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2 unusual facts about Jetty Road, Glenelg


Glenelg Cricket Club

The club is situated in the trendy beachside suburb of Glenelg, with its headquarters being less than a kilometre from Glenelg Beach and the well-known Jetty Road precinct.

Glenelg North, South Australia

The Jetty Road shopping and dining precinct is a short walk from the suburb.


1954–55 Ashes series

Bill Edrich – the life and soul of any party – climbed the marble pillar in the lounge of Glenelg's Pier Hotel and sung Ginger.

Geology of Victoria

The largest faults separate rocks with different ages and structural histories, and subdivide Victoria into three main structural rankings consisting of twofold belts (Delamerian and Lachlan), two terranes in the Lachlan Fold Belt (Whitelaw and Benambra), and ten structural zones (Glenelg, Grampians-Stavely, Stawell, Bendigo, Melbourne, Tabberabbera, Omeo, Deddick, Kuark, Mallacoota).

Glenelg Country School

The original building was rented in 1954 when the Glenelg Country School was founded by Kingdon Gould, Jr. and his wife Mary Thorne Gould, along with Mr. and Mrs. John T. Mason, Jr., Judge James Macgill and Mr. and Mrs. William Shippen.

Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority

The Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority (CMA) lies south of the Great Dividing Range, the region contains areas of scenic beauty, magnificent and dramatic coastline, superb national parks and rich biodiversity.

Glenelg Oval

Glenelg Oval (currently Gliderol Stadium @ Glenelg and formerly Challenge Recruitment Oval) is located on Brighton Road, Glenelg East, South Australia.

After a long legal battle with local residents which resulted in a court win for the Tigers, the Glenelg Football Club had lights installed at the oval in time for the 2012 SANFL season.

Glenelg, Mars

The location was named Glenelg by NASA scientists for two reasons: all features in the immediate vicinity were given names associated with Yellowknife in northern Canada, and Glenelg is the name of a geological feature there.

Happy Valley Football Club

1974 Glenelg-South Adelaide Football Association Division 3

1970 Glenelg-South Adelaide Football Association Division 3

Henry Sparks

He was from around 1890 a resident of Glenelg, and in 1898 was elected mayor of Glenelg council (now the City of Holdfast Bay).

Holdfast Bay

On 31 December 1836 the Holdfast Bay settlement was renamed Glenelg.

Marion Football Club

Marion continued in the competition known as the Glenelg District Football Association, Glenelg-South-West District Football Association, Glenelg-South Adelaide Football Association and finally the Southern Metropolitan Football League until it folded at the end of the 1986 season.

1967 Glenelg-South-West District Football Association A1

1957 Glenelg-South-West District Football Association A2

1951 Glenelg-South-West District Football Association A1

1958 Glenelg-South-West District Football Association A1

Michael Atchison

He was educated at Glenelg Primary, then King's College, a boy's school which later became the co-ed Pembroke.

Morphettville Park Football Club

1963 Glenelg-South-West District Football Association A2

Municipal Tramways Trust

The Adelaide-Glenelg railway was taken over by the MTT and in 1929 was turned into an electric tramway.

Ngadjuri people

When Anglo-European Caucasian settlers first arrived in 1836 at Holdfast Bay (now Glenelg), the land was considered in the 1834 South Australia Act passed by the British Parliament and by Governor Hindmarsh as Commander in chief in his Proclamation of 1836, to be a barren wasteland.

North Terrace – Glenelg railway line

From approximately where Henley Beach Road currently is, the railway then followed an almost direct route to the seaside suburb of Glenelg.

South Australia Rugby Union

By 1971 clubs included: Army, Adelaide University, Glenelg, Burnside, Elizabeth, Flinders University, North Adelaide, Old Collegians, Onkaparinga, Port Adelaide, Roseworthy College Rams, Salisbury, Southern Suburbs, West Torrens and Woodville.

Where's the Pope?

One of their final shows was at the Holdfast Hotel in Glenelg and two more shows were scheduled to accommodate all the fans.

Zephyr Quartet

Zephyr has received tuition from the Takács Quartet, the Australian String Quartet and at the National Academy of Music, performed at festivals including the Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Fringe, Barossa Music Festival and the Glenelg Jazz Festival and has presented concert series in 2004 and 2005 to great critical acclaim.


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