Elizabeth That Was Part 8: The Fall

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The eighth and final part in this 8 part series is based in part on the book "Good Times, Hard Times" by Mark Peel, and covers the irrevocable course Elizabeth was set upon with the arrival of General Motors Holden as the town's primary source of industry, and economic stability, along with the competing smaller light industries and large and small retail traders, as they all vie for dominance within Elizabeth's local economy.
History of Elizabeth
Before the 1950s, most of the area surrounding today's suburb of Elizabeth was farming land. After the end of the Second World War with its shortage of materials, the state government decided that South Australia needed to grow and become industrialised. A satellite city was planned for northern metropolitan fringe of Adelaide between the existing townships of Salisbury and Smithfield. The South Australian Housing Trust initiated a housing development program in the area, with a purchase of 1,200 hectares (3,000 acres) at the site of the present suburb.
The township (now suburb) of Elizabeth was established on 16 November 1955, being named after Queen Elizabeth II, queen of Australia, and inaugurated by Sir Thomas Playford, who was then premier of South Australia.
The town council was briefly renamed the District Council of Salisbury and Elizabeth on 22 August 1963. On 13 February 1964, a new local government body, the municipality of Elizabeth, later called the City of Elizabeth, was created by severance from the District Council of Salisbury.
By the late 90's local council bodies were being forced to amalgamate by the State Government, resulting in the amalgamation of Munno Para and Elizabeth City Councils to become Playford.
The entire lifespan of Elizabeth the City lasted just 33 years.

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10 июл 2024

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@elizabeththatwas 21 день назад

Thank you for watching and supporting the channel. For more Elizabeth (and Adelaide) that was, please Like the video and hit the Subscribe button. Cheers, Will 🙏

@crustymoto 21 день назад

Elizabeth has been destroyed by poorly qualified Council management that used their positions in the Elizabeth Council as a stepping stone to a more Lucrative position in other Council areas or Politics . Elizabeth has suffered because of bad decisions by unqualified and untalented CEO'S & so called Managers . The main problem was and is ; people with the true ability will not Lower themselves by taking up a position in ELIZABETH .

@garychopping2184 21 день назад

grew up in theVale int the 60,s and 70,s those were good days no ferals in the HT homes back then,, every primary school even had a rugby team , i still remember watching the Octogen getting built ,playing on the old cannon on windsor green even the old city centre had character, weekends we walked up the the horse stables behind Eliz/ East... and as school rushing to the front of the Tramsway bus.. now head north you take the expressway and bypass it. miss the old days but not elizabeth,,, now in my 60,s people still ask where does my accent come ..aussie with a touch english.

@jjdean3793 21 день назад

Well informed, well observed and well articulated - great work Will.

@royphillips4751 День назад

Again, a great job Will. Lived in Salisbury North 1954-1961 and watched the development of Elizabeth throughout. Dad was LRWE/WRE and Fairey Aviation. Mum a school teacher Salisbury North. My folks moved toward Adelaide in the late 60s but I travelled to Elizabeth on my annual return from RAAF Service for some 20 years. Very evocative images and a great story told of just how quickly the best of intentions, even with huge expenditure, can unfold. Well done.

@tomrusack3266 14 дней назад

The 60‘s certainly the best years for Elizabeth. Lived in Elizabeth East 64-71.

@5kMagic 14 дней назад

Great series! Thank you for your exceptional work. I grew up in Adelaide in the 80s and had no idea about Elizabeth pre-downturn.

@topghia 14 дней назад

This is an excellent series. The analysis and historical perspectives are revealing and in many ways quite profound. A question that arises for me is what the future may hold. The Elizabeth envisaged in the 1950s will no doubt meld even further and indistinguishably into the 21st century Australian urban landscape. But I wonder if new opportunities and/or unanticipated change are awaiting their turn in the cycle? Change is constant; and I suppose time (twenty years?) will tell.

@dixie265 14 дней назад

Thanks for the memories, I remember playing on that steam train in about 1975 waiting to be picked up, so sad what happened to Elizabeth was a nice place once.

@geoffmower8729 21 день назад

Hi Will wow fantastic job. The turn off just after the West garden centre was the street my brothers crash repairs used to be Elizabeth West Crash repairs, late 70s and through to 2,000s. It's all changed now totally unrecognisable. I went for a drive last year and I got lost I couldn't make out where I was. Anyway top job mate very well done.👍🏻

@susanjacquier5358 21 день назад

Great work Will. I find it so sad...what's happened to the Elizabeth I knew as a child, and the wilful destruction of her most beautiful areas.

@BellaBarossa 21 день назад

Thank you for this well-researched and well-narrated series. I have lived in the Elizabeth area for 52 years, minus 15 or so years spent living in the rural mid-north (the only way I could afford to raise my two kids somewhere nice). I've watched it change from a booming satellite city in the late-70s to the unemployment scrap-heap it became in the 90s (which is when I moved to the country), to what is essentially now a commuter suburb for people working in Adelaide.

@Flamencoista 2 часа назад

Thank you, this was really informative.

@stew8584 21 день назад

Wow it's been a long time since I heard the name WRE, thats where my mother worked. Skating, swimming and the Hotel Elizabeth which I think was across the road (mmm Sarsaparilla) Oh and of course the Octagon. Golden Bread T-shirts were popular and some sneakers that Had a Surfboard in the sole, long time ago. Cheers once again wonderfully put together, thank you.