Photograph - Photograph, Black and white, Farewell party in courtyard Missions to Seamen for Mrs Weller, January 1929

Historical information

In January 1929, two parties were organised in the honour of the Wellers as they left Melbourne. Reverend Weller had been appointed assistant superintendent to the headquarters of the Missions to Seamen in London. They boarded the Osterley on the 22 January.
Unfortunately Mrs Weller died in 1934.
Many ladies on the photograph are yet to be identified.
Refer to the identification numbers:
7 - Alexina Weller (nee Caley) (marked by red cross).
8 - Alice Sibthorpe Tracy
20 - Ethel Godfrey
23 - Dora walker

Physical description

Group portrait of the Ladies Harbour Light Guild in the cloister at the Mission to Seamen Flinders Street.

Inscriptions & markings

Written in blue ink at the back: Farewell party in courtyard Missions to Seamen for Mrs Weller

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