Awesome Adelaide – Page 34 of 49 – A photoblog of Adelaide's abandoned buildings, underground tunnels and places to explore. Urban exploration (urbex), off-limits, spelunking, drains, derelict buildings & ruins.

May 27, 2014

Sightseeing: The Quarantine Station

For over 100 years (from 1855 to 1966) the Torrens Island Quarantine Station protected the people of South Australia from terrible diseases such as yellow fever, cholera, plague, smallpox, typhus fever, leprosy and influenza. Left all but abandoned it was once the state’s first line of defence for containing transferrable diseases.

Immigrants arriving in Adelaide were quarantined here before being allowed into the general population. Upon arrival passengers were transferred from boat via the jetty to the island. Their luggage inspected, fumigated and stored pending discharge. Individual disinfection was carried out in the large communal Bathing Block. People succumbing to infection were buried in the nearby cemetery.

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May 10, 2014

Urban Exploring: The Fun Factory

This plywood product factory sits abandoned after going into voluntary administration in 2013.

Australian builders using cheap imports rather than South Australian products were to blame for its demise…

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May 6, 2014

Urban Exploring: The TB Tunnels

In the early 1880’s a series of storerooms, corridors and strong rooms were built below ground beneath Victoria Square in Adelaide’s centre. The government departments using these underground tunnels were not widely publicised. We suspect confidential documents pertaining to land holdings were held here as well as early plans for Adelaide’s new sewer system.

The new ‘water-borne’ sewerage system (developed right here in South Australia) ended the numerous outbreaks of dysentery, cholera and typhoid occurring across Adelaide sometimes killing up to five children per day. Adelaide became the first city in Australia to enjoy the health benefits of the new system and other states soon followed.