Halifax Street

Halifax Street

South Australia
View of Halifax Street facing east between King William and Pulteney Street Streets
Map
Halifax Street is located in City of Adelaide
West end
West end
East end
East end
Coordinates
General information
TypeStreet
LocationAdelaide city centre
Length1.5 km (0.9 mi)[1]
Opened1837
Major junctions
West endKing William Street
Adelaide
 
East endEast Terrace
Adelaide
Location(s)
LGA(s)City of Adelaide
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Halifax Street is a street in the south-eastern sector of the centre of Adelaide, South Australia.[2][3] It runs east–west between East Terrace and King William Street, crossing Hutt Street and Pulteney Street and passing through Hurtle Square.[2][3] It was named after Sir Charles Wood (later Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax), British Member of Parliament for Halifax.[4]

A local landmark, this 35-metre chimney on Halifax Street was built in 1909 and is what remains of a refuse incinerator that consumed the bulk of the city's rubbish until its closure in the early 1950s, its function being replaced by landfill.[5]

Halifax Street is one of the intermediate-width streets of the Adelaide grid, at 1+1⁄2 chains (99 ft; 30 m) wide.

Circa 1844 Halifax Street became the location of one of Adelaide's first breweries, founded by William Henry Clark[6] who later built a flour mill close by. The brewery and mill were sited on city acres 564 and 603 between Halifax and Gilles streets which, from 1909 to 1950, housed Adelaide's rubbish incinerator.[7]

  1. ^ "Halifax Street" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  2. ^ a b 2003 Adelaide Street Directory, 41st Edition. UBD (A Division of Universal Press Pty Ltd). 2003. ISBN 0-7319-1441-4.
  3. ^ a b Map Archived 25 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine of the Adelaide CBD, North Adelaide and the Adelaide Parklands.
  4. ^ "History of Adelaide Through Street Names". Archived from the original on 9 February 2007. Retrieved 13 December 2006.
  5. ^ Postcards: The Greek on Halifax: In the Adelaide City region of South Australia [1] Archived 21 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Local Intelligence". Adelaide Observer. No. 66. 28 September 1844. p. 4. Retrieved 22 May 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "Refuse Destructor". Evening Journal. Vol. XLII, no. 11544. Adelaide. 9 March 1908. p. 1. Retrieved 22 May 2017 – via National Library of Australia.