POSTCARD PHOTO OF TOODYAY RAILWAY STATION c1912

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c. 1912

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Overview

Monochrome postcard of Toodyay Railway Station with 2 young girls standing on the roadway outside.
White fences surround the station and a telegraph pole is in the foreground.
At the rear of the photo is the Toodyay Hospital.
Railway wagons can be seen as well as the Goods Shed on the opposite side of the line to the Station.
Postcard produced by Kodak Australia.

Historical information

This photograph is amongst a group of items relating to Olive Pretoria Lloyd and was offered to the museum collection in October 2020 by Glenys Harrison of Bunbury.
The identity of the two girls in the foreground is unknown, but seeing this photograph has connections with Olive Sinclair nee Lloyd, it’s not unreasonable to suggest that possibly one of the girls is Olive herself taken in the early 1910s.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2020.401

Item type

Photographs

Themes

Social History

Material

Photographic Paper

Width

14 cm

Height or length

9 cm

Contextual Information

Olive Lloyd (1900-1994) of North Toodyay married Egbert Douglas Sinclair in 1918 at St Stephen’s Church, Toodyay.
The photograph shows the early Toodyay Railway station at its location where the medical centre is today. The railway station is named Toodyay, so this would make the date of the image post 1910. The station was closed in 1966 following the installation of the standard gauge railway line.

Year

c. 1912

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Geotag

-31.55153418524, 116.47073881255

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Shire of Toodyay

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