The Adelaide Park Lands: A Social HistoryAdelaide's Park Lands have long been home to large events, as well as numberless small, private encounters. Until now, no book has been published to document this wealth of social activity. In The Adelaide Park Lands, Sumerling recounts tales both enchanting and bizarre from the time of earliest European settlement until present days. |
Contents
Major events | 3 |
By the waterside | 35 |
Sporting politics | 65 |
A quieter pace | 99 |
The dark underbelly of the Park Lands | 107 |
Animal sports and activities | 121 |
Living on the Park Lands | 141 |
A military presence | 151 |
PART | 161 |
New directions from the 1880s | 183 |
Postwar policy for the Park Lands | 209 |
Cows only | 217 |
Veales vision | 223 |
The last formal garden | 249 |
Common terms and phrases
Aboriginal ACC Archives acres activities Adelaide Bowling Club Adelaide City Council Adelaide Gaol Adelaide Oval Adelaide Park Lands Adelaide's Advertiser April August banks birds Boathouse boats Bonython Park Botanic Gardens Botanic Park built camped campers circus City of Adelaide corporation cricket December East Park Lands Elder Park event February feet fencing Grand Himeji homosexual horses Japanese garden July June Kaurna King William Road landscaping lease LeFT Lord Mayor March MArkeTiNg & CreATiVe Memorial Drive MICK BRADLEY migrants Montefiore Hill Morphett Bridge Morphett Street netball North Adelaide North Terrace November opened organised Parade Ground Pinky Flat plans planted play Playground police race racecourse River Torrens rotunda Rymill Park shelters SLSA South Australian South Park Lands spectators Sunday swimming Tennis took Torrens Lake Torrens Weir Town Clerk trees university footbridge Veale Gardens Victoria Drive Victoria Park wedding West Terrace Willows