POST OFFICE DECORATED FOR VICTORY DAY
c. 1946Black & white photo of post office in Stirling Tce., Toodyay decorated to celebrate Victory Day WWII.
Sign on picket fence (Victory Day).
Flag (Union Jack) hanging from balcony on second floor. Community notice board on edge of footpath.
Building is 2 story brick - 2 chimneys. Sign under top two windows 'Toodyay Post Office', PO Box on entry porch.
Most likely this actually dates from 1946: Victory Day was celebrated in Toodyay on June 10th of that year with a procession from the Newcastle Hotel to the Showgrounds. (Toodyay Herald, 14 June 1946, p.1)
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Writing on reverse of photo reads " Victory Day Decorations at Toodyay Post Office 1945"
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Nearest geotagged records:
- NEWCASTLE BALL IN THE TOODYAY MEMORIAL HALL (0.01km away)
- NEWCASTLE BALL, 1983, AT TOODYAY MEMORIAL HALL (0.01km away)
- NEWCASTLE BALL AT TOODYAY MEMORIAL HALL (0.01km away)
- TOODYAY POST OFFICE (0.01km away)
- MCKITTRICKS STORE STIRLING TERRACE (0.02km away)
- TOODYAY SOCIETY BALL AT MEMORIAL HALL 1983 (0.02km away)
- JAGER'S STORE STIRLING TERRACE TOODYAY (0.02km away)
- NEWCASTLE BALL 1983 IN THE TOODYAY MEMORIAL HALL (0.02km away)
- DRESS REHEARSAL MOONDYNE FESTIVAL (0.03km away)
- STIRLING TERRACE TOODYAY (0.03km away)
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