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Photograph, c1900

  • Black and white photograph of a man with moustache, dressed in hat and long riding coat and seated on a bob-tailed horse, stopped in the middle of a dirt road. He is outside a row of businesses, including R.M. Henzelsons Grain Store and Mackenzie Family Store (Wholesale & Retail Est. 1855), along a sloping hill. Behind him are a parked horse and laden two-wheeled cart backed up directly outside the granary verandah, and another man driving a horse and four-wheeled cart forward towards them. At the bottom of the hill is a bridge with forked road on the far side, leading to a number of houses on both sides of another hill. This is Bridge Road, Newtown, Beechworth.

    6980 (cropped)

  • Uncropped black and white photograph of a man with moustache, dressed in hat and long riding coat and seated on a bob-tailed horse, stopped in the middle of a dirt road. He is outside a row of businesses, including R.M. Henzelsons Grain Store and Mackenzie Family Store (Wholesale & Retail Est. 1855), along a sloping hill. Behind him are a parked horse and laden two-wheeled cart backed up directly outside the granary verandah, and another man driving a horse and four-wheeled cart forward towards them. At the bottom of the hill is a bridge with forked road on the far side, leading to a number of houses on both sides of another hill. This is Bridge Road, Newtown, Beechworth.

    6980 (obverse)

  • Paper back of photograph showing hand-written pencil marks of: 6980 ; PH 118 ; 1998.00059 ;

    6980 (reverse)

  • Black and white photograph of a man with moustache, dressed in hat and long riding coat and seated on a bob-tailed horse, stopped in the middle of a dirt road. He is outside a row of businesses, including R.M. Henzelsons Grain Store and Mackenzie Family Store (Wholesale & Retail Est. 1855), along a sloping hill. Behind him are a parked horse and laden two-wheeled cart backed up directly outside the granary verandah, and another man driving a horse and four-wheeled cart forward towards them. At the bottom of the hill is a bridge with forked road on the far side, leading to a number of houses on both sides of another hill. This is Bridge Road, Newtown, Beechworth.
  • Uncropped black and white photograph of a man with moustache, dressed in hat and long riding coat and seated on a bob-tailed horse, stopped in the middle of a dirt road. He is outside a row of businesses, including R.M. Henzelsons Grain Store and Mackenzie Family Store (Wholesale & Retail Est. 1855), along a sloping hill. Behind him are a parked horse and laden two-wheeled cart backed up directly outside the granary verandah, and another man driving a horse and four-wheeled cart forward towards them. At the bottom of the hill is a bridge with forked road on the far side, leading to a number of houses on both sides of another hill. This is Bridge Road, Newtown, Beechworth.
  • Paper back of photograph showing hand-written pencil marks of: 6980 ; PH 118 ; 1998.00059 ;

Historical information

Believed to have been taken sometime between 1858 and 1908, featuring a man with moustache, dressed in hat and long riding coat, seated on a bob-tailed horse, is stopped in the middle of a wide dirt road in Beechworth. He is outside a row of businesses, including R.McKenzie & Sons Grain Store and Mackenzie Family Store (Wholesale & Retail Est. 1855), along a sloping hill. Behind the main rider are a parked horse and laden two-wheeled cart backed up directly outside the grain store's verandah, and another man is driving a horse and four-wheeled wagon forward towards them.

At the bottom of the hill is a bridge (Newtown Bridge) with forked road on the far side, leading to a number of houses on both sides of another hill. This image is looking down Bridge Street, Newtown, Beechworth and across to Ford Street (left) and High Street (right).

Road-making was a focus of town development during the 1850s, and the wide streets were created on the instructions of the surveyor-general to be between sixty-six and ninety-nine feet wide to give the town a pleasing aspect.

Significance

This photograph is important in showing the development and expansion of the various businesses and buildings in Bridge Street of Newtown, Beechworth.

Physical description

Black and white rectangular photograph printed on paper

Inscriptions & markings

Reverse:
6980/
PH 118/
1998.00059/

Subjects

References

  • "Beechworth: A Titan's Field" by Carole Woods ISBN/ISSN: 0 949905 25 9 Information about Beechworth history from 1840s, concentrating on the nineteenth century. p73 road making in 1850s.
  • VHD - National Trust Database - Newtown Bridge, Beechworth Statement of Significance for the Newtown Bridge in Beechworth, a goldfield town of national significance. The wide streets are a colonial feature of significance too.
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