Hello ODK History Lovers

This series of posts present original research I conducted over the last couple of years.
It paints a new light on the 1920 founding of the Scott Bonnar Company that history knows about.
This is the story of the S. Bonnar Company (AKA Bonnar Engineering) founded in 1916, that
commenced business at Young Street, before moving to near-by Bloor Court Premises in 1917.

This post series deals with the Young Street premises and Mr. Scott Bonnar's world from
about mid-1916 to mid-1917. It's a story full of surprises ...

CONTEXT
Adelaide was from the very beginning a planned city and a freely-settled British province
without the convict settlement baggage of other early Australian cities. It was laid out
in a grid pattern and surrounded by parklands. It is this grand-design that explains why
Adelaide is such an attractive city today.

Early Adelaide was shaped by prosperity and wealth and this came to make so much sense in
explaining the world that a young Scott Bonnar inhabited one hundred years ago. There was
certainly poverty too! This is a city that had well-developed secondary industries at the
start of the 20th Century.

Scott's first business address was located in Young Street, straddled by the great
east-west streets of Waymouth and Franklin, in Adelaide's CBD. Young Street is a narrow
and short street; only about 135 meters long.

Here is my MUD MAP of the story I would like to tell ...

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TO BE CONTINUED ...