Historic Post Offices - Part 4: Old Shire of Berwick - in the hills

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 from the the old Shire of Berwick, located in the hills. 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 third post we look at the Post Offices from the old Shire of Berwick, located along the Highway or Railway line (see here).

Beaconsfield Upper Post Office

National Archives of Australia B5919, 155 Item ID 6528495

Cockatoo Post Office

National Archives of Australia B5919, 531 Item ID 6528871

Emerald Post Office

Emerald was part of the Shire of Sherbrook, not Berwick.

National Archives of Australia B5919, 636 Item ID 6528977

Emerald Post Office - showing more of the streetscape.

National Archives of Australia B5919, 636 Item ID 6528977

Gembrook Post Office, 1978

National Archives of Australia B5919, 741 Item ID 6529084

Gembrook Post Office, 1983

National Archives of Australia B5919, 741 Item ID 6529084

Guys Hill Post Office

National Archives of Australia B5919, 843 Item ID 6529188

Harkaway Post Office, 1970

National Archives of Australia B5919, 860 Item ID 9515005

Maryknoll Post Office

National Archives of Australia B5919, 1247 Item ID 9515391

Mount Burnett Post Office, 1970

National Archives of Australia B5919, 1449 Item ID 9515592

Nar Nar Goon North Post Office, 1970

National Archives of Australia B5919, 1532 Item ID 9515675

Narre Warren North Post Office, 1968

National Archives of Australia B5919, 1538 Item ID 9515681

Pakenham Upper Post Office, 1976.

Incorrectly listed as Packenham Upper at the NAA.

National Archives of Australia B5919, 1655 Item ID 9515798

Pakenham Upper Post Office, 1976. 

I assume the Post Office was down the side of the General Store.

National Archives of Australia B5919, 1655 Item ID 9515798

The Post shows the Post Offices from the the old Shire of Berwick, located in the hills.  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 third post we look at the Post Offices from the old Shire of Berwick, located along the Highway or Railway line (see here).