Jan 12, 2025
Did you know that there was once a ‘street railway line’ right next to Military Road that ran all the way from Grange to Henley Beach terminating at Kent Street just past where the Henley Police Station is today? Both steam locomotives and later (from 1956) Redhen... 
Jan 10, 2025
Narrated by Helen Lewis Have you heard of Dawn Fraser, Australia’s swimming legend? She was voted Australia’s greatest ever female athlete in 2013. She won four gold and three silver Olympic medals at the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956, Rome in... 
Dec 9, 2024
“The postal facilities at Grange are a hundred years behind the times,” said Mr. G. W. Stacey, on Tuesday morning, 30th March 1909. Feature image: Marett’s Store and 1st Grange Post Office, c.1890(Courtesy of State Library of South Australia B 15190 –... 
Nov 10, 2024
Hendrika de Vries, born and raised in Amsterdam, emigrated to Adelaide with her family as a young girl and became a swimming champion, young wife, and mother in Adelaide. The H&GHS recorded an online conversation with Henny from her home in Santa Barbara... 
Nov 10, 2024
COMING TO AUSTRALIA Bill Tipler arrived in Australia from the UK as a £10 Pom aboard the P&O Otranto in 1956, accompanied by his mother, May, father William, and sisters Elizabeth and Jennifer. Before making the journey, he completed an apprenticeship in pattern... 
Nov 4, 2024
PART 1 - WORKING AT WESTS THEATRE In this video Ayneslie recalls her time working first as an usherette, then in the ticketing office and finally in the booking office at the new Wests Theatre in Hindley Street Adelaide, which opened in 1939. She was earning about... 
Jun 30, 2024
Fishing We used to go do a lot of fishing on the jetty, but my older brother was a better fisherman than I and we’d ride our bikes down to the jetty mainly in the night to catch Tommy Ruffs.... 
Jan 28, 2024
(The following stories form an abridged version of an article written by Phillip Allen and published in the H&GHS Journal 44, November 2023) Feature image: Grade 6, Henley Beach Primary School c. 1952Courtesy of Jim Rutherford, (H&GHS Collection) World War II... 
Jan 3, 2024
In the 1880s a railway line was built between the townships of Woodville and Grange, influencing the growth and development of the Henley and Grange region. The line branched off from the Adelaide to Port Adelaide Railway line – which had already been in... 
Dec 8, 2023
Early History A meeting to discuss forming the Grange and Henley Beach Bowling Club was held at the Grange Institute on the 12th May, 1906 at which Alderman King from the Henley and Grange Council offered land to establish bowling rinks near the Kirkcaldy station. His... 