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Earl of Zetland Hotel, Adelaide, 1870


Photo taken 30 December 1869

State Library Catalogue Reference: B 16004/3

Duryea, Townsend, 1823-1888, photographer. A detail from Duryea's 1870 Panorama of Adelaide, photographed from the Town Hall tower.

The Earl of Zetland Hotel was on the north-east corner of Flinders Street and Gawler Place. Established by Thomas Bastard in 1869. Demolished in the mid 1990s. Before the hotel closed it was well known for one of the largest collections of single malt whiskies available in the world.

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