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 six Colour 27 x 27 mm slide in a Kodachrome cardboard mount.
.1 - Tram No. 38 at the Victoria St terminus, with the destination of Gardens via Sturt St West. Note the red traffic cone in the overhead by the trolley wheel positioning location device.
.2 - crew of No. 30 by the tram - R. Knight (57) and Conductor W. Nancarrow (8)
.3 - No. 30 at Gardens Loop
.4 - as for .2 - see Also Reg item 6455.
.5 - view from tram at intersection of Wendouree Parade and MacArthur St, View Point.
.6 - view of trackwork at intersection of Drummond and Sturt Streets with the Southern Cross Hotel in the background.
Slide mount date August 1971.
Photo from the collection of Lilian Butler.