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CHINESE VEGETABLE GARDEN ON CHARLES TUCKFIELD'S LAND, ALBANY c1895

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c. 1895

Overview

A black and white reproduction of a sepia print showing part of the vegetable gardens leased to two Albany Chinese men known as Ah Poo and Ah Choo. This image is taken somewhere between modern Seymour Street and Stewart Street, where they intersect with Middleton Beach Road. The landowner, Charles Tuckfield, and his daughter, Winifred, are standing in the foreground. To the middle right of the image is the main house, "Lake View" . Lake Seppings is just beyond the tree line in the background. In the centre left of the image is Tuckfield's patent water pumping windmill.

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cwa-org-51-P1989.697

Item type

Photographs

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Thursday, 12 March, 2026

Completeness

83

Albany Historical Society Inc

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