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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

Colour photographic postcard of shops on the west side of the street that was later named Bryant Street, taken in 1925. Malin's newsagent and hairdressing salon is prominent on the corner. A few businesses can be seen on what became Watkins Street. Mount Tyson is in the background

Sepia original photograph of the Tully sugar mill, looking east from the site of the court house, in 1925. Mount Mackay behind the buildings

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