Significance

Yields information about the SEC Ballarat trams in the months before the closure of the SEC Tramway system. Yields information about the streetscape.

Physical description

Set of six Digital images, scanned from slides by Graeme Cleak, scanning by Peter Winspur 9/2011.



.1 - Slide FQ16 - No. 41, outbound at the south end of Drummond St south about to turn into Skipton St, with the destination of Bell St.

.2 - slide FQ18 - No. 41, outbound to Sebastopol terminus, Albert St, just before the terminus itself.

.3 - slide FQ21 - No. 41, inbound Albert St Sebastopol with the Sebastopol Town Hall in the background. Tram has a "Bliss Bombs" roof advertisement on the side, "Make Bliss, Not Love".

.4 - slide FQ22 - Trams 26 and 41, crossing at Grey St Sebastopol Loop. No. 41 has destination of Grey St.

.5 - slide FQ27 - Trams 27 and 37, crossing at the Hamilton Ave loop, No. 41 inbound - with destination of Victoria St at the Hamilton Ave loop with the "Stonehenge" fence house in the background. Sturt St West.

.6 - slide FS29 - No. 37 at Grenville St, Sturt St intersection with Bridge St in the background. Tram has the destination of View Point and is entering the loop itself. The destination was no longer in use at the time of the photograph and would indicate that the destination has been arranged. In the background is the Woolworths Big W store and the Dickins Food Store.



All photos taken on 27/6/1971.