Howick Street, Bathurst, NSW

Photographer: Unknown
Medium: silver gelatin
Date Taken: 1900s
Date Printed: 1992
Size: 13x18 cm (5x7 in)

Description:
Australia's oldest inland city, famous since the gold rush of the 1850s. Bush ranger Ben Hall once robbed the jewellery store. William Cox built the road over the Blue Mountains in 1814 to the town. When governor Lachlan Macquarie visited the settlement in 1815 he named it after Lord Bathurst. Photo shows Howick Street in the early 1900s.