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Burgess & Moller's blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, coachbuilding and farriering establishment, Hill End

Burgess & Moller's blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, coachbuilding and farriering establishment, Hill End

1872
Glass photonegative

The condition of the roads around Hill End ensured that Burgess and Moller’s business in Tambaroora Street was always busy. A correspondent to the Sydney Morning Herald, 3 December 1872, wrote of his trip to Hill End: ‘I think I have travelled the worst of roads; for the sake of humanity, I hope there are none worse than those I have travelled’.

From the Sydney Morning Herald, Sep 12 1872

Cobb’s coaches start from Bathurst to Hill End daily; the hour selected is 6am; rather an early one; still, none too early when the object is to traverse the sixty miles or so of notorious bad road between the two places in daylight. I was well prepared for the worst, still I could in fancy but form a weak idea of what the road really is after a few days’ rain. No wonder capsizes and late delivery of mails are frequent... [Sydney Morning Herald, Sep 12 1872, p3].