Turning the first sod for the new Waltons warehouse at Chullora, New South Wales, 1957 / by Jack Hickson, Australian Photographic Agency

SPG/260

fonds

1957

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9670228

1 photographic print - gelatin silver - 21 x 26 cm

Waltons was originally a department store for men established in George Street, Sydney, in 1955. It went on to expand as a generic department store across NSW, ACT, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia. From 1955 until 1960 the company was known as Walton Sears Limited, and from 1981 as Waltons Bond Limited. The company ceased trading as Waltons in 1987.

References:
'Waltons Ltd'. Dictionary of Sydney. Accessed 9 May 2023
'Waltons (department store)'. Wikipedia. Accessed 9 May 2023

The donor’s father, David Cyril Alexander, was a Secretary and Director of Waltons

1 black & white photographic print featuring a man turning a sod of earth with a shovel.

David Cyril Alexander is in the front row, second from the left, in a double-breasted suit and holding his hat [information supplied donor]

In copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Ink inscription on verso, 'Turning the first sod for Waltons warehouse at Chullora, NSW, 1957'
Photographer's stamp on verso, 'An APA Picture by Jack Hickson, Australian Photographic Agency, George Street, Sydney'; 'Negative Number 3/571066'.