The symbolic and serene Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden in Adelaide and its companion venture, the Alice Springs RFDS base, were opened #OTD 19 April 1941. The SA centenary Women’s Committee project included a controversial Modernist sculpture by Ola Cohn. On #KaurnaCountry.
First pics of the new look Rymill Park/Murlawirrapurka lake in Adelaide Park Lands as fences came down yesterday. Amid the busy prep for the 3 day event this week, our Wed. Ride team gave it a ceremonial sprinkling of the water bottles. On #KaurnaCountry. #ridewithkeith
Our Wed. Ride #ridewithkeith tomorrow takes a circuit of the Adelaide Park Lands to celebrate the re-opening of the Rymill Park/Murlawirrapurka Lake area with an official sprinkling of the water bottles. We depart, as usual, at 9 am from @bicyclexpress. On #KaurnaCountry.
The Adelaide Park Lands have been causing arguments about appropriate use since they were conceived by Col. Light. #OTD 16 April 1839, Governor Gawler ‘bought’ them from the Crown to stop them falling into private hands. On #KaurnaCountry sahistoryhub.history.sa.gov.au/places/parklan… 📸 @SLSA
