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Adelaide Oval

Adelaide Oval

Adelaide Oval is use for a Public Schools demonstration during the visit of the Duke of Gloucester in October 1934. Thousands of school girls wearing white dresses are forming a huge circular pattern on Adelaide Oval in honour of the Royal Visit.

Adelaide Oval

Adelaide Oval

Adelaide Oval is use for a Public Schools demonstration during the visit of the Duke of Gloucester in October 1934. Thousands of students in naval uniforms are creating a wheel formation during a demonstration in honour of the royal visit.

Photographs of the Adelaide Glee Club and Adelaide Male Voice Choir

Photographs of the Adelaide Glee Club and Adelaide Male Voice Choir, most of which are of groups at different times. See 'items' for details of individual photos.

Alice Springs

Alice Springs

Panoramic view.

Jetty, Brighton

Jetty, Brighton

Aerial view of Brighton beach with the jetty in the foreground.

Flood Scenes, Caltowie

Flood Scenes, Caltowie

Flood Scenes at Caltowie in 1941 showing the streets underwater and floodwaters lapping at doors of houses.

Coward Springs

Coward Springs

Artesian Well at Coward Springs, west of Lake Eyre. A visiting crowd of men are listening to a speaker. This could possibly be the official opening of the artesian well which was sunk in 1886.

Cudmore Park

Cudmore Park

Daws Road, Cudmore Park (now Edwardstown and Melrose Park) A car has stopped at the side of the road and two young girls are chatting. The road is flanked by tall eucalypts. The foothills can be seen through the trees towards the east

Dry Creek

Dry Creek

[General description] There is a small crowd of men at the gates watching the water flowing into the first paddock at Dry Creek. [On back of photograph] 'Alkali Industry begins in South Australia / Works of the Imperial Chemical Industries (Australia & New Zealand) Ltd. at Dry Creek / Photo taken on December 3rd, 1936 when the first two paddocks were flooded with salt water, pumped at the rate of 8,500 gallons a minute / 27 paddocks to be flooded / Photo shows water pouring into the first paddock / Reproduced in Chronicle for December 17, 1936'.

Fort Largs

Fort Largs

Firing the six inch gun. The photograph depicts a group of soldiers firing the six inch gun out to sea at Fort Largs, watched over by an officer.

Glenelg

Glenelg

Aerial view of Glenelg - the unfinished breakwater is seen some distance from the shore.

Flooding, Glynde

Flooding, Glynde

[General description] It appears that a creek has broken its banks sending floodwaters flowing rapidly across open treed countryside. [On back of photograph] 'Floods at the Glynde / September 3, 1931 / Reproduced in the 'Chronicle' for September 10, 1931'.

Floods, Jamestown

Floods, Jamestown

Flood scene at Laura, Jamestown. The Belalie Creek running through Jamestown flooded in 1941 and two bridges were swept away. The town centre was inundated by a metre of water.

Floods, Jamestown

Floods, Jamestown

Floods at Laura, Jamestown showing a broken bridge on the Jamestown Road. The railings were washed away and the piers undermined by the raging flood water. Reeds and other debris can be seen hanging from the bridge in the aftermath of the deluge.

Horse tram, Victor Harbor

Horse tram, Victor Harbor

Horse tram, Victor Harbor to Granite Island.

Turning of first sod, Adelaide

Turning of first sod, Adelaide

Theodore Bruce turning the first sod for the Adelaide Electric Tramway system, May 21 1908 Adelaide had electric trams from 1909 when 56 kilometres of track were completed. From 1908 to 1909 a hundred trams were manufactured by Duncan and Fraser of Adelaide at a cost of approximately 100 pounds each. Theodore Bruce was Mayor of Adelaide and a member of the Tramways Trust.

Floods at Keswick

Floods at Keswick

Floods at Keswick - 3 September 1931. Photograph of a Tudor style house with flood water lapping the edge of the verandah and filling the car port.

Floods at Laura

Floods at Laura

Floods at Laura. The Pine River at Laura burst its banks and six people have been reported drowned. Sand bags saved the hospital, shops, hotels and many houses from devastation. The Becker farm near Laura straddled the Pine Creek about four kilometres north of Laura. "The Willows" stands on a bend on the creek and in the 1941 floods raging flood waters swept round and through the homestead.

Floods at Laura

Floods at Laura

Floods at Laura, 24-25 January 1941. The Pine River at Laura burst its banks and six people have been reported drowned. Sand bags saved the hospital, shops, hotels and many houses from devastation. The Becker farm near Laura straddled the Pine Creek about four kilometres north of Laura. "The Willows" stands on a bend on the creek and in the 1941 floods raging flood waters swept round and through the homestead.

Aerial view of Lobethal

Aerial view of Lobethal

Aerial view of Lobethal taken on December 7, 1937. The woollen mills and orchards can be seen nestled in the hills.

Lobethal

Lobethal

Lobethal : general view showing smoke rising from the woollen mills. The photograph shows how the township of Lobethal nestles in the valley.

Macclesfield

Macclesfield

Left to right: Bill Ingerson, Howard Ross, Lord Robinson, Joe Dugmore.

Mannum

Mannum

[General description] Buildings lining the main street of Mannum are viewed from a footpath behind the township. The River Murray is seen in the background. [On back of photograph] 'Reproduced in the 'Chronicle'. June 2, 1928 / Mannum, 1928'.

Mannum

Mannum

[General description] This view has been taken from a footpath behind Mannum township and shows the Mannum road with houses and, on the left, the Dodge Brothers Motor Car Sales and Service Station (which also dealt in Graham Brothers trucks). The river is lined with gum trees. [On back of photograph] 'Reproduced in the 'Chronicle'. June 2, 1928 / Mannum, 1928'.

Floods at Mannum

Floods at Mannum

Floods at Mannum, 23 August 1931 showing two small boats being rowed down the main street near the hotel.

Floods at Mannum

Floods at Mannum

Floods at Mannum, 23 August 1931. Photograph shows the locals enjoying the novelty of rowing down the main street of Mannum.

Floods at Mannum

Floods at Mannum

Floods at Mannum at the Electric Light Plant, 23 August 1931. The buildings are surrounded by sandbags and concerned locals.

Milbrook Hotel

Milbrook Hotel

Milbrook Hotel - demolished and covered by the Millbrook Reservoir. In 1908 the proprietors were JF Fitzgerald and Albert William Seppelt. The reservoir was built from 1914 to 1918 during World War I to control water flows in the Upper River Torrens and to provide gravity fed water to Adelaide's eastern suburbs. Before its inundation the town of Millbrook was a thriving community situated on a creek of the same name. The majority of the inhabitants were gardeners, poultry farmers, woodcarvers. Gold, copper and lead were to be found in the area.

Floods at Mitcham

Floods at Mitcham

[General description] Floodwaters lap around a group of gum trees and nearby corrugated iron buildings. The open door of one of the buildings has been sandbagged. [On back of photograph] 'Floods at Mitcham / September 3, 1931 / Reproduced in the 'Chronicle' for September 10, 1931'.

Floods at Montacute

Floods at Montacute

[General description] The view along the Montacute Road shows it to be completely under water. Gumtrees, bushes and utility poles line the road. [On back of photograph] 'Floods / September 3, 1931 / Main road to Montacute / Reproduced in the 'Chronicle' for September 10, 1931'.