“Here's a photo of my truck as found in 1991. It will answer a lot of questions and perhaps will also show why it has taken me so long to 'reproduce' it. Everything from the wheels up had to be repaired / reproduced / replaced and painted the correct colours. At this point I h...
In the mid 1870s a few sheds on stilts occupied the site, which was then on the foreshore where the old jetty (after which Jetty Street is named) met Crawford Street. The city block we know today was reclaimed a few years later, but by the early 1890s there were still no permanent ...
The building was a general store, with a residence above, for 110 years. It was built between 1874 and 1875 as an investment for John Thomson, whose name hascome up on this blog before. Thomson (1813-1895) was born at Dewartown, near Dalkeith in Scotland, and after working in coal m...