Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT
Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/749164
Collection: S. S. Godfrey

Description:
On the way to Adelaide River picnic. Sign on the side of the carriage reads "Respectable special drunks 1 Bottle Beer admission, Reserved, Reserved, for Bank Clerks and others".

Posted 6-November-2021.

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SL-of-SA
https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+24187/8
Part of Album Collection
Subject Municipal buildings - Northern Territory - Darwin

• Quoting northernterritory.com
  
  The Town Hall ruins are all that remain of the original Palmerston Town Hall designed in 1882 and completed in 1883.
  
  It was used for civic purposes until the Navy occupied it during the war years. When peace returned, the building was used as office space by the Museum and Art Galleries Board.
  
  The building was so severely damaged by Cyclone Tracy in 1974 that it was not rebuilt. The remains were stabilised in 1980 since when the ruins have been developed as a public open space and visual arts performance venue. Conservation works are effected from time to time.
  
  

Ably assisted by Mick Gulovsen with this colourisation.

Posted 2-November-2021.

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Creator: Gray, Ruthie
Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/525103
Related items: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/525106
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/525110
Collection: StoryNT

Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT
Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/325372
Collection: Don Purdon Collection
PictureNT

https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+1435/4/139
Dates / Publication details 1945
Photographer: Nicholas, R. P
Darwin (N.T.)

Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/748743
Collection: Coral Crombie-Brown Collection
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT
Collection: Peter Spillett Collection

https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+46851
Approximately 1890
Photographer: Foelsche, P
Collection: Part of Northern Territory Collection
Subject: Picnics - Northern Territory - Darwin

Sorry folks, found several copies of this photo on the web, but couldn't find a known source.

Subject Pickwick Club (Darwin, N.T.)
Pioneers -- Northern Territory -- Darwin
https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+53806

Description: Group photograph of members of the Port Darwin Pickwick Club.
Approximately 1890 Collection: Part of Darwin Collection

Standing from left;
Kelsey, Barnes, Price, C Davis, Godwin, Holden, Tullidge, Bell, Allen, Peake, Adcock;

Sitting from left;
Holtze, John Kilgour, Little, Mercer, Stevenson, Witherden, Goldsmith, Wurm, Burgoyne

Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/748987
Collection: S. S. Godfrey Collection
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT

https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+9067
Part of Darwin Collection
Subject Railroads - Northern Territory - Darwin

Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/317988
Collection: Edna Gobby Collection
World War, 1939-1945 - Northern Territory - Darwin

Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/748518
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT
Collection: Izod Collection

https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+22007

Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/728621
Collection: Northern Territory Government Photographer Collection
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT

Creator Bleeser, Florenz A. K., 1871-1942. Published ca. 1890.
Series Florenz Bleeser collection of photographs of Palmerston, [i.e. Darwin] and the Northern Territory, ca. 1890-1900.
Part Of In collection: Florenz Bleeser collection of photographs of Palmerston, [i.e. Darwin] and the Northern Territory, ca. 1890-1900

Photo Source: Unknown.

Andrew King
Here is the view of Smith Street from the balcony of the Vic Hotel in the 1960s. Looks like it must have been taken shortly after a shower.
(Sorry Andrew, I couldn't see a Standard Vanguard Ute.)

Posted 20-November-2021

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Original Photo Courtesy of Richard Turner.
Colour enhanced and sharpened.

Posted 18-November-2021

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Library & Archives NT
Foelsche, P. (Paul), 1831-1914
Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/452699
Collection: Foelsche Photograph Album

Description:
"Mitchell St 1879". View looking south-east along Mitchell Street. In foreground is a man with a broom next to a buggy. In the background at right is the Police Barracks and at left is the store of "V.L. Solomon and Co". A number of people
stand in doorways and watch the photographer

As Mitchell Street no longer goes through to the Esplanade, I feel the photo would have been taken from around about the NT Library, looking towards the Supreme Court.

Posted 21-November-2021

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Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/734499
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT  
Collection: Peter Spillett Collection
Darwin Stokes Hill Wharf

Description:
Albert MacDonald and his Swift No 1 Light Roadster fitted with Dunlop Roadster tyres. He rode from Adelaide to Darwin (2066 miles in 28 days, 15 hours and 30 mins). He left Port Darwin at 6.15am Monday 22 August 1898 arriving GPO Victoria Square Adelaide 9.45pm 19 September and then went on to Melbourne. The Adelaide-Darwin record was not broken until 1914 by Ted (Ryko) Reichenbach. Darwin Wharf, near path up to town.

Posted 22-November-2021

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Original Photo Source: SLSA
Citation address: https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+53746

Description:
DARWIN: A diver about to make a descent during the construction of a new jetty. Approximately 1890

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Original Photo Source: J.C. Buscall Photo number: PH0170/0159
Photographer: Buscall Collection, PictureNT
Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/655149

Description:
Aerial view of Stokes Hill, Wharf and Frances Bay about 1932. Darwin Train Station is out of shot to the bottom. This is the goods yard.

The ship beached on the left edge of the photo?

Andrew King

WARREGO: 1,552 gross tons, 867 net. Lbd: 250' x 36'2" x 22'8". Steel steamship built by William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland for QSS Co's Australian passenger coastal trade. Designed especially for the 'trade war' with the ASN Co, Of AUSN April 1887. Laid up and sold 1912 to the Royal Australian Navy and converted into a storeship, towed by ss Coolgardie to Darwin, Northern Territory, October 1913. In 1919, a cyclone blew the old ship, with 600 tons of coal on board, high on the beach near the Darwin wharf. 1942 was subjected to Japanese bombing raids. In 1960, her remains lay on the beach at a spot where a landfill was required for a power station. The ship's remnants were simply covered over, remaining hidden there to this day Read more at the wrecksite.

Posted 25-November-2021

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Original Photo Source: SL-of-SA Darwin [B 9744]
Photographer: Sweet, Samuel White

Description:
Palmerston. First temporary Telegraph Station showing a wooden building with a thatched roof
surrounded by a rustic fence all in a clearing among the trees. A man is standing holding a rifle at the corner of the building.

Posted 24-November-2021

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https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+22664
Approximately 1895 Collection. Part of Northern Territory Collection

Group of working men from the Northern Territory 1895.

Posted 27-November-2021

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Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/751145
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT  
Collection: Darwina & William Fong Collection Darwin

Description:
Marriage of Alfred Chin to Mabel.

From left to right.

Charles See Kee, Percy Chin, Valerie Pak and Pat Wu

Posted 26-November-2021

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Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/333045
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT  
Collection: Peter Spillett Collection

Description:
Two women are sitting in the middle, surrounded by seven men. The man on the right seated is Inspector Paul Foelsche

Gary Lee 28-Nov-2021:
My great great great grandfather George McKeddie on the left. He was from a large Scottish family who sold up everything and migrated to Australia, Melbourne. In his early twenties he moved to Darwin where he spent the next 50 years owning various businesses also in Katherine. He had two children - Magdaleine (Lily) and Jack McKeddie with Larrakia woman Annie Duwun. Later with McKeddie’s blessing seventeen year old Lily married Antonio Cubillo thereby starting the Cubillo clan in Darwin. To see this historical photo in color is amazing, I love it, thank you.

Joyce Davis 29-Nov-2021:
I am pretty sure the old lady in black is Eliza Tuckwell and the the man in the grey coat next to her is Ned TUCKWELL. They both arrived on the first ship that came to Darwin to populate it. Ned built the first Government House. Eliza & Ned TUCKWELLll were the parents of Eliza who was the second wife of V V BROWN and tthey were the parents of Jack BROWN who married my aunty Eileen JOHNSON. Old Mrs Tuckwell always dressed in black with a black hat and sometimes with a lace collar as shown, but mostly with a black dress with a high neck and a black hat.

Joyce Davis 30-Nov-2021:
Don & Cheryl, I am going to attach a copy of a photo that I took from the original (that my mother owned) of V V BROW & his M-I-L Eliza TUCKWELL. I took a copy of it and sent the original to my cousins Dorothy Donaldson & Laurel SCHRODER both nee BROWN the daughters of Jack BROWN & my mother's sister Eileen JOHNSON. From Dereks reply Ned died in 1882 s00s before her o if that is Ned Tuckwell the photo must have been taken before that, or if it wasn't then the man can't be Ned. I have another photo somewhere with Eliza Tuckwell in it taken in the 1900s befor. Her death in 1921 however I cant seem to put my finger on it just now so perhaps Cyclone Tracey wanted it more than me. Please excuse any lapses of name that I leave blank as I can't remember at the time ut I do so after the occasion, as I am 87 years old. I love your colouring of the photos so keep up the good work. Regards Joy DAVIS nee DRYSDALE

Derek Pugh 28-Nov-2021:
Nice photo. I question the date. In 1890 Foelsche (1831-1914) was 59 years old. Charlotte (1840-1899) was 50 years old. It would be nice to know the names of the others in this pic - can anyone help?. Is that Charlotte on Foelsche's right? If it is, both Paul and Charlotte look older than 59 and 50. The photos date therefore might be later in the 1990s... 1896 perhaps, before the cyclone. Another thought is that Foelsche was a robust, overweight man. This image of him as an elder shows he has lost weight - if he is in the last few years of his life could the photo date from the 1900s? ... Or perhaps this is not Foelsche at all, just a man who trimmed his beard in the same way...

Derek Pugh 29-Nov-2021:
Joyce, I agree it may be Eliza Tuckwell. (She and her daughter, Eleanor, incidentally, were the first women to enroll to vote). The man cannot be Ned however, as he died in 1882 at the age of 52. He was a popular man and nearly the whole community followed his coffin to the cemetery: MR EDWARD TUCKWELL, one of our oldest residents, has passed from amongst us very suddenly at the comparatively early age of fifty-two. Probably no man met with more vicissitudes, more ups and downs, than our deceased friend during his life in the Northern Territory… His remains were followed to the cemetery by nearly the whole of the residents of Port Darwin, the service being read by the Government Resident, Mr E W. Price. In concluding this brief notice, we say by his death the Government have lost a good, honest, and faithful servant, and one whom they will find it difficult to replace. (Obituary, NTTG 29 April 1882).

Eliza 'Granny' Tuckwell died in 1921, aged 85. She and Ned are both buried in Goyder Rd Cemetary. Eleanor married Tom Styles and their family dynasty contains several important historic and pioneering individuals, such as the nurse and unionist, Eileen Fitzer. V. V. Brown married Eliza Sarah Tuckwell in 1901. He helped Granny Tuckwell rebuild after the 1997 cyclone. Perhaps these two are the couple on the left...???

By the way, Ned's work in Government House can still be seen in the stonework of the cellar and the major wall around the sitting room. He and Ned Ryan (who built Ryan's Well) were gifted builders.

Posted 28-November-2021

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Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/733056
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT  
Collection: Peter Spillett Collection

View to Port Darwin harbour.
The house was built for Gilbert McMinn.
Doctor's residence on right. At the end of Hughes Avenue.

Posted 29-November-2021

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Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/629276
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT  
Robert Monteith Collection Darwin City

If anyone has additional location and year information, it would be much appreciated.

Two women and a man with Robert Monteith sitting in the chair in the middle and a child holds a toy kangaroo.

The young lady at the left of this photo appears in many others of the same vintage.
 
Posted 30-November-2021

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SL-0f-SA Darwin [B 5061]

Description:
Scrub covered Stokes Hill provides a backdrop for this view of the railway yard which comprises a complex of buildings, one on the extreme right being under construction. The water tower is on the left. [On back of photograph] 'Stokes' Hill and railway yards, Port Darwin / Northern Territory
/ In the eighteen eighties'. Approximately 1889?

Derek Pugh 1-December-2021:
The house on top of Stokes Hill belonged to the Millar brothers, who were the contractors building the railway to Pine Ck.

Tim Smith: 24-Apr-2024
This is Paul Foelsche's image no 157, which he titled Railway Yard, Dec. 1889, Tim Smith

Posted 01-December-2021

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Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/748699
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT  
Collection: Peter Spillett Collection

If anyone has additional location and year information, it would be much appreciated.

Lee Wedding group 1930

Wedding group.
L-R Standing: Charlie Yuen; Chong Moong; Willy Lee; Tommy Ming Kit; Kown Ling from Cairns; Philip Lee.

L-R Seated:
Ruby Hassan (D'Ambrosio); Mrs Hassan; Lucy Lee; Mrs Lee (Man Fong Lau); Lilian Yuen (Chen).

Small boy in front: Leslie Wong

Nat Fong: 2-Dec-2021:
I think it’s in the KMT Hall. There are newspaper reports on this wedding in Trove. Sophie Couchman has written about it in her chapter in Locating Chinese Women and Julia Martínez has written about it in her chapter in Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement & Resistance.

Gladys Burlinson 3-dec-2021:
Nat, there was a big write up of my my parents wedding in the front page of the The Northern Standard 1932 . It was held at Kuo Min Tang Hall. In the book " The Chinese in the Northern Territory" by Timothy G Jones were also story of my parents wedding.

Posted 2-December-2021

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Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/750483
Collection: Howard Truran Collection
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT

Band at Naval party 1960

Description:
A band playing at a Naval Christmas party.
L-R: Johnnie Johnson, piano; Howard Truran, Base; Div Colinson, saxaphone; Cec Trainer, drums.

Sheila Sinclair 3-Dec-2021:
Hi I sang with his band in hotel darwin many moons ago

Posted 3-December-2021

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Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/735621
Collection: Percy Brown Collection
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT

Darwin foreshore 1920

Description:
Darwin foreshore with Fort Hill left background, Government House on top of hill, and government buildings to the right. Photograph taken from entrance to Stokes Hill wharf

Posted 4-December-2021

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Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/433507
Collection: Leisure Activities, Darwin c1950

Six Golfers Darwin 1950

Description:
4 men and 2 women with golf clubs and bag. Darwin 1950.

Posted 6-December-2021

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https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+53773
DARWIN: The Locomotive called the "Sand Fly". Approximately 1890 Collection
Part of Darwin Collection

What a story this little locomotive has. After many years away, it now resides back home here in Darwin at the 1934 QANTAS hanger.

Sandfly is historically significant to the Northern Territory as the first and longest serving locomotive to operate on the North Australia Railway (NAR).

Sandfly operated on the NAR between 1887 and 1950 and was instrumental in its construction. The NAR became a vital infrastructure link which directly facilitated the expansion of the mining and pastoral industries in the NT and the defence of northern Australia during WWII. Sandfly was the only locomotive of its class to operate along the NAR and is one of three remaining steam
locomotives associated with the NAR left in the NT.

Ably assisted by Mick Gulovsen with this colourisation.

Posted 5-December-2021

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Following her retirement, Sandfly was relocated to SA in 1959 for restoration and display. In 2005, she was returned to the NT as a gift to commemorate completion of the Alice Springs to Darwin Railway. Sandfly is a symbol of the early pioneering and frontier Territory spirit that built the NAR. She is also a political reflection about the century of political maneuvering required to complete the transcontinental railway from north to south and fulfill the 1911 contract between the Commonwealth, SA and the NT.

Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/365768
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT
Roy Harbridge Collection. Created or collected by the donor's father during his service in the Darwin region before and during WW2.

Description:
"Kahlin Beach Low Tide 29-8-40" Now Cullen Bay.

Posted 7-December-2021

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Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/312497
Collection: John F. Harris Collection
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT

Description:
Foreground beach with view of swimming baths below Fort Hill in the background, Government House on the hill. Date circa 1940s

Note the two military trucks on the beach in the zoom view.

Posted 8-December-2021

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I found this poor quality B&W photo of "Fort Hill Baths Lameroo Beach 1910"

Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/731094 Collection: Peter Spillett Collection
 
Description:
Fort Hill baths at low tide. Built to accommodate rise and fall of 30 feet, & to protect swimmers from sharks & crocodiles as well as box jelly fish in wet season.

So it looks like there were two swimming baths. One at Fort Hill and one below the old oval on the esplanade. Both listed as Lameroo beach.

Swimming enclosure Date Created: 1912

Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/744825
 
Description:
The Fort Hill Baths, built in 1880 and last used in around 1921. Ship in the background

Photo Source: Unknown.

Two locomotives and a motor rail car (Passenger) at the 2 1/2 mile workshops Parap in 1958.

Posted 9-December-2021

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Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/748733
Collection: Coral Crombie-Brown Collection
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT

Description:
Swimming baths at Lameroo Beach

This was below the old Oval on the Esplanade.

Posted 10-December-2021

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Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/316420
Collection: Edna Gobby Collection
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT

Cooking some steak on a fire out of doors. 1940

Description:
Dulcie Thomas, Pat Buswell, Rene Curtis, Marge Thorpe, Mary Sangster, Pat Rice, Edna Leach;  
Back Row: Evelyn Henderson cooking some steak on a fire out of doors with their Sydney William huts in the background. Unit and names unknown. Notes: Australia. Army World War, 1939-1945 - Northern Territory - Darwin
 
Posted 11-December-2021

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Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/372634
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT  

NAR steam locomotive Darwin 1915

Description:
Depicts an NAR Locomotive with many railcars standing at the Darwin Railway Station.

Original description was given as the Sandfly, but that is not correct.

Robert Kirby
This is an ex SAR W class, loco, relisted in the NAR as an NF class loco.
 
Posted 12-December-2021

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Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/749306
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT  

East Point 1916

Description:
Waves crashing against rocks at East Point

105 years ago. Has it changed all that much?

Posted 13-December-2021

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https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+10121
1873 Collection Part of Darwin Collection

Mitchell Street, looking from Residency. A neat row of houses constructed from wood and iron line the street opposite the Government Residency. Corner of the Esplanade.

Posted 14-December-2021

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https://hdl.handle.net/10070/434069
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT

Three Girls on Lameroo Beach 1949
Description:
MS in blue on verso Self, Barb. Hewitt & Lal. Lameroo, Darwin

Posted 15-December-2021

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Photographer: Ryko, Ted Ronald Lister Collection
Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/741087
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT

Description:
Chinese shops at the north west end of Cavenagh Street, Man Fong Lau in foreground. Michele Adler viewed the original 13 July 2015 and positively identifies the handwriting on the front as Ryko's

Jeffrey Fong 26-Nov-2024
Corner of Cavenagh and Bennett Sts.

Posted 16-December-2021

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Photo: Australian War Memorial
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C216412
https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced-search?query=darwin+war+trial&collection=true
There are many photos in this collection.

POW Camp. Emery Point 1946

Emery Point, Darwin, NT. 1946-02-27. NX193171 Private R. H. Jardine, 12/40th battalion, surveying the japanese prisoner of war compound from a lookout tower.

The compound housed prisoners about to face trial for war crimes committed in Timor and the lesser Sundas islands.

Don.
The original photo looks like it could be a night shot, as it was very hard to produce a good conversion. However I felt it was of enough historical significance to include it in my collection.

This is at Emery Point Larrakeyah, not far around from where Cullen Bay is located today. Looks like Private Jardine has his slouch hat on his head, and a steel helmet close handy.

He appears to be holding a .303 Bren light machine gun. I remember lugging one of these around in a previous life some time last century.
The huts in the compound are camouflaged and used to hold the Japanese POW's awaiting War Crime Trials in Darwin after WWII.

Posted 17-December-2021

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Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/431643
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT  
Collection: William Williams Collection

Women in uniform. 1940s.

Description:
Australian Women's Army Service Soldiers. Darwin.

Posted 18-December-2021

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https://hdl.handle.net/10070/749390
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT
Date: 09-10-1915

First Swimming carnival Fort Hill Baths 1915

Description:
People sitting and leaning on fences watching Darwin's first swimming carnival at Fort Hill Baths.

Don:
As I have recently discovered, there were two sets of swimming baths. This first one was out from the old Fort Hill, and was originally described as Lameroo beach. These Fort Hill Baths, were built in 1880 and last used around 1921.

The second one was below the old Oval on the Esplanade, which was also described as Lameroo beach, and many older folks will remember visiting these. This had a concrete base, and various fencing materials were used over the years for protection at high tide.

Posted 19-December-2021

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Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/748876
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT  
Collection: E. J. Braid Collection

Cavenagh Street 1941

Description:
Cavenagh Street looking towards the port. The two storey building middle distance left (with ventilators) housed the Eastern Cafe owned by Selina Hassan. In left foreground Mr Kyrianos ran 'Zero in the Tropics', a milkbar, in the Kafcaloudes building which has a sign '....Wing Cafe' Gordon's Don Hotel and Chinese business at right and the Tree of Knowledge centre background. Various
models of cars and trucks from the era are parked on the side of the road, left side are angle parked while those on the right are parallel parked.

Posted 20-December-2021

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Citation address: https://hdl.handle.net/10070/317106
Copyright owner: Library & Archives NT  
Collection: Darwina & William Fong Collection

Jeffrey Fong 2-August-2022:
That's not Alan Chin's wedding but a Harry Fong Kee's. Info from Norm Chin. This photo would of been taken by my uncle William Fong who's wife Darwina is 6th from left. It's one from their collection as noted in the Citation address. Cheers.

Incorrect Description:
A group of people in front of the Oriental Cafe, at the wedding of Alan Chin, Cavenagh Street

Posted 21-December-2021

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SL-of-SA B 4652

Government Buildings, Port Darwin 1870s

Viewed from Fort Hill is a cluster of (mostly) corrugated iron buildings of the camp.
The building on the hill opposite (left side) is probably the Governor's residence. [On back of photograph] ' The Camp / Government Buildings, Port Darwin / in the eighteen seventies'

KC Martin-Stone
Hi Don. Yes, the house on the hill is the Government Residence (Government House today). Below the hill is the single men’s quarters and the Chief Medical Officer’s residence (foreground). The two long sheds are the government stables and government workshop. Immediately behind the stables is Bell’s residence (though which Mr Bell, I’m not sure). I’d have to look up the buildings behind Bell’s residence. This is where Knight’s Folly was later built. On top of the escarpment are the police station and administrator’s offices. Great photo! I hadn’t seen this one before. The outbuilding on the SE corner of Government House was the kitchen and laundry of the day.

Posted 22-December-2021

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