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Postcard (item) - Black and white postcard, Rose Stereograph Company, The Talbot Drive, Marysville, Victoria, 1913-1967

  • Show the Talbot Drive track leading through a forest of large trees and tree ferns. The track is a corduroy road. On the reverse of the postcard is a space to write a message and an address an to place a postage stamp.

    The Talbot Drive, Marysville, Victoria

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  • Show the Talbot Drive track leading through a forest of large trees and tree ferns. The track is a corduroy road. On the reverse of the postcard is a space to write a message and an address an to place a postage stamp.

Historical information

A postcard in a series produced by the Rose Stereograph Company in Victoria, Australia as a souvenir of Marysville.

Significance

Lady Talbot Drive (Talbot Drive) is 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.

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