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Rundle Street [B 8045] • Photograph

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Summary

Rundle Street, south side showing the premises of Barlow and Sons Coachbuilders. A man in a top hat and overcoat is holding two horses in a laneway between the buildings while other men and children watch the proceedings. The building stands on the corner of Rundle Street and Union Street. According to a researcher, Thomas Barlow & Sons, coachbuilders, first established their business in 1855, in Hindmarsh Square - where they also ran one of the first Adelaide fire 'engines' on behalf of three insurance companies. They moved the business (and the fire appliance) to his site in Rundle Street East, opposite the Tavistock buildings, in OCtober 1866. The royal coat of arms displayed on the roof was a Royal Warrant - "By Appointment to H.R.H the Duke of Ediburgh" - granted in 1868 for the construction of a coach for Prince Alfred's visit to South Australia. The gentleman wearing a white apron (to the left of the horses) is possibly George Barlow, the oldest of the three brothers then operating the manufactory (see B 40279 for George Barlow and B 7958 for the fire engine). The business moved back to the Hindmarsh Square site in April 1883 to a new purpose-built coachworks, which was the largest in Adelaide at the time.

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Physical description

Photograph; 14.2 cm x 9.8 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1872

Collection

Part of Acre 90 Collection

Subject

Carriage and wagon making -- South Australia -- Adelaide
Rundle Street (Adelaide, S.A.)

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Date

03/11/2005

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Resolution

3,120 x 2,060 pixels (6.4 MP)

Size

19.32 MB

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