Summary

This photograph depicts six women and two men posing at a park-bench seat under a stand of trees at an elevated sight with views out to mountains. This group is most likely from St. Margaret's Church in Croydon. This photograph was taken in North Queensland, perhaps in the Newcastle Range, but the exact location is unknown. Four women are seated while the two men and two other women stand behind them. Behind the men can be seen an open ironwork structure with sharpened points which is probably a plant cage protecting a tree that has been planted. Farther in the background, behind the trees, the roof and steeple of a church can be discerned. The group are all well-dressed and as one man wears a knitted jumper and some of the women's clothing appears to be of quite heavyweight materials, the weather is perhaps cool.

Reverend Frederic Charles Hall was appointed Curate of the Georgetown parish in 1904, and later Curate-in-charge from 1906 to 1909. His parish included Georgetown, Croydon, Golden Gate and Normanton. He also ministered in Burketown, which is 345 miles (560 kilometres) from Georgetown. His means of transport was by horseback, push-bike, coach or by steam train between Croydon and Normanton.

The photographs in this collection were taken by the Reverend Frederic Charles Hall (1878-1926) during the period 1902-1909 when he was the Anglican Curate appointed to Georgetown in North Queensland. Hall's foremost hobby was photography. He used both a half-plate camera with tripod made by J. Lancaster & Son, Birmingham and a quarter-plate Austral No. 3 made by the Australian company, Baker & Rouse. Glass negatives from Ilford and Austral were used; developing was done by the photographer himself and printing by exposure to sunlight.