Map of Dandenong & surrounds with major land holders 1885.

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Old Dandenong Town, 1958.

This short video shows Lonsdale Street back in 1958, on Market Day. Tuesdays were always busy in Dandenong when everyone came into town for the Market. Can you recognize anyone in this video?

Film courtesy of Keith Wagstaff and Arthur Brown.

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A few old Hampton Park memories

.Ray Willis Writes:

A few old Hampton Park memories.

Cricket grand final day in March ‘76 at the Dandy south oval. Lyndhurst Hampton Park 1st X1 openers Graeme Himbeck (he was projectionist at the old Mayfair cinema in the early 60s, and Wonthaggi cinema late 60s, family lived on the highway in Harrisfield@ Himbeck court: brother to Ernie, Dorothy (Willis, my mum), Barry, Jean & Fay. Yes, we won with Rob Murray & Graham piling on a big score. 

The footy photo is Hampton Park premiers in ‘75 (2nds) with dad (Ron Willis/ President) in the white outfit. It’s the 70th anniversary of HP FOOTY club this year, and to top it off they won the 1sts flag in the bayside comp 2nd division. Go the mighty REDBACKS.

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Eiffel Tower Motors, Corner Lonsdale and McCrae Street, Dandenong, early/mid 1960s.

This is an interesting shot looking down Lonsdale Street from the Clow Street intersection. There are a few names along the street that have been lost to the progress of time. Next to Eifel was the E.S.&A Bank, and next to this was the old Maples Store, with the sign partly showing in the left-center of the photo.

Photo supplied by Brad Farrell.

Michael Fielder notes:

Long before it was Eiffel Tower Motors, in the 50s, it was a Ford dealer ship called Brown & Andrews Motors. My Father-in-Law, Gordon Oakenfull worked there before he opened Oakenfulls Garage up on Stud Rd. In 1953.

Mick Cleary notes:

Eiffel tower motors had a purpose-built workshop, in princess Hwy dandy, east side of Carac speed shop, closer to Cranbourne rd, not sure of the date but mid to late sixties.

O.D. Note: 

Eifel moved in the md-late 60s, to the side mentioned above, after this Guests Furniture moved int eh corner building by 1967.

Guests Furniture in 1967.

O.D. Note:

By 1967, this corner site was occupied by Guests Furniture. Later it would be home to Dandy Sound, Douglas Hi-Fi, Dandy Discounts and Bendigo Bank. More recently it was home to O'Brien Real Estate and Buy Sell Rent Property Group.

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Dandenong Hospital around 1942, Not long after it was completed.

.In 1939, as World War II broke out and Dandenong was beset by fires and other upheavals, a committee took a unanimous decision that was backed by local doctors. Their mandate was to buy five acres in Cleeland Street for a hospital.

The land, part of the Ross estate, cost £300 and many people said the site was ideal. And so the Dandenong and District Hospital was set up, a place to go if one needed healing.

Before the Dandenong and District Hospital was built, Alf Oldham and Ian Hart were two of the doctors who had run the Murray House Private Hospital at the corner of Scott and Thomas streets.

On the corner of Wilson and Langhorne streets, near St James Anglican Church another private hospital operated from Merlin House, which still stands today.

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Dandenong Hospital, 1970-75.

We don't have the exact year on hand at present, but the new buildings are well underway in this photo, so it does give an indication.

The old Dandenong Technical School can be seen in the lower right, with Dandenong Noth Primary School opposite the hospital in the upper right.

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Rowville prisoner of war camp buildings, 1945.

Tony Cosentino writes:

Rowville prisoner of war camp buildings, from the Argus newspaper collection of war photographs, World War II, originally captioned ‘Rosehill (Dandenong) camp 1945. Between December 1944 and August 1946, over 2,600 Italian prisoners of war passed through the camp. 

The Rowville hostel was a low security facility and, unlike other camps, was not enclosed by a wire fence or gated entrances; instead, it was surrounded by a farming fence consisting of a single strand of wire. Rodolfo Bartoli, a 26-year-old Italian soldier from Florence, was shot and killed by the camp commandant, Captain Waterston, on 30 March 1946.

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Lonsdale/Walker Street intersection, Dandenong, 1970s/80s?

An old postcard looking from in front of the Town Hall, across the intersection of Lonsdale and Walker Streets, towards Target/Hanover Arcade, and beyond. This corner is no home to the Civic Centre/Library.

Photo of postcard supplied by Yvonne Jago.

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Cranbourne Railway Station, 1993.

Cranbourne Station, and the South Gippsland Highway level crossing, looking in the down or Leongatha/Yarram direction in November 1993. Not long before Electrification works started.

Photo credit goes to Graham Edwards.

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Stud Road, Rowville, 1903.

Tony Cosentino writes:

This is a Charles Hammond photograph of some Melbourne Hunt Club horses on the Stamford Park property on Stud Road in 1903. This image was taken just prior to the locality name of Rowville.

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