Framed Photograph - WA Chopping League 1954
1954Black wooden frame with glass frontage.
Black and white photograph with a beige border of eight men in their logging gear (singlet with black swan emblem, white trousers, and shoes). They are standing in a row on the grassed oval with building in background.
Two axes are criss-crossed on the grass in front of them.
South Western Times, 14th January 1955:
News article states that these eight axemen were invited by WA Chopping League to compete in the State's forthcoming "Charlie Handmer 14inch Underhand" chopping championship to be held in Manjimup. Clothing worn at the Gloucester Park exhibition the previous year, would be worn again at the Manjimup competition.
Details
Details
At top of photograph:
Representatives WA Chopping League, Queen's Visit, Gloucester Park, 1954
Underneath photograph:
Left to right: M Dearle, A R Anderson (winner), L Stagboer (3rd), B Dodd, G A Gale, E Jackson, W F Widderson, N Weston (2nd)
Victor Penrose, Perth
Note: A newspaper article is taped to the back of the frame (see under "MEDIA" tab for details)
On 29th March 1954, these men cut in an exhibition ("underhand chopping" event) at Gloucester Park, Western Australia in front of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh whom were on the last leg of their 8-week Royal Australian Tour.
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