Photograph of a street with a row of two and three storey buildings. In the foreground are a row of saplings in a fenced off area next to water fountain. In the background, a sharp mountain peak rises behind the street.

In the written account of the Prince Albert Victor and Prince George's voyage on board HMS Bacchante, Adderley Street in Cape Town is described as 'a broad dusty road, in which are the chief stores and shops of Cape Town, with a landing pier at the sea-end.' From The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Bacchante, 1879-1882, London, 1886, p.321

The Prince's visit to South Africa lasted from the 16 February to the 10 April 1881.

This is a photograph from one of the nine albums compiled following Prince Albert Victor (1864-92) and Prince George of Wales' (1865-1936) world tour aboard HMS Bacchante from 1879 to 1882. The photographs were collected by their chaperon and tutor, John Neale Dalton.

The majority of the images in these albums are topographical views and architectural studies, loosely arranged according to the group’s itinerary. They include photographs of artefacts, local people and public figures, as well as portraits of the princes taken during the tour. The attempt to recreate the experience of a journey through such an assortment of images is common to many amateur travelling albums of this period. In 1886, some of the photographs in the albums were reproduced as engravings in the published accounts of the voyage, The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Bacchante, 1879-1882.