Friday, September 18, 2009

Mystery Photo VI Revealed - Kinky Tea


Mystery Photo #6 alas last about as long as numbers 5 and 4. My readers do indeed know Newtown just too well. The Kinky sign above was indeed the remnants of the Kinkara Tea sign from the 'Kinkara Tea House' in Chelmsford Street.


I'm not sure the RA would have made it any harder to guess judging by the speed that Dark Star Deity tracked it down.


Here's the cottage in its full glory


There's an interesting guide to preserving Historic signs at the Heritage NSW Website here (pdf) which uses this sign as an example of a historically significant sign - check out the colouring of the sign in 1998 (p12) - it looks suspiciously like a touch up job.

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