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72-676: Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi , also known as Park 16 , is a park located in the Southeastern Park Lands of the South Australian capital of Adelaide . It is bordered by Fullarton Road , Greenhill Road , East Terrace and Wakefield Road. Before 1897 it was known as the Old Adelaide Racecourse . It has hosted several major events in recent years, the most prominent of which were the Formula 1 from 1985 to 1995, and from 1999

144-708: A butcher's shop in Currie Street then in 1857 moved to Hindley Street , then in 1863 moved into the wholesale meat trade. John Lazar was an employee. In 1865, he joined E. M. Bagot , a fellow-member of the South Australian Jockey Club committee, as partners in Bennett & Bagot, station and livestock agents, with offices in Clarke's buildings, Hindley Street, and afterwards in Gresham Street. That partnership

216-435: A 21-year lease on "The Old Racecourse", the others being William Blackler , Seth Ferry and Dr Robert Peel ; soon whittled down to just two: Blackler and Ferry. Bennett served as steward and starter, as which he also officiated at some country clubs, though he was barred 1881–1883 while serving out his time as an undischarged bankrupt. He also often acted as a Judge at Agricultural Society Shows and other events. Bennett

288-660: A new track in November 1850, November 1851, December 1852, and December 1853. Similar "autumn meetings" were held in May 1854 and April 1855 The South Australian Jockey Club was formed in January 1856, and conducted the autumn meetings in April 1856, April 1857, April 1858, April 1859, April 1860, April 1861, and April 1862 The Adelaide suburb of Thebarton was a popular area for equestrian events, and numerous hurdle and other races were held there in

360-669: A one-off Le Mans series event, the Race of a Thousand Years on 31 December 2000. The circuit hosted the Adelaide 500 from 1999 until 2020; its cancellation for 2021 was announced due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia , and declining attendance. In 2020, the government established a COVID-19 testing site inside the park. The Adelaide 500 returned as the final round of the 2022 series . Adelaide Park Lands The Adelaide Park Lands comprise

432-470: A police sub-inspector, as Keeper of the Park Lands. Bull led an initial team of six park rangers, most being convalescent migrants thrown on government support. This dropped to two by 1840, then back to four by June 1841. Pay and rations were provided by the police department. Since 1852, the areas of the Park Lands placed in the custodianship of the municipal corporation have been managed and maintained by

504-445: A rift between Ferry, who was prepared to wait for better times, and Blackler, who was keen to surrender the lease. The Council wanted to extend Halifax Street through to Fullarton Road, cutting the course in two, and would have compensated them financially. Ferry had his way, and for a few years persevered with low-key meetings with modest prizemoney and consequently small fields, dominated by Ferry's own stable. Iconic races such as

576-439: A school and a storehouse south-west of North Adelaide. Over the years there has been constant encroachment on the Park Lands by the state government and others. Soon after their declaration in 1837, 370 acres (150 ha) "were lost to 'Government Reserves'". In 1902, The Herald noted that a total area of 489 acres (198 ha) had been taken from park lands. In 2018, the loss is about 568 acres (230 ha). The part of

648-544: A series of rules created by Spanish planners for their colonial cities, known as the "Law of the Indies". They included the grid pattern with a main thoroughfare, centred around a main square. There are many historical precedents for five squares, including Philadelphia in America , designed in 1682 by surveyor Thomas Holme . There are however no records showing that Light deliberately copied any cities or rules for planning. In 1838

720-539: A type of reserve , so that the rest of the land could be systematically colonised. However, it became very important for the history and later study of the Kaurna language. In October 1838 two German missionaries , Christian Teichelmann and Clamor Schürmann (and later Samuel Klose ) arrived, setting themselves first up at the "Old Location" on the southern side, studying the Kaurna language and teaching in that language. This

792-660: Is a planned city , and the Adelaide Park Lands are an integral part of Colonel William Light 's 1837 plan. Light chose a site spanning the River Torrens (known as Yatala by the Kaurna people ), and planned the city to fit the topography of the landscape, "on rising ground". The Emigration Regulations appearing in the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register published in London on 18 June 1836 instructed that

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864-419: Is a significant example of early colonial planning which has retained key elements of its historical layout for over one hundred and seventy years. The 1837 Adelaide Plan attributed to Colonel William Light and the establishment of Adelaide marks a significant turning point in the settlement of Australia." In the 2010s, about 25% of the Park Lands are the location of government, public and cultural buildings. Of

936-602: Is formed by Park Tce. It Contains the Adelaide Golf Links . The history of Park 1 is bound up with that of Park 27 and Bonython Park, after a succession of Protectors of Aborigines first set up a "Native Location", of which elements moved between the north and south sides of the River Torrens. Bromley's Camp, the first of these, was established in April 1837 on the south side of the river by Captain Walter Bromley ,

1008-886: The South Australian Colonist in the following year. William Cawthorne, a frequent visitor and close friend of Kadlitpina ("Captain Jack"), loved the Kaurna Palti " corroboree " and their material culture, and was responsible for recording many names of artefacts. His Rough Notes on the Manners and Customs of the Natives , written in 1844, was published in the 1925-26 Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (SA Branch) . Moorhouse, Protector from 1839 until 1857, lived at Pirltawardli and worked closely with

1080-696: The Adelaide 500 . This race was cancelled in 2020 for the 2021 season during the COVID pandemic , but returned in December 2022. Victoria Park is also the host of three Pedal Prix races through the year, run by the AHPVSS (Australian Human Powered Vehicle Super Series). The park's most prominent feature was the Victoria Park Racecourse, the home course of the Adelaide Racing Club prior to its amalgamation with

1152-735: The Adelaide City Council and subsequently no longer pursued by the South Australian Government . In December 2006 the state government passed the Adelaide Park Lands Act 2005 , which established the Adelaide Park Lands Authority and a series of statutory protections for the Park Lands. At the time the Act was proclaimed, Premier Mike Rann announced that a major return of alienated Park Lands would be made at

1224-526: The Adelaide City Council announced plans to turn Victoria Park into a "people's park", incorporating wetlands , community sporting facilities, walking tracks and temporary motor racing facilities. Part of the Adelaide Street Circuit was built in the northern portion of the park. Temporary grandstands and other facilities were erected whenever motor racing events were hosted there. The Australian Grand Prix took place from 1985 to 1995 , and

1296-472: The Adelaide City Council drew up a Reconciliation Vision Statement in 1997, they committed to a dual naming project, working with Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi , a Kaurna language project run by the University of Adelaide in collaboration with Kaurna advisors. The dual naming covers the city centre and North Adelaide , including the six public squares and Adelaide park lands . Erection of signs in each of

1368-465: The Adelaide City Council . Public use of the Park Lands was controlled by a ranger who patrolled the parks, regulating sporting and recreational activities in the parks and supervising the depasturing of stock grazing there. A variety of now absent wildlife was still present in the Park Lands in the late 1800s, with the Greater Bilby reported as still being numerous in 1890. The former prevalence of

1440-474: The Adelaide Racing Club , which was formally founded on 14 October 1879, adopting Victorian Racing Club rules; the committee to consist of the four lessees plus three elected members: George Church, Henry Hughes, and W. F. Stock . In late 1879 the law prohibiting totalizators on South Australian racecourses was disallowed, and Ferry purchased a £300 "box tote", which he leased to the Club. It proved profitable for

1512-667: The South Australian Jockey Club ; the main track was 2,360 metres long, with the longest home-straight of any horse racing track in Australia. In the early days of Adelaide, races were held in this area, the East Park Lands , opposite the Britannia Hotel, (eponym of the Britannia Roundabout ), the course redefined from time to time. These were no doubt very fine horses, but gentlemen's hacks not thoroughbreds , and ridden by their owners, not professional jockeys. A Turf Club

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1584-616: The Thebarton track as their racecourse, and the first programme was held 1–3 January 1862. Bennett had his "Butcher Boy" and "Miss Rowe" in several races, but without success. At the summer meeting 1863, with "Lord of the Isles", ridden by Billy Simpson , he was more fortunate. He succeeded P. B. Coglin as official starter in 1863, holding that position until the Club folded in 1869. Horses for which he was, later, better known were Emulation, Impudence, Loquacity, Ada, Vibration, and Presumption, and

1656-531: The "Aboriginal Location". It was probably a campsite used by the Kaurna, and may have had some importance for ceremonies. This site is now within the area of the Par 3 golf course adjoining the North Adelaide Golf Links, and is marked by a memorial plaque at the carpark by the weir, erected on 26 May 2000. Pirltawodli was designed by the colonial government to keep Aboriginal people confined and settled in

1728-688: The "Elder Course" for their benefactor, Thomas Elder , or " Bay of Biscay course" for its unstable soil) and held their first meeting there on 3 January 1876. The April 1878 three-day autumn meeting was held at the Elder Course, Morphettville, and the Adelaide Cup of 1879 was held there on the Tuesday after Easter. In 1879 a 21 year lease on the course was awarded by the City Council to Bennett, William Blackler , Seth Ferry and Dr Robert Peel , who launched

1800-495: The 1850s and earlier, in the streets and through properties of sympathetic landowners. A course was laid out on land held by E. M. Bagot and Gabriel Bennett of Bagot & Bennett, stock agents — Section 48, bounded by the thoroughfares now known as Henley Beach Road , South Road , Darebin Street and Bagot Avenue. Non-club meetings were held in January 1859, January 1860, and April 1861. The Jockey Club re-formed in 1861, and adopted

1872-518: The Club when Mata, banned elsewhere, won the 1881 Birthday Cup. Led by Ferry and Blackler, the Club spent so much on the ground, prizemoney and infrastructure (far more was spent on the grandstand than was required by the Council's covenant) that within a year two lessees dropped out, leaving just Ferry and Blackler, who brought in his son W. A. Blackler as a third shareholder. Several committee members also dropped out, necessitating fresh elections to restore

1944-671: The Colonization Commissioners for South Australia authorised South Australia's Resident Commissioner to purchase the Adelaide Park Lands, and these instructions were carried out in South Australia in 1839. By 1839 the Park Lands were threatened by extensive timber cutting, rubbish dumping, brick-making, quarrying, squatting, and grazing. To check this, a body of special constables was instituted on 9 October 1839 by George Gawler and Superintendent Henry Inman . Inman appointed Nick Boys Bull ( c.  1800 -1846), formerly

2016-585: The East Park Lands, now dubbed the "Old Adelaide Course" The 1870 New Year's races were organised by Gabriel Bennett , who revived regular race meetings there in May 1871. Some races had been conducted in the Glenelg region in the 1850s, at the rear of John Bernie's Morphett Arms Hotel. After five or six years of existence in name only, the SAJC re-formed in 1873, and acquired its own ground at Morphettville (dubbed

2088-531: The Grand National Hurdle and the Adelaide Grand National were run on the track and won by South Australia's leading cross-country jockey Jack McGowan of Brooklyn Park in the late 1800s. The "Old Course" was renamed "Victoria Park" by mayor Tucker on 4 August 1897. See Adelaide Grand Prix Following the rejection of a proposal to upgrade horse and motor racing facilities in early 2008,

2160-607: The Greening of Adelaide tree planting and replacement programs. In the early 2000s there were proposals to redevelop Park16 (Victoria Park), with the construction of a grandstand to cater for the Clipsal 500 and horse racing events. Due to lobbying by local resident groups, the Adelaide Park Lands Preservation Association, the media and many residents of greater Adelaide, this plan was eventually rejected by

2232-473: The Park Lands an unsightly appearance. In the late 19th century John Ednie Brown, the government's Conservator of Forests, was commissioned by the City Council to prepare a blueprint for the beautification of the Park Lands. Brown presented his Report in 1880, but it was not acted upon until the turn of the 20th century when A.W. Pelzer became the City Gardener. Major progress was made in planting and landscaping

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2304-568: The Park Lands coincide with the survey section boundaries that gave rise to council's numbering (from "Park 1" to "Park 29"). The numbering, which starts in the North Park Lands (at the Adelaide Golf Links ), and increases clockwise around the perimeter, was applied in September 1882. Some of the parks are more commonly known by a commemorative name (e.g. Rymill Park ), but others, such as Park 10 , are still known mostly by their number. Since

2376-495: The Park Lands during his tenure (1899–1932) and further improvements such as creation of new gardens and boating lakes were carried under the authority of William Veale , the Town Clerk (1947–1965). In July 2007 part of the Adelaide Park Lands and City of Adelaide layout (North and South Adelaide) were granted National Heritage Listing status. The first remarks on the assessor's report were: "The Adelaide Park Lands and City Layout

2448-702: The Park Lands not in the "Government Reserves" have been managed and maintained by the Adelaide City Council since 1852, and since February 2007, the Adelaide Park Lands Authority has advised council and government. On 7 November 2008 the Federal Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett , announced that the Adelaide Park Lands had been entered in the Australian National Heritage List as "an enduring treasure for

2520-551: The SAJC vacated the premises, moving their home course to Morphettville Racecourse . The 1950s-era SAJC grandstand was demolished, as was a large brick wall adjacent Fullarton Road and other utility buildings. The heritage-listed 1880s-era grandstand was refurbished as part of a $ 16 million upgrade of the park's facilities. The park remains one of the venues for the Adelaide International Horse Trials . In August 2008,

2592-653: The Thebarton track, dubbed the "Butchers' course" or "South Road course" and, determined to control all horse racing in the State, recovered their grandstand from the Adelaide Course. They held their first summer meeting there on 1–2 January 1862, and in April 1863 the first three-day SAJC autumn races. Other events were the 1863 St Patrick's Day races and the Grand Annual Steeplechase in September 1866. A pony race which

2664-406: The city, and originally consisted of 2,300 acres (930 ha) "exclusive of 32 acres (13 ha) for a public cemetery ". One copy of Light's plan shows areas for a cemetery and a Post and Telegraph Store on West Terrace , a small Government Domain and Barracks on the central part of North Terrace , a hospital on East Terrace , a Botanical Garden on the River Torrens west of North Adelaide, and

2736-400: The community tree planting efforts in the locality. Nantu Wama 'horse plain' or 'male grey kangaroo plain' One of Lefevre Park's borders is Lefevre Terrace; Sir J G Shaw-Lefevre (1797–1879), a British barrister, Whig politician and civil servant, was one of South Australia's colonisation commissioners. Gabriel Bennett Gabriel Bennett (23 December 1817 – 13 September 1895)

2808-471: The course of a meeting. He never attended a Melbourne Cup or an Easter meeting of the Oakbank Racing Club . Bennett was also involved in the formation of the Adelaide Racing Club , which had its origin in races held at the "Old Adelaide Racecourse" (now Victoria Park ) on New Year's Day 1870 and 1878, and was formalised in 1879. He was one of the four who that year, on behalf of the Club, took out

2880-630: The east end of Park 25 has been used by the South Australian Cricket Association for the development of the Karen Rolton Oval and associated facilities including car parking. Although it is a single park, for management purposes the Adelaide City Council has used the last two digits of survey sections as labels to identify smaller areas within the Adelaide Park Lands. In some, but not all, cases, roadways crossing over

2952-450: The figure-eight configuration of land, spanning both banks of the River Torrens between Hackney and Thebarton, which encloses and separates the City of Adelaide area (including both the Adelaide city centre and North Adelaide ) from the surrounding suburbia of greater metropolitan Adelaide , the capital city of South Australia . They were laid out by Colonel William Light in his design for

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3024-556: The late 1800s, Nobel Prize winners and University of Adelaide academics Sir William Henry Bragg and his son, Sir William Lawrence Bragg , lived nearby. Of irregular shape, the park is bounded by Robe Terrace (NE), Medindie Road (SE), Lefevre Road (W) and Main North Road (NW). Contains two small ovals, surrounded by wooded park. There is also a Tree Planting Memorial, erected in 1982 by the North Adelaide Society, to recognise

3096-560: The lease was terminated in 1869. Racing continued at the East Park Lands despite pressure from Thebarton. In 1864 P. B. Coglin took a 14-year lease on the Adelaide course. In December 1865 the Old Adelaide Course Racing Club (later Adelaide Racing Club) was formed by a breakaway group from the SAJC, sparking a rivalry, at times bordering on vitriolic antagonism, that lasted a hundred years. The 1869 autumn races were held at

3168-568: The missionaries, other Europeans such as William Wyatt , William Williams , William Cawthorne and Matthew Moorhouse wrote about the "Adelaide Tribe" in their memoirs. William Williams was keeper of the Colonial Store at nearby Tininyawardli (or Tinninyawodli), which was just south of where Strangways Terrace was built. He published a list of 377 Kaurna words, published in the Southern Australian on 15 May 1839 and republished in

3240-508: The missionaries, who also shared their views on race relations in the new colony. The linguistic work of Teichelmann and Schürmann there had far-reaching effects, influencing later missionaries to teach in local languages, aiding the work of linguists, and laying the foundations for the 21st-century language revival of the Kaurna and also indirectly helping in the revival of other languages, after other missionaries and linguists had followed their example with other local languages. Apart from

3312-474: The missionaries. There is only one remaining page of his diary, containing several Kaurna songlines not recorded elsewhere, but much information has been gleaned from his reports and official correspondence. Pardipardinyilla 'swimming place' 17 hectares Denise Norton was the first South Australian to represent Australia at the Olympic or Commonwealth Games – in the sport of swimming. Approximately square,

3384-1163: The park is bounded by Fitzroy Tce (to the north), Prospect Rd (to the east), Barton Tce West (to the south) and Jeffcott Rd (to the west). The Park provides a range of formal and informal facilities for cricket, swimming, tennis and family picnics. The north-west corner of the Park contains the Adelaide Aquatic Centre , picnic facilities and the Bush Magic playground. The remainder of the Park includes sporting facilities, open space and vegetation (designed and semi-natural landscapes). Kantarilla 'kandara root place' 3.3 hectares A small triangle bounded by Prospect Rd (west), Fitzroy Tce (north) and Main North Rd (east). Contains open park. Kangatilla 'kangatta berry place' 9.4 hectares Approximately pentagonal, bounded by O'Connell Street (west), Main North Road (north-west), Lefevre Road (north-east and east) and Barton Terrace East (south). Contains open and wooded park, with SA Water facilities at

3456-430: The parks was completed on 30 June 2004, with some of the spellings being revised in the 2010s. Also at that time, the numbered parks that still had no English name were assigned one. Victoria Square , in the centre of Adelaide city, is now also known as Tarntanyangga . All 29 Parks around the city have been assigned a Kaurna name, and the River Torrens is now also named Karrawirra Parri . The renaming of 39 sites

3528-555: The people of South Australia and the nation as a whole". In fact, large areas of the Adelaide Park Lands along the north side of the complete length of North Tce, and along the north side of Port Road from West Terrace to the Thebarton Police Barracks, (in Parks 11 , 12 , 26 and 27 ), and also the rail reserves, (in Parks 25 , 26 and 27 ), were excluded from the "Adelaide Park Lands and City Layout National Heritage Place" listing. 34°54′S 138°36′E  /  34.9°S 138.6°E  / -34.9; 138.6 Adelaide

3600-408: The quorum. In time however, the lease proved a cash cow for the lessees, for which the City Council was roundly criticised by the Adelaide press. His good fortune did not last, as in 1883 Parliament passed the Totalizator Repeal Act , making its use illegal and race-going less attractive. Then came the drought of 1884–1886, and a consequent recession, which disproportionately affected the ARC, causing

3672-547: The remaining approximately 700 hectares (1,700 acres), many parts have been sculpted into planned gardens and playing fields. Some of the remainder is remnant or regenerated Adelaide Plains grasslands or grassy woodlands, of which 230 hectares (570 acres) have been designated and developed by the city council as areas for native fauna and flora. Developments in the early 2000s focused on maintenance and upgrading of recreational facilities, and removal of remnant grasslands and open grassy woodlands, particularly through urbanisation and

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3744-401: The river behind the new Adelaide Gaol . One was for the "Murray tribe", who had moved to the area, and a smaller number of sheds for what was left of the " Adelaide tribe ". Pirltawardli is still of great significance to Kaurna people, as well as non-Indigenous South Australians. Nearly all of the recorded language and early written records of Kaurna culture stem from this place, documented by

3816-480: The river. In addition, he included 38 acres (0.15 km ) of city squares: Hindmarsh , Hurtle , Light , Whitmore and Wellington Squares (each comprising six acres), Victoria Square (eight acres), four one-acre Public Reserves (with frontages to Victoria Square), and 2,300 acres (9.3 km ) for the Park Lands. Adelaide's characteristic geometrical grid pattern is not unique: apart from earlier precedents going back to ancient Greece, it follows part of

3888-441: The second interim Protector. He initially pitched his tent in the vicinity of the old Adelaide Gaol , on land on or near the present Bonython Park (also known as the "Aborigines Location" and later as the "Old Location" ). After a few weeks, Bromley moved camp to the north side of the river at the request of the Kaurna people, to the site known as Piltawodli (later revised to Pirltawardli ), meaning "possum place" and also known as

3960-411: The site of the first town be divided into 1,000 sections of an acre each. In early 1837, William Light proposed to the Resident Commissioner James Hurtle Fisher that the figure-eight of open space, which Light later referred to as "Adelaide Park", be reserved as "Park grounds". Light drew up a plan that included 700 acres (2.8 km ) south of the River Torrens and 342 acres (1.38 km ) north of

4032-401: The sons departed for Queensland, where South Australian law did not apply. In 1889 Bennett was joined by Benjamin Fisher , founding the firm of Bennett and Fisher which prospered from the outset, and became one of Australia's foremost stock and station agents. Bennett was at the forefront of thoroughbred racing in South Australia. At a private meeting held on 2 June 1861, a steering committee

4104-504: The species - which went by the local name of pinky or pingku - is recognised as the likely origin of the place name Pinky Flat. The once abundant species was presumed completely extinct in the wild in South Australia by 1930. The Park Lands saw development during the 19th Century, for example the Adelaide Botanic Garden, hospital, South Australian Institute, Adelaide Oval, Victoria Park Racecourse. Extensive felling of trees, quarrying and dumping of rubbish continued, which combined to give

4176-528: The western edge of the city. The area to be returned, 5.5 hectares of land at the west end of Park 25 , occupied since 1879 by the Thebarton Water Depot, lies between East Terrace (now James Congdon Drive), Port Road and the railway lines. The plans were unveiled in 2011 and the land, which was mallee box woodland prior to European settlement, was developed and landscaped with more than 23,000 trees and shrubs as an urban forest . It features indigenous species, including native pine . In 2017–2018, land at

4248-417: The western end of North Adelaide in a vaguely crescent or banana shape. The southern and western boundaries are provided by War Memorial Drive , with Park 27 (which includes Bonython Park on the other side. The eastern boundary, from south to north, is formed by Montefiore Rd, the western end of North Adelaide (i.e. Strangways Terrace , Mills Tce and Barton Tce West) and Jeffcott Rd. The northern boundary

4320-524: The western end. The former Fitzroy Croquet Club was located in the northern corner of the Park, and there were two ovals in the middle of the Park. The main structure of the SA Water facilities is a State Heritage-listed earth-covered reservoir, dating from the 1870s, that stores and supplies water to Adelaide. Associated with this are a two-storey red brick pumping station, a small brick pumping station "heavily painted in Brunswick green", and an electricity sub-station. Ngampa Yarta 'ngampa root ground' In

4392-424: Was a commissioned officer in the Reedbeds Cavalry in the South Australian Volunteer Force . Bennett was a respected member of the Jewish community, and held several offices with the Adelaide Synagogue. He was president of the congregation when the new Rabbi, Rev. A. T. Boas arrived in South Australia on 13 February 1870, and in the following July laid the foundation stone of the new synagogue. Gabriel Bennett

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4464-440: Was also involved in the running of the school and was a frequent visitor to Pirltawardli. In the 1840s, Pirltawardli comprised a fenced area of 5.7 hectares (14 acres). However the whole site, including the school, was dismantled in July 1845, on the orders of Governor George Grey , who thought it best to take the children away from their parents, and a new " Native School " run by the government, which taught only in English,

4536-405: Was an auctioneer , stock and cattle salesman and horse breeder in South Australia . He was a founder of the stock and station agents Bennett and Fisher . Bennett was born in London , a son of Solomon Bennett (c. 1795 – 11 January 1864) of 5 Slaverton Row, Walworth Road , London. and married in 1846. In 1853 he emigrated to Melbourne , and the following year arrived in Adelaide and opened

4608-478: Was dissolved in October 1876, Bagot having to declare himself insolvent, and Bennett carried on business with his son Henry Bennett. This partnership, despite the business being quite profitable, ended in insolvency, due largely to embezzlement on the part of his sons Henry and (to a lesser extent) Simeon, who was employed as a clerk. Bennett continued in the same line of business alone, trading as "G. Bennett' & Co.", and made significant reparations to creditors;

4680-427: Was established near what is now Kintore Avenue . The people's houses were destroyed by soldiers. (The Native School closed in 1851, with the remaining children taken to Poonindie Mission at Port Lincoln on the Eyre Peninsula ). A few people continued to camp near the house of Klose, the only remaining missionary, at Pirltawardli. In 1846 the government build some brick sheds in part of this area, and also across

4752-541: Was finalised and endorsed by the council in 2012. The full list of square and park names, along with meanings and pronunciations, is available on the Council website. Kaurna park name and translation: Pirltawardli "possum home" (Pirltawardli/Piltawodli - pilta = possum, and wodli = house or home). 76 hectares. The name of the site has in the past been spelt Pilta-wodli or Piltawodlingga (in KWP's New Spelling 2010, Pirltawardli and Pirltawardlingga ). Of an irregular shape, Possum Park / Pirltawardli wraps around

4824-437: Was formed consisting of Sir J. H. Fisher , W. H. Formby , W. Filgate , C. B. Fisher , and James Chambers , determined to re-form the old South Australian Jockey Club and draw up rules. At a second meeting held on 1 July 1861, a committee consisting of E. M. Bagot (chairman), W. K. Simms , P. B. Coglin (starter), and Gabriel Bennett was elected to establish facilities and organise the first racing program. They settled on

4896-521: Was formed in August 1838, conducting two-day meetings in January 1839 and January 1840, then folded. It was re-formed in 1848, adopting Newmarket Rules to obviate the kind of disputes which sank its predecessor, and vice-regal patronage to ensure access to the racecourse. In the ensuing years, racing activity centred on "private matches" between horses, such as that between Mercury and Coronet, often attracting great public interest and consequent wagers. Three-day "summer meetings" were held in January 1850 on

4968-418: Was involved with William Gerrard of Yoho estate, near Delamere , in the breeding of thoroughbreds. 1876 was a good year for him; his horses taking the St Leger at Morphettville , the Geelong Gold Cup, and the Geelong Handicap with Emulation. In the same year he won the Adelaide Cup and the Queen's Guineas with Impudence. He was, for a man in his position, a very moderate gambler; seldom laying more than £10 in

5040-428: Was not connected with the firm of Bennett & Barton (Stephen Bennett and Charles H. Barton), land, loan and commission agents of Kapunda and Adelaide. Gabriel Bennett (23 December 1817 – 6 September 1895) married Rosetta "Rose" Aaron (c. 1818 – 16 July 1893) in England on 8 July 1846. They had a home in Gover Street, North Adelaide. Their children were He was not related to Dr. Alfred Henry Bennett (c. 1867–1930),

5112-432: Was the first mission in South Australia. In December 1839 Schürmann opened a school, supported by Governor George Gawler , which taught only in the Kaurna language, teaching the children to read and write in their language. In 1839 the school was moved across to the north side of the river to Pirltawardli. In August 1840, Klose took over the running of the school. The second interim Protector (1837–1839), William Wyatt

5184-499: Was to have been held at the Adelaide course was transferred to Thebarton, the organisers blaming condition of the track for the decision. The first six Adelaide Cups (1864–1869) were held there. The race-going public, at first enthusiastic, became disillusioned with the new course — it was hot and dusty, and not so conveniently situated to North Adelaide and the eastern suburbs, so many pleasure-seekers found alternative distractions. The Jockey Club collapsed under weight of its debts and

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