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| caption = View of Halifax Street facing east between [[King William Street, Adelaide|King William]] and [[Pulteney Street, Adelaide|Pulteney Street]] Streets
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'''Halifax Street''' is a street in the south-eastern sector of the [[Adelaide city centre|centre]] of [[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]].<ref name=ubd>{{cite book|title=2003 Adelaide Street Directory, 41st Edition |publisher=UBD (A Division of Universal Press Pty Ltd) |year=2003 |isbn=0-7319-1441-4}}</ref><ref name=map>[http://www.soulunderground.com.au/national_files/CBDMAP.pdf Map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170325140742/http://www.soulunderground.com.au/national_files/CBDMAP.pdf |date=25 March 2017 }} of the [[Adelaide]] CBD, [[North Adelaide]] and the [[Adelaide Parklands]].</ref> It runs east–west between [[East Terrace, Adelaide|East Terrace]] and [[King William Street, Adelaide|King William Street]], crossing [[Hutt Street, Adelaide|Hutt Street]] and [[Pulteney Street, Adelaide|Pulteney Street]] and passing through [[Hurtle Square, Adelaide|Hurtle Square]].<ref name=ubd/><ref name=map/> It was named after Sir Charles Wood (later [[Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax]]), British [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Halifax (UK Parliament constituency)|Halifax]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.historysouthaustralia.net/STlist3.htm#hal |title=History of Adelaide Through Street Names |access-date=13 December 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070209143653/http://www.historysouthaustralia.net/STlist3.htm#hal |archive-date=9 February 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
[[File:Chimney on Halifax Street, Adelaide.jpg|thumb|right|upright|A local landmark, this 35-metre chimney on Halifax Street was built in 1909 and is what remains of a refuse incinerator that consumed the bulk of the city's rubbish until its closure in the early 1950s, its function being replaced by landfill.<ref>Postcards: The Greek on Halifax: In the Adelaide City region of South Australia [http://www.postcards-sa.com.au/features/greek_on_halifax.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321085036/http://postcards-sa.com.au/features/greek_on_halifax.html |date=21 March 2012 }}</ref>]]
 
Halifax Street is one of the intermediate-width streets of the Adelaide grid, at {{convert|1+1/2|ch|lk=in}} wide.
 
Circa 1844 Halifax Street became the location of one of Adelaide's first breweries, founded by [[William Henry Clark (brewer)|William Henry Clark]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158919137 |title=Local Intelligence |newspaper=[[Adelaide Observer]] |issue=66 |date=28 September 1844 |access-date=22 May 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> who later built a flour mill close by. The brewery and mill were sited on city acres 564 and 603 between Halifax and [[Gilles Street, Adelaide|Gilles street]]s streets which, from 1909 to 1950, housed Adelaide's rubbish incinerator.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208624349 |title=Refuse Destructor |newspaper=[[Evening Journal (Adelaide)|Evening Journal]] |volume=XLII |issue=11544 |location=Adelaide |date=9 March 1908 |access-date=22 May 2017 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
 
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