Significance

Yields information about the streetscapes of Ballarat on the Gardens to Victoria St route and in particular buildings and people that crewed the trams.

Physical description

Set of nine Colour 27 x 27 mm slide in a Kodachrome cardboard mount of a series of photographs taken from Wendouree Parade in the Gardens to the City tramway - taken from the front or rear window of the tram.
.1 - Carlton St loop looking north
.2 - Wendouree Parade, north of the Windmill Drive north intersection - has a tram stop pole.
.3 - Sturt St - in bound just past Pleasant St - has passengers waiting at the tram stop.
.4 - at Ascot St.
.5 - at Drummond St with Shell garage in the view and a track worker.
.6 - at Talbot St? with track workers repairing the road surface.
.7 - at Dawson St showing the tram stop and End of Section signs.
.8 - nearing the intersection with Armstrong St.
.9 - nearing Lydiard St.
Slide mount date cannot be read - possibly August 1971.
Photo from the collection of Lilian Butler.