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Photograph of Tully Stores owned by Alf Jago, taken in the early days of Tully, after 1925. Alf Jago purchased the land in the first sale of allotments in July 1924 and opened his first business in December of that year. It was located on the corner of Butler and Still Streets

Black and white photograph of canecutters in front of a loaded truck (bin) at El Arish. The stumps and logs can clearly be seen in the paddock, around which the cane was grown. The property was that of J.D. Irving, who drew a block at Jaffa. As well as farming and canecutting, Irving was recorded as "bending steel on the Jubilee Bridge" in the early times

Photograph looking east towards Mount Mackay down Butler Street, Tully. On the right, the Hotel Tully is under construction down from the National Bank building

Photograph of the temporary bar which twins, Pat and Mick Mullins, erected while the concrete Hotel Tully building was under construction on the adjacent block. They obtained their liquor licence in 1925

An early photograph of some of Cardwell's council officers, taken on the steps of the Cardwell Shire Hall in 1925. This building is the former Cardwell Divisional Board Hall, built 1892-3

Twins, Pat and Mick Mullins, obtained a liquor licence in July 1925 and erected a temporary bar while the concrete Hotel Tully building was under construction. When a fire in February 1997 damaged the hotel, the original Art Deco look of the “Top Pub” was retained in the reconstructed building

Colour photographic postcard of shops on the west side of the street that was later named Bryant Street, taken in 1925. Malin's newsagent and hairdressing salon is prominent on the corner. A few businesses can be seen on what became Watkins Street. Mount Tyson is in the background

Sepia original photograph of the Tully sugar mill, looking east from the site of the court house, in 1925. Mount Mackay behind the buildings

Photograph of a team of three horses harnessed to a cart driven by an unnamed man at Allison's farm, which was located along what is now the Old Tully Road. The house is in the background

Sepia photograph of a steam train at the Cardwell station in the 1920s. The small station building is in the rear left and some tents, possibly for construction workers, are to the right. The North Coast Railway line through from Townsville to Cairns was finally officially opened in December 1924 when the Daradgee bridge over the Johnstone River was completed