Century-old footy trip photos show Murray Bridge as it was in 1925
Photographs taken on a tour by the West Broken Hill Football Club give a rare insight into life and progress in the Murraylands in the 1920s.
A hundred years ago last week, in the early days of organised sport, a team of footballers from Broken Hill passed through the Murraylands on an interstate tour.
But one thing was different about the West Broken Hill Football Club’s visit.
They brought a camera.
People had been taking photos in Australia since the mid-19th century, but photography had only started to become an accessible and affordable hobby in the 1910s – most newspapers would not regularly feature photos until decades later.
So the photos taken by the West Broken Hill footballers on their trip offer a rare view of life in the Murraylands in the 1920s.
