Notes: With today's widespread use of plastic products, including buckets, it is hard for people to visualise the old square kerosene and benzine tins.
Before electric power was introduced, kerosene was in fairly general use for house lights. When petrol became an everyday requirement, it also was sold in tins.
There was soon a surplus of tins and, naturally, they were put to many uses.
Format: B&W photograph
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of: Local Studies Collection
Provenance: BMCC
Date Range: 1930s
Location: Faulconbridge
Links:
nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-NHSJ05_04-t1-body1-...
THE USEFUL KEROSENE TIN. (1929, April 22). The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), p. 10. Retrieved December 12, 2018, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21397910
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Notes: Official opening of the Katoomba Branch, 36 Parke St, Oct. 1943.
Ben Chifley PM, Mrs Doreen Apthorp, Mrs Gailey, Bill Freelander (mayor), Mrs Donalda McElone MBE (Association president), Joseph Jackson MP , Professor A P Elkin.
Format: B&W photograph
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection PF1065
Provenance: John Apthorp
Reference: "Not merely minded : care and education for the young children of working women in Sydney : the Sydney Day Nursery and Nursery Schools Association, 1905-1945" , PhD thesis. hdl.handle.net/2123/4088
Author: Kelly, Jan (Janice Venetta)
Links:
Doreen (Dorn) and John Apthorp - labouraustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/apthorp-john-victor-...
KATOOMBA NURSERY SCHOOL (1946, November 22). The Blue Mountains Advertiser (Katoomba, NSW : 1940 - 1954), p. 6. Retrieved December 14, 2023, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189910341
KATOOMBA NURSERY SCHOOL (1945, June 22). The Blue Mountains Advertiser (Katoomba, NSW : 1940 - 1954), p. 8. Retrieved December 14, 2023, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189912697
Katoomba Nursery School (1946, January 4). The Blue Mountains Advertiser (Katoomba, NSW : 1940 - 1954), p. 8. Retrieved December 14, 2023, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189907709
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Notes: A Miners' Hut, Lithgow Valley NSW, c.1880 The Vale of Clwydd Colliery was separated from the rest of Lithgow by a mountain spur, and operated at the edge of a secluded swampy gully. One of its tunnels extended under the swamp, making working conditions extremely unsafe. Living conditions were scarcely more pleasant in spite of the romantic view that this official photograph and a Sydney Mail account suggest :
"The miners' homes are scattered about, some of them in the forest... These habitations are of the rudest description being in many instances composed of logs of wood cemented together with tenacious mud and covered either with canvas or bark. Yet inside these I was astonished to find a snugness which contrasts greatly with the exterior and people seemed quite happy in these rude houses."
Sydney Mail 20.8.1878:88
The object on the right appears to be an earth oven.
Format: B&W photograph from a glass plate negative
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Repository: Blue Mountains City Library bmcc.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/default/
Part of: Local Studies Collection PF 1003
Provenance: Govt Printer, Macleay Museum
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Notes: Water gushes down the 'footpath' outside Harry's first rented shop, at 159 Katoomba street (his second shop was at 179). The women in the doorway may be Isobel Jane, his wife, and Isobel May, his daughter.
Gas lamps fitted with reflectors suspended from the awning illuminate the shop window at night.
Dave Brown's wood and coal depot is up the side passage way, offering luggage and parcel deliveries, he also owned the shop.
The horse and cart seem to be struggling up the hill and may be headed for the 'gutter'.
Format: B&W photograph
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Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection PF335
Provenance: Isobel Rudge (Phillips), Phillip Kay
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Format: Colour negative film
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Repository: Blue Mountains City Library www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/library/
Part of: Local Studies Collection
Provenance: BMCC
Date Range: 1983
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