Joseph Bridekirk, Cabinetmaker: Hobart, Sydney and Maitland, David Kelly
Abstract:
In his new book Convict and Free: The Master Furniture-makers of Early New South Wales, David Kelly presents well-researched biographies of dozens of previously little-known cabinetmakers. Tasmanian and NSW cabinet-maker, undertaker and upholsterer Joseph Baronet Bridekirk is just one of them. His story is documented in the book, and abridged here for reasons of space.
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