Victoria Square, Adelaide through time

Adelaide 1865–1960 3 photos of this spot

3 photographs taken at the same spot in Adelaide, spanning 1865–1960 — 3 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

The Windsor Castle Hotel on Franklin Street, Adelaide, as it appeared in 1865. Hotels like this one were common fixtures of colonial Adelaide's commercial streets in the mid-nineteenth century.

Windsor Castle Hotel, Franklin Street 1865 The Windsor Castle Hotel on Franklin Street, Adelaide, as it appeared in 1865. Hotels like this one were common fixtures of colonial Adelaide's commercial streets in the mid-nineteenth century.

Stow Memorial Church (now Pilgrim Church), Flinders Street, Adelaide SLSA 1870 Stow Memorial Church on Flinders Street in Adelaide, later renamed Pilgrim Church, is pictured in 1870 not long after its construction for the city's Congregationalist community, one of the denominations that shaped religious life in early Adelaide.

Victoria Square, Adelaide 1960 Victoria Square in Adelaide, photographed in 1960. Laid out as the central square in Colonel William Light's original 1837 plan for the city, it remains Adelaide's civic heart.