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From March 1837 settlers camped in tents and makeshift huts along the west end of the River Torrens and freely used the river's resources. A Native Location was created on the north banks of the Torrens and indigenous labour was often used by the settlers for tasks such as hewing wood or delivering water. [8]
The Reedbeds was in the 19th and early 20th centuries the generally recognised name for an area of seasonal freshwater wetlands to the west of Adelaide, South Australia comprising the floodplains of the River Torrens, and drained to Gulf St Vincent by the tidal estuaries of the Port River and the Patawalonga River. [1]
Adelaide is a planned city, and the Adelaide Park Lands are an integral part of Colonel William Light's 1837 plan. [11] [3] Light chose a site spanning the River Torrens (known as Yatala by the Kaurna people [12]), and planned the city to fit the topography of the landscape, "on rising ground".
In 1860 the Thorndon Park reservoir was opened, finally providing an alternative water source to the turbid River Torrens. During John McDouall Stuart's 1862 expedition to the north coast of Australia, he discovered 200,000 km 2 (77,000 sq mi) of grazing territory to the west of Lake Torrens and Lake Eyre.
English: River Torrens near Ascot Avenue, Vale Park, in the 1970s. Shows the recent diversion of the river. Date: 1970s. Source: Photo was given to me by local ...
The area was divided for housing. However, the Hank family lived on Torrens Avenue, Lockleys [6] and had established 11 acres [7] of market garden there after world war I. [7] The Hank brothers (Ray, Bill and Bob) all attended the Lockleys Primary School [7] in Brooklyn Park and would all become footballers for the West Torrens Football Club in the SANFL.
The Torrens Linear Park is a linear park that runs along the River Torrens in South Australia, spanning from the edge of Adelaide Hills in Athelstone to the coast in West Beach. [1] Upon completion in 1997, it was the first linear park of its kind in Australia, and also the largest hills-to-coast park.
Torrens was born in Cork, Ireland, on 31 May 1812. [4] [5] He was the only surviving son [6] of Robert Torrens FRS and his first wife Charity Herbert née Chute. [7]His father had this marriage nullified and in 1819 married again, to Esther Serle, an English heiress, and had his three children rebaptised to give them a form of legitimacy, [2] Robert Richard's birth year being reset to 1814.