You'd have had no trouble getting a park in Peel Street in Tamworth in those days. This very early photo taken in the mid-1860's, about 40 years before the first motor vehicle in Tamworth.
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The centre of the photo is the Peel and Brisbane streets intersection, these streets named in our first (1849) Town Plan.
The photographer would have been standing where the front of today's Central Hotel is located, looking diagonally across to where today's Adairs Store is situated on the old Treloars corner.
From left to right in the photo are the Royal Hotel (two storeys); Baron Myers Tailor/James Gay Watchmaker shared shop; David Goodwin's Pharmacy (white central building); William Smith Solicitor (prominent chimney); slab-hut on Peel/Brisbane St intersection (unknown occupant); Travellers Rest Inn on the opposite corner, where Cotton On is now situated.
The intersection pictured became the site of Tamworth's first traffic lights about 100 years later.
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