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Detail of Pitt Street showing Victoria Theatre 1848

By
Joseph Fowles
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[Dixson Reading Room Q84/56 c.9]
(Detail of Plate 30a, 'Sydney in 1848 : illustrated by copper-plate engravings of its principal streets, public buildings, churches, chapels, etc.' from drawings by Joseph Fowles)

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Fowles, Joseph

State Library of New South Wales

Theatre

Retail

Colonial architecture

Royal Victoria Theatre

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Theatre on the western side of Pitt Street between King and Market streets opened by Joseph Wyatt in 1838. It was not rebuilt after its destruction by fire in 1880.

Blyth, William

Confectionery and pastry cook who was the proprietor of popular refreshment rooms in Pitt Street between 1843 and 1850. Born in England around 1805, he arrived in Sydney in 1833 with confectioner Thomas Dunsdon and his family, and managed their business opposite the Bank of Australia on lower George Street. Blyth married Dunsdon's sister Hephzibah in 1839 and took over the business in his own right in 1840. In 1843 he opened the new store on Pitt Street next to the Victoria Theatre. He sold the business in 1850 and established an Italian grocery at Haymarket. They moved to Victoria after this, where Hepzibah died in 1880. Blyth returned to Sydney and was living with his son Alfred in Marrickville at the time of his death in 1895.

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Sydney in 1848

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Book published by author and artist Joseph Fowles in 1848 which depicted Sydney's streets and buildings in that year.