Mal,
Like Peter Homann, I kept coming back to North Adelaide. On exploring the
State Library of South Australia (SLSA) I found a photo
https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+631/2/470 which confirms
Peter's suggestions re flipping and location. I attach 3 images:

- the original puzzle photo by John Henry Hervey flipped horizontally
- the photo in the SLSA collection by Ernest Gall taken c.1895 and
entitled Poole Street, North Adelaide. (Poole St is now part of King
William Road)
- an extract map of North Adelaide from Gregory's 1936 street directory
where the red circle indicates the approximate location of JHH's photo.

In the flipped JHH photo, the street going down the hill is part of
Brougham Place which encompasses Brougham Gardens, the tram tracks are in
King William Road, the brick wall is the northern boundary of the
Children's Hospital and the brick building is a side wing of the hospital.

In the SLSA Gall photo, the camera position for the JHH photo would be to
the right out of shot inside the curve of the tram tracks. The building to
the right of the brick building is the Angas Building which was opened in
1893. This building was out of shot in the JHH photo. The road to the
leftin the Gall photo (also shown in the map heading NE towards Stanley St)
no longer exists.

The map shows the electric tram lines that passed through North Adelaide,
the Walkerville line along Sir Edwin Smith Ave, and the other lines along
King William and O'Connell St, with the Kilkenny/Cheltenham line branching
off along Ward St and the Prospect and Enfield lines splitting at the north
end of O'Connell St. The S bend in King William Rd between the hospital
and O'Connell St dates from 1874 when the horse tramway to North Adelaide
was constructed across Brougham Gardens.

I will post some more photos from the SLSA collection and also some present
day shots from the location in further posts.

Alex C - in a city which saw horse and electric traction but no cable
traction

On Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 11:44:06 AM UTC+9:30, Mal Rowe wrote:
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> On 24/07/2018 9:16 AM, Mal Rowe wrote:

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> I posted a message on facebook and got the following response from Peter

> Homann:

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> "I keep coming back to North Adelaide somewhere. I've tried flipping the

> image, and it could be King William Rd, looking down Brougham Place, with

> the current Womens and Childrens Hospital site at right (of the flipped

> image), but I'm not convinced."

>

> Peter Homann's suggestion via facebook is shown in a Google Streetview at:

> https://tinyurl.com/yb5kk4j4

>

> It lines up pretty well with a mirrored version of the old picture in

> terms of 'lie of the land'.

>

> Mal Rowe - glad to have help

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