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=== In Australia === | === In Australia === | ||
Upon arrival in the colony of South Australia, Conrad began employment with George Clark, a butcher in the city of Adelaide, before beginning his own smallgoods manufacture and hawking business from rooms near the [[Earl of Zetland Hotel]] in Flinders Street. This location, on the corner of today's Gawler Place and Flinders Street, was very much in the German quarter if Adelaide, as well as near the Catholic church of St Francis Xavier.[[File:79 Hindley Street 1865 SLSA B-6312.jpg|alt=Conrad's butcher shop Hindley Street 1865|left|thumb|Conrad's butcher shop Hindley Street 1865 [courtesy SLSA B-6312]] | Upon arrival in the colony of South Australia, Conrad began employment with George Clark, a butcher in the city of Adelaide, before beginning his own smallgoods manufacture and hawking business from rooms near the [[Earl of Zetland Hotel]] in Flinders Street. This location, on the corner of today's Gawler Place and Flinders Street, was very much in the German quarter if Adelaide, as well as near the Catholic church of St Francis Xavier.[[File:79 Hindley Street 1865 SLSA B-6312.jpg|alt=Conrad's butcher shop Hindley Street 1865|left|thumb|Conrad's butcher shop Hindley Street 1865 [courtesy SLSA B-6312]] | ||
In August 1863, at the age of 25, Conrad advertised the opening of his business in Hindley Street, initially at 79 but, with the renumbering of the street, later 88 Hindley Street. This site remained the centre of the Conrad Butchers business until sale in 1925. Initially a single story premise on the corner of Hindley and Victoria streets, eventually Contad owned or leased the the entire eastern frontage of Victoria Street, including meat packing works and cold stores. | |||
[[File:PRG 631-2-429 1899 Conrads Shop Hindley Street.jpg|left|thumb|alt=Conrad Shop in Hindley Street in 1889|The same site in 1889 [courtesy SLSA PRG-631-2-429]] | |||
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