Historic Victoria

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Old Sydney Road between Avenel and Longwood, 1914 - now the Hume Highway.

Halfway between Melbourne and Albury when WW1 broke out.

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CORIO BAY: GEELONG, VICTORIA. c1885

4 large square-riggers tied up

ph: Fred Kruger

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the Tutt and Storrie Motor Coach in 1913. This left the Bayswater Railway Station and took tourists to Sassafras and Olinda. Victoria

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BUTCHER’S CART & SHOP. NATIMUK, VICTORIA. 1910

Mr F. E. Sudholz‘s Family Butcher shop, with his residence next door to the right.

300km NW of Melbourne

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Warragul

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Bridge Street, Ballarat, Vic. 1863-1869

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Victorian Railways locomotive classes and their routes

1927

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Stage coach pulled out of the front of the Stanley hotel in about 1879

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The first house in Torquay. There is a partially visible notation reading 'Torq...'Scammell' 18..' possibly Scammell House in Pride Street, the lower portion being built from the pine deckhouse of the ship SS Joseph H Scammell, wrecked off Torquay.

post 1891

Negative - First House in Torquay, Victoria, post 1891

The first house in Torquay. There is a partially visible notation reading 'Torq...'Scammell' 18..' possibly Scammell House in Pride Street,

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Apollo Bay, Victoria, circa 1925

Three women, a child and a man with a car and trailer loaded for camping.

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Apollo Bay, Victoria - year unknown

This picture of Apollo Bay is truly remarkable compared to how it looks today.

Image courtesy of the State Library of Victoria

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Skene's Creek Bridge, Apollo Bay, Victoria in 1908.

State Library of Victoria.

SOURCE - https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/4714774595555972/

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Skenes Creek, via Apollo Bay, Victoria, 1910

A Government Surveyor 's camp. There is a theodolite on the right, a water bag at the front of the tent and one of the men holds an accordion.

SOURCE - https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/768463

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township of Apollo Bay, 1931

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Aerial of Portland, dated c. 1925-1940.

Photographer: Charles Daniel Pratt/Airspy.

State Library of Victoria image H91.160/1266, See high-res version here https://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/451195

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Drouin Victoria. Photo taken during the second world war

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Black Friday 13th January 1939.

71 Deaths. 650 Structures destroyed