This is just an excuse to share these two photos. Not your usual shops!
(Gulgong & Hill End both started as gold towns, hence the rough & ready nature of the buildings.)

Above:
Woman and shop-house, Hill End (NSW)
American & Australasian Photographic Company
1870-1875
From the Mitchell Library,State Library of NSW

Below:
Woman with a small store, Gulgong (NSW)
American & Australasian Photographic Company
1870-1875
From the Mitchell Library,State Library of NSW