Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, The Courier Ballarat, mid 9/1971

Significance

Yields information about the nature of the day/s towards the last full day of operation - at the tram depot. Used in the Courier Supplement to mark the closure of the system and how the Courier photo was used by another newspaper for another purpose.

Physical description

Black and White copy photograph of a newspaper photograph taken by The Courier - photo taken ?, possibly on the last weekend and published in the Courier Supplement on 20/9/1971 following closure of the depot with No. 36 on 1 road and a single trucker on 0 road.



See Reg Item 1052 for the newspaper cutting used at the time of the sale of the Depot in the Melbourne Age and also in the Courier Supplement.



Collected by Alan Bradley from the Ballarat Courier early 1980's.



See Excel file "Record of Ballarat Courier Photos SEC era" (Archive Documents) for source of details.

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