1/68Back to Darwin 1978. Ski Club entry Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
From Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival, 40 years in the making
Last month, Darwin Festival asked Territorians to look through their photo albums for pictures of the iconic festival for it’s 40th birthday. Here are some of our best pictures
2/68Back to Darwin 1978 Could be the Sun Club float..... Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
3/68Back to Darwin 1978 Northern ‘Y’ Women float. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
4/68Back to Darwin 1978 Darwin Theatre group float Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
5/68Back to Darwin 1978 The famous Buffalo Shed float Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
6/68Back to Darwin 1978 Parade down Bennett St into Smith St long before the Mall was established Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
7/68Back to Darwin 1978 Chinese Dragon dancers in Smith St. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
8/68Back to Darwin 1978 Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
9/68Raising the Territory flag and Avoiding thirst during the 1979 Bougainvillea Festival parade. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
10/68Bougainvillea Festival Quest entrants In the early 80s Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
11/68Lord Mayor Cec Black escorts 1982 Bougainvillea Queen Quest winner, Robyn Kuhn to the stage. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
12/68Bougainvillea Parade 1984 Fannie Bay Equestrian club entry Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
13/68Bougainvillea Parade 1984 Official party welcome the Parade. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
14/68Bougainvillea Parade...1984 Float for everyone Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
15/68Bougainvillia Parade 1984 passes the corner of Knuckey and Smith streets Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
16/68Bougainvillea Parade 1984 Darwin Pipe Band lead the Parade Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
17/68How simple the Bougainvillia Parade used to be....1984 Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
18/68Bougainvillia Parade 1984. Greek Community float. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
19/68Bougainvillea Parade 1984. From left. Chairman of the Festival, John Hogan, Lord Mayor Alex Fong Lim and wife Norma, Mrs Joan Johnston wife of Commodare Johnston Commodore look on as the Administrator makes the salute. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
20/68Bougainvillea Parade 1984 A well dressed up push bike rounds the Knuckey and Smith Street corner Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
21/68Bougainillea Parade 1984 The Darwin Lions float Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
22/68Bougainvillea Parade 1985 Berrimah Farm entry. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
23/68The RAAF displays a Squirrel helicopter in the Grand Parade of the Bougainvillea Festival in 1985. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
24/68Miss NT Quest Tracy Craig (centre) takes part in the 1985 Bougainvillea Festival grand parade. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
25/68Bougainvillea Festival ..... Darwin Toy Library float in the grand parade in 1985 Picture: Peter Bennett Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
26/68The zany Essendon Policewomen’s Marching Band entertains the crowds at the Bougainvillea Festival Grand Parade in1986. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
27/68Darwin’s Bougainvillea Festival organisers, Juliette Chester and RAAF Wing Commander Jack Edmunds plan the 1986 grand parade. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
28/68The zany Essendon Policewomen’s Marching Band entertains the crowds at the 1986 Bougainvillea Festival Grand Parade. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
29/68The zany Essendon Policewomen’s Marching Band entertains the crowds at the Bougainvillea Festival Grand Parade in 1986. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
30/68The zany Essendon Policewomen’s Marching Band entertains the crowds at the 1986 Bougainvillea Festival Grand Parade. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
31/68The zany Essendon Policewomen’s Marching Band entertains the crowds at the 1986 Bougainvillea Festival Grand Parade. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
32/68Bougainvillea Parade 1987 Vikings roll into town. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
33/68Bougainvillea Parade 1987 Moil Primary School float. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
34/68Bougainvillea parade 1987. Karen Hyde and Emily Johnson ride the Moil Primary school float. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
35/68Bougainvillea Parade 1987 Family affair as the parade passes in Smith street. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
36/68Bougainvillea Parade 1988 Your turn to push...... Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
37/68Bougainvillea Parade 1988 Australian Post entry Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
38/68Bougainvillea Parade 1988 Percy Hyder and pedal power. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
39/68The Administrator, Commodore Eric Johnston reviews the parade 1988 Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
40/68Bougainvillea Parade 1988 Hyder family big day out. Percy Hyder and pedal power. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
41/68Bougainvillea Parade 1988 First Bougainvillea Parade..... Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
42/68Bougainvillea Parade 1988. Darwin 'Brass' band Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
43/68Bougainvillea Parade 1988. Sanderson Soccer club float. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
44/68Bougainvillea Parade 1990 ...southern belle Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
45/68Bougainvillea Parade, Family affair 1990 Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
46/68Bougainvillea Parade, Pre schoolers in the early 90s Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
47/68Bougainvillea Parade, Anula Primary Greenants 1992 Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
48/68Bougainvillea Parade 1993 Indigenous display Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
49/68Bougainvillea Parade 1993 indigenous people celebrate indigenous people Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
50/68Bougainvillea Parade 1993 Legs on the Wall display Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
51/68Bougainvillea Parade 1993 Number 33a strutts her stuff at the parade Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
52/68The crowd watches on the Bougainvillea Parade 1994 Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
53/68Bougainvillea Parade 1994 passes Raintree Park in Knuckey Street Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
54/68Bougainvillea Festival 1994. Art Director Techy Masero adds the finishing touches. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
55/68Bougainvillea Parade 1994 Pacific dancers Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
56/68One of the many costumes on display at the Bougainvillea Festivals Grand Parade in 1995. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
57/68A belly-dancer from the Veils International Dance Studio at the Bougainvillea Festivals Grand Parade in 1995. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
58/68A Haikou folk dancer performs ‘Soul of the Peacock’ in preparation for the Bougainvillea Festival Grand Parade in 1995. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
59/68A young pirate at the Bougainvillea Festivals Grand Parade in 1995. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
60/68Members of the Thai-Lao Australia Association at the Bougainvillea Festivals Grand Parade in 1995. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
61/68Some of the Haikou folk dancers perform ‘Soul of the Peacock’ at the Bougainvillea Festival Grand Parade in 1995. Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
62/68Bougainvillea Parade..... Rose of Tralee entry in the early 2000s Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
63/68Bougainvillea Parade in the early 2000s Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
64/68Bougainvillea Parade Commerce Hockey Float in the early 2000s Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
65/68Bougainvillea Parade crowds watch on in the early 2000s Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
66/68Bougainvillea Parade in the early 2000s. Darwin City Brass band Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
67/68Launch of the 2003 Darwin Festival Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
68/68Launch of the 2003 Darwin Festival Picture: Supplied Bougainvillea to Darwin Festival 40 year anniversary
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