Title of Photograph: Grandma's visitor [i.e. Edith Mary Mobbs (nee Crabbe), left, her grandmother Edith Bates and Mrs Bates' slab hut house with bark roof, Germantown Lane, Hill End]. Edith Bates & Edith Mobbs identified by Lorraine Purcell, Hill End & Tambaroora Gathering Group (Sept 2007), from information from Mrs Elaine Barnes, who has a copy of this photograph titled "Grandma's visitor".
Photos from Library of NSW.
This is an entry in Julie's Taphophile Tragics meme.
7 comments:
Fascinating history.
I love that hut Look at the tent homes in the background too. Hill End is such an interesting place.
This slab hat at Hill End is such an intriguing design! And amazing formal clothing being worn by these women in such a far flung place! Interesting post!
What an interesting house and an interesting post. Unusual for a miner to have a photograph as they were expensive in those days.
Beneath Thy Feet
Lovely photographs and great that you have all that information about the people in them.
I wonder when the photo was taken. HIll End appears to be in its prime, at that stage. But if Mary was 19 in 1873 then she was born in 1854. And by 1877, she was living in Pennant Hills, explaining how come she was buried at St Johns in Parramatta.
Her husband does not look robust enough to be a miner.
Wonderful use of the headstones ...
o. that roof of the house!
and that stone is interesting, in the form of a book. havent seen that before, although its actually a really nice way of displaying the names!
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