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Zetta Pedley (later Bobbermein) at home in Innisfail, wearing the pink uniform of Queensland Rail Refreshment Room staff. Taken in 1953

Black and white photograph looking south east over the sugar mill yards, Tully. Crane gantry in the foreground in front of the chimney stack. Sugar cane is stacked in the yard ready for crushing

Tully State school pupils in fancy dress costume, in 1954, probably at the Plaza Theatre, scene of many local events over the years

A Tully State Rural School class photograph, taken in about 1956

Sepia photographic postcard of Butler Street, the main street of Tully, probably in the 1950s. The Post Office is on the right, with the National Bank and Hotel Tully further down the street. Mount Mackay is in the background

Sepia photograph of the S.L.S.C. building on Kennedy Esplanade, South Mission Beach. The building was used during WW2 at Battle Creek on the Atherton Tableland and was brought to the Beach by trucks in c.1950. It was destroyed by fire c.1972 after it had been sold for a residential block. The Lifesavers were operating before the war and started up again after the war. It was a popular pastime in the 1960s

Railway dining car staff boarding the train home at the end of their shift

Dining car staff taking a break on the Townsville-Mt Isa line

Dining car staff taking a break on the Townsville-Mt Isa line

Railway employees in uniform at Mt Isa Railway Station on the Townsville-Mt Isa line. The man on the left (Jimmy Lavell, wearing cap) was a porter; the lady in the middle (Shirley) is in the white kitchen staff uniform; the ladies either side (Zetta and Pat) are in the grey Refreshment Room uniform, and the man on the right was a fireman