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Location:: 13 South Esplanade, Glenelg SA, Australia

Once the home of the Melrose family, though the beautiful property no longer exists, here we remember Charles James ‘Jimmy’ Melrose, a South Australian aviator; the youngest and only solo flyer to complete the 1934 Melbourne Centenary Air Race from London to Melbourne.

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Information on his life, death, and aviation feats is recorded on the northern pillar of the fence and the seafront linear park is named in his honour. The home of ten rooms was built by the Blackwell family in 1904. It was occupied and then owned by the Melrose family from 1916 onward. It was demolished to make way for Glenelg’s first high-rise development along the esplanade.

Stormont

14 South Esplanade, Glenelg SA, Australia

Designed in the Georgian style, Stormont was built in 1886 for South Australian grazier Simon Barnard.

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Albert Hall

16 South Esplanade, Glenelg SA, Australia

Albert Hall is a twenty room, 3-storey mansion first occupied by William Kyffin Thomas, one of the first European colonists, and part-owner of newspapers the Adelaide Observer and Register.

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St John's Row Terraces

14 St Johns Row, Glenelg SA, Australia

In 1887 Joseph English designed these four terraces of 8 rooms each, typical of Italianate style and popular in the 1880s.

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