Photo%20Collection

Photograph of ex-Servicemen, Boy Scouts and other people outside the El Arish Hall, thought to be on Anzac Day, 1952. The El Arish Soldiers’ Memorial School of Arts was built by the community pioneers, and officially opened in October 1930. Balls, meetings, plays and many community events have been held here over the years

Photograph of the Anzac Day parade turning from Butler Street into Bryant Street towards the cenotaph near the Anglican Church. The Tully Stone of Remembrance was moved from the Tully cemetery, where it was erected in 1944, to Bryant Street near the Anglican Church in 1958, and then to Mitchell Park in 2002

Photograph of an Anzac Day march in Tully, possibly in the 1930s. The marchers are proceeding east down Butler Street, across Still Street. The Bank of New South Wales is on the left. A commemoration service was held in the Plaza Theatre on Anzac Day in the 1930s

Sepia photograph of brother and sister Ashley and Florence (Durdie) Butler arriving at the Tully Show, possibly in the 1950s. The Butler family lived at Murray Upper, on a property named "Fringford"

Colour photograph of banana plants in the Kennedy Valley blown over by the tropical cyclone that struck North Queensland on Christmas Eve, 1971. This was Cyclone Althea which devastated Townsville

Photograph of Chinese banana growers loading bunches from their smaller craft onto the "Barratta". The banana trade on the Johnstone River thrived in the years before the First World War. The "Barratta" was an iron steamship registered to Burns Philp & Co. Ltd, based in Townsville, in 1892

Photograph of the home of E.J. Banfield (The Beachcomber) and Mrs Banfield, Dunk Island. It became part of the tourist resort. The people on the veranda are members of the Flegler family and friends

Black and white photograph of boats on the Hull River, near the mouth of the river. Mangroves along the shore can be seen in the background

Photograph of road building machinery during the building of the Lower Tully Road. One of the men is George Hunt. The Lower Tully section of the Main Roads developmental road from Tully town to Lower Tully was commenced in the late 1920s. Messrs Pershouse and Hunt were first contracted for the works in 1927

Sepia photograph of Brooks’ bullock team pulling logs across the Tully River at Glen Tyson. The logs would be loaded onto Ron Flegler’s timber truck for transportation to the sawmill