Photograph - Photo, Tanks on Swanston Street

Historical information

Photos of two tanks driving along Swanston Street taken from the windows of Legacy House. The occasion is not known. The tanks appear to be Leopard 1. One has elaborate equipment on the front.
The date is approximately the late 1990s as the Queen Victoria Hospital has been demolished and the QV building has not been started. On the site opposite Legacy House is an open air market called The Sailyards, and what appears to be an ice rink or mini golf, called The Icehouse. Also on the site was the YMCA run skate park called Sail Yards, it was closed in 2001.

Significance

A record that military equipment was of interest to the Legatees.

Physical description

Colour photos x 4 of two tanks driving North up Swanston Street

Subjects

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