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The Jubilee 150 logo.

The start of the walkway plaques near King William Road.

Looking east from near King William Rd in 2017.

Looking east from near the statue of Dame Roma Mitchell in 2013.

Looking east from near King William Rd in 2009.

Looking west from near the statue of Dame Roma Mitchell back towards King William Road in 2013.

Looking west from the statue of Dame Roma Mitchell back towards King William Rd in 2009.

The Jubilee 150 Walkway, also variously known as the Jubilee 150 Commemorative Walk, the Jubilee 150 Walk, and the Jubilee Walk, is a series of (initially) 150 bronze plaques set into the pavement of North Terrace, Adelaide in from to the Prince Henry Gardens. It was officially opened on 21 December 1986. It was commissioned as part of the celebrations commemorating the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Province of South Australia (by the British). The plaques contain the names and deeds of (initially) 170 people who made major contributions to the founding and development of South Australia. Since 1986, the Adelaide City Council has added four plaques.

The plaques are arranged in alphabetic order, and stretch from King William Road to Pulteney Street along the north side of North Terrace. The walkway starts at the South African War Memorial, and passes in front of Government House, the National War Memorial, the State Library, the Museum, the Art Gallery and the University of Adelaide. This portion of North Terrace also contains more than a dozen statues, busts and other memorial plaques, plus numerous public seating benches, some drinking fountains and some water features in front of the Museum and Art Gallery.

In 2011 the Adelaide City Council reorganised the area in front of Government House (between King William Rd and the National War Memorial). The plaques and the major statues were not moved, but the avenue of gas lamps was removed, the various busts were moved from King Willian Road to an area between the statues of Venere Di Canova and Matthew Flinders, and a bust of Sir Lawrence Bragg was added to the group.

King William Street
Kintore Avenue
University of Adelaide

King William Street

The walkway starts near the corner of North Terrace and King William Street, in front of the front gates and gatehouse of Government House. The very corner is occupied by the South African War Memorial. Also on that corner, starting from the gatehouse and walking SE, were (prior to 2011) the busts of Sir Thomas John Mellis Napier, Mary Lee and Sir Mark Oliphant, all of whom have plaques on the walkway. These busts have been moved further east to the vicinity of the bust of Lord Florey, between the plaques for Kate Cocks and Sir Walter Crocker, and been replaced by the first six plaques of the walkway and seating.

Start of the Walkway

Plaques: Angas – Bagot

First plaque
George Fife Angas
George French Angas
Charles George Everard memorial plaque
Sir Henry Ayers
Walter Hervey Bagot

South African War Memorial

South African Boer War Memorial by A Jones 1904

Circa 1926
Circa 2008

Government House

This section of North Terrace in front of Government House has been named the Price Henry Gardens.

Prior to 2011, running along the fence of Government House, there was an "Avenue of Gas Lamps". This has been replaced by a broader footpath.

1988 plaque
Gas Lamps in 2008
Footpath in 2017

Plaques: Bagshaw – Bonython

John Stokes Bagshaw
Sir Richard Baker
Robert Barr Smith
Tom Elder Barr Smith
Percy Raymond Begg
Dervish Bejah
John Bishop
John McConnell Black
Abraham Tobias Boas
Lady Jean Bonython
Sir John Langdon Bonython

Statue of Dame Roma Mitchell

The Honourable Dame Roma Mitchell, modelled by Janette Moore, sculpted by John Woffinden and Sally Francis, unveiled 1 July 1999.

Plaques: Bradman – Cawthorne

Sir Donald Bradman
Sir William and
Sir Lawrence Bragg
Hooper Josse Brewster Jones
Sir George Brookman
Henry John 'Harry' Butler
Sir Hugh Cairns
Charles Witto-Witto Cawthorne

Statue: Venere Di Canova

Statue of Venus (Venere di Canova) donated by W. A. Horn in 1892. Somewhat controversial at the time of its unveiling in 1892, this piece was the first of Adelaide's street statues. It is a copy in Carrara marble of the statue of Venus by Antonio Canova – the original is at the Pitti Palace in Florence. (Photo of the original.) – Pedestal of Sicilian and Kapunda marble. Executed by Fraser & Draysey. Presented by Mr W. A. Horn. Unveiled 3 September 1892, by His Worship the Mayor (F.W. Bullock, Esq.).

Looking west
Statue
Base

Plaques: Chapman – Cocks

Sir Robert Chapman
Sir John Cleland
Kate Cocks

Busts

Prior to 2011, the bust of Lord Florey stood alone in this portion of the Price Henry Gardens. The bust was completed by John Dowie in 1969, and unveiled by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor (Robert E Porter, Esq.) on 25 June 1969.

After the 2011 reorganisation of the area, the bust of Florey was joined by the busts of Oliphant, Lee and Napier relocated from King William Street, and new busts (of Sir Lawrence Bragg and later Sir William Henry Bragg) were added to the group.

The three busts in their pre-2011 locations:

Sir Thomas John Mellis Napier by John Dowie, 1970.
Unveiled by His Excellency the Governor-General of Australia, The Right Honourable Sir Paul Hasluck, C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.St.J, 2 July 1970.

Mary Lee by Pat Moseley.

Sir Mark Oliphant by John Dowie, 1978.

Five busts in 2013. Six busts in 2017

2013 L to R: Napier, Florey, L Bragg, Oliphant and Lee
Sir Lawrence Bragg by John W Mills
2017 Venus and L to R: WH Bragg, L Bragg, Napier, Florey, Lee and Oliphant
Sir William Henry Bragg by Robert Hannaford
Father and son

Plaques: Crocker – Dickinson

The four plaques additional to the initial 150 (Dickinson, Dunn, Gray & Wilkins) are labelled with the coat of arms of the City of Adelaide

Sir Walter Crocker
Dave Dallwitz
Sir Samuel Davenport
Sybil Irving memorial plaque
Constance Muriel Davey
Peter Dawson
Lillian Daphne de Lissa
C J Dennis
Sir Samuel Benson Dickinson

Statue of Matthew Flinders

Captain Matthew Flinders by F. Brook Hitch, A.R.B.S. Pedestal of Murray Bridge red granite from Kirchel's quarry at Swanport. Paving of Tea Tree Gully freestone. Architect, A.E. Simpson, I.S.O., F.R.A.I.A. (Architect-in-Chief of subscription.) Unveiled 12 April 1934.

Plaques: Duguid – Gerrard

Charles Duguid
Sir Lloyd Dumas
John Dunn
Don Dunstan
Sir Thomas Elder
Gladys Elphick
Julia Warren Farr and George Henry Farr
Francis Hardey Faulding
Lord Florey
Reverend John Flynn
David Fowler
Alfred Edward Gerard
Looking west

National War Memorial

National War Memorial – Great War – 1914–1918 by Woods, Bagot, Jory & Laybourne Smith; and Rayner Hoff, 1931.

Spirit of Duty
Spirit of Compassion

Although the National War Memorial was initially proposed as a memorial to those who served in "The Great War", the site has since grown to incorporate a number of smaller memorials. These include a memorial to the Battle of Lone Pine; the "French Memorial", which commemorates those who fought and died in France during the first and second World Wars; an honour roll of those who died in World War II; and the "Australian Armed Forces Memorial", encompassing the Malayan Emergency of 1948–1960, the Korean War, the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation in Borneo, and the Vietnam War. In addition, the wall which surrounds the northern and western sides of the site features the six "Crosses of Memory" – a series of "simple wooden crosses" commemorating the Siege of Tobruk from 1941 and the 10th, 27th, 48th and 50th battalions of 1916.

France
8th Division
Lone Pine and battle.
South-East Asia and Korea
WWII Honour roll

Plaques: Gibb – Gill

Sir Claude Gibb
WWI VC recipients:
Blackburn, Davey, Inwood, Jensen, Leak, Sullivan, Weathers, Woods
WWII VC & GC recipients:
Derrick, Gosse, Kibby, Matthews
Vietnam War VC recipient:
Major Peter Badcoe
Gladys Ruth Gibson
William Anstey Giles
S T Gill
Walter Gill

Kintore Avenue

The Institute building

Plaques: Gosse – Hall

William Gosse
George Goyder
Margaret Graham
W. H. Gray
Sir Archibald Grenfell Price
George Hall

Statue of Edward VII

Huge bronze statue of Edward VII by Sir Bertram Mackennal, K.C.V.O., R.A.
Pedestal designed by sculptor. Paid for by public subscription. Unveiled 15 July 1920.

Back of statue to right
Back of statue

Plaques: Hancock – Hartley

Looking east from Edward VII
Henry Richard 'Captain' Hancock
Alfred Hannaford
George Hannaford
John Anderson Hartley

State Library of South Australia

John Dowie by John Woffinden, 2006

Robert Burns by WJ Maxwell 1894

The statue of Robert Burns bears the honour of being the first statue carved in Adelaide. It was presented by the Caledonian Society, and unveiled on 5 May 1894 by the Chief of the Caledonian Society (Hon. J. Darling, M.L.C.).

Plaques: Hassell – Hill-Ling

George Frederick Hassell
Charles Allen Seymour Hawker
Colin Sidney Hayes
Sir Edward Hayward
Sir Robert Helpmann
Sir Hans Heysen
Harold Eustace Hill-Ling

Mortlock Library

Plaques: Holden – Jolly

Sir Edward Holden
Amos William Howard
Sir Walter Hughes
Sir Roland Jacobs
'Jimmy' James
Norman William Jolly

Museum of Natural History

Plaques: Kavel – Mitchell

Pastor August Kavel
Sir Sidney Kidman
Charles Cameron Kingston
Sir George Kingston
Andrew Kirkpatrick
Essington Lewis
Colonel William Light
Dame Ruby Litchfield
Mary Helen MacKillop
Murdoch Stanley McLeod
John Abel McPherson
Cecil Thomas Madigan
James Martin
Sir Douglas Mawson
Frederick May
George Elton Mayo
Helen Mary Mayo
Sir John Melrose
Adelaide Laetitia Miethke
May Mills
Dame Roma Mitchell

Art Gallery of South Australia

Plaques: Mitchell – Oliphant

Sir William Mitchell
Daniel Moriarty
William Ranson Mortlock
Charles Pearcy Mountford
William Muirden
Sir Mellis Napier
Peter Nelson and Marjorie Jackson Nelson
Paris Nesbit
Sir Henry Newland
Eldred Norman
Sir Mark Oliphant

University of Adelaide

Mitchell Building

1869
East face
Winter 2008

Plaques: Playford – Short

Playford – Price

Statue of Sir Walter Watson Hughes (1803–1887)

Ramsay – Short

Alexander Maurice Ramsay
William Richard Randell
Arnold Edwin Victor Richardson
Victor York Richardson
John Ridley
Luther Robert Scammell
Richard Moritz Schomburgk
Adolf John Schulz
Alexandrina Seager
Ronald Max'y Sharpe
David Shearer
Augustus Short

Statue of Sir Samuel Way: The Right Hon. Sir S.J. Way, Bart., P.C, D.C.L., LL.D. by Alfred Drury, R.A., A.R.C.A. 1924; Designed by Walter Bagot, F.R.I.B.A., F.R.A.I.A. Erected by J. Tillett.; Pedestal of granite. Paid for by public subscription. Unveiled 17 November 1924.

Elder Conservatorium of Music

Plaques: Simpson – Stow

Alfred Muller Simpson
Sir Edwin Smith
Sir Keith and
Sir Ross Smith
Richard B Smith

Statues of Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Thomas Elder on Goodman Crescent in front of the Elder Conservatorium

Sir Douglas Mawson
Unveiled by the Lord Mayor, Dr John Watson, on 16 August 1982.
Sir Thomas Elder
Sir William Goodman Crescent

South face of the base of the statue of Sir Thomas Elder
East face
North face
West face

Bonython Hall

Plaques: Strange – Todd

Arthur Thomas 'Padre' Strange
John McDouall Stuart
Charles Sturt
Doris Taylor
Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods
Norman Tindale
Sir Charles Todd

Napier Building

Plaques: Tolmer – Wright

Alexander Tolmer
Alfred Herman Traeger
Sir Robert Torrens
David Unaipon
William Charles Douglas Veale
Pioneer Vignerons:
Johann Gramp,
Pioneer Vignerons:
Thomas Hardy,
Peter Waite
Mary Jane Warnes
Sir Samuel Way
Lawrence Allen Wells
Jochim Matthias Wendt
Sir George Hubert Wilkins
Sir Kenneth Wills
Edmund William Wright

Ligertwood Building

Last Plaque

Final plaque
Napier and Ligertwood buildings, with last plaque in foreground.

End of Walkway

Emily Potter, "How can you live in a city of monuments?": Reading Commemoration and Forgetting in Adelaide's North Terrace Precinct, Altitude vol 2, 2002.
"S.A.'s greats : the men and women of the North Terrace plaques", edited by John Healey, Historical Society of South Australia, 2001. nla, UofA, UofA catalogue, Historical Society of SA. Reprinted 2002. Reprinted 2003. ISBN: 0 9579430 0 8 (Note that James Park Woods VC is missing from this book.)
"South Australian biographies, 1980", Blue Book of South Australia : Biographies Australia, 1980. nla
"Biographical index of South Australians 1836–1885", editor: Jill Statton, South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society, 1986. nla
Stewart Cockburn, "Notable lives : profiles of 21 South Australians", Ferguson Publications, 1997. nla
Stewart Cockburn, "The patriarchs", Ferguson Publications, 1983. nla Back cover sub-title: The lives and philosophies of 30 distinguished South Australians.
"Late picking : vintage Jubilee 150", edited by Stella Guthrie, South Australian Council on the Ageing, 1986. nla

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