Dandenong Fire Station, 1910.

Located on the triangle of land bounded by Mason, Walker and Robinson Streets.

Photo credit to Keith Pakenham.

The present-day location of the Walker Street Gallery has a long history with the local Fire Station. This building was moved in the 1930's to Bangholme, to make way for the new/present building, and became the Bangholme Memorial Hall and is still there and being used for Dances, the last I knew/checked on it.

This building was replaced with the present building around 1930, sadly the present building has had many modifications leaving it almost unrecognizable. The Dandenong Fire Station moved to bigger premises at 120 Princes Hwy in 1986, and they move again in 2021, further up the highway into bigger premises.

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Springvale, 1953.

Looking south over the railway tracks down Springvale Road. A lot has changed since the 1950s, with a lot remaining the same too.

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Myer in Dandenong being built around 1974.

The new Myer building in Dandenong, being built, around 1974. Looking across Clow Street from in front of the Dandenong Market. Safeway would later be built on the corner of Walker and McCrae Street opposite the Myer building. The Safeway site would later be rebuilt as Capital Centre, the basis of where the present shopping centre came from, after being connected over Walker Street, to join the Myer building.

Woolworth's and Safeway were separate companies until Woolworth's bought Safeway in 1985. They rebranded all of their stores as Safeway in Victoria, apart from 1 of 2 in the Karingal Hub centre. There were plenty of places that had 2 Safeway's for a while such as Springvale, Mt Waverley (Hamilton Pl and Virginia St) & Mentone (the current Woolies and the current Coles).

In the following image from a Lend-Lease Promotional booklet in 1993, you can see the Capital Center and Myer building, with Walker Street still running through to McCrae, before they were joined, creating the Dandenong Plaza. The former Woolworths was closed after Capital Centre opened.

Lend-Lease Promotional booklet in 1993.

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Princes Hwy and Corrigan Road, Springvale, 1967.

Penny Harris Jennings writes:

Almost Dandenong, Springvale Botanical Cemetery, intersection Princes Hwy and Corrigan Road 1967.

Photo credit goes to Penny for both of these.

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Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, 1970s.

Looking up towards Walker Street, past the town hall, and beyond. The old McEwans store is on the right, with the former National Bank building on the other side of Lonsdale.

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Dandenong Park entrance, near the former Lawn Bowls Club, 2006.

Hellstroms Kitchen wrote:

Autumn in Dandenong in Dandenong Park, Dandenong Park entrance, by the Bowles Club, 2006.

O.D. NOTE: This is looking onto Pultney street, the former Lawn Bowls club was behind you, from the perspective of this photo. Up behind the carpark, across the road, is the Dandenong Police Station.

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Some more old Dandenong North School Photos

 Pam Kirby writes:

Some more old Dandenong North School Photos … anyone find themselves ??

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