Opinion | Yesterday Today

By Alan McRae
March 12 2018 - 4:30am
HOMECOMING: There was a lot of interest in the return of William Cutler, known locally as Billy, in November 1907.
HOMECOMING: There was a lot of interest in the return of William Cutler, known locally as Billy, in November 1907.

This week’s image is from a photographer who climbed on to the roof of the Bathurst Council Chambers and Town Hall in William Street in 1907. The spot was a good vantage point to record the return of William Cutler, known locally as Billy, in November that year.

Originally, William Cutler was to have arrived home the day before the British Rifle Team, but he arrived the following day with the British men. W.H. Gartrell’s bakery establishment in William Street baked a cake which he displayed in his front window that attracted a good deal of attention.

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