Leader Collection, City of Kingston

Members of the Chelsea Historical Society, dressed in the spirit of 1882, cheer the arrival of the centenary train at Carrum Railway Station.

Labour candidate for Chelsea, Michael Duffy, standing in the Mordialloc Creek pointing to the polluted sediment.

Aerial view of Mordialloc Creek taken during Moorabbin Air Show Promotional flight.

Eric Kilburn and Sons Timber Yard, Nepean Highway, Cheltenham, 1962.

Rear of Cheltenham State School showing the Pavilion, 1962.

First of eight main steel girders for railway bridge to span Nepean Highway, 1965.

Steel Bridge replacing old Mordialloc viaduct over Nepean Highway, 1965.

Fiftieth Birthday of the Cheltenham State Savings Bank. Mr Chapman its first depositor cuts the cake. Watching are Mr Milne manager at the time with two former managers, Mr Waddingham and Mr Gatliff, 1964.

Group of children and teachers from Chelsea Kindergarten visiting Moorabbin Airport, 1977.

Cr Don Bricker and Mrs Bricker with Tom Sheehy , Moorabbin Historical Research Officer – Historical display at Bentleigh Library to mark Australia Day, 1976.

Aviators and planes at Moorabbin Airport, 1984.

The Lew Wade and Hank Ebes vintage Tiger Moth at Moorabbin Airport after the air race from Perth to Sydney, 1976.

Marching girls and spectators at Chelsea Youth Week, 1963.

Mrs Joyce Davis awarded with a Member of the British Empire insignia for her many years of community work, 1976.

Fire Brigade Demonstration at Youth Week, 1983.

Janice Cole and Kathleen O’Kelly of Chelsea Girls’ Club accept trophy for best decorated float in Youth Week Parade from Joyce Davis, 1965.

Pattie Rudd’s Dancing School float, Noah’s Ark, in Youth Week Parade, 1982.

Chelsea Junior Mayor: Melinda Illot of St Louis de Montford School in Aspendale with Town Clerk, Mr Jack Drinan, and Mayor, Cr Alf Priestly, 1980.

Three girls riding their ponies in the Grand Parade, Chelsea, 1986.

Council Men Removing Old Tree on Nepean Highway, Cheltenham, 1970.

A damaged South African War or Boer War Memorial on original site on Point Nepean Road with plantation of trees and Memorial Hall in distance, 1961.

Brighton Beach Baths, 1976.

Workmen wrecking Brighton Beach Baths, 1979.

New Section of Prince’s Laundry Opened. Managing Director, Mr Harry Prince, explains new machine to Mayor and Mayoress of Mordialloc, Cr C Sambell and Mrs Sambell. Mr A Wilson holding garment and Mrs Prince and sales manager Mr P Bowman.

Moysey Memorial Cairn on foreshore at Beaumaris, 1964.

‘Red Rattler’, 1989.

Mentone Amateur Athletics Club seniors at club rooms at Dolamore Oval. Back Row: Ben Wilson, P Hunter ( President) J Bowles, M O’Neil, G Urquart, S Hilditch, K Priestly, B Russell, F Kealy (Coach) Front Row: M Kennedy, D Eales, M Breman, J Clements (V Captain) B Wilson (Capt) J Dunn, I Wittaker, D Baker, 1962.

Mentone Grammar boys at Dolamore Oval, 1984.

Minister of Youth, Sport and Recreation inspects athletic track at Dolamore Oval with Cr Doris Stockton, Mayor of Mordialloc, 1983.

Veteran athletes on their marks ready to race at Dolamore Reserve, 1986.

Mentone Station and Gardens, 2005.

Murals launched at Mentone Station with Dorothy Booth, 2004.

Leo Gamble and Dorothy Booth erect poster at the station, which record Mentone’s history, 2006.

Aerial view of Kingston Centre (Melbourne Benevolent Asylum) with Heatherton Sanatorium in upper right of image, 1987.

Apartments and shops on corner of Balcombe Road and Swanston Street, Mentone, 2015.

Janice Munt, local member of parliament, at Mentone Railway Station, 2009.

Memorial tablet on Horse Trough in Station Gardens.

Peter Spyker, Local member of State Parliament and Minister of Transport, 1988.

Dorothy Booth and Shirley Straker receive a Council Award on behalf of Friends of the Mentone Garden, 2006.

Mentone Railway Crossing at Balcome Road with Boom Gates, 2015.

Braeside Primary School Boundary Road, Mordialloc.

Head Teacher, Mr Cadby, opens Braeside Primary School door for the last time, watched by pupils David Gleeson, Matt Fisher, Sharee Forbes, Mark Forbes, Luke Fisher, and Andrew Dawson.

Members of the Mentone Police and Citizens’ Youth Club with Alan Poore, former captain of club and a current player with the Collingwood Football Club.

Crowd surrounds coach Bill Green of Parkdale Football Club in the club’s first appearance in the first grade Federal League finals.

Ron Porta, captain and coach of Mordialloc Football Club stirs up his team.

‘Doc’ Thompson gives Bob Stevenson ray treatment and massage after a practice game at Mordialloc Football Club.

Coach Wilkie of Moorabbin Football Club urges on the ‘Kangas’.

Gorgeous Gushers football team from Highett West Youth Centre.

Students from Mentone Grammar School watch Mr R Chatterton operate a linotype machine at Standard Newspapers.

Past pupils of Braeside School celebrate 60th anniversary of the school. From left: Mrs. Winifred Clancy, Mrs. Betty McCormick and Mrs. Jean Fischer and former teacher Mrs. Ella Bishop with headmaster Mr. Ron Bradfield.

Brian Stooke holding the Victorian Police Star awarded for his action on duty, 2007.

Farewell to Joe Trickey of Moorabbin Fire Station where he had been a member since 1943.

Mentone Pre-school visit Mentone Fire Station: Brenda McNab (left) and Michele Bank with firemen Bill Stephens (left) and sub-officer R Bates.

Members of the Carrum team competing in the Flinders Urban Fire Brigades Association display, Springvale.

Edithvale Fire Station, Nepean Highway - showing bell tower, railway line and shopping street.

Fire at Harvest Food Factory, Moorabbin.

Bell tower for Carrum Urban Fire Brigade in Station Street Carrum, originally from Fitzroy Fire Station.

Fire at squash courts, Cheltenham.

Peninsula District Fire Brigade demonstration at Chelsea Oval. Craig Veneman and John Jacobs in in firemen's helmets aiming hose.

Firemen tackle fire in factory.

Factory fire, Moorabbin.

New Highett Fire Station. Left to right: Senior firefighter, Robert Weitering, recruit firefighter, Darren Carmody, and Senior firefighter, Ken Bennetts.

Junior Fire Brigade Boys at a Youth Week Parade. From left: Peter Pennin, Russell Harris, A. Rankin.

Testing a local fire alarm post in Sandringham, 1972.

Children from Chelsea Heights Primary School listen to a talk by a fireman from Chelsea Fire Brigade.

Frank McGuire with his book, Chelsea a Beachside Community, 2007.

Chelsea State School children and teachers at Hoadley’s Hall, 1913.

Aspendale Technical School Band, 1977.

Machine Shop at Aspendale Technical School, 1966.

New students at Aspendale Technical School, 1962. Robert Birkenhead, Graeme Blanche, Mick Elliott meet Principal Mr R Hounslow and Mr K Pears (right).

Sue Van Hugten learns dressmaking with teacher Mrs D Hellier, 1966.

Fire at Aspendale Technical School, 1971.

Aspendale Technical School football team premier of Division 1 of Metropolitan Inter-Technical Schools Sports Association. Coach Mr R Snow (centre) Back row: J Vallance, M Bryant, B Davey, P Briggs, R Onley, G Aburrow, B Eyers; third row: D Finch, K Boocock, T Grace, P Hanger, G Wenke, K Bellville, D Goss, I Jacobsen; second row: K Bryce, K Selleck, R Treloar (captain), P Lawrence ( vice-captain), T Harwood, N Besanko; front row: J Noyes, B Wenke, R Judd, B Fort, G Bailey, M Pierce. Mr A Laughlin, sports master, in back row.

Bookies and punters at Mornington Races, 1984.

Members of a Mentone Cricket Club Team, 1966.

Mentone Beach on a fine day in December 2003.

Chelsea Library, December 1987.

Cr Nola Barber, Chelsea Mayor with Mrs Nancy Lang, Mayoress, 1962.

Chelsea Mayor, Cr Maurie Portingale, opens Chelsea Library.  Watched by librarian Miss Shirley Perrett and Cr Tom Johnston, Chairman of Regional Library Committee, 1973.

Audience at opening of Chelsea Branch Regional Library, 1973.

Parkdale pre-kindergarten Christmas Party - Story of Babe in the Manager.

Christmas Party of the Mordialloc Tennis Club - no names.

Mentone Life Saving Club Christmas party - no names.

St Hilda's Anglican Church Kindergarten, Bonbeach. Christmas party at beach - no names.

Mordialloc Country Women's Association (CWA) Christmas Party.

Father Christmas at Thrift Park, Mentone. No names.

Moorabbin Heights Primary School students hang Christmas decorations. Adena Saaroni, Lother Dahlman, and Julie Wally.

Christmas party for children at Standard News, Cheltenham.

Fete of Brotherhood of St Laurence Auxiliary at Parkdale Life Saving Club. Pipe Major Glenn Dudley, Father Christmas and Drum Sergeant Sandy Gardiner.

Father Christmas on the chimney of a house.

Brady Road Kindergarten mothers preparing Christmas decorations.

St John of God fete parade. Father Christmas arrives in VW in Charman Road, Cheltenham, railway station ramp in background. Catholic organisation helping intellectually disadvantaged boys.

Moorabbin Elderly Citizens' Christmas party - no names.

Parkdale Preschool. Australian Bush Christmas Party.

Children taking part in the nativity play at Mordialloc Kindergarten.

A Can Can Xmas party put on by the City of Chelsea Meals on Wheels Auxiliary for elderly folks, pictured with Father Christmas. Held in grounds of Patterson River Golf Club.

Mordialloc traders John Tetley, left, and Michael Richmond erecting an artificial Father Christmas in Mordialloc's Main Street shopping centre.

Children of Mordialloc Pre-School celebrated Christmas with a nativity play which they staged for their parents. Pictured in the 'stable' from left: Simon Broomhall 4, Meghan Olsen 3, Petra Stollwitzer 5, and Jamie Orr 5.

Children at Edithvale Pre-School in Fraser Avenue at a dress rehearsal for their coming International Christmas play.

Toys for Kids campaign. Local schools and service clubs are working together to make Christmas a special time for needy children. Coatesville Primary School pupils, Jason and Virya, sorting some of the toys.

Rob Skinner, Chief Executive Officer of Kingston Council, with Kim Johnstone of Customer Services, Moorabbin.

Bob Flavell of Gordon Homes, Nepean Highway, Highett, selling Christmas trees.

Anti-French bomb protest. Neil McIntosh parked his car outside Vaneed Motors in Cheltenham, the agents for Renault and Peugeot, 1973.

Texfoam Industry Protest, 1976.

Protest over Kingston Council’s plans to re-organise library services, 1996.

Children from Mordialloc Primary School stage a 'Save the Whales' protest, 1977.

Protesters assemble outside the office of Federal Liberal MP, Dr David Kemp, during a Native Title protest, 1998.

Scallop boat protest at Carrum, 1981.

Protest against Board of Works treatment of clay cliffs at Mentone, 1971.

Protestors at the Mordialloc Life Saving Club against the laying of a pipeline under Port Phillip Bay to carry ethane gas, 1972.

Pupils of grade three at Sandringham Primary School wrote to Minister of Primary Industry protesting about the killing of whales, 1977.

Residents hold protest meeting on corner of Voltri Street and Blackwood Avenue, Mentone concerning Council’s proposal to close street, 1984.

Protest vigil at proposed brothel site. From left: Ken and Betty Wynne-Hughes, Michael O'Kelly, Bepi Pase, Cr Neil Bennett and Max Trist, 1988.

Protest outside the home of Cr Salter in Bentleigh about a skate board ramp.

Cr Salter standing at the site of Moorabbin Council’s new Administrative Offices with his protest placard, 1986.

Citizens in Highett form a branch of the development watchdog, Save Our Suburbs, to counter multi-density housing in a single street, 1999.

Edna Hoffman protests about the planned closure of the McKinnon Library, 1999.

Chelsea Police protest, 2007.

The interior of the Regional Bookmobile at Aspendale, 1972.

Mayor Mordialloc Cr Douglas Denyer, 1962.

Regional Librarian Miss Shirley Perrett, 1989.

Mordialloc-Chelsea bookmobile, 1972. Handing across the bookmobile keys to the chairman of the library committee.

Cheltenham Court House, 1979.

Dredging at the Patterson River, 1978.

Mouth of Patterson River with sand bars, 1962.

Boats in Patterson Lakes marina, 1987

Moorabbin Club unfurling the winning 1963 pennant.

Mayor of Moorabbin Cr Bryan Stuart-Jones signs seven year lease of Moorabbin Football ground to St Kilda. Cr Les Coates, Town Clerk Vic Smith, and St Kilda secretary Mr Ian Drake, President Mr Graham Huggins and Treasurer Mr Murray Hartlett, 1964.

Cr G R (Don) Bricker Moorabbin Councillor, August 29, 1973.

Workmen on the line at Cheltenham Railway Station.

Mrs Armstrong centre, a founder of St Aidan's Anglican Church Carrum with Rev C T Holloway vicar, and Miss Nellie Somerville.  Last service to be held in that building before construction of new church. 1964

Tree planting to commemorate 50 years of Service by Chelsea Red Cross. Mayor Cr L Payne, Mrs Payne, Mrs Moore, Mrs Mossenton, Mrs Meier and Mrs Mether.

Cheltenham Railway Platform to Frankston.

Horses training on Epsom Track.

Cr Ron Jacobs with Mal Sanders Member of Parliament, at Chelsea 1984.

Cr Ron Brownlees urging people to donate toys to Christmas Appeal 1988.

Labor politician Bob Hawke, at Chelsea Football Club 1987.

Cover of Leo Gamble’s book about Mentone’s History, 2003.

New Organ at St Matthew’s Anglican Church Cheltenham, dedicated in memory of Mrs Mary Ann Tricks formerly Mary Fiander. From left: J McKnight, Claude Simpson, Mrs N Ratcliffe and Miss S D Fiander grand-daughters of Mary Fiander, and Rev George Lucas, vicar. 1964.

Marie McIntosh, Chelsea Councillor 1987.

Mr Frank McGuire, Chelsea historian and secretary of the Chelsea Historical Society, Chelsea Mayor Cr Marie McIntosh and Mr John Banechteld President of Chelsea Historical Society, display a notice of a special meeting held to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the City of Chelsea. 16 May 1989.

Sorrento versus Carrum, August 1985.

Epsom race trials, 1983.