The main street of Dungog has often shown the town's evolution as businesses open, relocate, sell or close their doors permanently.
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One such business that is moving through an evolution is Martin Thorsby's Electrical Contracting Company which has been in operation for 46 years. The company's owner and manager Martin Thorsby currently in the process of passing his business on to an employee.
Mr Thorsby has seen Dungog change a lot over his 67 years of living in the town as well as his 46 years operating a business in it.
"It used to be based around timber and dairy," Mr Thorsby said.
"When Mum, Dad and I went out on our own, in the first year we had 122 dairies that we serviced in the Dungog area.
"We had four hardwood timber mills," Mr Thorsby said.
Initially opening shop in 1976 Mr Thorsby ran the shop with his parents until they retired in 1989.
Mr Thorsby would then run the business himself, having to adjust as Dungog shifted from a traditionally rural town to a more tourism-oriented town.
"The town went from rural industries that gradually declined, they just went down, down, down 'till there was nothing left," Mr Thorsby said.
"Mum, Dad and I, we traded for nearly 25 years and we never ran an ad because the phone never stopped ringing, but it really went into decline.
"I was lucky I scored some jobs."
The change from rural industries such as dairy and timber came with many men being left unemployed and having to move out of town, according to Mr Thorsby.
This has been something that he has worked to prevent, taking on a rotating door of apprentices to try to keep work local in Dungog.
"One of the best things is that I put another apprentice on in September.
"That's my ninth apprentice I've put on since '94 and eight of them were from Dungog High School," Mr Thorsby said.
"I'm pretty proud of that fact."
Mr Thorsby's business is one of many around town that have recently closed shop, however Electrical Contractors will remain operational as Mr Thorsby has passed on the business to one of his employees.
Mr Thorsby isn't sure where the future of Dungog as a town lies, he is only concerned with seeing the town that he grew up and raised his kids in survive.
"I want to see it survive," he said.
"It's been my little town, I grew up here.
"My kids grew up here, went to school here. My daughter's got a job now working at the high school. So it's been my little town."
Mr Thorsby's last day running his business was on Friday, July 29.