On Monday, 4-2-1901, the Bendigo Advertiser newspaper published a picture of a procession held in Bendigo on Saturday, 2-2-1901. There was a lot of black about as Queen Vic had recently fallen off the perch. More importantly, the photographer has by sheer luck, captured a Bendigo (Baldwin?) steam motor with two trailer cars waiting at 'the fountain' for the hordes to clear, before it can proceed to the terminus up at Mollison Street. A large version of this photograph (now out of copyright, and in the collection of Museum Victoria) can be viewed at the exhibition which opened today at the Post Office Gallery, Pall Mall, Bendigo. Bendigo's steam trams ceased running in July, 1902, when the cut-back service between Long Gully and Mollison Street was abandoned in favour of horse cabs, until the new electric line was built to Eaglehawk.

Cheers,

Andrew Cook (interested in old stuff).