A great photo and description courtesy of Jenny Wood. Would anyone like to estimate the year it was taken? Photo from my mum Pam Wood’s collection. Jack French, Hassell McGrath, Jack Riley, Ned French, Dan Twomey and Sandy McAlister at the dog on the tuckerbox on the way to the Maher cup.
Festival Parade Float – Circa 1958
With thanks to Jen Wood for this brilliant photo and description of a Taubmans float for what I”m assuming is the Festival of the Falling Leaf parade around 1958: (Click on the picture for full-sized version) Parade in Tumut, NSW, Taubmans Waldec paint, Tumut Co-Op store float. Taken c1958, Pam Twomey waving from float.
Russell St 1951 and today
Thanks to Bill Hodges for this great comparison of a section of Russell St in 1951 and in very recent times.
Call Of The Falling Leaf Poem
With thanks to Peter Tuckett, this great picture from a Festival of the Falling Leaf Programme, with the poem Call of the Falling Leaf by EM Howard and advertisements for the Excelsior Cafe and McDougall and Cruise:
Tumut Taxi 1970
With thanks to Chris Nicholes for the picture and description: 1965 Holden. A taxi I owned back about 1970. TC 057,the plate still in use in Tumut . Photo taken in Kirra St.