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Cue Photographs

Group outside a hotel in Cue about 1904.  Note the tweed three piece suit worn by the Afghan Camel Handler! - Photo SLWA

Western Mail 2 June 1938, page 11

From Mr. E. D. Pels, the first official postmaster on the Murchison now retired and a resident of Perth, gives the details of this photograph. It was taken in Austin Street, Cue, in 1894. The tent was facing the historic Cue well, the town's original water supply, around which all the early meetings were held, the speakers standing on the well's mullock : heap. A few years ago a rotunda was built over this well.

The tent is the consulting room of Dr Ramsay and Dr Maunsell - From L-R:  
Mick KELLY - One of Cue's first chemists.
William Hepburn GALE - (Late), later the first mayor of Cue and a member of the firm Timperley, Gale and Co.
Frank BEGGS - Commission Agent.
Dr Robert RAMSAY - who returned to Victoria later.
Frank MANFORD - Manager P. and T. Mahomet, later of Fremantle and founder of the business of Frank Manford Ltd that is still flourishing.
Lord Percy DOUGLAS - (Brother of Lord Alfred Douglas, the lover of Oscar Wild, and the heir to the Marquess of Queensbury.
Dr John MAUNSELL -one-time Resident Magistrate of Roebourne and now practising at New Norcia.
Harry RICKETSON - later of Baratta station, N.S.W., and an enthusiastic photographer
Charlie STREETER - of the J. R. Streeter Co. London
Joe ALLEN - brother of the late Eben Allen and at present a resident of Perth.
Charles Ulysses BAGOT -  Mining Registrar at Cue and later Warden at Peak Hill. He was one of three (Bagot, Francisco and Jaques) one-eyed ‘physically’ Justices of the Peace at Peak Hill.

Family Group outside shops in the main Street of Cue taken about 1935ish - car is a 1930? Essex with a gas producer on the back - Photo SLWA

State Record Load 80 Bales.  From M.Walsh's Mileura Station which is located 84 miles north of Cue weight of the bales 13 tons.  This original photograph was given to me in 1971 by a Cue resident. The truck was a 1930 Reo owned by Poletti and Sons of Cue - Photo SLWA

CH Bennett 1908 - Image TROVE