PART TWO - Waymouth Street End

Photo 1 was taken from Waymouth Street looking up Young Street. It's a great photo
because it tells us so much about Scott Bonnar and Adelaide in 1916. By this time,
street lighting was appearing on the main streets, and one can be seen in the photo.
The first electricity generating station began service in 1900, meaning that house
holds and businesses had electricity connected. In small machine shops, like Bonnar's,
machinery would have been powered by the electric motor.

Black's Farriers on Wymouth Street illustrates nicely that the dominant vehicles on
Adelaide streets were still horse driven. However, that situation would change within
a decade. In any case, this particular part of the city was a motor vehicle (cars and
motorcycles) area, and one very relevant to the story I tell here. At this time, Scott
Bonnar was an early motorcycle rider.

Just a bit further up Young Street was the two storey building, Publishers Limited.
Just beyond that you will just make out a group of tenements and small shop. They will
feature later in the story. For the time being, let's just call this side of Young Street
(The east side) the dark side ...

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PHOTO 1 of Mud Map [Image: State Library of South Australia]

On the photo's right-hand side there is No 97 - that's 97 Waymouth Street and it was
the large corner block that adjoined the Lord Raglan Hotel (out of view) [see 'C' on
my Mud Map]. A sulky can just be made out in the doorway of No. 97. This was J. Stewart's
Coach Painting Works. There are vehicles for sale in the yard.

Of utmost interest is that which sits behind No. 97, up Young Street's west side.
There appears to be a high gabled roof - like a church - and then a three story building,
the side of the facade can just be seen:-

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Photo 1 Mud Map - Detail

The three story building belonged to Detmolds Limited [see "A" on my Mud Map].
It was the biggest and newest building in the street in 1916, and the sign on the
side says, 'William Detmold'.

Detmold's is very relevant to my story. It was my first clue in identifying where in
Young Street Scott Bonnar's shop actually was. Well, in Scott's newsprint advertising,
his premises were always - "next Detmold's".

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The above advertisement illustrates Scott Bonnar's Lightning Greenfeed Cutter.
I've discussed that important invention HERE.

In the next part we will look at the other end of Young Street - the Franklin Street end.

TO BE CONTINUED ...