The British Consulate photographed by E. Chardlyon in 1854-56, before the construction of the Quai, when it was still on the waterfront.

The “Place du Consulat d’Angleterre” is of the British High Commission when it was located on what was known as Rose Street [Gül Sokak] is now Cumhuriyet Meydanı, opposite the Northern side of Swiss Hotel. This site had remained vacant after the fire of 1922. Part of the land was donated in the early 1970s to the Turkish Red Crescent Society which still occupies, and the rest was sold and the proceeds went to modernising the Embassy in Ankara, consequently cutting off any chances for Izmir to own a permanent UK Consular building - information courtesy of George Galdies.

Photo of the last building to be a British Consulate-General (in Izmir). Sadly I missed the consular plaque on the right hand side of the door!

The handing-over ceremony of the land donated to the Turkish Red Crescent in the presence of the Vali HE Namık Kemal Şenturk, British Consul-General R. E. Wilkinson, and other dignitaries. The gent with the glass of gin’n tonic is Eddie Wilkinson. The Vali is 4th from the left, Mrs Senturk, 3rd from the right, I think. 1st on the right is British Consulate Legal Adviser Lawyer Selim Hakmen, and next to him with the dark shades, British Vice-Consul, at that time, Peter Galdies. The gentelman in a tie just to the left of Eddie Wilkinson is Mr. Rüştü Ünsal - Izmir Chief of Police from 1964 to 1970 who passed away during his retirement at Karşıyaka in 2007.
The house had been gifted to Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak, and his widow in an advanced age had decided to sell it, around 1969.

Copies of William Wilkinson Wardell’s plans for a British Consulate in Smyrna held at the Mitchell Library in Sydney. It appears these plans were never carried through.