DRESS REHEARSAL MOONDYNE FESTIVAL
1985A black & white group photo of Men & Children - Boys & Girls - standing on the east side of the Toodyay Post Office in Fitzgerald Street.
Some of the girls appear to be in period costume.
One young man to the right foreground is holding a wheel barrow in which there is a spade and sheep's horns and some rolled cloth.
Another empty wheel barrow to lower right of picture.
Behind the group is a notice board and 2 phone boxes.
Practising for the second Moondyne Festival which was held on the weekend of August 24-25. The festival was sponsored by GWN Television (Golden West Network).
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Believed to have been taken as promotional material for the Toodyay Tourist Centre, who managed the festival at the time.
They are a similar type to the group of 51 photos taken at the festival a month later (2012.61a-ap) which are also assumed to have been produced for the same purpose. In 1998 the Toodyay Tourist Centre Inc. amalgamated with the Shire of Toodyay and its assets were transferred to the Shire.
WA 150th Celebrations in Toodyay
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Nearest geotagged records:
- NEWCASTLE BALL 1983 IN THE TOODYAY MEMORIAL HALL (0.01km away)
- VICTORIA HOTEL, TOODYAY 1920/30 (0.01km away)
- TOODYAY POST OFFICE (0.02km away)
- TOODYAY POST OFFICE & TOWN HALL (0.02km away)
- MCKITTRICKS STORE STIRLING TERRACE (0.02km away)
- TIDY TOWN ACTIVITIES (0.02km away)
- CELEBRATION OF WA'S 150TH ANNIVERSARY (0.03km away)
- TELEPHONE EXCHANGE & POST OFFICE (0.03km away)
- TOODYAY TELEPHONE EXCHANGE AND TOODYAY POST OFFICE (0.03km away)
- JAGER'S STORE STIRLING TERRACE TOODYAY (0.03km away)
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Other items from Shire of Toodyay
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DRESS REHEARSAL MOONDYNE FESTIVAL
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TOODYAY ROAD BOARD CHAMBERS, 1927-1958
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TOODYAY POST OFFICE
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DOUG WOOD
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TOODYAY SHIRE COUNCIL EXTENSIONS 1985
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RINGA RAILWAY BRIDGE
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GRAVE HEADSTONE OF LEWIS CLARKSON DURLACHER
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THE BRODERICK FAMILY AT THE TOODYAY RACES
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PAM MASTERS
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PAM MASTERS
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BRIAN BUZZARD & CO
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HARVESTING GRAIN
