Photograph, Mr Gustav Mahnke’s Bakery Shop on the corner of Main & Wimmera Streets Stawell -- burnt out by fire 1922, 1922

Historical information

Ruins of Gustav Mahnke’s Bakery Shop Corner of Main Street and Wimmera Street Stawell destroyed by fire 1922. The Chimneys left standing would have belonged to the ovens. Firemen Left R. Chapman - extreme right Alf Pickering , inspecting damage.
The Post Office Hotel and the destroyed bakery on the corner of Main and Wimmera Streets.

Gustav Mahnke, a German, was a borough Councilor, Mayor for three successive terms - 1904-07.

Note extreme right in the backgorundbehind trees - Stawell Baths.

Physical description

B/W. Photograph of the ruins of a burnt building, next to a Hotel with four men.

Inscriptions & markings

Part of a sign reading "TEL"

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