Significance

Has a strong association with the work of the Royal South Street Society, who published a handbook/guide or manual for their competitions. Used a photograph published at about the same time.

Physical description

Set of 15 photocopies of pages from the Royal South Street Society Guide showing trams in Sturt St Ballarat.



.1 - Sturt St Looking East - with an ESCo tram outside the town hall and other horse drawn vehicles - 1907

.2 - Sturt St Looking West - same image as in Reg item 2688 - 1907

.3 - Sturt St Looking East - with many vehicles and people - 1910 and the "Chef" kitch range stove advertisement sold by Middleton and Morris of Sturt St.

.4 - Sturt and Lydiard St, with a tram turning from Sturt into Lydiard St, 1910 with the post office in the background - 1910 and an advertisement for Woderine medicine sold by Jas. A. Gear, herbalist.

.5 - Sturt St looking West - tram turning from Sturt into Lydiard St, taken from near post office corner - 1911 and a advertisement for Williams the Shoeman.

.6 - Sturt St. West - with an ESC0o tram outbound - the only vehicle - 1913.

.7 - same photo as .3, with a Monster Military Carnival Advertisement for Nov. 8th - 1913

.8 - Sturt and Lydiard St from next to post office, looking west with two trams, one horse trailer and many people - a busy scene - 1914

.9 - Sebastopol tram No. 21 at Grenville St - 1928 - with the Ballarat Gas Company Show rooms in the background, the Sturt St shelter. The tram has a Suttons Organs roof advertisement.

.10 - View of Sturt Street, showing City Hall Buildings, with an ESCo Sebastopol type tramcar crossing the street, taken from the post office stops. - 1928 - Advertisements for G. Ludbrook Furnishing Undertaker (Motor Service and Horse drawn vehicles) and R. Young Grocer.

.11 - Sturt St looking West, looking west, with a Sebastopol type tram at Grenville St and the big shelter removed. Has many buildings and many people in the background - 1928.

.12 - same photo as for .10 and Clarendon Presbyterian Ladies Collection, Ballarat photograph - 1929.

.13 - Advertisement for Ballarat Tramways - cars for Coliseum, fare box, route numbers and route colour scheme - 1929.

.14 - as for above, no date, but opposite is the is an item for the Mouth Organ Band Contest, "A" Grade - c1933, notes the Coburg Tramway Athletic Club Harmonica Band and the Malvern Tramways Harmonica band amongst the contestants.

.15 - same as .9, with a advertisement for the Melbourne Coffee Palace - Bourke St.



Photocopies made by Neville Hasket for the BTM 10/2008. See also Reg item 675 for alternative source details.

Inscriptions & markings

Handwritten note on photocopies