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The new Tully State School building was constructed after the original school on this site burnt down in 1935. The new school was completed in 1938. This image shows “Curly” McQuillan, one of the builders, at the site

Photograph shows the newly constructed road from El Arish to the beach. The Public Estates Improvement (P.E.I.) road between El Arish and Bingil Bay was officially opened in July 1936. Possibly the Muff Creek crossing

Sepia photograph of Cardwell Railway Refreshment Rooms staff, 1936, standing outside the station building.In the war years that followed, the refreshment rooms staff were called on to provide meals to numerous servicemen as the troop trains usually stopped in Cardwell

Sepia photograph of the Cardwell Railway staff in 1936, including the Station Master. The photo was taken outside the station building

Black and white photograph of the new Tully State School building under construction in 1936 after the original school on this Mars Street site burnt down in 1935

Black and white photograph of Tully Push-bike Racing Club members preparing to set off on a race in c.1937. Behind them, Swaysland's fruit and vegetable store was on the corner of Bryant and Butler Streets (later became Nick & Jean's store)

Copy print showing the old saw bench in use on Dunk island in the 1930s. The saw was run by the tractor, which was also the tractor used to clear an area on Dunk for the aerodrome in 1937. Hugo Brassey arranged for the construction of the aerodrome. It was later extended by the RAAF in World War II

EJ Banfield and his wife commenced life on Dunk Island in 1897. They lived in tents while they built a one-roomed cedar hut. Their second home, pictured here in the late 1930s, was a more substantial house

Photograph of a group on Bedarra Island in 1935. At this time sugar industry workers would make semi-permanent camps on the island during the off season of the cane industry. The hut behind them, with a grass covered roof was the dining room and kitchen

Black and white photograph of the Storch children seated on the horses they used to ride from home to Murray Upper school each day in the early 1940s. The photo was taken by teacher, Ron Perrins