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The Savoy, located on Plumb Street was constructed in the early days of the township. It may have originally been the home of the Greek Club. The Irish Club met here in the 1930s, and it also provided accommodation for canecutters and itinerant workers

Photograph of the Savoy, a boarding house on Plumb Street, Tully. Originally built to house itinerant workers such as canecutters

Sepia copy of a photograph of the home of the Skardon family on Mission Beach Road, built in 1916. The first Skardons came to Cardwell in the 1880s. Fiddes and John Skardon had erected slaughteryards and a butchery on this property at Midgenoo by 1920

George Morris ran a small resort on Orpheus Island (in the Palm Island group) before he was hired by Hugo Brassey to go to Dunk Island to run the resort there

The three sons of Peter and Ellen Flegler, photographed as boys

Photograph of “Tomboy”, the first of Jim Butler’s boats. Cargo from larger boats was offloaded at Dunk Island, then carried across to the jetty at the mouth of the Hull River before being transported by truck to Tully

Black and white original photograph of the Tully Falls, taken in the 'dry' season and before 1940. The Tully Falls Hydro-electric Power Project changed the nature of the Tully Falls. The project was finally completed in 1960

Sepia photograph of the completed road bridge over the Tully River, probably taken in the 1930s

Sepia photograph looking across Edith Street, Innisfail, taken in the aftermath of the cyclone that made landfall on 10th March 1918. The White Horse Hotel is the first building from the left, and the Oddfellows Hall is situated next to it. A small group of men are moving through the debris, damaged buildings and along the road

Sepia photograph taken looking down in the aftermath of the cyclone that made landfall on the 10th March, 1918. On the left side of the image, a group of men are standing in the front of what remains of the White Horse Hotel, Edith Street, Innisfail. A.S. Mellick's Central Merchant Store on Rankin Street is identifiable in the background