Sunday, May 25, 2008

Maylands Tram Barn

Today I went on a "history bicycle ride" in the Norwood-St Peters area; one of the many activities on offer as part of History Week.

In the early days of South Australia an Adelaide and suburban network of horse drawn trams was built. This tram shed, built in 1882, is on Magill Road and was part of the depot at Maylands. On the site there was also a foreman's office and stables.

In the 1980's the site was redeveloped to incorporate residential town houses. The original facade and main structure has been retained.

3 comments:

Joy said...

That looks very pretty. Are the houses very expensive?

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Donna said...

You can almost hear the "clop clop" of the horse's hooves...happy day Gordon...hughugs

Oman said...

I love the contrast of the colors between the sky and the house. Beautiful.