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Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Postcard - GLADYS DEAN COLLECTION: POSTCARD, 1906 - 1908
Printed coloured photographic postcard. Image depicts a street with shops and buildings lining the left-hand side. A cart is standing outside the ironmonger's shop, people are standing or walking along the footpath and a tram is running along the tracks in the road. Horse drawn carts can be seen in the background. The words Chapel Street Prahran are printed in red in the top right-hand corner. Reverse is addressed to Miss White c/ Miss Dean Esmond Golden Square, with writing on one side and a one penny stamp affixed postmarked Melbourne. The words Made in Germany 19 are printed along the right-hand edge.Made In Germany 19postcard, praharan, chapel street -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Fitzroy, Northcote & Preston Tramways Trust car number 1 in Plenty Road, early 1920s
Photograph of Fitzroy, Northcote & Preston Tramways Trust (FNPTT) R class tramcar No.1 northbound on single track in Plenty Road, Preston approaching a double track loop south of Bell Street. The photograph looks southward showing an unsealed road surface with a few horse drawn carts, span poles and overhead wires, tramways overhead light above loop turnout and low density shop fronts. While this tramcar and track were constructed for the FNPTT, the line was only operated by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board from 1920. This car would soon be renumbered 151 and relocated to other lines Melbourne.Yields information about commencement of the Preston tram line and the Fitzroy, Northcote & Preston Tramways Trust. Black and white photograph with nothing on rearfnptt, r class, plenty road, preston, span poles, track loop, melbourne and metropolitan tramways board, fnptt number 1, tram number 151 -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Cable tram dummy outide Myer Lonsdale St, 1924-1925
Postcard of cable tram dummy stationary outside the double storey "Myers" warehouse and office building in Lonsdale St, between Elizabeth and Swanston Sts. Three boys in shorts sit or stand on the dummy. The dummy's destination reads "Brighton Rd", which dates the photograph as between February 1924 and December 1925, (not c1929 as written) between the construction of the track in this section of Lonsdale St and the electric conversion of the Brighton Rd line. Also in the street are horse drawn carts and motor cars.Yields information about cable trams in Lonsdale St and MyerBlack and white postcard print with note on rear.In print on rear: "c1929 Lonsdale Street Warehouse, later to become 11-storey store. MYER - GROWING WITH AUSTRALIA since 1901 - today employs over 32,000 staff throughout the country in its Department Stores, Target Discount Stores and Supermarkets, speciality fashion stores, liquor and fast food outlets. AFFIX STAMP HERE"myers, lonsdale st, cable dummy, brighton rd line, electric conversion, horse drawn carts, warehouse, boys, shorts -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - V214 - filming of "Squizzy" - set of 2, July 1981
Set of two photographs of V class No. 214 crossing Flinders St in Swanston St with the Flinders St station in the background for the filming of "Squizzy" Taylor during July 1981. Has a horse-drawn vehicle northbound in Swanston St and an eastbound truck in Flinders St. See reference for details of the film.Yields information the filming of Squizzy during July 1981 and the use of V class tram No. 214.Black and white photographs with hand written note on rear.In pencil, "Squizzy" July 81tramways, cable trams, flinders st, filming, swanston st, v class, tram 214, flinders st station