03 High Street

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• Part of 0-3-1 granted to William Barton in 1839

• 3 - 9a High Street
  • Union General Store
  • Union Hotel (1844 to 1885)
  • New Norfolk Cash & Carry Store (- 1931 +)
  • Traill's Confectionery and Refreshment Rooms (1921 to 1938)
  • HW Traill Grocery Store (1925 to 1928 +)
• 3 High Street
  • Mustangs Hair Salon (1993)
  • New Norfolk Fruit & Vegie Supplies (1995)
  • Linda's Barber Shop (2007 & 2009)
  • Tasmanian Timber Craft Gallery (2014)
  • Yeah Yeah (2016)
  • Lavie Nails & Lashes

This is the mystery photo that confounded everybody for 15 years. We have now established that the location of this photo is in front of The American Soda Fountain which was housed in Alex Traill & Sons Confectioners. Click HERE if you are interested to see the process we followed to identify this orphan photo. (Photo courtesy of Ken Traill)

This Beattie photo shows the 1931 ANZAC Day Parade with the American Soda Fountain (formerly the Union Hotel) run by A Traill & Sons, as well as the New Norfolk Cash & Carry Store. The building occupied the site from 3 to 9a High Street. If we had found this photo before the mystery one above, there would have been no mystery - but life doesn't work like that. 17 High Street can be seen on left.

This photo was taken a year later during the ANZAC Day parade in 1932
If you would like to see an AI enhanced version of this image, click HERE

Part of a similar streetscape taken in the 1940s - now showing shops as well as a modified parapet wall.

Detail from an Ash Bester postcard - the cars date it to around 1956.

A still from the short film "Valley of the Derwent" produced in 1958. State aerial photos show that by 1963 the building had been demolished and replaced with the current single storey shops.

An ad for New Norfolk Fruit & Vegie Supplies from the Derwent Valley Gazette in 1995

Linda's Barber Shop in 2009 (Photo courtesy of Google Maps)

Lavie Nails & Lashes in 2023 (Photo courtesy of Google Maps)