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49-508: The Exeter Hotel is a historic hotel located on Rundle Street in Adelaide , Australia . The hotel obtained a liquor licence on 13 March 1851. The original proprietor was Robert Radford. The hotel was named after Mr Radford's home town of Exeter in England . Radford had moved to Adelaide from Tasmania in 1850. A Mr Glover opposed the application for a licence (it appears Mr Glover

98-406: A Lord Mayor , as of 2023 being Jane Lomax-Smith . Initially the new Province of South Australia was managed by Colonisation Commissioners . Colonial government commenced on 28 December 1836. The first municipality was established in 1840 as The City of Adelaide Municipal Corporation, the first municipality in the country. However, due to a combination of constitutional difficulties arising from

147-412: A "lantern" for the city to use as a dynamic cultural canvas. There has been controversy about crediting artists that have contributed to the lantern. The Lantern is completely solar-powered and carbon neutral , and there is a webcam via which anyone can view the changing digital art at night, or what it looks like at any time of day. More than 16 million colours can be projected onto the surfaces of

196-413: A 4-year term. Area Councillors are elected by the voters of the whole council area as one electorate, while Ward Councillors are only elected by the voters of their respective wards. The council, as of December 2022 , is: At the end of the 20th century, the city had little more than thirty per cent of the population it had in 1915 (when the population reached more than 43,000), and about 5,000 less than

245-468: A William Stevens was found in Mount Gambier and arrested for obtaining money under false pretences from Mr Ewart. In April 1855, there was a robbery of valuables of a lodger perpetrated by a Charles Walker. On 28 October 1855, there was a small fire at the hotel, but no-one was harmed. The establishment appears to have been well-regarded at the time, with respectable people meeting there, including

294-576: A major venue for live music in the 1980s and 1990s. It became the first pub in South Australia to have Coopers beer on tap , and later underwent an extensive restoration in 2020. Grundy's Shoes has been in the shoe trade in the East End since 1868, first operating as Judd Shoes, a cobbler , and continuing as a family business which later imported and sold shoes. The Rundle Street store (built 1896) first traded as H. Grundy and Co making it

343-410: A multi-level car park, an open, austere structure of concrete slabs and iron railings. In September 1976, a Victorian man, Michael O'Connor, entered Hambly Clark's gun shop (now closed) at 182 Rundle Street, between Pulteney Street and Synagogue Place, and stole two shotguns which he loaded with his own ammunition. He then began shooting indiscriminately. After a lengthy confrontation he was shot by

392-579: A police sniper and taken to the nearby Royal Adelaide Hospital but was declared dead on arrival. The Garden East apartments were built during the 1990s as part of the redevelopment of old warehouse and office buildings in the East End. "Building D" was designed by Woods Bagot around 1999. The Palace Nova Eastend , a cinema complex which has hosted the Adelaide Film Festival , as well as continuing to host series of other annual film festivals created by other organisations, such as

441-463: A return to higher density population levels, Adelaide City Council launched its 'New Directions' with its three themes of Capacity, Vivacity and Audacity on 3 July 2001. The "Capacity" theme proposed doubling the city's population by 2010 and increasing the number of City visitors and workers. According to the Annual Reports, the population has increased rapidly, due to the targets stated in

490-623: A social breakfast of the Congregational Union on 17 April 1856. In 1888, the original building was demolished and the current building was built. It was thought this decision was made so the Hhtel could better compete with the rival Tavistock Hotel, which inhabited a grand building (which building was ultimately demolished to construct Frome Street ). In 1929, the building was substantially refurbished to appear largely as it does today, with its distinctive green-tile facade. In 2001,

539-456: A survey of the whole group was undertaken. The signage is still retained today. The hotel on the corner of Bent Street was opened as Cohen's Family Hotel, in 1898 being renamed to the Astral. The Austral Hotel, which was heritage-listed on 5 April 1984, was held by licensees William and Edith Garrett in 1929. It became known for its illegal betting in the 1950s, undergoing a transformation as

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588-682: A year of Reid and his family having been in England for several years. The accommodation behind the Austral and the four adjoining shops remain representative of 19th-century terrace development, with large bluestone walls along with brickwork . The facade of the Malcolm Reid Emporium, occupying nos. 187-195, was heritage-listed on the South Australian Heritage Register on 5 June 1986, after

637-404: Is close to Adelaide Botanic Gardens , Rundle Park , Rymill Park , Hindmarsh Square and North Terrace . The street contains numerous cafés, restaurants, shops, cinemas, clubs , and hotels . It is one of Adelaide's most popular streets for cafés and fashion. Most of the street has a heritage façade, but has been redeveloped for modern use, with some buildings converted to residences, such as

686-639: Is legally defined as the capital city of South Australia by the City of Adelaide Act 1998 , which also provides for a Capital City Committee, setting out its structure, function and responsibilities. The Act defines the Constitution of the council, including the role, allowances and benefits of the Lord Mayor and members. It defines the role of the CEO and their role with regard to Council employees. It continues

735-561: Is one of the narrower streets of the Adelaide grid, at 1 chain (66 ft; 20 m) wide. A separate Rundle Street continues from Rundle Road through Kent Town . The western extent of Rundle Street, which originally ran to King William Street , was closed in 1972 to form the pedestrian street of Rundle Mall. The street was named after John Rundle , a director of the South Australian Company and member of

784-460: Is part of a group at no. 187-207 originally built for the South Australian Company in the early 1880s. The company commissioned architect William McMinn to design a set of buildings in stages from east to west. The first building, comprising 14 shops and a hotel to provide accommodation in the three storeys above, were completed in January 1880. The section later occupied by Malcolm Reid & Co.

833-587: The Adelaide city centre , the suburb of North Adelaide , and the Adelaide Park Lands , which surround North Adelaide and the city centre. Established in 1840, the City of Adelaide Municipal Corporation was the first municipal authority in Australia. At its time of establishment, Adelaide's (and Australia's) first mayor, James Hurtle Fisher , was elected. From 1919 onwards, the municipality has had

882-597: The Alliance Française 's French Film Festival, along with regular screenings of other films in their 12 cinemas, including the Eximax, the largest screen in Adelaide. Radio station Fresh 92.7 has its studios and office adjacent to Palace Nova Eastend. There are many high-end fashion retailers in Rundle Street. Among these is Miss Gladys Sym Choon, owned by a company which retained the name of one of

931-537: The British House of Commons , by the Street Naming Committee on 23 May 1837. It was installed with the first electric street lighting in South Australia in 1895 at the former intersection of Rundle, King William and Hindley streets. The Malcolm Reid & Co. Ltd building at no. 187-207 was extensively refurbished in 1909. (See below for further details.) A tramline ran through

980-709: The Sym Choon family 's businesses, in existence since the 1920s, when they bought the business in 1985. Pubs in Rundle Street include the Exeter Hotel ; The Austral ; The Elephant British Pub (in Cinema Place, near the Palace Nova); The Stag Public House (at the junction with East Terrace); and the Belgian Beer Cafe (on Ebenezer Place). The Malcolm Reid & Co. Ltd building

1029-651: The 1855 population of 18,259. In proposing reforms and his advocacy for town planning legislation, Charles Reade illustrated the Adelaide slums associated with the city's high population levels with lantern-slides accompanying his lecture "Garden cities v. Adelaide slums and suburbs" in the Adelaide Town Hall on 8 Oct 1914. Reade was attacked by the Adelaide City Council who fought against the Town Planning and Housing Bill reforms and

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1078-521: The Council in early 2007. A minimal design called the Rundle Lantern – a 748-panel LED lighting display wrapping around the façade of the Rundle Street carpark, Upark, – was eventually selected, with the Council deciding that video screens were inappropriate for the location. The Rundle Lantern was designed and developed by a local company, Fusion, with the design strategy focused on creating

1127-579: The East End Markets. Bent Street and Union Street run through to Grenfell Street on the southern side, Ebenezer Place runs south leading to a pedestrianised precinct and turns westwards into Union Street, while the cul de sac Synagogue Place, and pedestrianised Vaughan Place (next to the Exeter and leading to The Elephant and Palace Nova ) run off the northern side. The street is two-lane, with parking on both sides plus bicycle lanes . It

1176-519: The Lantern. [REDACTED] Australian Roads portal 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 . It is legally defined as the capital city of South Australia by the City of Adelaide Act 1998 . It includes

1225-439: The building, formerly used as a warehouse by Charles Segar, was extensively refurbished in 1909, to create a continuous frontage and almost complete reconstruction of the rear. As part of the renovation, a large basement was excavated, measuring 66 ft (20 m) by 120 ft (37 m), and the total accommodation doubled, according to The Advertiser of 14 September 1909. The expansion and opening took place within around

1274-675: The business in 1921. It continued to perform strongly through a downturn in the industry in 2019. In late 2006, the Adelaide City Council proposed to transform Rundle Street's western approach, the Pulteney Street-Rundle Mall junction, into a Piccadilly Circus or Times Square -type meeting place at a cost of around $ 1.5 million. The proposal, based on ideas expressed in mid-2005 for neon billboards and video screens, included an initial nine design concepts, which were narrowed to two for consideration by

1323-412: The cultural, educational, business, and technical spheres. The five sister cities are: Two cities are known as Friendship Cities, based on informal partnerships between two cities that promote collaboration and a friendly relationship between two cities: The armorial flag of Adelaide was approved on 2 August 1982, replacing the unofficial coat of arms on white background, which had been flown outside

1372-537: The hotel received listing as a local heritage place by the City of Adelaide . Rundle Street Rundle Street , often referred to as "Rundle Street East" as distinct from Rundle Mall , is a street in the East End of the city centre of Adelaide , the capital of South Australia . It runs from Pulteney Street to East Terrace , where it becomes Rundle Road through the East Park Lands . The street

1421-508: The hotel, by pretending she was acquiring it on an errand for an adult. This was not the only crime that occurred at the hotel at this time. Also in September 1851, a forger and lunatic, Henry Baker, was found drinking at the Hotel by a policeman, and subsequently arrested. On 14 December in the same year, the publican Mr Radford accepted a watch from an August von Nontzen, a "burly German", who

1470-465: The hotel, to consider proposals for a road from the city through the Parklands to Kensington and Norwood . In July 1851, a number of concerts were given at the hotel by a group known as the 'Ohio Serenaders'. Thus began a long history of the hotel hosting a wide range of musicians. On 1 September 1851 Rebecca Cludans, a little girl, was convicted for obtaining gin from Laura Radford, who worked at

1519-591: The licence to the Exeter Hotel to a James Clark. In January 1853, Clark had already got into trouble at his new establishment. A Matthew Wilks accused him of assault. Wilks claimed he had merely complained his pint was not up to the measure, and this provoked Clark to strike him. However, a witness told a different story - Clark had refused Wilks entry on the grounds he was a man of bad character, and that Wilks had then claimed to be owed money by Clark for some vegetables he had sold him, and refused to go away until he

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1568-417: The liquor licence being renewed on 22 May 1852, despite a late application having been made. It was submitted by Mr Radford to the licensing court that the hotel had been "always well-conducted". In December 1852, an employee of the hotel, Mary Conolly, was caught stealing several bottles from the hotel, as well as a lodger's purse. Perhaps this had an effect on Radford, for on 13 December 1852, Radford gave up

1617-465: The longest continuous trader in the street. The company expanded to include Grundy's and Barlows shoe stores across greater Adelaide and Victor Harbor . In March 2018, the store celebrated 150 years in operation by a ceremonial transportation of goods by horse and cart from their Glenelg store to their Rundle Street store. As of 2023 Grundy's is owned by the Judd and Whittenbury families, who bought

1666-531: The mayor's resignation, hostility of the incoming Governor George Grey , and falling revenues due to the onset of the colony's first economic crisis, the corporation became moribund in 1843, after the Province had become a Crown colony established by the South Australia Act 1842 . From 1843 to 1849, control and management reverted to the colonial government, and from 1849 to 1852 the municipality

1715-481: The municipality was divided into four wards. Three Councillors and one Alderman were chosen, who in turn selected the Mayor. In 1861 the Mayor was chosen by all the electors and the position of Alderman was temporarily abolished. In 1873 the municipality was divided into six Wards, each represented by two Councillors. In 1880 the office of Alderman was recreated; they were chosen by electors of all Wards. The office of Mayor

1764-553: The name of the council as "The Corporation of the City of Adelaide", and says that the land known as "The Corporation Acre" within the City of Adelaide is vested in the Adelaide City Council. It says that the name "Adelaide City Council" means the Corporation of the City of Adelaide. As of 2019 the City of Adelaide Council consists of 12 elected members, including the Lord Mayor and 11 Area and Ward Councillors, elected for

1813-575: The press pointed out the wickedness of families being forced to 'herd together more and more in overcrowded conditions of living' and the 'sheer nonsense on the part of the City Council to pretend' that there were no slums in the city: The City Council does not want to learn. It seems to want the slum owners to be left untouched so that the landlords may reap their harvest of gold while the poor of this city reap their harvest of suffering, disease, and other ills associated with bad housing. In seeking

1862-510: The section occupied by Malcolm Reid were later painted. The group bordered Foy & Gibson's to the west, with Malcolm Reid opening next door in September 1909. At this time, number 195 Rundle Street was occupied by W. Storrie and Company , "Importers of British & Foreign Merchandise", with F. Weller & Son leather shop next door. Malcolm Reid premises are located between Wellers shop and Foy and Gibson. By 1929, Both Storrie and Weller had gone. Storrie closed in 1916. This part of

1911-492: The strategic plans developed at about that time. [REDACTED] The following table sets out the figures of various types of city population in the 21st century:  * Visitors to the city from the Adelaide Metropolitan area, for all purposes  ** Square kilometres (millions of square metres) of office space. i.e. 1.503 km = 1,503,000 sq. metres. The city's 2010–11 Annual Report noted that

1960-492: The street in the early 20th century. The Grand Central Hotel was a magnificent heritage building which was located on the corner of Rundle Street and Pulteney Street, a six-storey Victorian-style building opened in 1911. It was later concerted into a Foy & Gibson retail store, designed to complement their adjacent furniture emporium adjacent. The building was demolished in 1975 and the Rundle Street UPark

2009-746: The total area of the City of Adelaide is 15.6 km , of which 7.6 km is Park Lands. Other sources put the Park Lands area closer to 7.0 km . The original area was 2,300 acres (9.3 km , a number the Council still regularly quotes. The City of Adelaide's administrative offices are located in the Colonel William Light Centre building at 25 Pirie Street , adjacent to the Adelaide Town Hall in King William Street . Apart from providing

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2058-514: The usual services like rubbish collection and controlling local development, the City of Adelaide owns and operates a number of city services and amenities, including: The City of Adelaide has been involved in the Sister Cities program since 1972. As of 2023 it has long-term international partnership arrangements with five cities, known as sister cities , based on formal agreements between Adelaide and each city. This allows collaboration in

2107-442: Was another publican), but the licence was granted in any event. The hotel originally provided, apart from food and drink, lodgings for travellers, and a stables. The Supreme Court of South Australia case of Wayland v Taylor concerns a dispute between a contractor and a sub-contractor for building work done in relation to the hotel in 1851. On 19 May 1851 a meeting of residents of the north-east corner of Adelaide took place at

2156-525: Was built there. The Grand Central in its turn replaced the elegant and exclusive two-storey York Hotel , but despite some high-profile guests (the Prince of Wales in 1920, Arthur Conan Doyle in 1922), it never prospered, and around 1925 was absorbed into the emporium. The building was sold to the Electricity Trust for showrooms and offices, then in 1975–1976 was demolished to make way for

2205-461: Was completed last, around 1883. The completed group occupies almost two town acres , and is unusual in Adelaide in South Australia on account of its extent. The group is solidly constructed, made of sandstone with stucco decoration. The original composition was altered slightly by chamfering the corner with Bent Street, and adding a tiered balcony to the hotel (the Austral), and the hotel and

2254-482: Was leaving the colony, as payment for his debts to Mr Radford. It transpired von Nontzen had stolen the watch from a young lady, Jean Morton. On 7 May 1852, a grand ball was given at the hotel to celebrate the safe return to Adelaide of the ship, the 'Escort'. It appears at around this time, Radford abandoned the hotel to dig for gold in Victoria . However, the hotel continued operation in his name in his absence, with

2303-572: Was managed by a Commission with five members. With the positive economic effects of the Victorian gold rush , a formal municipality was re-established in 1852, and "has operated continuously ever since". However, The city's relationship with the state and federal government has been described as being 'a continually abrasive relationship'. The Council started in 1840 with nineteen members, who chose four of their number to be Aldermen, and then one of these (James Hurtle Fisher) to be Mayor. In 1852

2352-476: Was paid. Clark tried to remove Wilks from the hotel, and Wilks struck out at Clark, who then retaliated. The court decided that, either way, Clark had assaulted Wilks, and fined him 10 shillings and costs. On 12 June 1854, the licence was transferred by Clark to Rawson Ewart. Ewart had only been ten months in the Colony, and had previously worked as a draper. Ewart encountered trouble before long. On 2 December 1854,

2401-588: Was raised to the stature of Lord Mayor by Royal Letters Patent in 1919. The Lord Mayor received the right to be styled ‘The Right Honourable’ in 1927. The Arms of the City of Adelaide were granted by the Heralds College in 1929. In 1982 the Council approved the design of the Armorial Flag. In 2015, the Council became the first government of any kind in Australia to offer a financial incentive for installing battery systems. The City of Adelaide

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