The photos show Verna Coombs and John Forrest sitting on seating at the Median Gardens of Sturt Street. In the background can be seen Craig's Grocery and Hoskins Stores.public, gardens, median gardens, sturt street, commerical, craig's grocery, hoskins stores, verna coombs, john forrest

Has a strong association with the Rose Stereograph Co, demonstrates the gardens displays in Ballarat c1960's and yields information about the streetscape at the time.Colour postcard print of the central median gardens, Sturt St, with the Town Hall in the background and bogie tram No. 37 on the South Side. Has festoon lighting and other street decorations (Begonia Festival?) in the view. In the background are Myers, the Town Hall and Fletcher Jones store. No. 37 has the destination of Sebastopol and a "Switch to Electric Cooking" roof advertisement. Title "The Gardens and City Hall. Ballarat Vic." Postcard - Rose Series Colorview No. 509. On rear is the rose of Rose Stereograph Co and information. Duplicate of Reg Item - 1025On reverse side - black ink stamp "E.G.Butland"trams, tramways, town hall, gardens, sturt st, begonia festival, tram 37

Yields information about the appearance of the view looking west on the south side of Sturt St from the Titanic Bandstand.Negative (120 size) of the intersection of the south side of Sturt St from near Grenville St looking west with tram 26 climbing the hill. The tram has the destination of View Point. In the background is the National Mutual building advertising C Marks Jewellers, the Commonwealth Bank, Beachams Hotel, Hollands Cycle and the Ballarat Mechanics Institute building. Shows the median strip Gardens in Sturt St. Item donated comprised negative 1143, Negative scanned at 3200dpi. trams, tramways, sturt st, view point, gardens, tram 26

Digital image of Trams 35 and 36 at the City terminus Sturt St on either side of the central median strip showing the gardens, trees and statues at this once busy location. Photo by Peter Knife 20/10/1970. Yields information about Ballarat's trams in October 1970.Digital image of a colour slide.tramways, tramcars, ballarat, tram 35, tram 36, sturt st

Photo shows Ballarat tram 26 westbound in Sturt St at Lyons St with St Patricks Cathedral in the background. Shows the median strip and arrangements and the Ballarat Cenotaph. Photo taken c1971.Yields information about the Sturt St median strip or gardens and tram 26.Negative - 127 film black and white.tramways, tramcars, tram 26, sturt st, lyons st

Set of 9 copy photographs by Robert Green of newspapers, books or postcards containing images of Ballarat Tramways - see btm10469doc for listing. 1 - The Australasian 28/8/1897 - five views of Ballarat - including the railway station, a horse tram in Sturt St and a horse tram in the Gardens with the modesty board drawn out - see item 472 2 - Tattler newspaper - horse tram in Sturt St at Grenville St - Chuck photo 3 - Australasian - 26/11/1904 - Sturt St from fire tower - with two horse trams in the view. 4 - Australasian - 12/2/1898 - views of the Post Office and Town Hall, Ballarat, and an item about suggested Federal Cities - Ballarat 5 - ditto - Lake Wendouree, Art Gallery, from the Town Hall looking East, Sturt St, Vestibule Stock exchange, Armstrong St. 6 - Australasian - 30-6-1906 - Lydiard St with Post Office and one electric tram 7 - ditto - Sturt St no trees in Median strip, one electric tram, with horse cabs and Town Hall 8 - Australasian - 31/3/1906, Picknikers in Sturt St - has Town Hall and one electric tram in the view 9 - page from The Australasian, 19/8/1905 - see items 759, 762, and 754 for the individual photos Yields information about Early Ballarat tramways that featured in newspaper articles.Negative sleeve containing 9 copy negatives.tramways, horse trams, sturt st, wendouree parade, gardens, town hall, post office

Photo taken from the east side of Dawson St at the intersection with Sturt St shows a westbound ESCo tram with St Patrick's Cathedral and the median strip. The tram has a dash mounted destination - c1905/06 before the installation of roof mounted destinations. Has the publishers number stamp in the bottom left hand corner - 53392 (JV) and the name of the publisher Valentine on the rear.Demonstrates a coloured card published by Valentines decorated with a glitter material.Postcard - divided back, coloured with glitter added. Has been torn from an album and damaged with stamp removed.Has been used, has stamp of A E Twentyman collection on the rear.postcard, sturt st, dawson st, tramways

Set of two illustrations - back to back - the first a view from the Town Hall, looking northwest over the central Sturt St median strip. Has one ESCo tram in the view. Has on the corner of Sturt and Armstrong Streets, A Dawson store and R Ludbrook & Co furnishings. The second illustration is from the north side of Sturt St looking southwest towards Doveton St, Has Skewes Chemis, Wall paper warehouse, and Shoppee's Square in the view.Yields information about Sturt St and the associated buildings.Illustration cut from a magazine or publicationballarat, illustrations, sturt st, esco, armstrong st, doveton st

Set of two views from an illustrated publication on Ballarat. 1 - Illustration - "Ballarat (Sturt Street) Victoria " of a horse tram eastbound on the south side of Sturt St. Has several horse-drawn vehicles in the image, the gardens in the central median strip, and Snow's store verandah. 2 - illustration - Sturt St Ballarat" looking west from Grenville St with a horse tram traveling westbound on the north side of Sturt St. Has the buildings on both sides of the street in the view along with Suttons Music store.Yields information about Sturt St from the Town Hall or Grenville St.Illustration cut from a magazine or publication - set of two - back to backballarat, illustrations, sturt st, horse trams, snows

Coloured Postcard with a set of 6 views of Ballarat - Sturt St with a double deck horse tram behind an ESCo tramcar, Central Median strip, Ballarat Post Office with an ESCo tram in the foreground, Gardens, Sturt St and Gong Gong Reservoir. Has a handwritten letter to a person near Newcastle and dated 28-12-1908(?). The stamp has been removed. Also has Ken Magor's hand stamp on the rear. No details of publisher. Demonstrates a multi view coloured postcard.Postcard - coloured - 6 panel views of Ballarat - divided back, used.See image i2 for letter and posting details.sturt street, post office, ballarat, tramways, lydiard st, esco, gong gong reservoir, gardens, botanical gardens

Photo looks over Shoppee Square (Central median area) in Sturt St between Armstrong and Doveton Streets, with the Town Hall and John Snow & Company (Snows) building in the view, along with the national mutual building. An ESCo tram is westbound on the south side of Sturt St. Note the telegraph pole on the left side of the photo. One the rear is a birthday message to a person in Hamilton Newcastle. It is dated 29/11/1909.Yields information about Sturt St Ballarat and Shoppee's square.Postcard colour, Divided back. No publisher's name on rear though has a publisher mark in the top centre - a six pointed star with a central motif.See image 2 for letter.tramways, trams, esco, sturt st, shoppee's square

The photo shows an ESCo tram soon after commencement of trams in 1905, at the corner of Armstrong and Sturt Streets, Ballarat. The tram has a destination sign hung from the driver's dash canopy. On the left is the Snows Department store and a pole with telegraph/telephone wires and insulators. The Thomas Moore Statue is adjacent to the tramcar. The median plantation was known as Shoppees Square. See item 8419 for a postcard and 3795 for a copy photograph. Photo by WTP & Co.Yields information about Sturt St soon after the opening of the Ballarat Electric tramwayPrinted photograph on a sheet of plain paper.tramways, trams, sturt st, esco, armstrong st, wtp

The photograph shows SEC Ballarat tram No. 34 in Drummond St crossing between the median Strip in Sturt St at Hospitial Corner. Not known who took the photo or the date. Post 1956 to 1960 given the large reflective triangles on the end panel.Yields information about tram 34 appearance in the mid to late 1960s.Black and white print on plain paper.tramcars, tram 34, hospital corner, sturt st, drummond st

Original photograph by William Bardwell, with the original image held by the State Library of Victoria. Edited by Richard Conn. Purchased by the Museum.Provides information about the appearance of Sturt St Ballarat, looking from the Town Hall. Shows the topography of the area, along with many buildings, including the London Chartered Bank of Australia (later the Commonwealth Bank), the Unicorn Hotel, J. Dodds Bucks Head Hotel, road works in Bridge St, Albion House Drapery, Bryce & Chalmers Produced Merchants, a fenced central median strip and two horse-drawn carriages parked in Lydiard St.Black & White copy photograph aerial view A4 size, titled ""Ballarat looking east from the Town Hall ca 1872" looking along Sturt St towards Grenville St. Original photo by William Bardwell.ballarat, sturt st, grenville st, lydiard st, bucks head hotel, bryce & chalmers, london chartered bank, albion house, bridge st

Photograph of a postcard showing a horse tram travelling east in Sturt Street, taken from the median strip. Has the Harry Davies store and the Town Hall in the view.Demonstrates copy photographs of a coloured postcard and shows a horse tram in Sturt Street.Copy print or photograph of a coloured postcard showing a horse tram in Sturt Street Ballarat.ballarat, horse trams, tramways, sturt street, postcard

Yields information about the City Loop and Sturt St buildings terminus, passengers and the tram liveries in 1963.Black and white print on heavy matt photographic paper of a view looking from Lydiard St, down Sturt St towards Grenville St with many motor cars in the street and trams parked in City Loop, c1963. Has cars parked on the median strip and given the number, a working day. At least four trams in the loop. In the background is the Neptune sign and the Dickins Food store. 2nd copy - laser print - with date etc on rear - added 22/2/2010, copy from Ron Hann. Printed on Fujifilm, Fujicolour Crystal Archive for Frontier"On rear in pencil "Sturt St 1963", 2nd copy has label "Reference 6/113/11 Photo by Ron Hann" and another label "Ballarat 01.63"tramways, trams, sturt st, city loop, grenville st

Yields information about the City terminus for the tramway system in Ballarat and how it related to the centre median strip and its relationship to Ballarat.Black and white photograph of the scene at the city terminus, corner of Sturt and Lydiard St with four single truck trams stopped waiting to depart on their next trips. Shows both sides of the track and the general arrangement of the median strip with trees, seats, and statues. C1970. Photographer ?tramways, trams, sturt st, city

Yields information about Sturt Street east end in the late 1920's or early 1930's with motor cars and people.Black and White photograph mounted on heavy cardboard backing. Image titled "Sturt Street Ballarat", with a view from the median strip looking east with an ESCo tram at the bottom of the street. Has a number of motor vehicles in the photo, probably late 1920's early 1930's. Prominent in the photo is the store, Suttons store along with and "Indian Store", Alf Dawson - ironmonger, The Courier , and Seidel Bros shoes and boots. Has 7 Velcro dots on rear and marks where mounting devices have been removed on the rear. Note image scanned in two runs through a scanner, resulting in the shading in the image file. trams, tramways, sturt st, suttons, esco

Yields information about the appearance of Sturt St Ballarat c1971.Digital image copy of a black and white print of Sturt St from the Fire Brigade tower looking east. Has title "Sturt St from fire Brigade Tower, Mount Warrenheip (in the distance), St. Patricks RC Church (on the right), and Spire of St Andrew's (on the left). Has a well loaded horse tram outbound on the north side of Sturt St. C1890's, trees in the median strip are still young. On rear is "BTPS Sales department" in green ink. trams, tramways, sturt st, horse trams

Set of two colour photographs of the then new road signs indicating the BTM using the words "Tourist Tramway" in the central median strip of Sturt St. West, or Western Highway at the intersection with Hamilton Ave. Photos taken by Warren Doubleday on 13.09.2002. Printed on Agfa Paper. 2604.1 - Taken from the western side 2604.2 - ditto, but further back. On rear of each photo in brown felt tip pen, the words "New Signage at Highway".btm, hamilton ave, western highway, sturt st west

Yields information about the appearance of the median strip and SturtPostcard, coloured, Sturt St Ballarat looking east along the median strip with Snows and the Town Hall in the background. Shows the fenced garden beds and seats alongside. Has a tram outside the Snows building. On rear of postcard - WTP print mark, two cancellation stamps - dated 4 June 09. Addressed to Miss J Hall, 81 Wellington St Kew. Has Victorian 1d stamp. Cancellation stamps, message and address in ink.trams, tramways, ballarat, sturt st

Black and White photograph, of Ballarat No. 19, late 1950's or early 1960 in the City Loop in Sturt St. Has the median strip in the background. Tram has a roof advertisement for Castrol motor oil. Printed on Fuji-colour paper. 2nd copy added 6/1/15."TMSV Sales" stamp on rear. On rear of 2nd copy - P&M & MM J76 = BALL 19 = Bend 7.tramways, trams, sturt st, city loop, tram 19

Photograph of a horse tram (possibly No. 7), with a Havelock Tobacco advertisement, travelling westbound in Sturt St. on the north side with the City of Ballaarat Town Hall (clock showing 905). Traffic in Sturt St was two-way on either side of the median strip which at the time did not extend fully between Lydiard St and Armstrong St. The photograph includes the gas street lamp in the middle of the Sturt and Lydiard Streets intersection and a telephone/telegraph pole on the right side. Several horse-drawn cabs in the photograph, along with some men. In the background are shops for Cameo Cigarettes, Tea Merchants, C Ekans? Chemist, J T Marsh Hatter, the Town Hall and Snows department store promoting a clearing sale. The photo has been taken from the Post Office Steps, c1890. State Library Multimedia Source Catalogue does not give the name of the photographer and the date of the photo. Acknowledgement of the source of the photograph is required.Yields information about Sturt St and horse trams c1890 and the use of the street in the early morning.Black and white print from the State Library of Victoria.On rear in pencil in bottom left hand corner "Copy of H92 320/106" and in centre along bottom edge "Reproduction Rights Reserved - Copied by State Library of Victoria".trams, tramways, sturt st, lydiard st. north, horse trams, ballarat town hall, two way traffic, tram 7

Plain white cardboard transparency slide of Ballarat No. bogie tram (No. 34) and three single truckers in the City Loop on a wet Ballarat day. Taken from central median strip, looking south east. Has Dickins Food store and shops along the south side of Sturt St. near Grenville St. in the background, including Thomas Jewellers and the Jack Gaffin? Union Hotel"City Loop" and "Aug 1971" in blue ink.tramways, trams, city loop, sturt st, tram 34

Set of 9 Kodak Ready-mount with slides made from the Association of Railway Enthusiast Provincial Tramways film strip. Reference Item 2560 details the ARE Film Strip, and provide references to other slides. See also Reg. item 1164. 1174.9 on plain white mount. 1174.1 - Tram 40 North bound for Lydiard St. North at the Railway Gates, with the gates closed. Tram carrying a heavy load of passengers. Railway station building and car park in background. Taken from the signal box. 1174.2 - Tram 12 bound for Gardens, photographed across the median strip plantation near Dawson St. Image i2a - adjusted 9/2021 to remove colour cast. 1174.3 - Tram 43 in bound along Wendouree Parade near Barrett Ave, passing a former tram stop and with "Warning Oncoming Trams" sign mounted on an adjacent pole. See also Reg. item 1172.1 for a photo taken in May 1971. This photo taken after the closure of the Victoria St. line, as the tram stop has been painted out. 1174.4 - Looking along the track to Sebastopol terminus on the west side of Albert St. - telephoto shot showing bogie tram in the far distance. Shows the nature of the track, poles, tram stop frequency and in the fare distance the terminus. Also show the trees that used to be along this section of the track. 1174.5 - No. 42 showing "Special" in Macarthur St. approaching Drummond St. north. Photo taken from under the verandah of a shop on the south side of the street that were many years later to become the Tramcar Restaurant. Note metal fence to cemetery. 1174.6 - Nos. 21 (Sebastopol) crossing 14 (Lydiard St. Nth) at the loop between Sayle and Grey St. Photo taken looking south. 1174.7 - No. 12 bound for Mt Pleasant, in Bridge St. about to stop at the junction for the two routes. Telephoto photo looking west along Bridge St. with many cars in the photo. Very few people on the street itself. 1174.8 - No. 30 and 17 at the City Terminus, on the north side of Sturt St. Taken from the Post Office corner with the Town Hall in the background. 1174.9 - No. 39 inbound along Sturt St. West. with many cars on the road. Bus stop on a pole on the other side of the road.1174.1 - "No. 40 on Lydiard St. North service waits at the level crossing at Ballarat Railway Station." 1174.2 - "No. 12 bound for 'Gardens' seen across the centre plantation in Sturt St." 1174.3 - "Barrett Ave." 1174.4 - "The Sebastopol route near the terminus" 1174.6 - "Nos. 21 and 14 crossing at Sayle St. Loop on Sebastopol route" 1174.7 - "No. 12 at Eastern end of Bridge St." 1174.8 - "Nos. 30 and 17 in Sturt St. at Cnr of Lydiard St." 1174.9 - "No. 39 City bound from 'Gardens" in Sturt St. West" All have date stamp of "Sep 1971" in black ink. Writing in blue ink.tramways, trams, lydiard st. nth, railway crossing, sturt st, wendouree parade, sebastopol, macarthur st., bridge st., sturt st. west, tram 12, tram 14, tram 17, tram 21, tram 30, tram 39, tram 40, tram 42, tram 43

B&W photograph mounted onto heavy cardboard (black front, green back) of a horse tram (No. 16 - from Reg Item 2726) travelling westbound on Sturt St. on the north side, with Town Hall in background. Many horse drawn cabs are waiting along side the centre median strip on the north side, and the back of one cab on the Lydiard St. kerb. A number of women on the top deck. "Typed caption on photo" "Tram going up North Side of Sturt Street 1897, Note Cab Stand." Photo is believed to be from a copy negative of an original held in the collection of the Ballarat Historical Society. Also has drawing pit marks in corners on photograph. On rear of photo has two Velcro dots and remains on tape from brown mounting tape use. For original print of photograph, see Reg. Item 2726.trams, tramways, ballarat, ballaarat tramway company, horse trams, sturt st. , horse tram 16

Newspaper clipping from the Ballarat Courier Editorial of 18/12/1971 about the reconstruction of Sturt St. to remove the tram tracks and the debate about whether cars should park along the central median strip. Dec 19 was the start of the annual SEC grant for road restoration in the Ballarat area where tram track are located. Discussion over whether there should be centre of the road parking.trams, tramways, road works, track removal, sturt st, city of ballaarat

Black and white print of a donated negative. Print made 8/1998. Photo of SEC single trucker tram No. 21 at the intersection of Sturt and Lydiard Streets. Tram has destination of "Lydiard St. Nth". Good photograph of intersection with Town Hall in background, a few cars and tram stop arrangement. Also shows festoon lighting along the north side of the centre median in Sturt. St. Photo taken from the Post Office corner, during 1968. Negative rescanned 9-5-2020 and image updated.tramways, trams, town hall, 21, ballarat, sturt st., tram 21