Exploring the abandoned, derelict and forgotten of Adelaide, South Australia and beyond
Just days after the curtain fell at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Grote Street, I managed to sneak inside for one final look around before the demolition crew moved in. Her Majesty’s Theatre was constructed on an open paddock used by market gardeners and stallholders at the City Market across the road as a place to […]
Read More Exploring Adelaide’s Her Majesty’s TheatreTelevision launched in South Australia on 5 September 1959 from the Tynte Street North Adelaide studios of NWS Channel Nine. Television sets in homes were not yet commonplace and many people gathered at shop windows to watch. Television had arrived in Australia three years earlier on 16 September 1956 in New South Wales with Nine […]
Read More Final Broadcast: Channel Nine Studios Tynte StreetSometimes entire industries cease to exist – superseded by bigger, better, shinier and the more environmental friendly. Comparative advantage. Competitive advantage. Often these are the industry killers. Other times it’s economic rationalisation. Seeking a cost benefit by killing an industry in one area to consolidate in another. Leaving memories and skeletons behind. The ways of […]
Read More Urban Exploration – Industrial DiseaseTowns and cities are usually born as a result of colonisation, exploration and settlement. At other times, towns are born as a result of the discovery of resources. One only has to look at the Victorian gold-rush of the 1800s to see the establishment of towns such as Ballarat and Bendigo as an example of this. […]
Read More Urban Exploration – Timber TownThe Futuro House was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968, initially for use as a prefabricated ski-cabin. The cabin was designed to be light enough to easily transport to remote locations, easy to construct once on site in unforgiving landscapes and efficient when it came to heating and retaining heat in very cold […]
Read More Urban Exploration – Derek Jolly’s Melbourne Street Futuro HouseI’m sitting on a backlog of recent explorations that I can’t put online yet because the time isn’t right. Naming the locations prematurely puts them at risk and I try where possible to wait until the right time. So, in the meantime, here’s a look at a recent misadventure: Usually, my exploring is planned in advance. […]
Read More Urban Exploration – Hide and SeekDespite our distance from the Japanese and European theatres of war in World War 2, South Australia still played a vital role in war efforts. Following considerable enemy activity in the southern waters, the Australian Navy requested two radar stations be built to watch over the SA coastline. Number 10 Radar Station commenced operations in April 1943. […]
Read More Urban Exploration – Adelaide’s Forgotten World War 2 Radar StationExploring the abandoned Storybook Cottage in the Barossa Valley
Read More Urban Exploration – Storybook Cottage and The Whacky WoodA final look inside Adelaide’s iconic, and now demolished, Gerard & Goodman Building. Rundle Street/Synagogue Place Adelaide.
Read More Urban Exploration – The Gerard & Goodman BuildingWhen HQ Complex shut it’s doors for the final time in January I knew I had to find a way inside and capture some final images before it was lost forever. The Newmarket Hotel and HQ Complex stands at the corner of North and West Terrace. It was at this site on 11 January 1837 that Colonel […]
Read More Urban Exploration – HQ Complex
AUTOPSY OF ADELAIDE 