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Postcard (item) - Colour postcard, Nucolorvue Productions, A Lovely Bush Track, Marysville, 1950's

  • Shows a red early model car traveling along Lady Talbot Drive in Marysville in Victoria. The road leads through a forest of trees and tree ferns. The title of the postcard is shown along the lower edge of the postcard. On the reverse of the postcard is a space to write a message and an address and to place a postage stamp. The postcard is unused.

    A Lovely Bush Track, Marysville

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  • Shows a red early model car traveling along Lady Talbot Drive in Marysville in Victoria. The road leads through a forest of trees and tree ferns. The title of the postcard is shown along the lower edge of the postcard. On the reverse of the postcard is a space to write a message and an address and to place a postage stamp. The postcard is unused.

Historical information

An early colour photograph of a car traveling along Lady Talbot Drive in Marysville in Victoria.

Significance

An early colour photograph of a car traveling along Lady Talbot Drive in Marysville in Victoria.
Lady Talbot Drive a 24 kilometer scenic rainforest car journey which passes a number of walks and waterfalls in the Yarra Ranges National Park. Lady Talbot Drive is named after Lady Sarah Elizabeth, the wife of Sir Reginald Talbot, who was the Governor of Victoria from 25th April, 1904 to 6th July 1908.
This road was originally constructed as a corduroy road (or log road) is a type of road or timber trackway made by placing logs, perpendicular to the direction of the road over a low or swampy area. The result is an improvement over impassable mud or dirt roads, yet rough in the best of conditions and a hazard to horses due to shifting loose logs.
This postcard was produced by Nucolorvue Productions in Elwood, Victoria as a souvenir of Marysville.

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