• Title
  Bark hut with sign "Hot pies and coffe (sic), always ready", probably Home Rule
• Creator
  American & Australasian Photographic Company
• Call number
  ON 4/Box 3 /no. 18323
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  July-Aug 1872
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  62215
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 negative - glass - Quarter plate
  
• Copying Conditions
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  Out of copyright
• General note
  
  Pie and Coffee shop at Home Rule thought to be that of Jack Gilbert. He first started a Scotch Pie shop in Sydney and later made his way to Gulgong. Jack Gilbert died about a month after this photo was taken. -- Source: Gulgong Guardian, issue 109, 31st August 1872 Town Talk - "I witnessed a lonely funeral the other day, it consisted of a handsome hearse in which a very plain coffin containing the mortal remains of Jack Gilbert, with not a single mourner following him to the grave. He had started the first Scotch Pie Shop in Sydney, and then went to Rockhampton in Queensland where fortune did not favour him. He went onto Gympie and then came to Gulgong. He recently started a small bakery business at Home Rule. It is a sad sight to see that no one who knew him took time to attend his funeral."
  Information supplied by Baldwin & Davis Research, Gulgong (Apr 2007)
  Digital order no:a2822252
  Copy print available: PXA 4999 Available on Open Access shelves in Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room
  This glass negative forms part of the Holtermann Collection : photographs of goldfield towns in N.S.W. and Victoria; Sydney and Melbourne streets and buildings, 1871-1876
• Topic
  bark huts & houses
  buckets
  chimneys
  historic buildings
  restaurants, cafes etc.
  washtubs
  
• Place
  Home Rule (N.S.W.)
  

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