Newspaper, The Courier Ballarat, "Pieces of Tram History", Sept. 1971

Significance

Yields information about the presentation of a set of tickets that were presented to the City of Ballarat at the time of closure of the system.

Physical description

Newspaper clipping from The Courier, Ballarat, 22 September 1971 of tickets and passes being given to the City of Ballarat by Mr. Denmead. Shows close up photo of ESCo 1 1/2d tokens, a photograph of a presentation sheets of sample tickets dated 1906 and Mr. Denmead holding metal passes and two tokens.

Notes the items as being passed to Council for safe keeping. Article notes that the tokens in the close up photo was owned by Mr. Lyle Kay of 5A Finch St. Ballarat.



See Reg Item 3775 for a Courier print of the photograph of the tickets.



1846.1 - added 23/10/2004 - duplicate cutting.



Original item replaced by a better condition cutting 13/6/2017, from donation of Ruth Nelson.



See Reg Item 8000 for the actual framed set of tickets.

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