Angas Street

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Angas Street

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Angas Street, looking east from King William St in July 2021
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West end
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East end
Coordinates
General information
Type Street
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 CBD of the centre of Adelaide, 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.

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Angas Street runs from the southern end of Victoria Square to East Terrace, Adelaide. It is one of the intermediate-width streets of the Adelaide grid, and is 1+12 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 (and its successors) city 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

Bakehouse Theatre

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. [18] [17]

In the 1990s Peter Green took over, renting the property at a low rent from the Communist Party, [19] 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. [18] The theatre hosted more than 250 shows, including British comedian Ben Elton. [19]

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. [19] [18]

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

See also

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