Summary

Black & white photograph of the Royale Ballroom before demolition, taken from Gate 4 on Nicholson Street with car parking in the foreground, February 1979. The Royale Ballroom was demolished between March and May 1979.

This is one of 959 photographs (or images) of the Exhibition Building collated by the Exhibition Trustees as a 10 volume pictorial history of the Exhibition Building spanning the years 1880 to 1985. The pictorial history was instigated by the centenary of the Exhibition Building in 1980 and forms part of a larger Royal Exhibition Building collection of documents, photographs, objects and research files.

Description of Content

View across an empty car park to the Royale Ballroom. There are parked cars in the foreground and the dome of the Exhibition Building can be seen on the left of the photograph.

Physical Description

A black & white silver gelatin print on a page of a photograph album. There is a printed caption below the photograph.

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