These aerials of Hampton Park were taken on January 28, 1970, back in the days when it was just a county town. It was before the Eumemmerring By-pass was built, which was started in 1969 and completed in 1972. To see more photographs of this area, click here.
This shows the South Gippsland Highway, going from bottom right to top left of the photograph. The first road from the bottom of the picture, on the left of the Highway is Abbotts Road - it bisects the railway line. Around the middle, on the right of the Highway, is Somerville Road and above that is Pound Road.
This shows Somerville Road. The five roads on the south side are View Street, The Fairway, Parkland Avenue, Ora Street and Wren Street. On the north of Somerville Road is Bride Street, running beside the oval. On the right of the photograph is Hallam Road and it intersects with Pound Road, where the trees surrounding the four small paddocks look a bit like a swastika. You can see the Hallam Main Drain at the top of the picture.
This photographs also shows the intersection of Hallam Road and Pound Road. It also shows the intersection where Pound Road diverts at at 45 degree angle at the Shrives Road ineresection.
6 comments:
Thanks Heather. The library is fortunate to have aerial views in its collection. It would be interesting to see these views today via Google Maps.
Thanks, Liz. I love aerial photographs, especially of this area which has been going through a process of suburbanization since the eighties. I love to see the places when they were country towns, plus you also get to see aspects of the landscape that have disappeared such as sand pits, creeks etc.
When will the development stop. Your looking at some of the best farmland in the state here.
I understand what you are saying, Anonymous. I find it hard to see towns, which I knew as country towns, turn into suburbs, but I guess that's progress. I had an ancestor that farmed on the Merri creek (Brunswick Coburg)in the 1850s, and long ago that turned into housing. I wonder if they said the same thing then?
Thanks Heather. I grew up in Hampton Park and can remember helping farmers with rabbits and foxes when I was in my early teens. Very fertile soils now under concrete is modern day progress I suppose. Im only 35 now and can't recognize the area. This link takes you to the state library and a real estate ad from the 1920's. I pound per acre, fertile soils and red gum timber. Amazing.
You can find the photo here thanks or goto the state library of victoria website and search Hampton Park. Its a great resource. http://digital.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/singleViewer.do?dvs=1382096849372~43&locale=en_AU&metadata_object_ratio=10&show_metadata=true&preferred_usage_type=VIEW_MAIN&frameId=1&usePid1=true&usePid2=true
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