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Currie Street, Adelaide [B 4771] • Photograph

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Summary

[General description] This two storey stone building has been gutted by a fire which occurred at about 3 a.m. on Monday, 2nd January 1928. Damage was estimated to be more than £20.000. The building was occupied chiefly by WIlcox, Mofflin. Ltd., hide, skin and wool merchants, and S. C. Eyles and Co., wholesale grocers and Importers. The Richards Building next door was also badly damaged in a big fire three years earlier on Tuesday 11th November, 1924. [On back of photograph] 'The two storey buildings were demolished in 1928. For view of buildings subsequently erected see B 5071' (Another hand) 'Acres 135 & 136 / Currie St., south side / west corner of Bloor Court / 10 January 1928 / Photo. taken shortly after the fire'.

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Physical description

Photograph; 14.0 cm x 8.1 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1928

Photographer

State Library of South Australia

Collection

Part of Acre 136 Collection

Subject

Wrecking -- South Australia -- Adelaide
Fires -- South Australia -- Adelaide -- Currie Street

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Digitisation information

Date

09/06/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,463 x 1,956 pixels (6.8 MP)

Size

6.80 MB

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