Foxton's Busy Bee Dairy was a fixture of the town on State Highway One. In late 2022 it moved from the highway to a building in Foxton's Main Street. 

The old dairy was full of advertising and has been photographed many times by travellers passing through. Local photographer Jacob Brookie heard about the dairy's relocation and wanted to take a photograph of the Coca-Cola bottle painted on the side of the building before it was demolished. The photograph was taken in August 2022.

It is a strange combination of advertising for a massive global company which was probably made by a local painter!

Jacob used a 1957 Lipca Rollop Automatic camera to take this photograph. This camera takes twelve photographs per roll of 120 format film, with the photographer composing the photograph by looking down into a hood on the top of the camera. 

Pencilled on back - Old Levin Library From the left: Mrs Goldsmith, ...?... , ...?... , Mrs Walker, Bert Phillips, Mrs Clark, ...?... , ...?...

Group seated outside old Levin Library

From the left: Mrs Goldsmith, Mrs McDonald, Mrs Roe, Miss Bowen (previously identified as Mrs Walker), Bert Phillips, Mrs Clark, ...?... , ...?...

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