Historic Post Offices - Part 3: Old Shire of Berwick - along the Highway or Railway line

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 will show you the Post Offices, along the Highway or Railway line in the old Shire of Berwick. Not every Post Office was photographed, for instance the Hallam Post Office is not the collection. In the first post we show all the Post Offices on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp and surrounds, including Nar Nar Goon, Tynong, Garfield and Bunyip (see here) and in the second post we look at the Post Offices in the old Shire of Cranbourne (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, back in the days when Narre Warren, Berwick and Pakenham were still country towns.

Beaconsfield Post Office, 1968

National Archives of Australia B5919, 154 Item ID 6528494

Berwick Post Office.

Berwick Post Office is identical to those built at Donald and Murtoa.

I have written about them, here.

National Archives of Australia B5919, 215 Item ID 6528555

Berwick Post Office, a later image than the one above.

National Archives of Australia B5919, 215 Item ID 6528555

Doveton Post Office, 1966

National Archives of Australia B5919, 601 Item ID 6528942

Narre Warren Post Office

National Archives of Australia B5919, 1537 Item ID 9515679

Officer Post Office

National Archives of Australia B5919, 1633 Item ID 9515776

Pakenham Post Office, located in Main Street. 

Originally known as Pakenham East Post office, this building is identical to the one at Elwood. 

I have written about them here.

Incorrectly listed as Packenham at the NAA.

National Archives of Australia B5919, 1652 Item ID 9515795

Pakenham Post Office, Main Street, a later photo than the one, above.

Incorrectly listed as Packenham at the NAA.

National Archives of Australia B5919, 1652 Item ID 9515795

Pakenham Post Office, Main Street.

Incorrectly listed as Packenham at the NAA.

National Archives of Australia B5919, 1652 Item ID 9515795

Pakenham Post Office on the Highway.

Incorrectly listed as Packenham at the NAA.

National Archives of Australia B5919, 1652 Item ID 9515795

In this post we show Post Offices, along the Highway or Railway line in the old Shire of Berwick. In the first post we show all the Post Offices on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp and surrounds (see here) and in the second post we look at the Post Offices in the old Shire of Cranbourne (see here). In the fourth post we look at the Post Offices from the old Shire of Berwick, located in the Hills (see here).