Summary

Colour photograph of L.G. Lavelle, John Elden, Director of the Exhibition Trustees, and Major General J.G. Hughes at the dedication to the new floor held to mark the completition of stage one of the Great Hall Restoration Plan in the Great Hall of the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, on 26 February 1985. The dedication was held towards the end of a ten-month restoration and maintenance program carried out across 1984-85, called 'Programme '84. Work commenced on 14 June 1984 and was largely completed in time for the International Motor Show that opened on 7 March 1985.

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

Group of guests at the dedication to the new floor held to markt he completition of stage one of the Great Hall Restoration Plan, Royal Exhibition Building, in the Great Hall on 26 February 1985.

Physical Description

A colour photographic print on a page of a photograph album. There is a printed caption below the photograph.

Significance

The Exhibition Trustees' album containing this photograph provides an invaluable visual record of past maintenance and restoration work undertaken on the Royal Exhibition Buildings prior to the building being recognised with a World Heritage Listing in 2004.

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