This image is from the City of Sydney's Sydney Streets exhibition : http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/history/SydneyStreets
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Jack be nimble “Block-sweeping is essentially a boy’s work. His ability and youth permit of his working the traffic with a greater degree of safety than a man.” (City Cleansing Engineer’s Report, 1926). This might be true, but even in the horse and cart era being a blockboy was dangerous work. In this letter dated 14 April 1892 the Inspector of Nuisances reports to the Town Clerk of an accident to J. Gibbons, who “was this morning whilst in the discharge of duty knocked down by a cart which ran over a portion of his body”. (image: City of Sydney Archives, CRS 26/731) |