Bow Bells to Burrowa Street

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220 x 155 mm, 341 pp, b&w illustrations, index. LIMITED EDITION 164 of 500 copies. Red boards, gilt titles, in dust-wrapper. The author writes of his grandfather in 1873 as a 17-year old Londoner arriving in the colony of New South Wales. 'In 1875 George Cranfield arrives in Young after the Lambing Flat gold rush of 1860. Within a few years he has established a brewery, is elected to the first council in 1882 and 'the boy alderman' is elected mayor in 1888. The book covers debates about politics, unionism, the effects of the 1890s depress, and discussion of federation, the coming of electricity, and the daily experiences of flood, fire and drought.'. N° de ref. del artículo 10467

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