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Born in Grenfell NSW in 1867, many of Henry Lawson’s stories and poems are framed in the Mudgee / Gulgong district’s scenery where he grew till the age of 15. Before leaving school to work with his father as a carpenter building houses and other buildings in the district for a few years.
A montage of goldrush-era Gulgong street scenes was used as a backdrop to the portrait of Lawson on the first Australian ten dollar note.
The Lawson family moved to the Gulgong goldfields in late 1871. Henry’s mother Louisa opened a dressmaking shop with two of her sisters. Meanwhile Henry’s father Peter had staked a claim at Happy Valley where he struck a little gold.
Around this time Louisa Lawson took the children, along with her mother, and several of her sisters, to Sydney for a holiday where they stayed in a boarding-house. It was there that Henry Lawson, who was four at the time, wandered off and got lost before showing up in a brothel wearing velveteen knickerbockers.
Peter Lawson, portrait of Henry Lawson's father, approximately 1900.
https://nla.gov.au:443/tarkine/nla.obj-1639476516
'LANDSDOWNE' LAWSON HOUSE - GULGONG - BUILT 1880's
Louisa Lawson her son Charles William and her sister Phoebe Albury outside Mrs. Albury's dressmaking shop Gulgong area
This is a photo reputed by the department of Mines to be an early depiction of the Grenfell Gold Fields.
https://www.grenfellrecord.com.au/story/2520876/grenfell-the-early-days-gold-gold-gold-l-photos/
Louisa Lawson, (mother of Henry Lawson), her son Charles William (born 25 June 1869) and her sister Phoebe Albury, (dressmaker), outside Mrs. Albury's dressmaking shop, Gulgong area
