Southern Aurora Hotel, January, 1978.

The fire raged for some time before the crews managed to contain it, thankfully the damage wasn't too bad, besides the pool hall out front, and the hotel was still operational. Mind the fright the tenants at the time has. This photo is taken from the Train Station, looking towards the back of the Hotel.

The Southern Aurora continues operation until around 1991. In May 1993, the Hotel was demolished as stage 1 of works to redesign the station, with the new Train Station building being opened in 1995. The site if the Hotel was turned into a carpark, which still remains presently. At some point during the late 1990s, the pedestrian subway was filled in.

Do you remember the fire?

It is possible it was the Dandenong House fire, which was located in front of the Hotel facing Foster Street, it was gutted by fire in 1977/78.

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Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, 1910-2016

Looking from Foster street towards the town hall, it's not surprising to see a lot of changes have happened over the 106 years between these photos, but some still remain.

The Bridge Hotel, with it's small upstairs balcony, still remains, although drastically modified, now operating as the Jim Dandy. The town hall facade also still remains, although the clock wasn't installed until 1934.

It is interesting to note that even with all the redesigning of Lonsdale street over the decades, the basic dimensions of the service road next to the shops remains similar.

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Dandenong Market, Clow Street, Dandenong, 1930

This view looking across Lonsdale street to the new Produce Market after it's move to the present site. Before the relocation the Produce Market was held on Lonsdale Street besides the old Stock Market.

Eventually the market grew too big and was extended onto the street itself, after many years of this a site was selected on Cleeland Street. The Stock Market would later be moved behind the train station on Cheltenham road until it was ultimately closed in favour of country Stock Markets.

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Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, late 1910s

In the background you can see Crumps General Store. In 1913, Frank Facey purchased the well know Coach business started by John Hemmings, in Pultney street, but by 1917 he had started his real estate business in the shop to the left of Crumps store on Lonsdale street. In 1956, with his son Angus now in charge, Facey Real Estate moved into their new premises further up Lonsdale street, at number 254, where they now trade as First National.

John Crump opened the Crump General Store in 1904 and sold everything from groceries, crockery, linen and hardware to stock feed and farm supplies. Although the prominent Dandenong business’s store front was in Lonsdale Street, the lane was a bustling hub of activity where goods were loaded and unloaded at the rear of the store.

Customers would come up the laneway and park their horse and buggy in stables. The lane accommodated many businesses, including one of the early coach-building businesses and the mortuary of J.W. Garnar’s undertakers.

Crump’s delivered grocery orders around the district via a horse-drawn lorry and when customers unpacked their box there would always be a free paper cornet filled with boiled lollies.
Right on the corner of Walker and Langhorne streets was the slip rail to the farrier’s shop and forge, and in the other end of the Langhorne Street frontage was the blacksmith’s forge and wheelwright’s shop.

Young children could be seen standing at the slip rail to watch in fascination as the farrier forged the shoes and shod the horses.
Crump’s prided itself on being the ‘popular store’ with exceptional quality of goods. After John Crump’s death, his son Albert Crump operated the store with the help of wife Hazel. In those days there was no cash register and no refrigeration – butter and other perishables were stored in a cellar.

A large billboard once adorned the wall at the entrance to Crump Lane – it advertised films at the local Boomerang Theatre and notified people of events taking place at the Dandenong Town Hall opposite. The site occupied by the Crump General Store later became the McEwans hardware store.

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Butter Factory, 25 Stud Road, Dandenong, 1930s.

Located between Herbert and King Streets, the old Butter Factory moved to this location by 1922. A new building was erected in 1932. The butter factory closed around 1977, after which it stood for many years before finally being demolished. 

Discussion about building a Butter factory first started in 1895 at a number of public and council meetings. The location/building chosen for the original factory was in Walker street, later the factory was move to an old structure, having been built in the 1870s, at the Stud Road location. (we couldn't find trace of it's original purpose.) The original Butter Factory ceased operations in 1907.

The new Butter factory opened in 1912 near the intersection of Pickett Street and Railway Parade, operating from this site for a number of years, by 1922 they were at the Stud Road site pictured.

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We found the following in a copy of The Dandenong Journal for Sun 3 Jul 1932:
Industrial architecture of unusual design is applied to the new Dandenong butter factory (writes the “Herald.”) The new structure will occupy the site of the.old butter factory, which is one of Dandenong’s pioneer buildings, having been erected in the 1870’s. The area is 13,000 square feet, and the main factory covers about 3000 square feet. It is picturesquely situated behind the tree lined drive from Stud road. Yellow brickwork and struck jade green joints will provide a fresh color scheme.

The cream receiving room, testing room, can washing and drying rooms open off the main factory and are served with a side driveway for vehicles., The building is being floored throughout with steel-reinforced concrete covered with specially hard burnt tile paving graded to open concrete channels on either side. The walls are wainscotted inside with glazed tiles up to 7ft. high, and are continued to the ceiling height in yellow struck brickwork.

A mazanine floor is provided over a set of offices, print room and cool rooms. Cool room insulation is being carried out in a 4-inch cement surfaced cork-board for the doors, 2-inch cement reinforced corkboard for the walls and arctic packing over fibro cement sheeting for the ceilings. The coolrooms are separately insulated, allowing for either room to be used or the two at peak periods. The mezzanine floor is to accommodate butter boxes which are received from outside the building, through a front overhead doorway, and as required are lowered into the inside main factory, filled and conveyed with a minimum of handling to the cool rooms under the mezanine floor.

The main ceiling, which is surmounted by lantern louvres running longitudinally from the front to the rear of the buildings to provide permanent outlet ventilation, is finished with damp-proof, tinted cement sheeting. The roof is covered with a special composition to provide the maximum insulation of coolness in summer. Broad roof over-hangs are provided, externally, and the fenestration and general architectural treatment are suited in detail to the special functioning of a modern butter factory.

The architect for the work is Mr. I. G. Anderson; A.I.A.A. (Lond.), of 20 Queen street, Melbourne.

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Parcels Office/Department, Dandenong Station, 1978-79

In time past, the parcels office was the main point for parcels coming in and out of Dandenong. A lot of cargo travelled through these offices in the early days, one existing on almost all stations. Before the railways the tedious journey was performed by horse and cart. With the building of railways to connect and move people, there also came an easy way to move large amounts of parcels to the outer towns.

Do you remember the Parcels Office/Department?

Many people worked in the parcels office at Dandenong, from the early days of just one Porter handling all the incoming and outgoing, till near the end when cutbacks started to bite as trucks and couriers finally took control.

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Aerial View, Dandenong, late 1920s/early 1930s.

This early view, from sometime after 1915, shows how much smaller Dandenong was over 100 years ago. Looking from below the railway line towards the town centre. What landmarks can you recognise? 

-Below is an excerpt from Reminiscences of Early Dandenong by G.F.R., 1932.

Who named the town? The honour is generally ascribed to Captain Lonsdale, who, in an official report on the district, in 1837, spelt the name “Dan-y-nong.” The original surveyors spelt it “Tangenong” when they made the first survey in the 1840’s. Captain Lonsdale wrote that it was always most difficult to catch the sound of native names as spoken by aborigines, who rapidly ran over “d” and “t,” making it difficult to catch either consonant, but he thought that “Dandenong” sounded, more euphonious, so there we have it. The native name was, as nearly “Dandenong” as the authorities could make it, so the name was bestowed upon the creek, district and township.

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New World (Coles) Supermarket, Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, early 1960s

The store was built where the present store stands between the Princes Highway and Cleeland Street, Opposite the Dandenong Market. When first built the Dandenong Store included the iconic rocket and glass panels along the highway side wall, featuring pictures of old Dandenong

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Dandenong Lions Club Recipe Book from 1971 or 1972

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Manhattan Coffee Bar, Langhorne Street, Dandenong, early 1970s

The Manhattan was a popular meeting place or locals of the time, this shot also captures surrounding shops. To the left is the old Waltons and Venture building, now home to Dimmeys.

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Anzac Day Parade, Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, 1963.

With the National Bank, Rockmans, Ewarts, Vanity Court, Woolworth and Coles all within one view. The history and the atmosphere of the day collide in one beautiful scene.

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Kingsbury’s, 117 Foster Street, Dandenong, 1972.

Kingsbury Lane (to the left of the shop) is named after Kingsbury Plumbers and Tank Makers (est. 1856), who made tanks and windmills. Later they turned their business to bicycles. Kingsbury Bicycles were then located in Foster Street (still visible sign writing).

In 1929 Alex Kingsbury built an arcade of shops which ran through from Foster to Lonsdale Street possibly through the Cassels Garage. Kingsbury’s nephew Frank set up in one of the shops to run a bicycle and pram business. In 1932 Frank was joined by his brother Gilbert; both served in the air force during the second world war. Upon their return Frank opened his own business in Frankston leaving Gilbert to manage the Dandenong shop.

Kingsbury’s sold motorbikes, push bikes and baby craft including
prams and nursery furniture. The lane was under 2 feet of water in the 1934 flood. In 1962 a local newspaper advertisement boasts modern new showrooms, by the 1970's he still owned the building and was operating a baby supply shop in half of the building, renting the other half out.

By coincidence Richard Wolters chose the other side to run Progressive Motorcycle which he owned between 1971 and 1975, not knowing of the connection until one day someone dropped in and told Richard that it was a coincidence that he had chosen that shop.

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Masonic Lodge, 5 Mason St, Dandenong, in 1967

The 1919 township plan of Dandenong shows a cottage on Lot 12, the site where the Masonic Hall is now built. No documentation could be located on the date of its demolition.

The history of the Masonic Lodge in Dandenong commenced in 1876 when the Lodge of Sincerity (then 1701 of the English Constitution) now no. 179 on the register of the United Grand Lodge of Victoria, was consecrated. 64 The first meeting to consider the forming of the Lodge of Free and Acceptable Masons was held on 3 September 1876 but the lodge was
closed in 1881.

It wasn’t until 1896 that the re-opening of the Lodge was reconsidered. Members from the original Lodge joined this new Lodge of Sincerity and brought with them regalia, furniture and money. The new Lodge was consecrated on the 24 August 1896, and meetings were held on a monthly basis at the Lodge Room of the Mechanics Institute at the Shire Offices. The Lodge was known as the Lodge of Sincerity no. 179 under the United Grand Lodge of Victoria.

In December 1907 members decided to set aside part of the members dues and initiation fees for the future construction of a Masonic Temple. In the 1920s, the Lodge was struggling for space due to a large increase in memberships and on the 7 September 1922 the Lodge held a meeting to discuss the possibility of building. A contract was entered with Bro. G. Snell to have plans and specifications drawn up for the cost of £2,800. Tenders were called and a building contract was signed with Bro. N. A. Taylor for the total sum of £2,530.

The building was completed in 1923 with all furniture and fittings for the supper and lodge room donated by members.

On 22 December 1923, the Lodge held their first meeting in the new building. On the 16 August 1924 a ceremony of dedication was held and the foundation stone was unveiled. In 1931, £274 was spent for concrete rendering and other improvements. In 1940, 1955 and 1979/81 alterations were made to accommodate and upgrade female and male toilets.

In 1991 the Dandenong Masonic Temple as well as those in Springvale, Mordialloc and Chelsea closed. They all amalgamated to use a new building in Keysborough.

In 1992 the building was used by the “Recycle Workshop”. By September 1996 the building had been acquired by Mick and Rosa Valenti. In December 1996 they leased the building to the Spanish Christian Church for three years with Guillermo Esquivell as the Senior Minister. The building is now vacant as remodeling and construction of neighboring land takes place..

Information courtesy of Greater Dandenong Heritage Study
http://www.greaterdandenong.com/document/25296/city-of-greater-dandenong-heritage-study
Image origins unknown at time of posting.

EDIT; This building is still standing proudly, present plans see it becoming an art gallery, securing its future for more generations to come. Precently it is shadowed over by Quest Apartments on one side and the new energy building behind it.

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Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, 1960s

Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, 1960s

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Hugh Murray & Son, 1 Pickett Street, Dandenong, 1960s?

Picture was dated as 1960 but appears to be earlier..

Hugh Murray was born just outside Geelong. In about 1898 he started business in Buln Buln as a general black smith, by 1903 he had changed to focus on the manufacturing of harrows, the company moved to Dandenong in 1915. Initially specializing in Harrows, they spread into other agricultural equipment.

At the time of opening in Dandenong in 1915, the Gippsland and Northern Selling Company had a butter box manufacturing factory next door. The Buln Buln business was bought by Mr. J. Mathews, who took up the shoeing and more general work of the trade. In 1929 they extended the factory from 1,500 square feet to 6,000 square feet.

In the early 1920s, the Essex Dairy, who also made ice, was located next door (opposite side of pickett). This was followed by the Dandy Preserves (Company) which in the 1920s was already and old-established business in foster street, they made primarily cordials at the time. In 1937 the Essex Dairy premises were sold and a cheese factory took over. Grendas bus depot was located next to the cheese factory.

He had one son named Leslie, sadly Leslies wife Doris passed away in 1939. Hugh retired in the early 1930s, the company converting into a propriety with Mr Taylor and Leslie Murray partnering. Hugh and his wife celebrated their diamond jubilee in 1951, he died in October 1954 at the aged 84.

The area around Railway Parade was at the time known as the Station Estate. In a 1920 advertisement over 100 residential lots were being sold at an auction, helping to form the station edge of Dandenong and Dandenong West. Earlier sales having been held as early as 1913, when the estate was subdivided. Other estates also made up for the remainder of Dandenong west.

In about 1996, The Murray family chose to divest in the company and sell to the Taylor family, Thus ending over 90 years of involvement in the company. The Taylor family continue from when Leslie Taylor took partnership with Leslie Murray upon the retirement of Hugh Murray in 1930.

The modern form of the company, now trading as Murray Agricultural Equipment, still operates from the same site in Pickett street, Dandenong. In this photo you can also see the bulk of what was the Station Estate around and behind their building.

The Dandenong Journal - Mon 4 Jul 1932

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Postcard showing BP Island and surrounding buildings in Dandenong.

Postcard showing BP Island and surrounding buildings in Dandenong.

You can see part of Scots Presbyterian Church and 2nd dandy scout hall facing foster street which were demolished for the court house complex.

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Former Dandenong Town Hall between 1890s and 2000s

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Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, 1910.

Looking from near the Foster street intersection towards Walker street and beyond. Long before the clock face was added to the Town Hall. The Bridge Hotel (more recently the Jim Dandy) can be seen on the left.This is before the commonly remembered palm trees had even been though of.

The clock face wouldn't be added to the Town Hall until the 1930s, and Crumps General Stor was still located in its small wooden building. Crumps would later be bought by McEwans, with new buildings being built on the site. Presently Best Way occupies this site, continuing the tradition set by Crump a long time ago, providing a shopping destination on the main street.

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Baths/First Public Pool, Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, 1933

This photo is from the Official Opening Day of the Dandenong Baths, which were located next to the old Drill Hall in Dandenong Park, on Lonsdale Street. The former site of the Baths is now covered by a new Playground, A mound remains to the right of the Playground marking the site of the former Drill Hall.

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Dandenong Plaza Ad feat. Sam Newman, 1994/1995

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Tom Stewart Motors, 198 Princes Highway, Dandenong, 1971

Tom Stewart Motors, 198 Princes Highway, Dandenong, 1971

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David Street, Dandenong. December 1960.

New Weatherboard Houses in David Street, on the left are the gates to the Council Tip (former quarry for the Ordish Brickworks) In the background, the hills were to become part of the future Endeavour Hills Suburb.

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The Grange was the name of the property owned by the navy’s Captain David Ross in 1866. The estate ran from the Princes Highway along Clow Street/Kidds Road down to the Dandenong Creek and it followed the creek up to Heatherton Road.
I have it on good authority that the first home was situated off what became Ross and Lebanon streets and the second more grand home was built in Stud Road, near where May Court runs in off Ingrid Street.
Captain Ross’s youngest son, Herbert, married Ann Ross (no connection). When the property was later subdivided, Herbert named numerous streets in Dandenong after his wife, family and friends.
Ann Street was named after his wife, and Bruce, David, Herbert and Robert after his sons. Melbe Crescent was named after his sister and Margaret and Olive for his daughters.
Stewart Street was named in honour of an old friend of the Ross family, and Cleeland and King after the executors of his father’s will. The second home was demolished in 1964.
Captain Ross allowed access on his property and that track became Stud Road.
Stud Road was named after the police horse stud in the Police Paddocks.
Police Road was named after the police depot, also at the Police Paddocks. Clow Street was named after the Reverend James Clow, who settled in Dandenong in 1838.
This fascinating list was put together by Jenny Ferguson of the South Eastern Historical Association.
http://seha.org.au/

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Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, undated.

Looking towards the Clow Street intersection. Guests furniture was still proudly on the corner. Maples still occupied the store further up the road where the small park now stands. 

McCrae street was still a road, the section between Clow and Walker would later be converted into Palm Plaza, with the war memorial being moved from outside the post office on Lonsale Street to this end of McCrae/PalmPlaza.

Image by , Graham Southam

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Pet Shop, Hanover Arcade, Dandenong, 1973.

Do you remember the small pet shop hidden in Hanover Arcade? Dandenong no longer has a local pet store, something that has been lost with the changes of time.

As early as 1972, Allans World Of Music operated from the arcade, many local musicians of the time would drop in the store. Gabby's Boutique, a fashion shop, was operating from 1977. Agnes Jewellery by 1978.

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General Motors Station, 1957

Originally opened as a single platform in 1 October 1956 to service the General Motors Holden car factory. An alternate date for the opening is 18 November 1956.General Motors Holden factory was completed in 1956. Construction of the station was paid for by General Motors.

The station opened at the site of a number of private railway sidings, two years after electrification of the line though it was commissioned, and at a time when suburban services to Pakenham did not exist. As a result, only a single platform was provided on the north side on the Down track, and services operated as extensions of Dandenong trains at factory opening and close times.

This was altered in January 1975, when suburban services were extended from Dandenong to Pakenham. The Up platform and footbridge to the north was provided in late 1974, and Pakenham trains were timetabled to stop at the station at factory opening and close times.

In 1991, General Motors closed, leaving the station essentially isolated. A notice was issued stating that the station was to close from November , 1991, however it remained open for a further eleven years, despite the closure and demolition of the factory, and the fact that the footbridge now led to a fenced-off, empty paddock where the factory had once stood. By the time it closed, only eight trains stopped at the station each day, four each way.

In late 2004, all signage was removed, "KEEP OUT" signage was installed, and access to the footbridge between platforms was fenced off. Station announcements on the line continued to announce that trains would stop at "all stations except General Motors" until April 2007.

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Grenda’s Bus Company, 9 Foster Street, Dandenong, 1945.

In 1925 George Grenda started a milk carrying company. G. F. Grenda Milk Carrier collected milk in cans from farms around the Dandenong area and delivered it to metropolitan dairies. The family business continued to grow and was operating 12 trucks by 1945. George bought this property to house and operate the four bus routes, with the six buses (one pictured) he had bought. 

He purchased six small buses, four bus routes (from Shaves Bus Service in Dandenong), and the primary foundations of a bus depot (pictured in 1945) that collaboratively would become Grenda's Bus Services. Grenda was purchased by Ventura Bus Lines in 2013.

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Douglas Street, Noble Park, late 1960s

Postcard of Douglas Street in Noble Park looking towards the Heatherton Road intersection,

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Dandenong Town Hall, 1978

Dandenong Town Hall, 1978

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New World (Coles) Cafeteria, 23-26 Princes Hwy, Dandenong, 1963

This wonderful shot of the New World (coles) Supermarket Cafe, shows a touch of mid-century Americana that came to Dandenong along with all the bells and whistles of the time. 

The store was built where the present 24 hour store stands between the Princes Highway and Cleeland Street, Opposite the Dandenong Market. When first built the Dandenong Store included the iconic rocket and glass panels along the highway side wall, featuring pictures of old Dandenong.

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Clive Peters, 1 Cheltenham Road, Dandenong, 1980

Long before it became a Club-X, this site was home to Dandenongs outlet of Clive Peters. The site has seen a few occupants but the building still remains the same. 

When the road was originally aligned under the train line from its original location (crossing the tracks between Little Robinson (Mason) and Hammond road, the section under the tracks to Foster street was known as Hammond Road (Street), 

When Brighton/Hammond road was realigned from it's original crossing point near where George street bridge/Stockmans bridge was recently built, to meet the end of Hammond road, this section was renamed to Cheltenham Road.

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Doveton Avenue, Doveton, early 1970s.

The washway/floodway on Doveton avenue was known well when it rained heavy, causing the Eumemmerring creek to flood across the road. in the distance the road meets Laurel avenue just before the houses. Further in the distance is where Endevour Hills now lies.

Doveton avenue has since been leveled out with a small bridge now crossing the creek, with slight course changes and the such now easing the chance of the flooded road once seen. Did you try driving through the water? Sadly in the 1970s, one woman did, having her car washed away, taking her life.

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Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, April 1901

This shot was taken during the 1901 floods, looking south from the corner of Lonsdale Street and Foster Street. The magnificent double storey building further up the road was McConnells "Park View" boarding house. He was also in the employ of Victoria Railways, becoming the local Train Examiner and Pumping Station attendant,

On the left would have been Dandenong Park, with part of it's white fence visible in the distance. In these eary days flooding was common in the lower end of town, with natural water flow reminding locals that nature still controlled their day to day life.

John McConnell worked for the Victorian Railways and lived in Park View with his wife Edith, They had five children in total, with two sadly dying in infancy. McConnell died, aged 59, on 21st March 1920, the previous day, his coat had become entangled in the fly-wheel of the water pump engine he oversaw at the Dandenong Railways pumping station.

His injuries were so severe, that local doctors couldn't save him, he was moved at one to Nurse Ahern's private hospital, where Dr. Langley and Dr. A. E. Taylor tended to him. Agnes King (nee McConnell), one of his children, was one of the first on the scene, His wife, Edith passed away on August 5th 1936.

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Blanchard Motors, Corner of Springvale Road and Princes Highway, Springvale, 1970.

We came across this wonderful shot by Graham Southam of the old Holden dealership run by Graham Blanchard in Springvale. For many years this business graced a corner of what would become one of the most notorious intersections withing Greater Melbourne.

Andrew Scanlon writes:
Impala kitchens and a BBQ place were on the showroom site in a new building for years afterwards. The used car site continued as a car yard till the 2000's then became a lighting place with the yard and building more or less intact.

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Aerial of Dandenong (princes hwy) and Springvale Roads around 1955

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