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Grenfell Street, Adelaide
[General description] A woman and small child walk past a new building with glass roof lights that connects the premises of Richard Spencer Carriage and Waggon Manufacturing Company and the Gardener's Supply stores. On the right is part of the East End Market building. Note the tram pole in the centre of Grenfell Street. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 96 / Grenfell Street, north side / June 25th 1928 / The building between the Spencer Company and the Gardener's Supply Stores was ereced in 1926-7. For photograph of the cottages formerly on the site see B 2744 / Left side of new building is 11 yards east of Union Street. Frontage: 18 yards' (Another hand) 'All the buildings to the left of the Gardener's Supply Stores were demolished in 1930. See B 5930 and B 5918'.
Union Street, Adelaide
[General description] Looking south along Union Street with East End Market buildings showing the names of merchants Joseph Johnson and T.W. Horsfall. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 96 / Union Street, east side / April 22nd 1931 / Part of the East End Market / Erected in 1930 / Compare with B 2744 / On extreme right is Grenfell Street / The dividing wall between Horsfall's and Jonhson's is 62 yards north of Grenfell Street'.
Grenfell Street, Adelaide
[General description] A new building in the East End Market complex. Bache Brothers, Fruit and Vegetable Merchants occupy the premises on the left. Gardeners Supply Stores are on the right hand side of the entrance. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 96 / Grenfell Street, north side / April 22nd 1931 / The light coloured buildiing on the left was erected in 1930 (See B 2744 and B 4826) / On the left is Union Street / Frontage of new building: 29 yards'.
Grenfell Street, Adelaide
[General description] Two houses, one being single storey with a garden, the other is two storey. The street and tramlines are seen in the foreground. Two men discuss a parked car and another man approaches a delivery van wearing a white dustcoat. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 97 / Grenfell Street, north side / July 18, 1927 / Left side of cottage on left is 35 yards east of Bent Street. Frontage of this cottage is 15.5 yards. Frontage of two storey house: 11 yards. / For a better view of cottage see B 4719.' (Another hand) 'Two storey cottage demolished in 1938. / For building erected on site in 1939 see B 9545'.
Grenfell Street, Adelaide.
[General description] This two storey hotel is built in the neo classical style and has a rendered facade and decorative mouldings around its arched windows. It has a moulded crown and anchor insignia displayed on the parapet above its corner entrance. It stands on the site of the original Union Inn Arms Hotel (1847-1851), its first licensee being James Ellery (7-4-1853). [On back of photograph] 'Acre 97 / Grenfell Street, north side / West corner of Union Street / July 31st 1928 / Measurements of hotel: Grenfell Street frontage (2 storey part) is 13 yards / Union Street frontage (2 storey part) is 19 yards' (Another hand) 'Enlarged and altered in 1928/9. Compare with B 5731'.
Union Street, Adelaide
[General description] The well known and respected Richard Spencer Carriage and Waggon Manufacturing Company, established in 1866 by Richard Spencer, a native of Lancashire who arrived in South Australia in the 'Adamant' in 1863. Two horse drawn vehicles stand in front of these premises which are an extensive complex of stone and corrugated iron buildings. The motorbike in the foreground heralds the motor transport of the future. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 97 / Union Street, west side / October 3rd 1928 / For alterations made in 1939 see B 8201 / Left side of cottage is 42.5 yards north of Grenfell Street / Frontage of cottage is 12 yards / Far side of the Spencer Co.'s premises is 71 1/2 yards north of Grenfell Street'.
Union Street, Adelaide
[General description] New buildings along Union Street with Rundle Street seen in the distance. The nearest parked car has a 'dickie seat'. [On back of photograph] 'Acres 97 and 90 / Union Street, west side / April 8th 1939 / The central group of buildings (those with the three arched entrances) was erected in 1938 / The near side of the central group of buildings is 35.5 yards north of Grenfell Street / Frontage is 68 yards'.
Grenfell Street, Adelaide
[General description] This typical Adelaide stone villa has reached the end of its life, soon to be replaced by a wrestling/ boxing stadium. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 97 / Grenfell Street, north side / May 5th 1939 / For building erected on this site see B 9545 / The left side of the cottage is 35 yards east of Bent Street and frontage is 15.5 yards'.
Bent Street
[General description] A view north along Bent Street to Rundle Street. On the left is the new premises of Clarksons Limited Glass Merchants. Clarksons is Adelaide's oldest glass business, opened by Heinrich Vosz in the 1850s in Rundle Street, Adelaide. He was South Australia's first importer of plate glass. The name of the business was changed to Clarkson Ltd in 1915. Many of Adelaide's churches have windows designed and made by the firm. [On back of photograph] 'Acres 98 & 89 / Bent Street, west side / June 6, 1926 / Clarksons premises erected in 1925. For buildings formerly on the site see B 2648. Near side of Clarksons is 31 yards north of Grenfell Street. Frontage is 40.5 yards.'
General Gordon Hotel, Grenfell Street
[General description] A hotel has existed on this site since 1856. It has been altered and renamed over the years but at the time this photograph was taken it is known as the General Gordon under Licensee C.A. Darwent. It is a two storey building with a corrugated iron roof and wide verandahs, decorated with iron lace. It still exists (2012) under the name of the Griffin's Head. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 99 / North east corner of Grenfell Street and Hindmarsh Square / General Gordon Hotel / March 14th 1928 / For photograph showing alterations effected in 1928 see B 5141 / Hotel measurements: Grenfell Street frontage: 19.5 yards / Hindmarsh Square frontage: 19.5 yards'.
Grenfell Street, Adelaide
[General description] There has been a hotel on this site since 1856, under several different names. The publican at the time this view was taken is C.A. Darwent. The hotel, a two storey stone building with wide verandahs and decorative iron lace on its balcony is soon to be remodelled and re-named the Hotel Grenfell. The neighbour is Burmeister's Big House printing firm. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 99 / North east corner of Hindmarsh Square and Grenfell Street / General Gordon Hotel / March 14, 1928 / For photograph showing alterations effected in 1928 see B 5141 / For measurements see B 4776'.
Clarkson's Hindmarsh Square
[General description] This is a view of a group of buildings in the north-eastern side of Hindmarsh Square. Clarkson Plate Glass and Mirror Works can be seen behind the premises of Gebhardt and Moreland's Saw Works. [On back of photograph] ' Acre 99 / Hindmarsh Square, east side / April 1st, 1929 / On the right is Burmeister Place (29.5 yards north of Grenfell Street) / Gebhardt's premises and the two storey houses were demolished in May 1932 / For view of State Motors premises erected on this site in 1946, see B 12457'.
Grenfell Street, Adelaide
[General description] This two storey building is in the Art Deco style and is part of a larger building on the right. There is a 'To Let' sign in the window. A smartly dressed woman passes by with a small child in a stroller. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 103 / Grenfell Street, north side / 30 August 1963 / Left side of building is 30 yards west of Wyatt Street'
Holden & Frost premises on Grenfell Street, Adelaide
[General description] Holden and Frost saddlery, forerunner to the motor company General Motors Holden's Australian operation. The ornate facade of the building features a statue of a white horse standing on a balcony over the entrance. A horse stands in front of the premises harnessed to a wagon partially loaded with hides. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 104 / Grenfell Street, north side / Nov. 14, 1907 / Left side of building is 9 yards east of Chesser Street. Frontage: 23 yards.' (Another hand) 'The verandah and balcony was removed in 1937. Extra storey added to building some years previous to 1937.'
Grenfell Street, Adelaide
[General description] Buildings on Grenfell Street with a group of men standing in front of the nearest one. Pedestrians, including a serviceman in uniform stroll past. [On back of photograph] 'Acres 104 & 105 / Grenfell Street, north side / 1915- 1919 / Copied by Kodaks from photograph in posession of Harris Scarfe Ltd. / Archives Fund / Site:The extreme left is 49 yards east of Gawler Place / the right side is 8 yards east of Chesser Street'.
Grenfell Street, Adelaide
[General description] This two storey stone building is the premises of J.A. Holden & Co., later to become Holden & Frost. James Alexander Holden set up his saddlery business in 1856 in King William Street, later moving to this Grenfell Street building. This small business was to become the forerunner of G.M.H. in Australia. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 104 / Grenfell Street, north side / 1879-86 / The left side of Holden's is 9 1/2 yards east of Chesser Street / Frontage: 22 1/2 yards'.
Grenfell Street, Adelaide
[General description] This photograph, taken from the opposite side of the road, shows the two storey Harris Scarfe's building with its plate-glass windows full of wares. A row of vehicles of the period are parked at 45 degrees at the kerb. One of the ornate supports for the tram wires stands in the middle of the road. [On back of photograph] 'Acres 105 & 104 / Grenfell Street, north side / Harris Scarfe's premises / Apr. 12, 1926 / Near side of Scarfe's is 40 yards east of Gawler Pl. / Far side of Scarfe's (where it adjoins the three storey building) is 9 1/2 yards east of Chesser Street.'
Gawler Place
[General description] Colonial Tinware Manufactory frontage on Gawler Place. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 105 / About 1877 / North-east corner of Gawler Place and Grenfell Street / Gawler Place frontage: 47.5 yards. / Grenfell Street frontage (Simpson's only): 19 yards'.
Gawler Place
[General description] Harris Scarfe's four storey building has arched windows on its upper floors and a cantilever verandah over the footpath. The name 'Harris, Scarfe Limited' is painted on the side of the building in large letters. Next door on the left is the new Claridge Building. [On back of photograph] 'Acres 105 and 82 / Gawler Place, east side looking north from a point near Grenfell Street / 1928' (Another hand) 'Boundary between Harris Scarfe's and the Dolceola Co. is 47 yards north of Grenfell Street / Far side of Harris Scarfe's is 53 1/2 yards south of Rundle Street' (Another hand) 'In 1934 portion of Harris Scarfe's was demolished (Compare with B 6785). The portion demolished is covered by the arched windows 5,6, and 7 (counting from the left)' (Another hand) ' In 1938 the portion occupied by the arched windows 8 and 9 (counting from the left) was remodelled. Compare with B 8206'.
Gawler Place
Gawler Place, east side, showing the five storeys of the premises of Laubman & Pank, opticians, erected in 1934. Compare with B 4846. Right side is 59 yards north of Grenfell Street. Frontage: 12 yards. The photograph shows a little of Acre 82.
Grenfell Street, Adelaide
[General description] A horse and cart stand outside the premises of Geo. P. Harris Scarfe which occupy the centre of this view. Holden's Motor and Buggy Trimmers are further along the road. Tramlines for the new electric trams are seen in the foreground. [On back of photograph] 'Acres 105 & 104 / Grenfell Street, north side / 1915-1919 / Copied by Kodaks from a photograph on possession of Harris Scarfe Ltd. / Archives fund / The building on the extreme left is 40 yards east of Gawler Place / The near side of Holden's Motor and Buggy trimming works (on extreme right of photograph) is 9 1/2 yards east of Chesser Street'.
Gawler Place, Adelaide
[General description] Looking along Gawler place towards Rundle Street. The premises of Oliver J. Nilsen and Laubman & Pank are on the left, Electricity House (with the clock) is a little further along. [On back of photograph] 'Acres 105 and 82 / Gawler Place, east side / 8th April 1939 / Nilsen's building was completed in 1938 / Compare with B 4846 / The near side of Nilsen's building is 51 1/2 yards north of Grenfell Street; frontage: 7 yards'.
Gawler Place, Adelaide
[General description] The facade of this two storey building is in the Art Deco style. It displays a sign reading 'Ingerson Salon'. It is soon to be demolished to make way for the DaCosta Building [On back of photograph] 'Acre 105 / Gawler Place, east side / 15th March 1954 / This is a portion of building shown in B 6763 (left side). See this image for details of site and demolition'
Gawler Place
[General description] Two cyclists pedal past this four storey building which features a detailed stucco facade in the neo- classical style. On the left is Flehr and Company Tailors. [On back of photograph] 'Acres 106 & 81 / Gawler Place, west side / 1927 / D.& W. Murray's / Near side of Murray's is 49 yards north of Grenfell Street. / Frontage: 26 1/2 yards. / For a view of the building after remodelling in 1949 and renaming as "Churchill Building", see B12358 / Reprod. in "Chronicle", Dec 10, 1927.'
Grenfell Street, Adelaide
[General description] New buildings have replaced old: City buildings and parked cars on Grenfell Street. The tramline is seen in the centre of the road. [On back of photograph] 'Acres 106 and 107 / Grenfell Street, north side / 4th June 1937 / Showiing additions and alterations made in 1936 / The buildings affected are the four storey ones of light colour / Compare with B 5337, B 2612 and B 5327 / Site of the remodelled buildings are: Near side is 40 yards west of Gawler Place / Frontage: 39.5 yards'.
Grenfell Street, Adelaide
[General description] Two popular FJ / FX Holden cars are parked in front of a section of a larger building (see B 13815) which at one time housed the Young Men's Christian Association. Sellicks furniture retailer is having a removal sale on the ground floor. On the left is part of the premises of well-known Adelaide jeweller C.W. Ottaway which closed in January 2016 after ninety-three years trading. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 106 / September 28, 1960 / Grenfell Street, north side / Right side of centre building is 23 yards west of Gawler Place, Frontage: 16 yards'
Grenfell Street, Adelaide
[General description] The premises of Matthew Goode and Company, wholesale milliners. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 107 / Grenfell Street, north side / west corner of James Place / 1896 / Frontage of Matthew Goode's:16 yards'.
Grenfell Street, Adelaide
[General description] Pedestrians in the foreground provide interest for this view of city buildings along Grenfell Street from the King William Street intersection. On the left are two Hansom cabs. Shows the Imperial Hotel, Walkem's Fruit Palace advertising fruit luncheons, and women pedestrians with umbrellas [On back of photograph] 'Acres 106, 107, 108. / Grenfell Street / looking east from King William St. / About 1896'.
Grenfell Street, Adelaide
[General description] The Alliance Assurance Company building under construction. A small corregated iron site office, perched atop scaffolding, displays a sign which notes the name of the building contractor: J. King & Son of Hindmarsh. A tip-truck is backed up to the entrance of the site. Next door is the recently completed Trustee Building. See B 4195 for the completed Alliance building. [On back of photograph] 'Acres 107 & 108 / Grenfell Street, north side / 1926 / On the extreme right is James Place. Near side of building in course of construction is 26 1/2 yards west of James Place. Reproduced in the Observer, Feb. 13, 1926.'
Grenfell Street, Adelaide
[General description] Architects J.A. Kethel, Rutt and Lawson designed this six storey neo-classical style building in 1926. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 108 / Alliance Building / Grenfell Street, north side / June 15,1927 / Alliance Building erected in 1925-26. For photo. of the site in Jan. 1925 see B 2454. / Site: Right side of is 15 yards west of James Place / Frontage: 11 yards.'