File talk:StateLibQld 1 72343 Lightning (ship).jpg

A photograph (this one?) was taken by George Clarke WILMOT, a Geelong photographer & was published in a book titled "The Clipper Lightning in Geelong 1862-1869" by Jack Loney, between pp. 12 and 13. His photo has been published all over the world.

From "Investigator", Issue 54, Vol. 14, No. 1, March 1979, pp. 19, 24, from 'Geelong Photographers' by D. Davies : Another notable Geelong photographer was Wilmot. He was born in Melbourne in a cottage at the north-east corner of Swanston Street and Flinders Lane, where the Cathedral Hotel was built some years later. He came to Geelong with his parents when he was only a young lad, and then became an apprentice to one of Geelong's photographers. When he was nineteen he went into business in partnership with a young man named Key. This partnership lasted until the 1880s; from then on Wilmot carried on his own business, and he was still taking photos in 1919-1920. Among Wilmot's first photos were three views of the landing of the Duke of Edinburgh at the Yarra Street pier in 1867. The best known of his early photos is the burning of the clipper ship 'lightning' on October 31, 1869, a fine action photo of an outstanding historical event. Unfortunately many of Wilmot's early negatives were destroyed some years ago but lickily six or eight ship photos taken in the late eithties and early nineties were in the possession of J. Lockwood, photographer of Ryrie Street. These ship negatives, together with several dozen interesting views around Geelong, taken by Wilmot in the 1890s and early 1900s, were obtained from the Lockwood studios in 1960, when the studio was closed down. A second batch of Wilmot's negatives, several hundreds, were obtained from Mr allan Morrison, of the Lux Leadlight Works, Ryrie Street, where they had been stored in the basement of the shop for 50 years, having been bought by Mr Morrison's father for the purpose of being used as small window panes and glass for picture frames. Article was produced by: Bellarine Historical Society Inc., PO Box 53, Drysdale Vic, Australia 3222, and can be found at http://zades.com.au/gandd/images/stories/pdfs/gdphotwi.pdf

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