Photos

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

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

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.

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

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

Fire Brigade Demonstration at Youth Week, 1983.

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

Marching girls and spectators at Chelsea Youth Week, 1963.

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

Aviators and planes at Moorabbin Airport, 1984.

Aerial view of Moorabbin Airport and Woodlands Golf Course with intersection of Lower Dandenong Road and Boundary Road, Braeside, c1956.

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

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

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.

State Savings Bank of Victoria on the corner of Charman and Park roads, Cheltenham, c1958. Later became the site of a branch of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Four Australian Wrestlers competitors in Olympic Games. Front: Dick Garrard, John Elliott. Back: Bev Scott and Kevin Coote All were eliminated in their events but none of these wrestlers were pinned throughout their matches, 1952.

Dick Garrard, Lightweight Olympic Wrestler at Berlin Games, c1936.

Railway Bridge crossing Point Nepean Road at Mordialloc, 1935.

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

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