Norwood, South Australia
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Norwood () is a suburb of Adelaide, about 4 kilometres east of the Adelaide Central Business District. The suburb is in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters (the oldest South Australian local government municipality, with a city population over 34,000).
The suburb consists of four segments, being divided into north and south by the major thoroughfare of The Parade, and east and west by Osmond Terrace. It is bounded on the south by Kensington Road, on the north by Magill Road, on the east by Portrush Road and on the west by Fullarton Road. It is a leafy suburb lined with plane trees and grand buildings. It is now a sought-after suburb to live in, but this was not always the case.
Residents
Norwood was previously a working class suburb and attracted many European migrants post-World War 2. It still has a very high concentration of people of Italian background. This can be evidenced in the restaurants and fashion boutiques of the Parade. The working class nature can be ascertained by the politics. It tends to be more left-wing in nature than the other eastern suburbs around it.Many famous South Australians have resided in Norwood; these being women's rights campaigner, Catherine Helen Spence; former Premier Don Dunstan; Mary MacKillop (possibly Australia's first saint), the poet Tom Hutton and writers C.J. Dennis and May Gibbs.
It is also home to a South Australian National Football League (Australian Rules Football) team, the Norwood Redlegs.
Attractions
The Parade contains the business centre of the suburb, which consists of some professional personnel but it is more famous (as is Norwood) for it restaurants, cafes, fashion boutiques and hairdressers.
Osmond Terrace is a grand, wide street with two story houses and contains monuments to the fallen ANZACs (Australian and New Zealand soldiers that fought in World Wars 1 and 2).
Not far from The Parade resides a heratige listed house that since 1890 has been home to many gatherings organized by the renowned poet Tom Hutton Senior. His grandson still honours this tradition to this very day on the first Sunday of every third month.
Saint Bartholomew's (St Bart's) in Norwood and St Matthew's in nearby Kensington are two churches with a close association with each other, with three church ministers involved in both congregations. They are both evangelical and conservative Anglican churches, with a large number of young adults members.
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| Suburbs of the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters | |
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| College Park | Evandale | Felixstow | Firle | Glynde | Hackney | Heathpool | Joslin | Kensington | Kent Town | Marden | Marryatville | Maylands | Norwood | Payneham | Payneham South | Royston Park | St. Morris | St. Peters | Stepney | Trinity Gardens | |
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