Significance

Yields information about the closure of the SEC Ballarat system in particular the Victoria St line. Has a strong association with the article author.

Physical description

Set of two Newspaper clippings pasted onto a single sheet of paper with two Punch holes on the left hand side with one hole through the photograph within the cutting.
Clipping from The Courier, Ballarat, Monday, 23/8/1971 (corrected date), of two items in the paper about the closure of the trams in Victoria St. The main item written by a staff reporter recalls the days of travelling regularly on the tram when a student going to and from school, Saturday travelling and as a means of transport. Second item in the same cutting reports on the closure of the Victoria St. route the previous day. Mentions the interest in the trams, the BTPS, and police protection that was not needed.
Photograph accompanying the article is of a driver turning the pole at the Victoria St. terminus of tram No. 31.
Second clipping, from The Courier, dated 8/9/1971, reports on a collection of historic tram photos in the Commonwealth Bank for the next two weeks, presented by the Tramway Museum Society of Victoria.
1068.2 - full page of The Courier, 23/8/1971, added 10/9/2013 and image added.

Inscriptions & markings

In red ink in upper right hand corner, "21/8/71" of the first cutting and "8/9/71" in red ink in the top right hand corner of the second cutting