Angas Street, Adelaide

Angas Street is a main street in the CBD of the centre of Adelaide, South Australia.[1][2] 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.

Angas Street

South Australia
Angas Street, looking east from King William St in July 2021
General information
TypeStreet
LocationAdelaide
Length1.4 km (0.9 mi)
Opened1837
Major junctions
Western endKing William Street/Victoria Square
 Pulteney Street, Frome Street, Hutt Street
Eastern endEast Terrace
Location(s)
Suburb(s)Adelaide city centre

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+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.[3]

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.[4]

Notable buildings
  • Dame Roma Mitchell Building, Commonwealth Law Courts, no. 1-15[5]
  • Kodo Apartments, no. 29
  • Arts Theatre, no. 53
  • Royalty Theatre, no. 65
  • Adelaide City Seventh-day Adventist Church, no. 82
  • South Australia Police headquarters, no. 100 ( The old police headquarters was also located on the other end of Angas Street )[6]
  • Calvary Adelaide Hospital
  • WEA building, no. 223

Bakehouse Theatre

The building at no. 255 started life as Lovell’s Bakery in the 1980s. 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 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.[7]

In the 1990s Peter Green took over 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.[7]

In early 2022, the theatre was given notice to vacate the building by its new owners, an evangelical church. The theatre is due to close after its run of A Streetcar Named Desire on 7 May 2022.[7]

Junction list
Locationkm[8]miDestinationsNotes
Adelaide city centre00.0Victoria Square, King William StreetContinues as Gouger Street
0.550.34Pulteney Street
0.750.47Frome Street / Regent Street North
1.10.68Hutt Street
1.40.87East Terrace
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

 Australian Roads portal

References
  1. 2003 Adelaide Street Directory, 41st Edition. UBD (A Division of Universal Press Pty Ltd). 2003. ISBN 0-7319-1441-4.
  2. Map of the Adelaide CBD, North Adelaide and the Adelaide Parklands.
  3. 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.
  4. "City Depot access". Municipal Tramways Trust (MTT) electric lines. Tramway Museum, St Kilda. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  5. "Commonwealth Law Courts". Emporis.
  6. "Acre • Find • State Library of South Australia".
  7. Harris, Samela (19 April 2022). "Final curtain call for Adelaide's much-loved Bakehouse Theatre". InDaily. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  8. Google (11 December 2016). "Angas Street, Adelaide" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 11 December 2016.


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