Electra House has sat vacant for 18 years. It was built in 1901 for the Citizens’ Life Assurance Company then later used as a telegraph exchange, a Post Master General’s technicians’ school, and a telecommunications museum.
It still contains Adelaide’s FIRST electric lift which was installed in 1905. Take a look at the pictures!…
Just up the South Eastern Freeway is the Littlehampton Twin tunnel system.
The eastern-most tunnel is a concrete box culvert stormwater tunnel. What’s most intriguing about this tunnel is the old telegraph wiring traversing the full length of the ceiling.
The second western-most tunnel is a 96m long ARMCO railway tunnel — the SteamRanger’s only tunnel! It was installed when the South Eastern Freeway was built and replaced an open rail cutting known as McGrath’s Cutting.
Originally an Adelaide nursing home, in its latter years “Joist Manor” became office space used by local sports and ambulance associations.
Along with ~135 other buildings, it has been purchased and marked for demolition by the SA Government as part of a major roadway widening. Many of the buildings along this road now sit abandoned…
