Special Council Meeting - City of Burnside

150 facts about Burnside
31. Violet farms were a major
weekend attraction for
residents of Burnside.
In winter, buses took up
to 1,000 people a day to
Walker’s and Stevenson’s
Violet Farms for afternoon
tea. For just 6d, visitors
could pick all the violets
they wished.
32. Since the closure of the
Eagle on the Hill Hotel
there is only one hotel in
Burnside - The Feathers
Hotel on Glynburn Road. It
was built in 1965.
37. Opened in 1875, the Olympic Sportsfi eld
is on the site of Shipster’s Paddock. As
well as being used for numerous sporting
events, the oval was home to Allied
soldiers who camped there during both
World Wars.
38. From 1955 to 1958, British Prime Minister
Tony Blair lived at 1 Ormond Grove,
Dulwich. His father Leo lectured at the
University of Adelaide. The Blairs returned
to the UK when Tony was fi ve.
39. Lance Hill produced the prototype of the
Hills Hoist clothesline in the backyard of
his home in Glenunga in 1945. Large scale
production began in Adelaide 1946.
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29. The Burnside War Memorial Hospital was
established after the Second World War
and was intended to be both a community
hospital and a memorial to those who
served in the two World Wars. A register
was compiled of those men and women
from Burnside who served in the wars and
is on display in the foyer of the hospital.
30. The trees in the middle of Alexandra
Avenue were planted in 1919 as a
memorial to those from Burnside who lost
their lives in World War 1. Each tree is
marked with a number that corresponds to
a name on the statue in the middle of the
plantation.
33. The Burnside Symphony
Orchestra will be 50 years
old in 2006.
34. There is a red gum tree
on Glynburn Road at
Kensington Gardens that is
over 300 years old.
35. One of the Glenunga High School ovals
is on the old site of Hills Slaughter Yard,
once one of Adelaide’s main abattoirs.
Established in 1882, the yard supplied
about half of Adelaide’s meat requirements.
36. One of the world’s longest-lived persons,
Beatrice Mears, was born near the Victoria
Park racecourse and lived most of her life in
Burnside. She died in 2001 at the age of 113.
40. Built in 1883, the Waterfall Gully Hotel
was a popular destination for day-trippers.
During World War 2 the hotel was used as
a rest home for American soldiers before
it became the Chalet Residential Hotel in
the 1950’s. The building is now a private
residence.
41. Thomas Cooper immigrated to Australia
in 1852. After opening a brewery at
Kensington, Coopers Ale became so
popular that he moved it to larger premises
at Leabrook in 1881. It remained there until
2001 when it moved to a new factory at
Regency Park.
42. The suburb of Skye was not part of
Burnside until 1999. Its developers named
it Skye Estates after the island of Skye
in Scotland. The developers claimed that