The photograph shows George Garnsworthy Bennett (G G Bennett) on his delivery rounds in his butcher's cart. The building is a barn which was at the back of the Prince of Wales Hotel in Happy Valley. (Another photo of the hotel, located in the "Prince of Wales Hotel" file, shows the barn next to the main hotel building.) The photograph is undated, however G G Bennett is known to have established his own butchery business in Sussex Street in about 1896.Original photograph which has been pasted on to beige-coloured card. The photograph shows a man sitting in a two-wheeled, horse-drawn cart. The cart is outside a weatherboard building which has a porch supported by posts. Under the porch there is a wide entrance to the building, with a picket gate. There is a picket fence to the left of the building.On reverse, in pencil: "Geoge Bennett / butcher Linton"george garnsworthy bennett (g g bennett) [butcher], butcher's cart, horse-drawn vehicles, prince of wales hotel happy valley

George Garnsworthy Bennett conducted his butcher shop in Sussex Street, Linton, from about 1896. It was separate from that of his father William Garnsworthy Bennett whose business was situated on the corner of Sussex and Clyde Streets.Sepia photograph of a man sitting in horsedrawn buggy outside G G Bennett's butcher shop in Sussex Street, Linton. Also shown is the bakery shopon back " Mr Geo. Bennett Snr".george garnsworthy (g g ) bennett, horsedrawn buggy, butcher's shop, bakery shop

This home was built for the Bennett family in about 1928. It replaced the butcher's shop in Sussex which was run by George Garnsworthy Bennett from 1896. (The butcher's shop moved into premises next-door, and then to the other side of Sussex Street, into part of the shop previously owned by Joseph Shepherd.)Coloured photograph of a double fronted house with pitched roof and two brick chimneys set in garden surrounded by wooden rail and wire fence, trees at back."The Bennett home just after it was built".bennett family, buildings, houses, bennett butchers, george garnsworthy (g g ) bennett, gordon bennett