Small (postcard size) black and white photograph of school children in concert dress. Miss Barry's cantata group. This is one of several copies of the photograph of Miss Barry's cantata group in the LDHS collection. This copy belonged to the Downing family, and Doris and Lillian Downing are identified in an inscription on the reverse. Note: The most complete set of names that we have for this photograph are recorded for the copy of the photograph which has the registration number 2018-17."A school concert at Linton c1907. Doris Downing 2nd row 2nd from left between teacher and boy, Lillian Downing 2nd row 2nd from right in mortarboard next to teacher".doris downing, lillian downing, school concert, linton state school, miss barry's cantata group

The Downing family lived in Linton for two periods - the first, from about 1902 to 1907, and the second from about 1908 to 1910. Thomas Frederick Downing, born 1865, worked from 1890 as a fireman with the Victorian Railways. Five of the seven Downing children became teachers. The house in the photograph, in Grant Street, Linton, was afterwards lived in by Linton doctor and local identity Dr James Blair Donaldson Snr.Sepia photograph of three young girls and a boy standing in the gateway at front of a house."Downing family house on hill behind Dr Donaldson's Mr Downing engine driver".downing family, thomas frederick downing, frederick (fred) downing, gladys downing, lillian downing, doris downing, house in grant street