Slide - 27 mm sq slide/s - set of 11, Lilian Butler, Wendouree Parade and Sturt St West, Sep. 1971

Significance

Yields information about the streetscapes of Ballarat depot to Pleasant St route and in particular buildings and people that crewed the trams.

Physical description

Set of eleven Colour 27 x 27 mm slide in a Kodachrome cardboard mount.
.1 - Wendouree Parade looking west towards St Aidans Drive - the gate pillars can be seen.
.2 - ditto looking west - Fairyland
.3 - ditto looking towards Gardens Loop
.4 - No. 41 at Gardens Loop, with destination of Gardens via Drummond North
.5 - ditto showing Mt Pleasant
.6 - ditto, just past the now BTM Depot Junction.
.7 - Carlton St - showing the gates
.8 - Looking towards Hamilton Ave from within Carlton St loop with the signal showing red.
.9 - Turning from Hamilton Ave into Sturt St West.
.10 - Sturt St west looking east with the Loreto convent walls on the left hand side.
.11 - Sturt St - Pleasant St intersection - showing road surface, a tram coming towards the intersection and buildings on either side.
Slide mount date September 1971.
Photo from the collection of Lilian Butler.

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