Where is it?
August 21st, 2009 | 
Author: We have just received permission from the National Archives of Australia to use a magnificent collection of photographs from the Telstra Archive of Perth in the early years of the twentieth century.
In the weeks to come we plan to publish a number of these photos to how some of the buildings of Perth we know and love today looked in their early years.
The collection is generally very well catalogued, but the photo below was rather vague and simply gave the location as “St George’s Terrace and Hay Street”. After looking at the photo for a while inspiration struck and we’ve now worked out exactly where it was taken …can you?
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Photo “St Georges Tce & Hay(?) St” is I think looking East along the Terrace from just past the Cloisters. There were large trees Moreton Bay Ficus (?) at the front of the Cloisters, and the sign on the building opposite reads DODGE backwards. Winterbottom motors were on the corner of Mill St, and I seem to remember were agents for Dodge trucks. The number of obviously American vehicles parked nearby would seem to support this. The white building on the corner opposite would be the old Adelphi hotel site.
As an ex Telstra/Telecom/PMG employee who spent quite a bit of my spare time delving through these negatives, including the old glass ones, it would not surprise me to find errors in the listing. The original titles often required some thought as to what or where they were, the intent behind the picture often having an engineering basis. For example, the photo under discussion may have been taken to survey underground cable access.
This is definately looking dowm St Georges Terrace with the corner of Mill St nearby.Winterbottom Moors is on one corner (I am an ex employee) with the Adelphi Hotel opposite.The builing next to Winterbottoms was the old Shell builing and the Cloisters is where the trees are opposite the Shell Building.
Absolutely correct!