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Black and white photograph of canecutters on Butler Street on sign-on day in the late 1920s. The large building is the Broadway Theatre, which was demolished in the 1970s. At the start of the cane season the men would sign-on for a cane-cutting gang

Sepia photograph of an occasion at the new Roman Catholic Church of St Clare’s, Tully, possibly the official opening. St Clare’s was officially opened on Sunday 8th August, 1926

Photograph of the Bryant Street area in 1926. On the right, the Q.A.T.B. (Ambulance) building is under construction. Behind can be seen the Tully Mill houses on the west side of the street. The huts in the foreground lie on what is now Writ Lane (behind the current library and civic Centre)

An early photograph of Tully township (1926) showing the first houses built on the side of Mount Tyson

Black & white copy print of Silkwood East, 1926, with the railway line in the foreground. The Hotel Silkwood can be seen to the right, and a cash store to the left

Black and white print of the old hall, Feluga, situated near the railway station. Erected by the Farmers Association, in 1926, it was some 40 feet by 25 feet. The Feluga Provisional School opened here on 7th February 1927 pending a purpose-built school. On the first day 25 children were enrolled, and the teacher was Michael F. Callaghan. The hall was destroyed by a cyclone in 1956

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