Special Council Meeting - City of Burnside

150 facts about Burnside
118. John Cresswell lived at Statenborough
Street, Leabrook. Among other things he
was the Secretary of the South Australian
Cricket Association. The southern stand at
the Adelaide Oval is named after him.
119. In March 1944, Otto Von Rieben gave his
4.5 acre property ‘Attunga’ on Kensington
Road, Toorak Gardens, to the Burnside
Council for the establishment of a hospital.
125. Beaumont Common
originally had two
circular pieces of land of
1.5 acres each at both
ends called the West
Circus and the East
Circus. In 1884 the two
circuses were sold to
adjacent landowners
and disappeared.
120. Marryatville Primary was originally on
Kensington Road, Leabrook (formerly
Upper Kensington) until the 1970’s when
it left the Burnside area and moved to
Kensington.
121. In 1841 Burnside resident Edward Gleeson
harvested a crop of wheat, averaging 30
bushel to the acre. He was the fi rst person
to reap a crop of grain in South Australia.
122. In 1865 there were 215 houses and 1,472
inhabitants in Burnside.
123. An annual sweet pea exhibition was held in
Kensington Gardens Reserve from 1910 to
1920.
124. Formed in 1881, the Wyatt Trust originated
from the estate of Dr. William Wyatt,
owner of Kurralta. As the death in 1872 of
his only child to survive to adulthood left
him without an heir, he formed a Trust to
provide low cost housing, scholarships, and
fi nancial assistance for the elderly, disabled
and others in need. The Trust still exists.
126. The building at 92
Mount Barker Road,
which now operates as
a pet boarding kennel,
was originally the
Mountain Hut Hotel.
The oldest section of
the building dates from
1845. The hotel lost its
licence in 1909 and was
run as a Temperance
Hotel until the 1950’s.
127. The City of Burnside is approximately 30
square kilometres in size.
128. In Woolshed Gully off Waterfall Gully
Road, Sir Samuel Davenport tried growing
tobacco in the latter part of the 19th
century.
129. The Burnside Library opened in 1961 with
7,800 items available for loan. In 2006 the
Library has 153,000 items available for loan.
130. In 1882 an old pavilion from the Adelaide
Oval was purchased and re-erected at the
Kensington Oval.
131. Second Falls at Waterfall Gully was once
known as Fern Waterfall.
132. The fi rst baby health clinic to operate in
Burnside was established in 1917 by the
East Torrens branch of the Mothers and
Babies’ Health Association in the Eastwood
Methodist Church.
133. The Council purchased its first item of
mechanical equipment, a road roller, in 1918.
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