Angas Street

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Angas Street

South Australia
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Angas Street, looking east from King William Street in July 2021
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West end
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East end
Coordinates
General information
TypeStreet
Location Adelaide city centre
Length1.4 km (0.9 mi) [1]
Opened1837
Major junctions
West end King William Street
Adelaide
 
East end East Terrace
Adelaide
Location(s)
LGA(s) City of Adelaide

Angas Street is a main street in the Adelaide city centre, South Australia. [2] [3] The rear of St Aloysius College faces the street, and various law courts are on the street, including the Dame Roma Mitchell Building. The South Australia Police headquarters and South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service Adelaide station are further down the street.

Contents

Angas Street runs from the southern end of Victoria Square to East Terrace. It is one of the intermediate-width streets of the Adelaide grid, and is 1+1⁄2 chains (99  ft ; 30  m ) wide.

History

The street is named after George Fife Angas in recognition of his chairmanship of the South Australian Company. [4]

Angas Street was the site of the Municipal Tramways Trust depot from 1923 until 1986, on the north side not far from Victoria Square. At its largest, the depot had 19 tram tracks entering, all from facing east. There was never a tram route along Angas Street; entry and exit from the depot required shunting on a dead end stub of track in Angas Street. [5]

Notable buildings

The Arts Theatre

The Arts Theatre is at no. 53. It is home to the Adelaide Repertory Theatre, which had the theatre built in 1963. [17] The 500-seat theatre was built for £45,000, on land bought 15 years prior by the long-running amateur theatre company. It has since become a major venue for other amateur companies as well as Adelaide Fringe and other performances. [18] It hosts around 14 shows per year. [17]

Bakehouse Theatre

Bakehouse Theatre at 255 Angas Street Bakehouse Theatre, Angas Street, Adelaide.jpg
Bakehouse Theatre at 255 Angas Street

The building at no. 255 started life as Lovell's Bakery in the 1890s. It was subsequently used as the bookshop of the Adelaide branch of the Communist Party of Australia, and for a while was home to Farmer’s Radio and Suburban Taxis. In the 1970s, Keith Gallasch OAM (who went on to found RealTime magazine with his partner Virginia Baxter OAM ) and David Allen, then both lecturers at the Salisbury College of Advanced Education, formed a theatre group comprising some of their students, called Troupe. They rented the warehouse-like building, calling it The Red Shed, which spawned a new theatre company, the Red Shed company, which later moved to Unley. The Troupe collective grew, and performed new Australian works, including some penned by Gallasch. [19] [16]

In the 1990s Peter Green took over, renting the property at a low rent from the Communist Party, [20] and renovated the old theatre, reopening it as The Bakehouse Theatre in 1997. Arts SA provided some funding until 2006, when Pamela Munt and her daughter Melanie took over the theatre for their Unseen Theatre Company, which specialises in works by Terry Pratchett. The theatre was expanded to include a second performance space, and played host to a number of resident theatre companies as well as Adelaide Fringe shows. [19] The theatre hosted more than 250 shows, including British comedian Ben Elton. [20]

In early 2022, the theatre was given notice to vacate the building by its new owners, the Life Christian Centre. The theatre closed after its final run of A Streetcar Named Desire on 7 May 2022. [20] [19]

Junction list

Locationkm [1] miDestinationsNotes
Adelaide city centre 00.0 Victoria Square, King William Street Continues as Gouger Street
0.550.34 Pulteney Street
0.750.47 Frome Street / Regent Street North
1.10.68 Hutt Street
1.40.87 East Terrace
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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References

  1. 1 2 Google (1 June 2022). "Angas Street" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  2. ↑ 2003 Adelaide Street Directory, 41st Edition. UBD. 2003. ISBN   0-7319-1441-4.
  3. ↑ Map Archived 25 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine of the Adelaide CBD, North Adelaide and the Adelaide Parklands.
  4. ↑ Pastoral Pioneers of South Australia Volume 1 (PDF). The Adelaide Stock and Station Journal. 1925. p. 9. Retrieved 22 November 2018– via Australian National University.
  5. ↑ "City Depot access". Municipal Tramways Trust (MTT) electric lines. Tramway Museum, St Kilda . Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  6. ↑ "Commonwealth Law Courts". Emporis. Archived from the original on 21 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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  8. ↑ "Calisthenics - Adelaide". royaltytheatre. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  9. ↑ "Welcome". Adelaide City Seventh Day Adventist Church. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  10. ↑ "100 Angas Street, Adelaide". Maras Group. 18 July 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  11. ↑ "Dom Polski Centre". Adelaide Fringe . Retrieved 12 May 2022.
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  13. ↑ "About Life". Life Christian Centre. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  14. ↑ "Our History". Life Christian Centre. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  15. ↑ Lenny, Barry; Keen, Suzie (2 May 2022). "BWW Feature: Final curtain call for Adelaide's much-loved Bakehouse Theatre". BroadwayWorld.com. First published in InDaily . Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  16. 1 2 Keen, Suzie (6 July 2021). "Curtain set to fall on Bakehouse Theatre". InDaily. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  17. 1 2 "Adelaide's Premiere venue for award winning amateur theatre". The Arts Theatre. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  18. ↑ "Arts Theatre a home at last in 1963 for Adelaide Repertory; used by other music/theatre groups, Fringe shows". AdelaideAZ. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  19. 1 2 3 Harris, Samela (19 April 2022). "Final curtain call for Adelaide's much-loved Bakehouse Theatre". InDaily . Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  20. 1 2 3 Smith, Matthew (7 May 2022). "Adelaide's Bakehouse Theatre to close tonight after 24 years". ABC News . Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 7 May 2022.


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