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Taken in the 1930s, this is a photograph of a team of two horses pulling several trucks (cane bins) loaded with hand-cut sugar cane. One worker is holding the reins and there are no tracks. The location is the Tully district. Trash can be seen in the paddock

Photograph of members of the Irish Club of Tully, taken in front of the Savoy, Plumb Street, where meetings were held. It was taken in the early 1930s

Photograph of Murray Upper School with pupils and teacher on the front veranda. The students' hats are on hooks near the window. The water tank can be seen at the side of the small corrugated iron building. The pupils are un-named and the date is thought to be in the 1930s

Sepia original photograph shows Thomas Ormond (Ormy) Butler riding his horse ahead of a large number of cattle travelling down a dirt road. The Butler family lived at Murray Upper from 1902

Sepia photograph of Percy Benn's home near Maria Creek, in the 1930s. Percy Benn was one of the original soldier settlers at El Arish and one of the first to plant cane. When first built, this house was extremely modern and "new look" in design. Sugar cane is growing near the house and a utility truck is parked close by

Photograph of a Percy Dyer’s bicycle shop on Butler Street, Tully, in the 1930s. The sign “Eagles Cycles” is displayed over the pavement. The boy beside the bicycle is un-named

The Pilot Station at Flying Fish Point was erected in 1884 and first lighted in 1885. The lights allowed vessels to navigate the river entrance at night. This image was taken in the early 1930s

Photograph of a team of two horses harnessed to a cart (or planter) loaded with sugar cane stalks for planting. The unnamed man is working on Mrs. Brett's farm, Feluga, in the 1930s

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