![]() “And bringing it back to what it was, then refurbishing the facades, and probably a new, more appropriate fit out for any dining and bar facilities in there.” “We’ll probably be taking away some of the inappropriate stuff that’s been added to it,” says senior principal architect Jim Williams. The ornate frontage still exists, but the beauty of the building is somewhat tempered by having two of its boundaries obscured.īut with the HQ tenancy finishing up late January 2017, the future of The Newmarket Hotel is one of transformation.Īhead of the new hospital’s arrival over the road, a development has been approved for Town Acre One, and according to the designers at GHD Woodhead, The Newmarket Hotel will be returning to its roots. Generations later, the nightclub scene would descend upon The Newmarket Hotel, and the shape and scope of the building has never quite been the same. ![]() His reign as The Newmarket’s publican ended abruptly, however, due to his arrest and subsequent conviction on the enigmatic and salacious charge of committing an “unnatural act”.īert served two and a half years of his five-year term and once released continued his philanthropic services to the Adelaide community, right up until his death in 1963. ![]() The next individual of prominent significance to grace Town Acre One was Albert Augustine (Bert) Edwards, who was an MP and the hotel’s publican from 1924 to 1931.Īccording to author Patricia Sumerling, who is currently compiling a biography on the man, he was a well-known philanthropist who “would go around the markets and collect all the leftover food and delve it out to the poor in the West End”. We have, however, been warned to take this story with a slice of grain-fed salt beef. “It really reflects that particular period of South Australian history.” – Jim Williams The 140ml pony didn’t quite sate their thirst, whereas the 285ml schooner was apparently a mouthful too far, and so a mid-sized 200ml glass was born and dubbed a butcher. Once The Newmarket was established, it quickly became a favourite of abattoir workers employed at the market across the road, and it’s said (and hotly contested) that the meat processing crew would sidle up to the bar on their lunch breaks and request a very particular measurement of beer that fit their smoko timeframe. While most city punters probably know the building as the pub attached to the HQ Complex, the site has much more cultural significance than the drab grey building suckled to its side suggests.Ī decade before The Newmarket laid its foundations (and a good century and a half before those foundations became soaked in drunkenly spilt vodka lemon lime) Colonel William Light began his survey of Adelaide from the plot, naming it Town Acre One.įrom that vantage point the Colonel laid out the 1042 town acres that would become North Adelaide and the CBD. Since being built in 1847, The Newmarket Hotel has proudly greeted Port Road traffic from its perch on the corner of North and West Terraces.
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