Great sleuthing Alex.

I notice that betwen the Gall pic and the Hervey pic, not only has electric traction arrived, but the telephone service has expanded!

Mal Rowe - who enjoys a puzzle.

On 4/08/2018 10:13 PM, 'Alex Cowie' via TramsDownUnder wrote:
> 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