Horse and cart bogged in what was originally a gold digging outside Meares flooded Criterion Store, Clarke Street, Hill End

Winter 1872
Glass photonegative

The road in front of William Meare’s Criterion Store subsided in the winter of 1872 to form a bog. The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 September 1872, described the scene.

As regards the mud in Clark-street, I never have heard an exaggeration. No, to Clark-street I will give the palm for mud and the ill manner it is laid out. It possesses three remarkable features, being narrow, crooked, and filthy …