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Refreshment Room staff at the Townsville railway station, 1955

Refreshment Room staff at the Townsville railway station, 1955

Betty (in white uniform at front) worked in the kitchen; Pat, Zetta and Daphne (in grey uniforms) worked in the dining car

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

Photograph of Rick and Gard’s sawmill, Tully, taken in the 1950s

Photograph showing the un-surfaced road along the beach at Bingil Bay, looking towards the north in the 1930s. The shacks on the foreshore were the male and female changing rooms. The bare hillside over Bingil Bay creek grew citrus and pineapples

Ron Flegler loading sugar cane tops onto a horse-drawn cart at the Flegler farm, Old Tully Road. The tops were then fed into the “chop chop” machine to reduce them to food for the horses that worked on the farm

Sepia photo of a timber truck crossing the Murray River at Storch’s crossing. Ron Flegler was a timber contractor in the Murray River area in the 1930s and 1940s

Sepia photograph of a boat being rowed on the Hull River with four people on board. The forested bank they are rowing towards is visible behind them

Photograph of the steamship “SS Tully” at Flying Fish Point with the tourist boat “Wanderer” to the right. After years carrying sugar and other goods loaded on the Tully and Johnstone Rivers, the “SS Tully” ran aground at the Coconuts on 1 September 1927 and was abandoned