North-West

North-West_1956

These images are scans from Kodak Transparencies taken by my Father in 1956 when he toured the north west of Australia in his Wolseley sedan. It was a hard journey over rough unsealed roads and supplies, including extra fuel, had to be carried in the vehicle. I believe the trip took six weeks and he was accompanied by his friends Cyril and Tony. These scenes are now over 50 years old and of historical interest. Titles and descriptions have been added where possible.

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001 RouteTravelled Departed from Konnongorring and travelled in anti-clockwise direction.	002 Flats between Wubin and Paynes Find	003 Goldfields Woodlands	004 Payne's Find Hotel
005 Heading North	006	007	008 Wide Open Spaces
009	010	011 Northern Goldfields Ghost Town Possibly Big Bell or Day Dawn.	012
013 Main Street of Cue	014	015 Town of Meekatharra	016 Royal Mail Hotel at Meekatharra
017 Road Train at Meekatharra	018 Road Signpost This way to Peak Hill, Nullagine and Marble Bar.	019	020 The Road A two-wheel track with protruding stones.
021 Dry Creek Bed	022 Spinifex and Gum Trees	023 Stony Ground	024 Houses Possibly at Peak Hill. Note the "Cool Room" at the back made by packing Spinifex between wire netting and cooled by trickling water.
025 Station Windmill and Tank	026	027 Kangaroo in the wild	028 Beside a Petrol Bowser
029 North West Town Possibly Nullagine.	030 Cyril at an old Mine Site	031 Coloured Rocks of the Pilbara	032 North West Town Possibly Nullagine.
033 Wolseley in Pilbara Landscape	034 Grading the Road	035 Town of Marble Bar The world record for the longest sequence of days above 100°Fahrenheit (or 37.8° on the Celsius scale) is held by Marble Bar in the inland Pilbara district of Western Australia. The temperature, measured under standard exposure conditions, reached or exceeded the century mark every day from 31 October 1923 to 7 April 1924, a total of 160 days.	036 Marble Bar Government Buildings In 1894-95 the Government Offices (now a series of National Trust listed buildings) were constructed out of local stone with corrugated iron roofs and elaborate stuccoed window dressings. Located just west of Sandy Creek on General Street they are the most impressive set of buildings in the town.
037 Marble Bar Landscape	038 Marble Bar Marble Bar was named after a local deposit of mineral first thought to be marble, but which later proved to be jasper (a highly coloured cryptocrystalline variety of quartz) which crosses the Coongan River about 5 km west of the town.	039 Marble Bar The local deposit of mineral first thought to be marble, but which later proved to be jasper (a highly coloured cryptocrystalline variety of quartz).	040 Marble Bar Pool A popular swimming area for locals.