dubbo

The man on the left here is my father Arthur Charles Bernard Smith who was DLE (District Locomotive Engineer) at Dubbo NSW in 1954. (He had previously been DLE at Nyngan in 1952) I was a schoolchild in Dubbo at this time and remember seeing the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh as they drove around the oval in the football grounds. I later told my father that the Queen had "a pretty pink and white face". Kathleen McGregor (nee Smith)

All the cars are pre-1929 and appear to be post- 1924-25. Clues are the profiles of the soft-top roofs, the wheels sizes, the mid-late 20's shapes of the tourer bodies and the rear mounted spare tyres.

jennys old cars Thanks for your vehicular expertise, I'll pass on the info! I've also added 1920s as the date.

AB

when was the Government Savings Bank of NSW in operation ?

The Government Savings Bank of New South Wales series consists of bound materials, booklets, files, ledgers, and index cards created by the Bank during the course of its activities. The earliest records in this series are depositors’ ledgers from 1871 when the Government Savings Bank was established. The final record in the series was created in 1932, the year in which the final parts of the Bank’s business were handed over as part of its amalgamation with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/53306716@N06] Thanks for that info; I found a link to it on the Baseline website. There is also some background info about the Dubbo Lands Office in our catalogue, Archives Investigator. AB

This one I guess was taken a bit later as the tree has grown.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Privy Council: Court Buildings of the British Empire, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Thank for the invites, DBHKer.

This is the second courthouse which was built in 1887. The date MDCCCLXXXVII is above the doorway and clearly visible in the other photos. The wrought iron fence and gates have not been built yet.