PART FOUR - North Side, Currie Street

The old firm of Charles Atkins & Co. was an Adelaide landmark. Described in directories as
'oil and machine merchants and engineers - furnishers', they sold everything from oil to oil
engines - a sort of large ironmonger, but with an engineering and machinery focus.

If Scott Bonnar was to walk from his premises towards Currie Street (about 35 metres) he would
almost face the Atkins and Company building on the opposite, north-side of Currie Street. This
is Photo Set #1 on my Mud Map.

In this Photo set from 1918-1927 (left to right), Scott would have seen the Unbehaun & Johnson
Building (Electrical Engineers); William Adams & Company (Engineers, who would later make the Presto
lawnmower); T. O'Connor (Plumber); W.E. Ekins (Gunmaker); Charles Atkins (Oil & Machinery Merchants),
and finally; the Duke of York Hotel.

Note that the Unbehaun & Johnson and Atkins' buildings had large electric light advertising on their
roofs - not that common at all in 1918.

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[Image 1918, State Library of S.A.]
Mud Map U&J building number "3" Unbehaun & Johnson

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[Image: 1927, State Library of S.A.]
Mud Map Charles Atkins & Company

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[Image: 1927, State Library of S.A.]
Mud Map Duke of York Hotel

All the buildings that Scott would have seen (above) survive today, albeit some with modern facades.
Here is a 2015 Google Earth image:

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TO BE CONTINUED ...