A delightful Adelaide image
  Mal Rowe

With the transition to Google running well, I want to get back "On Topic" ... with trams!

Here's another pic from Adelaide from our A Non E Mous donor - I think it's just a delightful image.


John Radcliffe tells us:

"Adelaide F type car 202 is seen in Albert Street at the Mitcham terminus, having changed ends to return through the city to Prospect.
Mitcham was one of the early farming villages surveyed in 1840 by the South Australian Company, The District Council of Mitcham became the first local government area outside the City of Adelaide in 1852.
The first Mayor was Benjamin Herschel Babbage, son of Charles Babbage, British mathematician who invented the first calculating machine.
Herschel Babbage became engineer for building the Adelaide-Port Adelaide Railway.
The Mitcham general store, opened by James and Janet Gardiner in 1853 on the western corner of Albert and High Streets is to the right of the tram.

The same location was the terminus of the Adelaide, Unley and Mitcham Tramway Company which commenced operations on 12 February 1879."
See the second picture, provided by John and from the SLSA archives.

Mal Rowe - visiting Adelaide at the end of May


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AUandM horse-tram AlbertSt terminus Mitcham 1880s SLSA B 28348  |  1620W x 1080H  | 258.71 KB |  Photo details