The ETSA Flats

4 Chester Street, Henley Beach - an address synonymous with holidays, was the ETSA Flats’ location in Adelaide. Some made their way to this popular seaside destination by train or bus, many travelling the 8-hour journey by car. The semi-detached flats had to be booked well in advance by ETSA employees during school holiday periods. Countless Leigh Creek families have memories of days at the beach during their holidays to ‘the big smoke’.

Millikan family, 1960s (Mick Millikan)

West Beach, mid 1960s (O'Dea Family)

Young Lutz Stritzke with his Mum (Lutz Stritzke)

Maria Kaiser with the Bauschke family at the ETSA Henley Beach flats, mid 1960s (Karin Kaiser)

Henley Beach, 1966 (Donna Read)

The Millikan boys watching the yacht racing in the early 1960s (Mick Millikan)

Ample backyard space to play, often with neighbouring holiday makers, 1960s (MIck Millikan)

Sunsmart kids, new hats perhaps? circa 1965 (O'Dea Family)

Jenny Sandercock with her children Andrew, Jo-Anne, John and Karen circa 1972 (Jenny Sandercock)

Pat Read (in pink) enjoying Adelaide's beaches with her friends (Donna Read)

Around Adelaide

1958 Adelaide Flower Festival (Malcolm Treloar)

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Adelaide Zoo (O’Dea Family)

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1961 Christmas Pageant (Donna Read)

 
 

Bullen’s Lion Park (Two Wells) - 1978 (Donna Read)

Outer Harbor

 

The British India Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Barpeta (Mick Millikan)

SS Iberia was an Ocean Liner that operated a passenger service between England and Australia for 20 years in in the 1950s and 60s (Mick Millikan)

SS Iberia (Mick Millikan)

The Millikan family explore SS Iberia at Outer Harbour in the mid 1960s (Mick Millikan)

The SS Orsova was a passenger cruise ship that operated between England and Australia (O'Dea Family)