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Flinders Street
[General description] Family Grocer's shop on the corner of Flinders Street and Ackland Street.C. Reid is the proprietor. A Tailor Shop and the Flinders Street Wood and Coal Yard are next door. Three small children are standing outside the shop on this wet day. In Ackland Street a horse and cart wait patiently and further down the street is Wilson's Cash Store and the Red Cross Building. [On back of photograph] Acres 226 & 213. Flinders Street, north side. Corner of Ackland Street 1909-10. Probably 1909. See B 7787/31.
Ackland Street, Adelaide
[General description] A man is sitting with head in hands, posing for the photographer on the front verandah of a cottage which is being demolished. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 226 / Ackland Street, west side / Dec. 21,1926 / Site of cottage in process of demolition: 49.5 yards north of Flinders Street. Frontage is 9.5 yards.' (Another hand) 'For photo of building subsequently erected see B 4763'.
Ackland Street, Adelaide
The new building for Oliver J. Nilsen, Electrical Engineers is a plain box like structure with double wooden doors, two windows and a gabled roof. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 226 / Ackland Street, west side / May 20th 1928 / Left side of Nilsen's is 49 yards north of Flinders Street / Frontage: 10.5 yards / Nilsen's premises erected in 1927 / For photo of cottage fprmerly on site see B 3958'.
Flinders Street, Adelaide
[General description] The main subject of this photograph is the premises of the Adelaide Hardware Company, a plain two storey building on the corner of Ackland Street where a mix of light industrial and residential buildings can be seen. Construction company Fox, Ey and Thomas also share this building. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 226 / Flinders Street, north side, looking up Ackland Street / February 20th 1929 / Compare with B 12929 taken in 1954 (Some alterations made between two storey building and iron shed on Ackland Street frontage) / Flinders Street frontage of Adelaide Hardware Company is 17 yards'.
Ackland Street, Adelaide
[General description] This single storey brick building is the premises of Benjamin Hall Limited, exporters of dairy produce and buyers of eggs. On the left is an iron building housing the service department for Olympic Tyre Distributors. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 226 / Ackland Street, west side / April 7th 1939 / Brick building erected in 1938 / Notofication recieved too late to permit of inspection of a building previously occupying this site / The left side of the brick building is 34.5 yards north of Flinders Street and frontage is 10.5 yards'.
Flinders Street, Adelaide
[General description] A small shop, the premises of H.F. Bock, manufacturing Chemist and Specialist, abuts a pair of two storey stone cottages. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 227 / Flinders Street, north side / east corner of Bock's lane* (on east side of Lutheran Church) / Sep. 27,1926 / Frontage of one storey building: 9 yards / Frontage of two storey building: 13 yards' (Another hand)' *Now (1952) Sudholz Place. For alterations made in 1947, see B 12368.' (Another hand) 'Shop front installed in Bock's premises in 1926.'
Flinders Street, Adelaide
[General description] Street scene with cars and buildings. In the centre is a pair of attached two storey stone cottages, partially hidden by a leafless street tree. [On back of photograph]'Acre 277 / Flinders Street, north side / August 14th 1959 / Left side of two storey building is 8 yards east of Sudholz Place and frontage is 13 yards / For view of the empty lot on right of two storey building see B 14249'
Flinders Street, Adelaide
[General description] View of the rear of cottages in B 14247 with corrugated iron fencing, overgrown garden and outhouses, presenting an overall run down apprearance. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 277 / Flinders Street, north side / August 14th 1959 / Structures at back of building shown in B 14247'
Flinders Street, Adelaide
[General description] The silhouette of a tree in the foreground provides a frame for cottages up for auction on September 28th by Wilfred E. Taplin in two lots: The one on the far left (as seen in B 14247), the empty lot and the run-down cottage on the right. [On back of photograph 'Acres 227 and 226 / Flinders Street, north side / August 14th 1959 / Right side of two storey building on the left is 21 yards east of Sudholz Place and frontage is 11.5 yards / Frontage of empty lot is 11.5 yards / Frontage of cottage on right of photograph is 16 yards / For view of two storey building on left see B 14247 / For view of structures behind the two-storey building and set back in the empty lot see B 14248'
Sudholz Place, Adelaide
[General description] Cars are parked in the street near a dilapidated stone cottage with a concave verandah. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 227 / Sudholz Place / August 14th 1959 / Right side of cottage is 8 yards east of Sudholz Place and frontage is 16 2/3 yards'
Pulteney Street, Adelaide
[General description] St. Paul's Anglican Church, dating from 1860, is a substantial stone building with a slate roof surrounded by a stone wall with wrought iron panels. Note the large telegraph pole on the street corner. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 228 / St. Paul's Church, Pulteney Street / before 1927' (Another hand) 'For view of church taken in 1952, see B 12460. Trees in front of church removed in 1942.'
Pulteney Street, Adelaide
[General description] A few cars are parked in front of the newly completed premises for the Repatriation Commission. A tram pole and wires are seen in the foreground. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 228 / Pulteney Street, east side / February 8th 1938 / Building erected in 1937 / Compare with B 6764 and B 6765 / Right side is 36 yards north of Flinders Street / Frontage is 21.5 yards' (Another hand) 'For view of alterations completed in 1952 see B 12458'.
Pulteney Street, Adelaide
[General description] The new Repatriation Building on Pulteney Street whilst still under construction. Workers can be seen in the street. See B 7373 for the completed building. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 228 / Pulteney Street, east side / February 1937 / Building completed in 1937 / Right side is 36 yards north of Flinders Street / Frontage 21.5 yards' (Another hand) 'Reproduced in the 'Chronicle', February 11, 1937'.
Flinders Street, Adelaide
[General description] A young man on a motorycle appears in the bottom right hand corner of this view of the premises of Globe Motor Park and Lucas-Browne. Note the tramlines in the centre of Flinders Street. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 229 / Flinders Street, north side / 12 June 1934 / Extreme left of photograph is 30 yards west of Naylor Street / Premises of Lucas-Browne Ltd. are on the west corner of Naylor Street' (Another hand) 'For photograph of building erected on this site (west of Naylor Street) in 1934 see B 6594'.
Pulteney Street, Adelaide
[General description] The Somerset Hotel is a two storey building with wide verandahs and balconies. It was established in 1851 and demolished in September 1991. On the right is Maughan Thiem Motor Co., on the extreme left is City Motors, specialising in Holden. A large ornate tram pole with overhead wires stands in the middle of the intersection [On back of photograph] 'Acre 229 / North west corner of Pulteney Street and Flinders Street / 6 September 1954 / Somerset Hotel has frontage of 12 yards on Flinders Street and 20 yards on Pulteney Street. (See Cadastral plan)'
Hyde Street, Adelaide
[General description] This view shows two storey stone buildings on the west side of Hyde Street. A new 17.3 h.p. Essex Six parked at the kerb was first registered to M.R. Buddle of Reynella early in 1927. [On back of photograph] ' Acre 230 / Hyde Street, west side / June 10, 1927 / The two storey building in the centre with the shop fronts was erected in 1926 on a site formerly occupied by a timber yard. / SIte of building: near side is 47 yards north of Flinders Street . Frontage: 23 yards.'
Flinders Street, Adelaide
[General description] This new four storey building is built from brick with a stone facade. The top three stories feature bay windows. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 231 / Flinders Street, north side / June 27, 1926 / Lensworth Building erected in 1926. For view of premises formerly on the site, see B 2719. Near side of Lensworth building is 1 foot west of the east side of Divett Place. Frontage: 11 yards.'
Flinders Street, Adelaide
[General description] This neo-classical building features decorative balustrading on the parapet and upstairs balconies. Above the main arched doorway on both floors the keystone is carved with a human face. The building was used by the Grand Lodge of Freemasons, South Australia from 1884. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 233 / Flinders Street, north side / Part of Earl of Zetland Hotel / About 1890 / Extreme left is 7 yards east of Gawler Place. Telegraph post on right is 30 yards east of Gawler Place.' (Another hand) 'For view of this building in 1958 see B 14058.'
Gawler Place
[General description] A man is walking past an old bluestone building, the premises of Elliott Brothers' Exelsior Motor Garage, which is soon to be replaced. A bicycle standing at the kerb is silhouetted in the foreground. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 234 / Gawler Place. West side / Jan. 29, 1927 / Site of Elliott Brothers' premises: Left side is 50.5 yards north of Flinders Street. Frontage: 20 yards.' (Another hand) 'For view of premises erected on this site in 1927, see B 4706.'
Gawler Place, Adelaide
[General description] The new premises of Motors Limited are of red brick with a rendered concrete facade and feature large plate glass windows in the showroom. 'White Truck Service Station' is painted on the parapet of the building. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 234 / Gawler Place, west side / April 29th, 1928 / Motors Ltd. erected in 1927. For earlier view of site see B 3948 / Site of Motors Ltd.: Near side is 50.5 yards north of Flinders Street. Frontage: 20.5 yards'.
Gawler Place, Adelaide
[General description] View looking south along Gawler Place towards Flinders Street showing motor businesses and buildings, parked cars and a lone horse and buggy. The six storey Education building is prominent [On back of photograph] 'Acre 234 / Gawler Place, west side / 7 May 1937 / This photograph shows the alterations effected and the new building erected in 1936 between Flinders Street and the large brick building on the right / Of these the right hand portion with upper storey windows was erected on a site formerly occupied by a corrugated iron structure / The left hand portion was simply re-modelled from a concrete structure / Site: The far side abuts Flinders Street / Frontage of Motors Limited premises is 71 yards / Compare with B 6734'.
Flinders Street, Adelaide
[General description] View east along Flinders Street. On the immediate right is part of the Education Department building. On the left is the showroom for Motors Limited with cars behind extensive plate glass windows, further along are other businesses and car dealerships and the Presbyterian Church Spire. Note tramtracks in the middle of the road. [On back of photograph) 'Acres 233, 234 / Flinders Street / Looking east from a point a little east of Molton Street / 7 September 1929'.
King William Street, Adelaide
[On back of photograph] 'Acre 236 / King William St., looking north from Victoria square. / About 1867.' (Another hand) 'Not later than 1867 for Gouger's [Gouge's] fountain was removed before the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh.' [General description] On the right is the Town Hall and Treasury buildings. Note the empty clock tower; the clock was eventually donated by Sir Lavington Bonython in 1935. In the centre of the road, in the distance, Gouge's Fountain can just be seen.
Flinders Street, Adelaide
[On back of photograph] 'Photographed in 1925. Reproduced in the Chronicle, Dec. 26, 1925. Government Offices, Flinders Street. Acre 236.' [General Description] The view is taken from an elevated point on the east side of Victoria Square, facing north. The Town Hall tower can be seen above the Government buildings, and to the right a new tall building is under construction. Motor cars are parked at the kerb and driven on the wet road. An ornamental urn with four lion's heads is mounted on a parapet seen in the right foreground. Note the iron railings around the Victoria Square gardens.
Flinders Street, Adelaide
This view of the Government Offices is taken looking north from the north eastern side of Victoria Square and shows pedestrians and horse-drawn traffic on the street. A telegraph pole and its wires are dominant in the foreground. A boy is pushing an infant in a perambulator up onto the footpath. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 236 / Government Offices, Flinders Street frontage / About 1898'.
Flinders Street, Adelaide
[General description] A man poses for the photographer in the garden in the quadrangle of the government offices. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 236 / Quadrangle, Government Offices, corner of Flinders Street and King William Street / 1904-07. c. 1908 / near dup. of B 22819'.
Adelaide Post Office
[General description] Adelaide Post Office, built in 1867-1872, and Treasury buildings, on the right. The view is taken from across Victoria Square and shows part of the Square gardens surrounded by ornate iron railings which remained there intil 1929. Telegraph posts and wires line the street. (The old Telegraph office was demolished in 1891) [On back of photograph] 'Acres 237 & 238 / c1890 / Photograph by S.J. Dailey? / See also B 1583 & B 36204.'
King William Street, Adelaide
[On back of photograph] 'Acre 237 / Looking north from Victoria Square / 1872.' [General description] The view looks along King William Street. In the foreground some boys are sitting on the iron railings which surround the Square. The new General Post Office, built in the late 1860s, is on the extreme left. The Town Hall, also recently completed, is on the right. Further along on the left side of the road, the tower of the Advertiser building can be seen. A horse and cart stands in the left foreground and more horse drawn vehicles for hire are waiting in the centre of the road.
King William Street, Adelaide
[On back of photograph] 'Acre 237 / Post Office / 1873' [General description] General Post Office, King William Street, Adelaide, viewed from the garden in Victoria Square. The dark clock face indicates that this photo was taken before December 13th, 1875 when the clock was set in motion. The new clock faces were made of Chance's white opal glass and illuminated at night.
Franklin Street, Adelaide
[General description] This is the Adelaide Telephone Exchange building showing a large grid of conductors and wires standing in front of the building. On the left a man poses with his horse-drawn vehicle in front of the booking office for John Hill & Co.'s coaching service. Compare with B 1801 taken in 1917. [On back of photograph] 'About 1909 / Acres 237 and 238 / Telephone exchange / Franklin Street, north side / Left side of the Telephone Exchange building is 29.5 yards east of Post Office Place.'