Yesterday Today | Jubilee celebration

By Alan McRae
Updated September 5 2018 - 3:34pm, first published August 27 2018 - 5:30am
ON A ROLL: Frailey Butler’s decorated cart. The photo was taken before the cart left to take part in the street procession honouring Bathurst’s local government.
ON A ROLL: Frailey Butler’s decorated cart. The photo was taken before the cart left to take part in the street procession honouring Bathurst’s local government.

By February 1912, the Bathurst Jubilee Committee had plans underway to mark the beginnings of Bathurst.

The event, to be held in November that year, was to honour Bathurst’s local government and to mark the early western pioneers, including those involved in crossing the Blue Mountains.

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