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Photograph of the butcher's shop owned by Tully River Butchering Co. in Tully from about 1926. Christopf (Chris) Teitzel acquired the business from W. Still and B. Henry after he arrived in the district in 1926

Black and white photograph of the main street of Tully in 1926 (later named Butler Street). The Hotel Tully was under construction (on the right). The large water tank on the left was the town water supply

Colour photographic postcard, probably from the late-1920s. It shows the railway bridge over Banyan Creek which carried the tracks to the Tully sugar mill site. The publisher, E.H. Malin, was a bookseller in the new town of Tully. Ernest Malin also served as a Cardwell Shire Councillor in the 1930s

Photograph of Jago’s store and five other shops 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

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