Princes Highway - Country Roads Board photographs

The Country Roads Board was established in 1913 to maintain major roads in Victoria. Previous to this all roads were the responsibility of the local councils. The Public Records Office has digitised much of the CRB's photographic collection, you can access them here.  This post shows the Princes Highway photographs from this region, plus two from Dandenong; the South Gippsland Highway photos can be seen here. Other CRB photos of the region can be seen here.

Main Street, Dandenong, 1913. 

 Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684  Image 13_00047_A

  Township of Dandenong - market day - Princes Highway East, 1913.

 Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684  Image 13_00158

  Berwick township section East side looking West, 1928.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image  28_00005

St Andrews Presbyterian, now Uniting Church, is on the left.

  Berwick township section East side looking West, 1928.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 28_00005

Junction of Princes Highway East with road to Upper Beaconsfield, 1913.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 13_00032_A

This is, of course, Berwick and the Border Hotel / Berwick Inn.

Princes Highway East Section 1 - Cardinia Creek Bridge at Beaconsfield, 1931. 

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 30_295

The Gippsland Hotel (now the Central Hotel) is on the left.

Princes Highway East Section 1 - between Pakenham and Nar-Nar-Goon, 1918

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 18_00030

Princes Highway East section 1 - from Tynong Road - base course of granite, 1929.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684  Image 28_00098

Princes Highway East section 1 - between Garfield and Tynong turn-off: maintenance of granite sand surfacing 1929

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684  Image 28_00100

Bridge over Bunyip River between Bunyip and Drouin : Princes Highway East, 1913

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 13_00166

Princes Highway East section 1 - bridge over Bunyip River, 1929.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 28_00095

Princes Highway East Section 1 : wrecked approach span : Bunyip River Bridge after December floods 1934 : Eastern end

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 34_00084

CRB's photographic collection can be accessed here.  This post shows the Princes Highway photographs from this region, plus two from Dandenong; the South Gippsland Highway photos can be seen here. Other CRB photos of the region can be seen here.

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