Glandore/Black Forest Places

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GLANDORE / BLACK FOREST

(+ former suburbs of Glandore West / Glandore West Extension / Molesworth)

Today’s suburb of Glandore is largely made up of four separate subdivisions: Glandore, Glandore West and Glandore West Extension.

In July 1883 Joseph Henry Morgan, Benjamin Morgan, John O’Dea and William Lines Cumming, all drapers, and John Lewis and Mary Fox, licensed victuallers, divided an 11.7 hectare (29.25 acre) north-eastern portion of section 53, Hundred of Adelaide into a 123-allotment subdivision they named Glandore. The subdivision was probably named after the coastal village of the same name in county Cork, Ireland: the O’Dea family had immigrated to South Australia from county Cork in 1840. The major streets in the development were Forest, Grosvenor, Park and Wellington Streets and Railway (now Glengyle) Terrace.

In August 1923 John Gill Keeves (1856-1940), sharebroker of North Adelaide, subdivided just over 17.2 hectares (43 acres) to the west of the original Glandore subdivision into a 164-allotment he called Glandore West. A week later Keeves sold the subdivision in its entirety to Leslie Trigg Parsons (1890-1983), agent of Adelaide, and Horace George Crittenden (1878-1937) of Joslin, out of business. After buying additional land from Keeves, Parsons and Crittenden laid out an additional thirty-five allotments which were also a part of Glandore West. Parsons and Crittenden thus now owned in total almost 200 allotments in Glandore West spread over about twenty hectares (51 acres) – an area taking up about one-half of today’s suburb of Glandore. 

The new streets in the two Glandore West subdivisions were Albion, Edward (now Ruthven), Madden, St Georges and Waymouth Avenues; Burke and Stuart Streets; and Charles (now Leaney) and Stanley (now Barclay) Streets; as well as an extension of Railway Terrace and new allotments along the Bay Road.

In December 1923 George Frederick Sare (c1880-1955) of Norwood, plumber, subdivided a little over five acres between the Glandore and Glandore West subdivisions into a twenty-allotment development he called Glandore West Extension. Allotments were situated mainly along the subdivision’s ninety-metre Bay Road frontage and south along Wellington Street. In October 1936 James Myrvin Stead (b. 1896), police constable of Goodwood Park, laid out twenty-two allotments on approximately two hectares (5 acres) as a westerly extension of Glandore West.

BLACK FOREST was laid out in subdivisions of section 87, Hundred of Adelaide in 1850 and 1882. Part of these subdivisions, from Wheaton Road to the tramline, are now a part of Plympton in West Torrens.