I grew up in Pennington, Adelaide, which for those who don't know is a very established area on the city side of Port Adelaide, with, for the era, standard size house blocks. The family is the next street kept their horse in the backyard for years - I even got to ride him a few times.
My husband grew up on the other side of town, in the Campbelltown area. At that time it was still a developing suburb as it had been small farms and market gardens but still very much a suburb. His sister kept a horse in a vacant block nearby which is now a shopping centre. Campbelltown has now long been a developed suburb but when I met my hubby, 20 years ago, his Mum had a pet kangaroo in the backyard!
And it's only been in recent years that (I think) they've stopped allowing horses to be agisted in the North Adelaide parklands and along the Torrens by the beach.
How times have changed.
