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This mural, featured on a heritage listed building at 1-3 Jersey Street, represents a patchwork of images of historic events and references of the neighbourhood from the 20th century. The composition is painted in sepia tones in a large trompe l’oeil giving the illusion of a timber noticeboard upon which these images and references are pinned. Local people and community volunteers from Fusion feature in the foreground, painted in a realist style in colour, linking Hornsby’s past with present.

Snippets of historical newspaper articles about Judge’s Bakery can be seen in the mural, along with an image of the bakery’s bread carter and his dray. The 'Women Seek Jobs As Breadcarters' newspaper article was the inspiration behind Fintan Magee’s mural on the Judge’s Bakery ghost building around the corner in Coronation Street.

The historical images featured in the mural by Hugues were sourced by the Artist via the publication Pictorial History of Hornsby Shire by Mari Metzke, and are also available at Hornsby Shire Recollects.