Special Council Meeting - City of Burnside

150 facts about Burnside
17. Former Burnside Mayor, Colonel W C N
Waite, served in the army during three wars
- the Boer War, World War 1 and World
War 2.
18. Burnside currently has over 27,000 street
trees.
19. Elected in 1975, Margaret Bond was
Burnside’s fi rst female Mayor.
20. The George Bolton Swimming Centre pools
were fi rst fi lled with water drawn directly
from First Creek.
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21. Dawn Fraser was the fi rst person to swim
in the George Bolton Swimming Centre in
1966.
22. Gold was mined on the south side of
Waterfall Gully Road in 1894.
23. Adelaide’s first stone quarry was opened at
Beaumont in 1838. The Magill Stone Mines
produced bluestone that was used on many
public buildings on King William Street.
24. In 1912, John Dunstan and Son began
the quarrying of quartz and bluestone in
Chambers Gully. By 1927, 42 men were
employed and the output was about 300 tons
per day. Quarrying concluded in the 1950’s.
25. Olives were fi rst planted in Burnside in
1839. There were two producers of olive
oil in Burnside - the Stonyfell Olive Oil Co,
and G F Cleland and Sons at Beaumont.
Brass band c1915
Stonyfell became one of the world’s largest
olive plantations.
26. Magill was originally known as Makgill, and
was named after David Maitland Makgill of
Fifeshire, Scotland. In 1838 it was the fi rst
of Burnside’s villages to be subdivided.
27. Constable William Hyde was shot and
mortally wounded by two highwaymen
on Tusmore Avenue in 1909. The spot,
on the footpath outside the present day
Woolworths car park, was marked by a
memorial plaque, which was later moved to
the Constable Hyde Memorial Garden on
the opposite side of the road.
28. The War Memorial on Penfold Road was
originally located outside the original Magill
Primary School on Magill Road. It was
moved in 1956.