Rundle Mall Ten things to do in Rundle Mall • Visit the Visitor Information • Walk through the tunnels Discovery Trail Centre for brochures on of the Opal Gem Mine what’s on in Adelaide • Stroll through • Try a chocolate frog Adelaide Arcade from Haigh’s • Visit the rooftop golf • Have your photo taken driving range above beside the silver balls Rundle Mall Plaza • Browse one of the dozen • Look up and discover The Beginning Rundle Mall books and music stores the architecture of • Spend some time the early buildings Rundle Street and Rundle Mall Many of the buildings lining watching the buskers are named after John Rundle the Mall date back to the 19th • Have your photo taken (1791-1864), an original century. Before its inception with the bronze pigs director and financier of the as a car-free shopping strip. South Australian Company. The Mall was the extension The company was formed in of Rundle Street and home The Rundle Mall Discovery Trail Map London in 1835 to promote to most of the city’s retailers 1 Historic corner – Beehive 13 Bonython Hall, University settlement of the new colony, and an overwhelming Corner 1849 of Adelaide which was to become South proportion of its motor 2 Adelaide Visitor 14 The Art Gallery of SA Australia. Soon after, the first and pedestrian traffic. Information Centre 15 The SA Museum Surveyor-General, Colonel In November 1972, the then 3 ‘A Day Out’ – Bronze Pigs William Light arrived on the 16 His Majesty King Premier Don Dunstan initiated 4 ‘Progress’ by Lyndon Edward VII HMS Rapid at Holdfast Bay action to close part of Dadswell to map out his plans for the 17 Migration Museum Rundle Street. Ian Hannaford new city and colony. He was 5 ‘Girl on a Slide’ by 18 SA National War Memorial Architects were awarded the followed by the first free John Dowie and SA Sailors, Soldiers project and on 1 September settlers (in contrast to the 6 The Magic Cave and Airmen Memorial 1976 Rundle Mall opened. convicts populating the other (Nov–Dec) 19 Statue of Venus colonies) who arrived on the The Mall measures 520 7 ‘Spheres’ by Bert 20 Walk of Fame Africaine, 6 November 1836. metres from the Pulteney Flugelman 21 South African The following year, together Street end to King William 8 The Regent Arcade Soldiers Memorial with a group of officials Street and has over 700 9 Adelaide Arcade/ 22 Government House and eminent businessmen, retail stores, 350 offices Gays Arcade Light gave names to the and service businesses, 23 Parliament House 10 The Fountain streets on his plan of the 3 department stores, and 24 Adelaide Club and city — many of which they 15 arcades and centres 11 Ruthven Mansions Queen Adelaide Club named after themselves. spanning out from its hub. Left hand image courtesy of the State Library of South Australia. SLSA: B 17064 – N.E. corner King William Street and Rundle Street intersection (1967) 12 Scots Church 25 Rundle Lantern (nighttime light display) Website: www.rundlemall.com Email: [email protected] Adelaide Visitor Information Centre: 8203 7611 SATC Travel Centre: 1300 655 276 Rundle Mall Management: 8203 7200 17 15 14 22 16 19 18 13 21 20 23 N O R T H T E R R A C E H P F 24 CHARLES STREET 12 24 AUSTIN STREET STEPHENS PLACE H P F T H P F 11 E CHARLES STREET PLAZA E RENAISSANCE ARCADE R T H P F H S P F RUNDLE ARCADE 6 THE MYER CENTRE CHARLES STREET P RUNDLE MALL PLAZA GAWLER PLACE 4 WOOLWORTHS ADELAIDE CENTRAL PLAZA U L 1 H T P F E 25 3 10 N RUNDLE LANTERN E H P F 7 RENAISSANCE TOWER 2 5 Y H P F ADELAIDE ARCADE CITI CENTRE ARCADE LINDES LANE LINDES M 9 A FRANCIS STREET FRANCIS 8 I L SOUTHERN CROSS ARCADE L TWIN PLAZA ARCADE I GAYS ARCADE S W T R G H P F E N PLAYSPACE E I T K DA COSTA ARCADE THE REGENT H P F CITY CROSS GAWLER PLACE TWIN STREET TWIN JAMES PLACE H P F G R E N F E L L S T R E E T H P F H PHCar ParkingF P InformationF ToiletsH P F 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 Historic corner — Beehive Corner the four pigs being named. They are: Truffles (standing), The intersection of Hindley Street, King William Street Oliver (at the bin), Horatio (sitting) and Augusta (trotting). and Rundle Mall is rich with history. The original “Beehive” corner was owned by John Rundle in 1849. 4 ‘Progress’ by Lyndon Dadswell The present day Beehive Corner with its gold bee Representing the spirit of progress, this neo-cubist was built 1895-97 in a Gothic Revival style generally welded copper wall sculpture was created in 1959 and reserved for churches and their associated buildings. installed on the front of the then newly constructed David Adelaide’s first electric street lighting was installed Jones department store in 1963. The artist, Dadswell, in October 1895 at the intersection of Hindley Street, studied firstly with Julian Ashton in Sydney and then King William Street and Rundle Street. During the at the Royal Academy, London. His other public works Federation Royal Visit in 1901, seats on a grandstand include the relief panels for Melbourne’s Shrine of erected on the corner sold for ten shillings each. Remembrance and the King George Memorial in Sydney which generated much public controversy in 1945. This was because the royal couple —later to be crowned King George V and Queen Mary— would 5 ‘Girl on a Slide’ by John Dowie pass by them not once, but three times! Installed in 1977 in the new mall, this sculpture was created as a ‘discovery piece’, something that wouldn’t 2 Adelaide Visitor Information Centre be visible from a distance, but would be discovered by The Visitor Information Centre provides visitors with an accident. It was donated to the City of Adelaide by the excellent range of tourism information on Adelaide and now closed John Martins department store. Dowie is South Australia, including brochures, maps and event one of South Australia’s most respected sculptors and guides. Come and visit the friendly volunteers who will his works appear all over Adelaide, from the fountain in make your stay in Adelaide a wonderful experience. Victoria Square to the Richardson Gates at Adelaide Oval. Monday to Thursday 9am – 5pm Friday 9am – 8pm 6 The Magic Cave (November–December only) Saturday 10am – 3pm If you’re in Adelaide in late November or December, Sunday 11am – 4pm stop in at The Magic Cave in David Jones Public Holidays 11am – 3pm department store to see Father Christmas and a (closed on Christmas Day and Good Friday). host of magical elves and fairy tale characters. For a free introduction walk to some of Adelaide’s key This Adelaide icon began its association with John points of interest, the First Steps orientation walk leaves Martins, another department store, in 1896. The Magic at 9.30am, Monday to Friday from the Adelaide Visitor Cave opened in their basement as a place that people Information Centre (excluding Public Holidays). could escape December’s stifling heat. The walls were created with crumpled zinc linings from packing cases. 3 ‘A Day Out’ — Bronze Pigs Unfortunately, the store burnt down in 1901 and it wasn’t Commissioned by the Adelaide City Council, the bronze until 1905 that the people of Adelaide again had a pigs by Marguerite Derricourt were officially unveiled by summer retreat. The new Magic Cave was worth the wait the Lord Mayor, Dr Jane Lomax-Smith on 3 July 1999. having a series of caves and grottoes, waterfalls and fish A call for suggestions from the public resulted in each of ponds. Over the years The Magic Cave came to represent 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Christmas and the jolly man himself. In 1933, Sir Edward generator that powered the lights. Although the generator Hayward, one of the owners of John Martins, decided was downstairs, he apparently haunts the roof space. that the people of Adelaide needed a morale boost after the Depression years. So he created Adelaide’s world 10 The Fountain famous Christmas Pageant, a colourful parade leading Cast in the late 1800s, the fountain was the smaller of Father Christmas to his Adelaide home at The Magic Cave. two originally erected in front of the Jubilee Exhibition It’s now an annual event televised around the world. Building that stood on North Terrace opposite Pulteney Street. It was handed over by the State Government 7 ‘Spheres’ by Bert Flugelman to the City Council in 1908. It stood for many years at Fondly known by locals as the ‘Mall’s Balls’ or ‘Silver Balls’, the junction of Gawler Place, however with the recent these enormous spheres are the work of Bert Flugelman, upgrading of the Mall it was moved to its current position an artist renowned for his imposing public art. Each and painstakingly repainted in colours of the Victorian era. sphere measures 2.15m in diameter and is constructed from polished stainless steel. The sculpture was 11 Ruthven Mansions commissioned by the Adelaide City Council for the newly Built in two stages (1911-12 and 1914), the Ruthven created Mall in 1977 and was donated by the Hindmarsh Mansions was the city’s first apartment building with all Building Society to mark the society’s centenary. the “mod cons”, including electric lighting and mechanical ventilation. After falling into disrepair, it was saved from 8 The Regent Arcade demolition and renovated in the late 1970s into today’s The Regent Theatre opened in 1928 and was considered apartments and shopping arcade.