Significance

Yields information about the streetscape of Bridge St about 1880, prior to trams, with horse drawn carts and gravel streets and businesses.

Physical description

Black and White copy photograph of a Gold Museum photograph - Bridge St, about 1880. Looks from intersection with Main St to the west. Shows many horse drawn carts, people, gravel paved streets with bluestone gutters. Buildings in the image - Pittards Warehouse, M.J. Robinson and Shilling Arcade. On the right hand side are three lamps, one with a sign "Good Beds 1s". Original photograph (not in book) has a handwritten note "Bridge St about 1880 presented by Miss Anderson." Has pins hole showing in the original print.



Collected by Alan Bradley from the Gold Museum early 1980's.



Used in The Golden City and its Tramways - page 8.