TOODYAY WHEELBARROW RACE
1980 - 1981A slightly blurred coloured photo taken in Stirling Tce of 3 young men in a wheelbarrow race. One is sitting in the wheelbarrow, one (possibly Ronald Martin) is pushing it and a third is running alongside. All are dressed in white singlets, maroon shorts, sneakers, white or maroon/yellow knee length socks.
A Caltex service station sign and Butterly Cottage are in the background and cars parked kerbside. Trees are beyond.
Probably the Wowser James wheelbarrow race re-creation.
In 1935 Toodyay blacksmith Ernest Wesley 'Wowser' James rose to the challenge that he couldn't push local barber Frank Costello in a wheelbarrow around an unsealed 6.4km course. The course started and ended at the Victoria Hotel in Stirling Terrace, Toodyay. The contest drew in other competitors. The craze took off and was a feature event at the Toodyay Agricultural Show later that year.
In the early 1980s teams of three raced around a shorter (4.4km) route to raise funds for local organisations and the events proved popular with locals.
(ref: Toodyay Herald article by Ieva Tomsons, September 2017, p.15)
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