Historic Post Office Photographs - Part 2: Old Shire of Cranbourne

As part of the 2021 Casey Cardinia Heritage Festival, Patrick Ferry gave an interesting talk about local history resources in the National Archives’ collection. A key resource Patrick highlighted was series B5919 – Master Set of Post Office Photographs (1901 - ). This series of historical photographs was originally assembled by Australia Post’s museum in Melbourne and later transferred to the National Archives. The photographs have been digitized and are available via “Record Search” on the National Archives website: www.naa.gov.au. 

We recorded Patrick's talk and you can see it here on our You Tube channel - https://youtu.be/vfJjZ2iYSo0

In this post we show you the Post Offices located in the old Shire of Cranbourne. Not every Post Office was photographed, for instance the Lyndhurst Post Office is not the collection. In the first post we look at the Post Offices located on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp and the towns bordering the Swamp - Lang Lang to the south; Nar Nar Goon, Tynong, Garfield and Bunyip to the north and Cardinia at the eastern end (see here). In the third post we look at the Post Offices from the old Shire of Berwick, located along the Highway or Railway line (see here).  In the fourth post we look at the Post Offices from the old Shire of Berwick, located in the Hills (see here).   Many of the photographs were taken around 50 years ago, and they are an interesting look at these towns, when this was still very much a rural Shire.

Carrum Downs Post Office, 1982

Carrum Downs is now part of the City of Frankston

National Archives of Australia B5919, 440 Item ID 6528779

Clyde Post Office, 1969

National Archives of Australia B5919, 517 Item ID 6528857

Clyde North Post Office

National Archives of Australia B5919, 519 Item ID 6528859

Another view of Clyde North Post Office

National Archives of Australia B5919, 519 Item ID 6528859

Cranbourne Post Office, 1977

National Archives of Australia B5919, 556 Item ID 6528896

Another view of the Cranbourne Post Office, 1977

National Archives of Australia B5919, 556 Item ID 6528896

Hampton Park  Post Office, 1968

National Archives of Australia B5919, 855 Item ID 6529200

Langwarrin Post Office, 1967.

Langwarrin is now part of the City of Frankston.

National Archives of Australia B5919, 1114 Item ID 9515260

Langwarrin Post Office, 1967

This appears to be the building on the right of the photo above. 

National Archives of Australia B5919, 1114 Item ID 9515260

Pearcedale Post Office, 1968

National Archives of Australia B5919, 1680 Item ID 9515823

Tooradin Post Office, 1968

National Archives of Australia B5919, 2129 Item ID 9699279

Tooradin Post Office, 1973

National Archives of Australia B5919, 2129 Item ID 9699279

Tooradin North Post Office, 1965

National Archives of Australia B5919, 2130 Item ID 9699280

Another view of the Tooradin North Post Office, 1965

National Archives of Australia B5919, 2130 Item ID 9699280

Warneet Post Office, 1971

National Archives of Australia B5919, 2235 Item ID 9699385

This post shows the  Post Offices located in the old Shire of Cranbourne. In the first post we look at the Post Offices located on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp and the towns bordering the Swamp - Lang Lang to the south; Nar Nar Goon, Tynong, Garfield and Bunyip to the north and Cardinia at the eastern end (see here). In the third post we look at the Post Offices from the old Shire of Berwick, located along the Highway or Railway line (see here).  In the fourth post we look at the Post Offices from the old Shire of Berwick, located in the Hills (see here).