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Herbert Street, west side looking north from Mayne Street and showing Barnes' Chemist Shop, Gulgong
1872
Glass photonegative
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.