tin

I can't help noticing the tin of Arnott's Biscuits with the parrot logo. For more on Arnott's history see Arnott's Heritage.

Janette Pelosi And it has pride of place in this photo! I didn't realise Arnott's was so old. From the link above: "In 1865, a small bakery opened in Hunter Street, Newcastle, north of Sydney, New South Wales. It supplied bread, pies and biscuits to the local townspeople as well as to the crews of the many ships that docked at the port to load coal." AB

Comment from reader T. Edmonds: Appears to be at Carriage Works (FA type carriages in background) with food being served. Lad at window has two plates, so possibly working as a waiter. Appears to have a table behind the lad with a plate of food on it.

A fantastic record of the time and place....but it makes me sad to see it.

I used to think of this photo every time I walked up West Street on the way to work, and would wonder what the rear of no. 7 looked like these days ... State Library of NSW version - www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/5763155265/

pellethepoet Hmm - something about this West Street doesn't add up. They knocked down these houses to replace them with smaller terraces which look older than 1900 ?? See also the houses on the other side of the street - much further away than they would be if this was the Paddington West St. My instincts suggest that there was a different West Street off Oxford Street near Wexford Street, Surry Hills end. Or not?

beachcomber australia Have a look at the nearby photos in the Plague Album. They are all in the vicinity West Street, Paddington (ie. the West Street side of Oxford, Comber, Boundary, Barcom etc ...) acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/album/albumView.aspx?acmsID=413021&amp... [thumbnail page 3] Comber Street (parallel to West Street), looking towards Oxford Street - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/album/ItemViewer.aspx?itemid=823669&am...

beachcomber australia Before the hospital, West Street originally extended all the way to the Liverpool / Womerah Street intersection, and the numbering appears to have started at that end, not Oxford. I think this accounts for the present day confusion - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_zoomify/2008/D00663/a1367501.html This was the other end of West Street. No. 7 could have been not far from this corner store -

Hello! We'd love you to add this photo to the National Maritime Museum's group Travellers' Tails. www.flickr.com/groups/nmm_travellers/rules/ This group has been set up to collate photographic responses to the exhibition The Art and Science of Exploration: 1768-80 at the National Maritime Museum and touring to the Grant Museum of Zoology, the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, the Hunterian Museum and Horniman Museum and Gardens. The exhibition aims to explore Captain Cook’s voyages of discovery, as well as the exchange of ideas and experiences around travel and exploration and investigate key questions around the history of art, science and exploration and what this means today, drawing on George Stubbs’ Enlightenment era paintings of a kangaroo and dingo, recently acquired by the National Maritime Museum. We’d love to see your photographs - please help us build a gallery of images to enrich the group! Thanks! www.flickr.com/groups/nmm_travellers/rules/