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Halley's Comet time capsule at Echo Point

Notes : Mayor Peter Quirk and Council staff lower the time capsule, to commemorate the passing of Halley's Comet, into the ground at Echo Point, Katoomba. The capsule is to be raised in 2062.

 

Mostly council engineers, partly identified as L to R, Henry Kullas; Mayor Peter Quirk; David Emerson, Blue Mountains Town Artist; (unknown) (unknown); Graham Price at back; (unknown); Bill Mills, right front; (unknown) ; Reg McBey at right back; musician Nigel Foote in True Blue top.

 

Format: B&W photograph

 

Location: now somewhere under the redeveloped Echo Point, Katoomba

 

Date range: March 1987

 

Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.

 

Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/

 

Part of: Local Studies Collection - VF Time Capsules, VF Halley's Comet

 

Provenance: John Falloon

 

Links:

Halley's comet - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet

David Emerson - digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/6388

 

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Taken on March 6, 1987