IMAGES AND MAPS
13 PIER STREET GLENELG
This is the view looking straight down Pier Street towards the junction with The Esplanade and the beach in the distance. The house you can see on the right of this image is Number 13 Pier Street. The image is taken from the Moseley Street junction with Pier Street. In the distance, you can just about see the Esplanade
The image below is a Satellite view of the area stretching from Pier Street down to Bickford Terrace and including the location of 90 A Moseley Street.
The distance between 13 Pier Street and Bickford Terrace is approximately 1.5 Kilometres, 3 minutes in a car and 18 minutes at normal walking speed.
THE CAR
Given it was night time and that the Doctors car was parked adjacent to and outside his home which could either be in Pier Street or Moseley Street, and with street lighting being at a minimum in those days, it would not be difficult to either pop the book through an open car window or to open the door and drop it in. My personal take on that is that it would have gone in through an open window. Having said that, there was talk at one time on the University of Adelaide FB page that the car was, in fact, a Hillman Convertible and it was thought to have been blue in colour, the image below is of 48 Hillman convertible: Had it been this kind of car then I would assume the head would be down and so the book could have gone in between the car body and the head without too much difficulty I would have thought.
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This scenario would include that the person dropping the book may have been pursued so to drop it into the first car, having turned a corner, and thus momentarily hidden from the view of his pursuer, seems quite possible. That would have the person heading down towards the Esplanade and away from Moseley Street.
This scenario would include that the person dropping the book may have been pursued so to drop it into the first car, having turned a corner, and thus momentarily hidden from the view of his pursuer, seems quite possible. That would have the person heading down towards the Esplanade and away from Moseley Street.
Had he come from the direction of 90A Moseley Street then his journey would have been 650 metres in length, one minute in a car and perhaps 8 minutes at walking speed, a fast run would be more like 4 minutes.
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And below, here's the big picture from 90A to 13 Pier Street and down to Bickford Terrace via the Esplanade:
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there's no name of this laneway shown on Google Maps but I imagine there will be a detailed map from 1948, Sands and Macdougall perhaps.
I wonder what the Doctor's phone number was?
And below, here's the big picture from 90A to 13 Pier Street and down to Bickford Terrace via the Esplanade:
THE LANE
Just to add a little more interest, there is a laneway between Kent Steet and Pier Street and it ends immediately behind 13 Pier Street:
there's no name of this laneway shown on Google Maps but I imagine there will be a detailed map from 1948, Sands and Macdougall perhaps.
I wonder what the Doctor's phone number was?