City of Adelaide

Make Music Day tonight. We are on 7pm.

City of Adelaide

Join us at the Taproom this Saturday for some live tunes (with a decidedly bluesy spin) and great vibes.
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As part of excellent initiative we will be hosting:

from 1:00PM
@ Exeter Blues from 2:00PM
Then we welcome back the fabulous from 4:00PM
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Warm your cockles by the fire pit*, enjoy a dark beer or two, and warm up with a fresh from the oven.
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A perfect way to enjoy a winter day with this Adelaide City Council sponsored initiative.
*weather permitting*

🍷This Sat 3pm at The National Wine Centre. Wined bar.

National Wine Centre
Adelaide City of Music
City of Adelaide

Through the City of Adelaide's 2025–26 Community Impact Grant program, we're proud to support Multicultural Youth South Australia's Have Tea with a Refugee event during Refugee Week 2026.

Join the community for tea, conversation and connection as part of this year's theme, A Million Stories. Swipe for details.

📍 Gawler Place Canopy, Rundle Mall
📅 Friday 19 June | 12pm–9pm
📅 Saturday 20 June | 9am–5pm

Flashback Friday: Bickford’s Building

Designed by architect Daniel Garlick in 1878, this handsome warehouse and office building was built of Mitcham freestone with Italianate cement dressings for Bickford & Co in 1879-1880.

William Bickford arrived in the colony in 1839 and soon opened the first druggists shop in Adelaide. Most of the credit for the company’s success must be given to Bickford’s wife, Ann Margaret, who was left with five children and the management of the business after her husband’s premature death in 1850. When their sons were old enough, they were brought into the business.

They ventured into the manufacturing and wholesaling of pharmaceutical supplies, and later the celebrated Bickford’s Lime Cordial. The company was also supplying veterinary supplies, and manufacturing and selling cosmetics, soaps and eucalyptus oil.

In the 1950s, the company moved their manufacturing operations from the city to a premises in West Croydon.

The building has had several uses and occupants since, including the Anglican Church Office.

Image: State Library of South Australia, PRG 631/2/62, circa 1902.

Learn more here: https://brnw.ch/21x3t76