Adelaide City Council plaques promote the city’s heritage and some South Australian identities.

One of South Australia's earliest buildings and home to over 300 000 people from 1841 to 1988, Adelaide Gaol is one of Australia's longest operating prisons.

The apron was worn by Joan Mallen when she worked at the Cheer Up Hut on the banks of the Torrens, near the present Festival Theatre, during the Second World War. 

The person responsible for the greening of Adelaide in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Botanic Park has blossomed as a place for informal family gatherings and a venue for public events

Brown Street, running from South Terrace to Grote Street, morphed into Morphett Street in 1967 but the area retains its out-of-the-way feel

A geologist and explorer, Cecil Madigan crossed the Simpson Desert in the last classic Australian exploration adventure.

It started in a tent and grew – meals, clothes, accommodation and recreation for servicemen on the move.

On the prominent corner of King William Street and Hindley Street, the Colonial Mutual Life (CML) Building is one of Adelaide’s most iconic structures.

The first Anzac memorial was once an obelisk in a grove of wattles

Works by the renowned and unpretentious artist John Dowie enhance many public places

Dunmoochin, built around 1858, was the home of Irish emigrants John and Honora Griffin and their three children. It is an example of the many workers’ cottages built in the West End. 

Right in the centre of the city, Elder Park was a first stopping point for many new migrants arriving in South Australia.

Celebrated at its opening in 1882, and again a century later, the rotunda remains a focus point for events in Elder Park.

From dumping ground to pleasure gardens

In 1910 thousands of people lined the Torrens to see the carnival of lavishly decorated boats in the first Henley-on-Torrens Regatta

An eclectic mix since foundation, Hindley Street has seen it all

The J Reedman Memorial Drinking Fountain was erected in Creswell Gardens on 7 September 1929. It is made of Angaston marble and signifies the achievements of John Cole Reedman, an Australian sports legend.

Adelaide’s longest running gay venue, located at 120 Gouger Street and known, until recently, as the Mars Bar, first opened in December 1976.

Roy Rene, known most prominently for his character of Mo McCackie, has been generally hailed as one of Australia’s best comic performers. 

The life size sculpture of Roy 'Mo' Rene on Hindley Street invites intimacy with his casual pose and expression of comic amusement. 

The iconic figure of of 'Simpson and his Donkey' looks over War Memorial Drive from the Angas Garden.

The Sir Ross Smith Memorial commemorates the achievements of aviator Sir Ross Smith and the first flight from England to Australia. 

The South Australian Tourism Commission, established in 1993, focuses on marketing South Australia as a tourist destination to interstate and overseas markets.

The lives and cultures of ‘Afghan’ cameleers are recognised in Whitmore Square

Remembering the role of horses in war.

A temporary camping ground for the early European settlers, the West Parklands developed to host most notably a cemetery and a school.