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Slide - SECV Ballarat 35 at Grenville St, Keith Caldwell, 16/03/1963

  • A green and white electric tram travels down a wide street lined with buildings, with overhead wires and a small shelter on the left.

    SECV Ballarat 35 at Grenville St

  • A maroon vintage bus with "SQUIRES BALLARAT-AVOCA" written in white text on its front, parked on a dirt road next to a brick building with a "Gold" sign and a small white car.

    Keith Kings photo of the Ballarat - Avoca bus

  • A green and white electric tram travels down a wide street lined with buildings, with overhead wires and a small shelter on the left.
  • A maroon vintage bus with "SQUIRES BALLARAT-AVOCA" written in white text on its front, parked on a dirt road next to a brick building with a "Gold" sign and a small white car.

Historical information

Photo by Keith Caldwell on 16/3/1963 of Tram 35 at the Grenville St stop on the south side of Sturt St. Tram has the destination of Special and a Dancing at Civic Hall dash panel advert. In the background is the Shelter, Dickens, Gear Chemist, Spot Cafe, L Lescott tea rooms and Maypole. Parked is a bus with Avoca, Leeton, Waubra, Learmonth and Ballarat written on the side. Advice from the BCSV 16/10/2026 the bus belonged to Clive Trounson and Mervyn Charles Squires of Avoca. They were brothers and apparently Mervyn drove the bus. It's a 1948 Ansair bodied Bedford OB that was new to ANA and sold to Squires in 1952 and re-registered XJ 566. It ran in service until 1972 when Squires ceased running the route and sold it for a caravan to someone in Learmonth. Attached is a Keith King's photo of the bus.

Significance

Yields information about tram 35 and the Grenville St and Sturt St intersection and the streetscape.

Physical description

Agfa colour slide, white cardboard mount and a digital image.

Inscriptions & markings

In ink "16.3.63"

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