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Windsor Gardens is a suburb in the north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. The suburb is located 7-12 kilometers or 15 minutes (approximately) from the Adelaide CBD. Situated between North East Road (NW) and the River Torrens (SE) with suburbs Holden Hill to the north and Klemzig to the south.

A Windsor Gardens Post Office opened on 2 February 1954 but was replaced by the Greenacres office in 1963.

Historical Background

The suburb of Windsor Gardens mostly dates from after the Second World War. By 1964-5, the South Australian Housing Trust had built 675 houses at Windsor Gardens, mostly for sale rather than rental. Prior to this time the area was primarily a rural one, sparsely settled. The fact that the River Torrens runs through the suburb focused the farming and horticultural activities in the area of the River. Bagot's 'Beefacres Estate' occupied part of the Windsor Gardens area in the nineteenth century. Local legend claims that a small part of the Estate's homestead is incorporated into a residence at Windsor Gardens, but this is unconfirmed. At one point the estate reached all the way from the Darley Road Ford to the Hope Valley Reservoir.



In the 1950s, the South Australian Housing Trust commenced building in the area and some of the Trust's prefabricated, imported timber houses were built here during the period of 1950-4. The Trust imported the houses because of the shortage of building materials and skilled labor experienced after the War. Some thousands of these houses were erected in the suburbs of Klemzig, Gilles Plains, Hillcrest, Northfield, Windsor Gardens and Clearview by the end of 1954.
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