Thanks to Malcolm Baker for this great picture and description: I am putting on a photo of one of Edgar Joseph Baker’s trucks. This one is reputably the first truck to be driven over Talbingo Mountain to Kiandra. I am not sure which year but I believe it was somewhere around 1925. I believe the […]
Four generations of the Butler family
Thanks to Peter Butler for this picture and description: Left to Right. William Carter, William Butler (jnr), Albert (Bertie) Butler, George Thomas Butler. Photo taken about 1925. 4 generations. Photo from the collection of the late Jean Jamieson. Part of the Butler collection.
First car to travel up Talbingo Mountain
Another brilliant photo from Chris Nicholes: 1925 Flint, A car which spent its early life in Tumut, owned by the Moffat family. This was the first car to travel up Talbingo mountain in 1929. Photo in Kirra st Tumut, outside my first house 1974. Update (with thanks to Kevin Swann) – the first car up […]