A photograph of Main Street in Trafalgar looking west in 1924/25.
Trafalgar was quite a large shopping centre in the 1920s and this photograph shows a few of the businesses on the south side of the highway.
If you look carefully, you will see some of the buildings still stand today. What was the State Bank is now a bakery, the former bank/S.E.C. building is now a coffee shop, and, in the far distance, the Criterion Hotel.
Photograph and information courtesy of the Trafalgar and District Historical Society.
Noojee rail - an engineering classic
The railway from Neerim South to Noojee swoops and soars through some of Victoria’s most attractive scenery. Yes, I know that should be in the past tense, but I’m ever the optimist. Unfortunately, burned-out trestle bridges no longer safely spanning...