Pitt Street 1875 at Market Street

Original Archival

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Now the Pitt Street Mall and Westfield, here it is in mid-Victorian times as Sydney is just beginning to boom and is yet to get most of its large monumental buildings. On the corner is a butcher, with open-air windows as there's no air-con or refrigeration, and carcasses hanging in the summer heat, with just some canvas he's strung across the front to shade from the afternoon western sun. Given how much horse manure was in the streets too, these people must have had very strong olfactory insensitivity.