Buildings at the Dandenong Stock Market/Sale Yards, 1990s

Photo credit to Dandenong Historical Society.

Photo credit to Dandenong Historical Society.

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Cheltenham Road, Dandenong, 1992.

Taken from near the end of Carrol Lane, looking easterly, towards Hammond Road. The former Caltex site, on the corner of Hammond and Cheltenham, is now home to a car rental dealership.

Photo credit to City of Berwick.

Originally named Grace Street, the section of Cheltenham Road, between about where George/Allan Street intersection is now, and Foster Street, was officially renamed to Cheltenham Road in 1970.

This, along with the section west of George/Allan Street, which was known as Brighton Road at the time, meant renumbering of properties on Cheltenham Road, extending out to Chandler Road.

Cheltenham Road, official name change, July 1970.

This document supplied by Penny Harris Jennings.

Cheltenham Road is in the process of being extended through to Princes Hwy, with and underpass under the railway, and through the old Half Case Warehouse, IGA, and more recently Marmara Meats site.

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Looking south on Hallam (South) Road, Hallam, in 1973.

Back when Hallam was still mostly a rural area. Looking south across the railway line toward Hampton Park. Pound Road is just on the other side of the hill. Later the road would be lowered as it crosses the peak of the hill, removing the final climb.

Photo credit to Les Brown.

The Hallam Railway Station is hidden out of view behind the tree on the right. Just out of the shot, on the right side, was the old Hallam Tip.

The below shot from the late 1970s or early 1980s is looking south on Hallam (South) Road, from close to the intersection of Hallam Road/Princes Highway, looking towards the railway line and the Hallam railway station.

Late 1970s or early 1980s, Hallam South Road, Hallam

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Corner of High Street and Sladen Street, Cranbourne, late 1930s

This site was diagonally opposite the current Police Station, on the north-west corner, opposite the old Shire Offices. Lawson Burdett Poole established his garage in 1919.

Photo credit to Cranbourne Shire Historical Society.

This was the first garage in Cranbourne, when it opened in 1919. Lawson is also credited with having the first car, a 1918 Buick, in Cranbourne. In 1932 he married Laura Mary Brunt, they had no children.

Lawson was a Life Governor of the Dandenong Hospital, where a ward was named after him, and also a Justice of the Peace. He was a longtime member of the Cranbourne Turf Club, and Chairman from 1959 to 1979.

This 1959 aerial view shows the garage on the corner of Sladen and Hight Street,

opposite the old Shire Offices. Also visible is the old Police Station and the racecourse

just within the top of the picture. 

Laura passed away in 1981, Lawson would continue for another 6 years before he died in 1987. The garage was demolished around 1983, possibly. You can find the family grave in the Cranbourne Cemetery.

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Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, c. 1940s.

Tony Cosentino notes:

Lonsdale Street Dandenong., c. 1940s. Photographer: Valentine Publishing. The Palm Trees were removed in 1954.

Photo credit to Valentine Publishing

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Heatherton Road, Endeavour Hills, 1961.

Looking from just after Power Road, east towards Endeavour Hills shopping centre. The line of trees, out the left side, lead to the old Chalcot Lodge estate. The development of the Chalcot Lodge estate started around 1974.

Photo credit to Bill Farell.

James Cook Drive would be built close to the bottom of the dip, where you can see the white posts on either side of the road. This was likely a small culvert under the road.

The Essex Park (built around 1940), and Four Oaks (built around 1885) estates, would be behind you, on the other side of Power Road. These too estates, would also see development, in the 1970s, helping to form what became Endeavour Hills.

Comparison photo to what the area looks

like in more recent times.

Mossgiel Park estate, formerly Danderago, was further to the east beyond this picture. The Mossgiel Park Housing Estate, off Heatherton Road, was planned in about 1974.

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Greens Road, Dandenong South, 1992.

The old Greens Road railway crossing when it still had both the crossing for the South Gippsland/Cranbourne line, and the crossing for the A.C.I. Pilkington Glass Plant. The siding, just out of the right side of view, was the first to be removed, and later in the early 2020s, the crossing was completely removed, by elevating the railway line across the road.

Photo credit to Wailing Chang.

The up Leongatha train, intersects the crossing, enroute to Spencer Street (Southern Cross), via Dandenong, in the late Spring of 1992. Do you remember the old orange Vline lively?

Below is a train leaving the ACI Pilkington’s Glassworks Plant in 1994.

Photo credit to Wailing Chang.

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Grassmere land sales, October 1888.

Brian Adam notes:

There was an opportunity to purchase land at Grassmere, with sales held in October 1888, offering various allotments ranging from 1 to 20 acres. The sale was conducted by Munro and Baillieu, Estate Agents.

Interestingly, a proposed railway line was planned to connect the Dandenong line to Ferntree Gully — sadly, it never came to fruition.

Grassmere land sales, October 1888.

I’ve always liked the name of the area — whether it’s Grassmere or Dandenong Heights.

The Shire of Berwick eventually held a meeting to address the naming issue surrounding Grassmere. It turned out there was already another locality in Victoria with the same name, a small rural settlement near Warrnambool. To avoid confusion, the decision was made to rename Grassmere to Doveton.

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Dandenong Technical School, 1961, form 1 C & D.

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Dandenong Technical School, 1961, form 1 C & D

The below list of names is not in the same order as the photo above, but these are the students that were in form 1 C and form 1 D in 1961.

Form 1C and form 1D students in 1961.

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Carnarvon Estate, Dandenong, c. 1888.

The Carnarvon Estate was a sale of land in the late 1880s. Interestingly it makes reference to the Eumemmering horse race filed, long lost to time. The track was adjacent to the Eumemmering Hotel, which was located near the site that the Prince Mark Hotel now occupies, near the corner of Princes Highway and Power Road. 

Carnarvon Estate, Dandenong, c. 1888.

On early maps Power Road is often marked as crossing the Eumemmerring creek and joining Princes Highway where Lace Street is. This leaves open the question about which side of the creek the old Eumemmerring Hotel actually was on. Most researchers say the Prince Mark Hotel site.

The Argus, Wednesday 14 March 1888, Page 2.

Michael Hennessy, the long time publican of the Eumemmerring Hotel, along with Henry Wilson, were race starters on the Eumemmerring Races programs. The race course was running from as early as 1951. We do know that races were still being held in 1910, but by the 1950s it was no longer a racecourse.

So what was the original course of the Eumemmerring Creek near power road?

South Bourke and Mornington Journal, Wed 9 Mar 1881, Page 3

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