Significance

Yields information about the tram operations and the landscape views of the Sturt St median strip.

Physical description

Ten (10) Digital images taken by George Coop during the period 1968 - 1970, of SEC trams in Sturt St, between the City and Pleasant Streets.



.1 - Tram 26 climbing the Sturt St hill to Lydiard St, with the Cook's Private Hotel, the Commonwealth Bank and the National Mutual Life building in the background. Photo taken from the Titanic Bandstand.

.2 - Tram 40 Sturt St, enough to Lydiard St North just before Raglan St. Has a lady passenger by the tram stop.

.3 - Tram 30 - Sturt St north side, near Armstrong St, - has a blue framing line around the photograph.

.4 - Tram 39, Sturt St, near Doveton St, shows the rotunda in the median strip.

.5 - Tram 18, with median step in view.

.6 - Tram 31, with two Johnnie Walker whiskey roof adverts, outside the National Mutual Life building with the Alan Bros Jewellers and Golden Star Chinese Cafe in the view.

.7 - Tram 31, Sturt St south side with Town Hall and the Golden City Hotel in the view. Tram has destination of Gardens via Drummond North.

.8 - Tram 41 - ditto - going to Sebastopol.

.9 - Tram 13, south side, Gardens via Sturt West, about , near Ripon St, with the Ampol service station in the background and about to pick up a lady passenger

.10 - Tram 17, near Doveton St. Has a Twin Lakes sign and a Wilkinson Sword Razor Bladese roof advert.