Significance

Yields information about the closure of the SEC Ballarat system in particular the changes made to Bridge St.

Physical description

Newspaper clipping 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 (newspaper date, with page 10), with a photo and associated caption of Council employees painting out parking lines in Bridge St. in preparation for a bus stop. Has a single truck tram in the photo heading along Bridge St. for the city. Caption notes that the work was being done in preparation for the bus service introduction. Photograph taken either Saturday afternoon after shops closed or on Sunday as street has very few cars in it.



See Reg item 3767 for print of photograph.



1069.2 - copy of cutting, image added 10/9/2013, from a donation by Dave Macartney.

Inscriptions & markings

In red ink in upper central right hand corner, "21/8/71"