Photos

Pompei boat sculpture , Nepean Highway adjacent to bridge over Mordialloc Creek.  Sculptor Julie Squires.

The City of Mordialloc Baby Health Centre in Parkdale, 1976.

Sketch plan of the Parkdale Maternal and Child Health Centre in Como Parade Parkdale, 2009.

Sister weighing a baby at the Parkdale Health Centre in Como Parade Parkdale, 1962.

Cr. James Blanche City of Mordialloc.

Infant Welfare Centre Como Parade West in Parkdale, 1930.

Mordialloc Creek with moored boats, looking towards Railway Bridge. Pompei's landing for his boat hire business, 2016.

Concrete Mordialloc bridge, the Bridge Hotel in background, c1920.

The old wooden bridge over the Mordialloc Creek, Bridge Hotel on the right, c1918.

Parkdale Shopping Centre on Como Parade West with pedestrian crossing, 1997.

Unmade street in Parkdale, 1964.

Winter Garden Parkers Road Parkdale, local picture theatre, now the Shirley Burke Theatre, c1930.

Californian bungalow with wire mesh fence in Parkdale, c1932.

Small & Edwards Estate Agents on Como Parade Parkdale with Norman Thomas on the left and Geoff Connard, c1930.

Early melbourne with ships on the Yarra and the city in the background, c1855.

Aerial view of Cheltenham Highett 1954. Land shown in blue was purchased by Charles Smith in 1852 and subsequently sub-divided and sold to William Garfield, Robert Googe, Thomas Pender, Chas Everall, Patrick Corrigan and Archibald Nesbitt. Courtesy, Registrar of Titles, Victoria.

Dredging the mouth of the Patterson River. Cr Maurie Portingale and Colin Hay engineer with the Dandenong Valley Authority checking progress.

Inaugural meeting of the Patterson River Dredging Advisory Committee. From Left Cr Tony Lack, mayor Cr Bill Revill, Mal Sandon and Public Works Minister Jack Simpson at Chelsea Council Chambers, 1983.

A dredge working from the mouth of the Patterson River, pumping and on to the beach.

Erosion on the banks of the Patterson River, 1974.