Old Melbourne

1943 35 photos

Room at Jolimont May 1943Civil defence units parade, Bourke Street, Melbourne, c. 1943Women marching at A.R.P. i.e. Air Raid Precautions display, Flemington racetrack, c. 1943From window in Agnes St. Jolimont, May '43, 1943Military procession in Melbourne, Bourke Street and towards Elizabeth Street, 1943Military procession in Melbourne, near the corner of Elizabeth and Collins Streets, 1943Heidelberg '43, 1943View from our window at Agnes St. Jolimont - looking at city 1943Maj. Schofield M.M. M.C., Officer in charge, interviews Dvr. E.J. Steavens of Albury at the new army rehabilitation centre at Caulfield, c. 194317th Brigade marching through Melbourne, c. 1943A.I.F. soldiers of the 9th Division in Swanston Street, during a march in Melbourne, 1943Women taking notes during canteen Management Classes at Melbourne Technical College, c. 1943Men who have seen service in Rabaul are shown as they arrived in Melbourne, 1943?Trucks of civil defence units parade, Bourke Street, Melbourne, c. 1943A.R.P. i.e. Air Raid Precautions display marchers, Flemington racetrack, c. 1943Ian Robertson Little collins Str. March 194317th Brigade marching through Melbourne, c. 194317th Brigade marching through Melbourne, c. 194317th Brigade marching through Melbourne, c. 194317th Brigade marching through Melbourne, c. 194317th Brigade marching through Melbourne, c. 194317th Brigade marching through Melbourne, c. 1943Greek community lay wreath at Shrine, [Melbourne, during World War II], c. 1943Back from the [illegible] a Christmas Dinner given by the Royal Park Camp Women's Auxiliary at a Leave & Transport camp, c. 1943Military procession in Melbourne, Bourke Street and towards Elizabeth Street, 1943Last Post at the military funeral of Lt. Stewart Woods at Springvale Cemetery, c. 1943A.R.P. i.e. Air Raid Precautions display, Flemington racetrack, c. 1943Military procession in Melbourne, Bourke Street and towards Elizabeth Street, 1943A.I.F. soldiers of the 9th Division in Swanston Street, during a march in Melbourne, 1943A.I.F. soldiers of the 9th Division in Swanston Street, during a march in Melbourne, 1943OFFICERS OF N E I ARMY AT DINNER in Melbourne, c. 1943Sister D. WILSON (Melbourne) leads some of the boys in a sewing bee mending mosquito nets, c. 1943Air Raid Precautions Squad during display in Melbourne - pulling an unseen patient to ground, c. 194317th Brigade marching through Melbourne, c. 194317th Brigade marching through Melbourne, c. 1943

1944 25 photos

Exterior view of Kinnear's Rope Works, Ballarat Road, Footscray, 1944Escaped P.O.W.s arrive. [at Royal Park, Victoria], c. 1944Army procession through Melbourne streets, 1944Janice Robinson and Jack Pinches at Melbourne zoo with baby koala, 1944Escaped P.O.W.s arrive. [at Royal Park, Victoria], c. 1944Regent Theatre, 853 High Street, Thornbury, c. 1944Private C.J. Hill from Ivanhoe watching Corporal T.J. Frost of Malvern make a leather bag, c. 1944St James Theatre, Bourke Street, Melbourne, c. 1944Allied soldiers playing cards in tent at Camp Pell, Melbourne, c. 1944Australian troops on a railway platform, train on the track behind them, Platform 10A, Spencer Street Station, Melbourne, c. 1944Hoyts Trocadero Theatre, Hopkins Street, Footscray, c. 1944Lt. Colonels E. McQuade White, J. S. Abbott and E. Kenny on the steps of the Senior Administrative School at "Grong Grong", Toorak, Victoria, c. 1944Hoyts Waratah Theatre, Ascot Vale, c. 1944Heavy R.A.F. raid on Brunswick following recent U.S. attack, 1944?Gun. C.H. Jones (Aust) & Seaman 1st class B.C. Howard (USN) - wounded men who recently reached Melbourne, c. 1944Trinity Presbyterian Church, Camberwell, 1944Regent Theatre, 853 High Street, Thornbury, c. 1944Heidelberg Hosp. [i.e. hospital] A quite [i.e. quiet] game of drafts in one of the Sun Rooms, c. 1944[Exterior view of Hoyts theatre, Richmond], c. 1944Army men of the 7th Division as they march through the streets of Melbourne, Victoria, 1944St James Theatre, Bourke Street, Melbourne, c. 1944Hoyts Trocadero Theatre, Hopkins Street, Footscray, c. 1944Marie de Babay, Mme. Rene Vanderkelen, wife of Belgian Consul, Mme. A. Lodewyckz, Mrs. F. H. Wright, Mme. Nicoladis toasting the liberation of Belgium at the Toorak residence of the Belgian Consul, c. 1944At the VAOC's nerve centre, a central air sector near Melbourne, the controllers balconies overlook the "plotting" table. A floor supervisor is on the first balcony watching operations. On the upper balcony are the male controllers, WAAAF liaison officers between VAOC and country centres and the identification centre (extreme right), c. 1944March of 4th and 15th Infantry Brigades in Melbourne, c. 1944

4,991 historic photos of Melbourne from the 1940s, by year, then those the library dates to a span of years. All are from State Library Victoria; each photo links to its original record.