Main Street, Katoomba

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Main Street, Katoomba
Main Street, Katoomba

Notes: another lively sharp photo post card from George Kitch, his studio is visible at the end of the far block of shops.

The chemist shop is the site of Katoomba’s first pharmacist, John Duncan, opened 1887. This became Medlicott Bros Pharmacy in 1905 - the building façade is still intact. It was was later operated by EW Thomas of the Greenwell and Thomas Pharmacy from the 1930s to the 1950s, this business name still survives as a pharmacy in Katoomba Street.

The bakery is identified as the Crown Bakery. In 1895 the baker was TW Truegold, taken over by Andrew Smith the following year, later ran by Mark Davison for Bell & Davison's Crown Bakery.

The billboard depicts Bonnington's Irish Moss, invented by 19th-century settler George Bonnington at his home in Richmond, Nelson, NZ. There he manufactured his elixir on a large scale from the 1860s, making it one of the best-known patent medicines in New Zealand.

Format: B&W print, Empire Post Card, Kitch & Co Katoomba, 14cm x 9cm; divided back, no correspondence or address, unposted.

Date Range: 1903

Location: Main Street looking west from top of Katoomba Street

Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons

Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au

Part of Local Studies Collection: PF 3024

Provenance: George Kitch, donated to the BMCC Mayor's Office in 2011 by Janelle McCully

Links:
www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/zoomify/28217/advertisement-for-bonn... (accessed 22 January 2024)

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Taken on: September 14, 1903
Sets appears in:   • Katoomba, Leura   
Groups appears in:   • Trove: Australia in Pictures    • Katoomba    more » • Private and historical pictures before 1914    « less
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