Main Road, Doncaster Australia c.1895
View from the Doncaster Tower,looking west along Doncaster Road towards the intersection of Elgar Road, Tram Road and Williamson’s Road. c.1900
View of the Shire Hall and Doncaster, looking east, taken from the Tower. c.1905
The Tower Hotel in the 1900s
The “Beaconsfield Tower” was built in 1879 by Alfred Hummel.
It stood for 35 years before its integrity was thought to be compromised and was demolished in 1914. (but, found to be sound during dismantling)
The original Tower Hotel, main road, Doncaster in the 1890s – built in 1881 by Alfred Hummel.
The building on the right contained bedrooms and a large entertainment room. The hotel was destroyed by fire in Jan 1895 and a new brick hotel built in front of the guest accommodation, later that year.
Victorian Railways horse-drawn coach stopped outside the Morning Star Hotel, Doncaster Road (near Koonung Creek)
– while on its run from the Kew Post Office to the Doncaster Inn on the corner of Main [Doncaster] Road and Bismark [Victoria] Street. c.1886
Main road, Doncaster – 1920s
The Post office on the left, then postmaster Fidler’s [1922-27] house, Thomas Hope’s old “Cockatoo store” used by Red Cross during WW1, John Petty’s hedge, John Tully’s house [1916-24] (that later became Dr Commons), Church of Christ and on the right side of the road the E,S&A bank.
Main Road, Doncaster – looking east from Council Street. 1920s
School on the left with the Post Office centre distance
Doncaster Post Office and General Store c.1890
Henry (jnr) “Harry” Reynolds – Henry George Reynolds – Anne Louisa Reynolds (Higgs)
Doncaster Post Office c.1907
Doncaster Post Office store during the tenancy of E. Rolf. (1917-22)
Mr Rolf took over the store from Mrs Beatrice Symons after her husband, E. J. Symons, had died while at the war in 1917. (Horace Corbett in the jinker)
Doncaster Post office c.1920s
Serpell’s store first leased by Watkins and Collier’s, Doncaster c.1890
Demonstrating the “Bave-U” Orchard spray pump – c.1906
“Ploughing-on” with a Horse and single furrow plough – Doncaster early 1900s
PRUNING COMPETITION 21st August 1906
Pruning competition on one of Thomas Petty’s orchards – thought to be in Tram Rd. (a similar event is recorded in 1905) Pruning competitions appealed to orchard workers who needed speed to get through this arduous task on a large holding. Each contestant pruned six trees. Tom Petty used to say, “When pruning there should be one stick in the secateurs with two still in the air”. Photo credit – Norbury Family History.
Peace celebrations at the Athenaeum Hall. Doncaster c.1919
Peace Day celebrations took place at the end of World War I (often associated with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919)
The official opening of the Central Cool Store on Thursday, 16 March 1905 by the Minister of Public Works, Mr Cameron, the member for Evelyn in the Victorian Parliament.
A banquet being held at Stutt’s Doncaster Hotel, following the opening of the Government Cool Stores – Thursday 16th March 1905.