Real narrow laneway.
Real narrow laneway. These lanes were built behind 19th century terrace houses to collect “night soil”, before the advent of widespread mains sewerage in the Inner West in the late 1920’s. Folks would put their shit cans out in the lane, to be collected by the “night soil cart” each evening. An endless cycle until the proliferation of the flush toilet in the 1930’s. The lanes remain. Newtown.