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What do tinkerers do ? Certainly this fellow does not tinker.

Horse power due to the petrol shortage in 1948 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/105817660?searchTerm=%...

More from 1967 Australian Women's Weekly - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48078461?searchTerm=%2...

A man's world on wheels. dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tinker Jeff Carter (1928-2010) was Australia’s great photographer of ‘ordinary’ Australians at work and leisure. When ‘asked to leave’ Melbourne Boys High School in his final year, 1946, he took to the road with a typewriter and camera, finding work in the high country with cattle, the subject of his first photo-story. www.portrait.gov.au/portraits/2017.128/jeff-carter-with-h... I first met Jeff when he lived at Foxground near Gerringong.

Possibly a new MK LD model in front and left, this was the first Model that was made out side of Italy as Innocenti sold license for production around the world. Date of production Jun 1951~Nov 1956 – Nov 1954~Jan 1957 www.lambretta.com/classics/mk-ld/ Love the jaunty, black leather cap!

Having no luck finding this in google maps streetview - anybody? See also - antiqueprintmaproom.com/product/clarke-street-tambaroora-...

beachcomber australia Beyer's cottage on right in Clarke St - flic.kr/p/pfji68 If this image is looking South then Northey's Store would be somewhere on the left but it wasn't built until 1873. flic.kr/p/2gLCfv9 Otherwise the two storey brick building over on the right of the photo could be Hosies Store under construction, but that would put it on the wrong side, although the upper windows do seem to match, it is also 1873. flic.kr/p/caaiPC Clarke St slopes South downhill from the Royal Hotel. flic.kr/p/7cuygG

Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies Thanks for all that information; I have only ever been to Hill End via Mr Merlin and Google streetview which works well for me, except I cannot read the little plaques with old photographs on them. I think this view is about here (looking SW from near Beyer's Cottage, due to the lie of the land, the shadows, and the hill/ridge behind - goo.gl/maps/NzjYpeUd9Yii6koa8 The two-storey building under construction had a hipped roof and two chimneys, seen in the slightly later illustration (linked in my first comment above). This illustration appeared in the 'Illustrated Australian News' in July 1872, so this A&APC photo must be months earlier. I don't think the two-storey building is still there. Someone will know everything! Ref. - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/60447535?searchTerm=Cl... Also (very slightly earlier) - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/63618667?searchTerm=Cl... (includes an interesting contemporary description)

beachcomber australia Thanks for the further details and links, now I'm thinking the photo could taken just in front of Beyer's cottage looking north showing Hosies Store in the correct position with the six narrow french door openings on the upper floor and the hipped roof and chimneys, compere with the flickr link in my earlier post - www.google.com/maps/@-33.0338438,149.4150674,3a,75y,60.76... And a close look above shows what may be Short St off to the right. I've an idea that Hosies was extended at a later date producing the distinctive bend in the side wall and the extra chimneys at the rear - flic.kr/p/caaiPC The street levels have probably changed a fair bit too since then. I am a co-admin of the Hill End & District group on flickr (link on this page) and have been visiting and photographing the town since the 1980s, there is always something new to discover there and in the magnificent Holtermann plates. I have also spent some time in Haefliger's Cottage - www.hillendart.com.au/about/haefligers-cottage

Thanks for the comments - do you both think the call of looking North rather than South is a good one? If so I will see about getting the caption updated.