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 eight Colour 27 x 27 mm slide in a Kodachrome cardboard mount.
.1 - view of the Sturt and Lydiard St intersection from the front of the tram car with the Robbie Burns statue in the view and the Big W store.
.2 - ditto at the corner of Sturt and Grenville St with the tramway shelter and the Dickins store.
.3 - setting the signals for the Bridge St route.
.4 - View looking east along Bridge St with Big W store and Faull's shoe shop.
.5 - At intersection with Main Road, looking up the hill towards Victoria St. On the right is the advert for Viscount Ambassador Caravans.
.6 - Looking along Victoria St, towards the East at E St, with the biscuit factory on the left.
.7 - tram shelter at Queen St.
.8 - View of the terminus looking east, showing the median strip
Slide mount date August 1971.
Photo from the collection of Lilian Butler.