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Wittunga front gate on the corner of Cliff Street and Sherbourne Road [B 70984/16] • Photograph

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Summary

Wittunga farm. Wittunga front gate stands at the corner of Cliff Street (renamed Shepherds Hill Road in 1971) and Sherbourne Road, Blackwood. The telegraph poles along Cliff Street were installed in December 1910. The Ashby family were early subscribers with their telephone number, Blackwood 9. The photographer, Edith Walker, who married Keith Ashby in 1921, first visited Wittunga in 1917.

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Physical description

Photograph (B&W print); 5.4 cm x 9.9 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1917

Collection

Part of Ashby Family Collection

Catalogue record

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General notes

An image from a collection of photographs and slides used to illustrate talks given by Enid Robertson: an address entitled 'Wittunga Garden - From a Family Point of View' given to the Historical Society of South Australia, 1996; and a second address entitled 'The Ashby Family' given to the Coromandel Valley National Trust, 2006. The individual images can be viewed by doing a number search on B 70984; this image relates to talks on 5 July 1996 (OH 363) and 1 February 2006 (OH 787) by Enid L. Robertson.

Digitisation information

Date

05/12/2008

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,977 x 2,199 pixels (8.7 MP)

Size

26.26 MB

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