Newtown Toll Gate 1870 on City Road

gatekeeper and his family in front of a small sandstone building on a dirt road
Original

Today (Google)
City Road going to the New Town on the outskirts of Sydney, with a toll gate for those travelling to the southern regions. There were only so many ways out of town in those days, and all had similar toll gates, staffed by keepers and their families, till about the mid 1870s.
 
This pic was a lot of fun to restore as the original is barely legible. But I was able to extrapolate a lot of details from the bare elements, and we've ended up with a pretty authentic result.

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