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Streets by Name
A series of comprehensive articles on individual streets commences
in the Observer,
24 August 1929, page 30c.
For further information on street nomenclature see Manning's Place Names of South Australia.
M
McHenry Street
Named after "George McHenry of Adelaide" - see The Mail,
7 August 1926, page 17c.
Memorial Drive
See War Memorial Drive.
Mill Street
Verco's flour mill once operated there - see Register,
7 January 1860, page 3a and
Advertiser,
21 March 1914, page 6f - Reminiscences of Mrs Richard Verco.
Also see SA - Mills.
Molesworth Street
The Register of
29 October 1855, page 2b has an editorial on him while the same newspaper carries
his obituary on
15 January 1856, page 2c.
Monck Lane
Probably John Luke Monck who arrived in the Buffalo and lived in the vicinity.
Morialta Street
Information on a relief depot for the poor is in the Advertiser,
30 April 1915, page 10c.
A correspondent to the Advertiser on 1 April 1931, page 10h contends
that it is of Gallic origin and means "great house of the height" - mor - "great";
i - an abbreviation of ti - a house"; alt - "a height". See Morialta.
Also see Destitution.
Morphett Street
For a history of its bridges see Adelaide - Bridges.
"Street Corner History" is in the Register,
11 September 1929, page 5a.
Information on the school is in the Observer,
24 December 1870, page 7f.
Also see Education.
The Morphett Street soup kitchen is described in the Register,
23 June 1893, page 7a; also see
28 June 1893, page 5c,
5 and 12 July 1893, pages 5c and 3h,
2 August 1893, page 3g and
Advertiser,
23 and 28 June 1893, pages 6g and 6d.
Also see Destitution.
An account of the closure of the Methodist Church and its purchase by the
Boy's Brigade is in the Register,
2 September 1913, page 5h.
N
North Terrace
Also see Buildings.
Information on early North Terrace is in the Register,
4 July 1887, page 7g.
"Wrongs of North Terrace" is in the Register,
9 April 1856, page 3e.
It is described in the Register,
24 February 1862, page 3d and
an article entitled "North Terrace - Old and New" appears on
12 May 1893, page 7f.
Information on and photographs of old buildings are in the Observer,
11 July 1925, pages 31 and 35,
17 July 1926, page 34.
"Unsavoury and Unsightly" is in the Chronicle,
2 March 1867, page 2h.
A sketch is in Frearson's Weekly,
19 April 1879, page 113.
"The Esplanade" is in the Observer,
24 June 1871, page 4c.
"How North Terrace Grew - Some Interesting History" is in The Mail,
22 January 1923, page 2d.
"Our Public Walks" is in the Register,
21 December 1880, page 6g - "North Terrace [is] about half a mile of the dreariest,
most exposed walk one could find anywhere".
"Encroachment on North Terrace" is in the Express,
20 November 1886, page 3c.
"North Terrace - Old and New" is in the Advertiser,
15 May 1893, page 6h,
"Building of North Terrace" on
11 November 1897, page 4e.
Tree planting is reported in the Advertiser,
21 July 1903, page 8g.
Protests against the felling of trees are aired in the Register,
12 and 17 November 1927, pages 8f-9g and 5c-9g; also see
29 November 1927, page 9d,
29 December 1927, page 13e,
23 and 24 March 1928, pages 8e and 10d,
30 November 1928, page 10h,
4, 6, 18, 22 and 24 December 1928, pages 8h, 8h, 10h, 9f and 10h,
8 and 11 January 1929, pages 9d and 10c-18a,
13 February 1929, page 10c,
Advertiser,
3 and 11 March 1929, pages 21a and 12h.
"Old North Terrace" is in the Register,
7 September 1905, page 4g,
North Terrace "Literature, Natural History and Art" on
11 January 1907, page 4c,
"North Terrace Institutions - Interesting Improvement Schemes" on
18 February 1911, page 13d.
"North Terrace Emporium [A/asian Implement and Furnishing Co.]" is in the Register,
19 September 1908, page 7e.
"North Terrace - Interesting Improvement Scheme" is in the Register,
18 February 1911, page 13d.
"A Noble Boulevard" is in the Advertiser,
20 May 1911, page 7,
"North Terrace - Interesting Possibilities" in the Observer,
14 September 1912, page 41e.
"Reform to North Terrace - Gardening and Statues" is in the Register,
23 June 1911, page 8h.
The controversy over the widening of the terrace is traversed in the Express,
1 July 1912, page 4f,
Register,
13, 18, 19, 25 and 26 October 1923, pages 8e, 9g, 8d-9g, 8g and 9c (photograph),
6, 14, 19, 21, 23 and 27 November 1923, pages 8e-9d, 9f, 7d, 9h, 9e and 7f,
3 and 4 December 1923, pages 9d and 9e,
22 December 1925, page 9e.
"The North Terrace Dead End" is in the Register on
28 April 1916, page 4i,
"The North Terrace Problem" on
3 May 1916, pages 4b-6c,
"The Future of North Terrace" on
27 April 1917, page 7b,
"North Terrace in the 'Sixties" on
7 August 1919, page 5c.
A history of the terrace and its buildings, etc is in the Register on
15, 24, 25 and 31 October 1923, pages 9b, 9c, 9e and 10a,
20, 22, 24 and 28 November 1923, pages 8d, 7c, 15a and 13a,
15 and 18 December 1923, 10 and 11g,
2 January 1924, page 11a.
"Widening North Terrace" is in the Register,
13, 18 and 19 October 1923, pages 8e, 9g and 9g,
6 November 1923, page 9d.
"Spoiling Beauty of North Terrace" is in The News,
20 October 1923, page 2c.
"The North Terrace Reserves" is in the Register,
6 November 1923, page 8e.
"North Terrace and Its Buildings" is in the Register,
20 November 1923, page 8d.
"North Terrace Buildings" is in the Register,
24 June 1926, page 10c.
"North Terrace Developments" is in the Register,
27 January 1927, page 5d.
"North Terrace Elms" is the subject of discussion in the Advertiser,
26 January 1929, page 15f,
16 February 1929, page 19g; also see
26 March 1929, page 14h,
17 April 1929, page 21e,
28 and 29 May 1929, pages 16d and 11b,
18 June 1929, page 18d.
"North Terrace Ruins a Monument to Paul Joseph's Folly - Weeds Flourish Where
Temple was to Soar" is in The Mail,
8 June 1929, page 16.
"Skeletons Found - Surprise for Wreckers" is in The Mail,
24 August 1929, page 1f.
"North Terrace Land Re-Allotted" is in the Advertiser,
3 and 4 August 1937, pages 19c and 24c.
