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Harry Williams, Oyster Luncheon & Supper Rooms and fruiterer, Gulgong
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Side view of Oyster Luncheon & Supper Rooms on Mayne Street
The crowd of men next door are at Robert Robinson's Post Office.
The crowd of men next door are at Robert Robinson's Post Office.
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Harry Williams Supper Rooms, detail
Harry Williams's Oyster Luncheon & Supper Rooms, Mayne Street next to Robert Robinson's store and Post Office. The signs out front advertise Mrs Harry Williams' Grand Quadrille Party. The party was held at the Theatre Royal of the Turf Hotel, on Easter Monday night. Tickets were 7/6 a double and 5/- a single. The event was advertised in the Gulgong Guardian, issue 63, 23 March 1872.
The oysters were transported by train to Wallerawang and then by coach to Gulgong. Oysters were on the menu at the luncheon given to Anthony Trollope during his visit to Gulgong 14th October 1871.
Source: Information supplied by Baldwin & Davis, Research Gulgong (Sept 2006)
