Herbert Street, west side looking north from Mayne Street and showing Barnes' Chemist Shop, Gulgong

1872
Glass photonegative

The Australian Town and Country Journal, 16 March 1872, described this scene:

… on the left stands a branch of Mr. Barnes's chemist shop. But walk leisurely down the street and you will find it flanked on each side by public houses, Ch+D45inese eating-houses, Chinese stores, a few European drapery and general stores, billiard-saloons, and fruit-shops. The lower part of Herbert-street is considered to be the Seven Dials (a notorious London slum) of Gulgong; and some queer scenes take place there all night long … Where you were standing the loafers and spongers of the place assemble in hundreds by day and by night.