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Sepia original photograph of the Marine Hotel, Victoria Street, Cardwell. Originally a single storey building dating from 1871, it was extended in 1877. It served the community well but was demolished and replaced by a new hotel-motel building which was officially opened in November 1967

Sepia photograph showing the construction of the first road bridge over the Tully River, 1928

Photograph of an ambulance vehicle in Tully in 1929. Two ambulance officers are seated in the car, and a third man named Bill Hall is leaning on the driver’s door. An Ambulance Sub-centre was established in Tully in 1925

Sepia photograph of a Cardwell football team from the 1930s, probably taken at the Cardwell sports ground

Black and white copy photograph of the stockyard on Kirrama Range. The people with horses in the photo may be members of the Collins family

Black and white copy photograph of a car of unspecified make, and a group of people (and a dog). It was taken at Cashmere Station on the new car road to Kirrama Station from Mount Garnet

Just inside the mouth of the Hull River. This river was named after Surveyor Alfred Hull who had worked in the area in 1871 surveying the Murray and Mackay (Tully) Rivers area

Sepia photograph of Victoria Street, Cardwell, looking North in about 1930. The Marine Hotel is on the left. Shops in the distance include Ryley's Newsagency

View of the railway bridge over flooded Tully River in 1929. Large piles of debris and timber are visible to the right side of the bridge, and a figure is standing on the bridge in the mid-ground

Official photograph, taken by Townsville photographer, Don. J. Peiniger, of the Tully Rugby League team and officials. The team took part in the Townsville football carnival of 1929, a country carnival that decided the zone premierships for North Queensland