Country Roads Board photographs - Princes Highway

The Country Roads Board was established in 1913 to maintain major roads in Victoria. Previous to this all roads were the responsibility of the local councils. The Public Records Office has digitised much of the CRB's photographic collection, you can access them here.  This post shows the Princes Highway photos from the old Shire of Berwick area; the South Gippsland Highway photographs from the old Shire of Cranbourne area can be seen here. 

Main Street, Dandenong, 1913.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 13_00047_A

Township of Dandenong - market day - Princes Highway East, 1913.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 13_00158

Berwick township section East side looking West, 1928.

St Andrews Presbyterian, now Uniting Church, is on the left.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 28_00005

Berwick township section East side looking West, 1928.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 28_00005

Junction of Princes Highway East with road to Upper Beaconsfield, 1913. This is, of course, Berwick and the Border Hotel / Berwick Inn (see here)

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 13_00032_A

Princes Highway East Section 1 - Cardinia Creek Bridge at Beaconsfield, 1931.

This photograph is, we believe, mislabelled. Marianne Rocke of Upper Beaconsfied History wrote this about the photo - I believe that this photograph was wrongly labelled by the Country Roads Board/PROV. It was not taken in Beaconsfield. A few reasons: The bridge is too close to the turnoff to Upper Beaconsfield. The Princes Highway seems to be going up a small rise. There was only one other building on the north side of the road at that time, and  the hotel [Gippsland Hotel, now the Central Hotel] had a different architecture. 

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 30_295

Road running North from Cockatoo station, 1913.

Cockatoo is north of the Princes Highway.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 13_00036

400 gallon heaters set up for spraying on the Cockatoo-Gembrook Road, 1931.

This road is north of the Princes Highway.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 30_00259

Princes Highway East (Section 1) : bridge over Toomuc Creek, Pakenham, 1937. 

The building behind the bridge is Burke's Hotel, also called the La Trobe Inn.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 36_00211

Princes Highway East section 1 : Hancock's Bridge, Pakenham, 1930. Hancock Creek is between Pakenham and Nar Nar Goon.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 30_00081

Princes Highway East Section 1 - between Pakenham and Nar-Nar-Goon, 1918

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 18_00030

Sand Road, south of Nar Nar Goon, 1913

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 13_00035

Princes Highway East section 1 - from Tynong Road - base course of granite, 1929.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 28_00098

Quarry at Tynong opened up by contractor Manrell, Pakenham, 1929. This is north of the Highway. 

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 28_00201

Princes Highway East section 1 - between Garfield and Tynong turn-off: maintenance of granite sand surfacing 1929

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 28_00100

Princes Highway East : section 1 : construction of mixed in place near Garfield, Pakenham, 1932.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 32_00074

Bridge over Bunyip River between Bunyip and Drouin : Princes Highway East, 1913

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 13_00166

Princes Highway East section 1 - bridge over Bunyip River, 1929.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 28_00095

Princes Highway East Section 1 : wrecked approach span : Bunyip River Bridge after December floods 1934 : Eastern end

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 34_00084

Train being shunted across Bunyip River after December floods 1934.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 34_00081

CRB's photographic collection, you can access them here.  This post shows the Princes Highway photos from the old Shire of Berwick area; the South Gippsland Highway photographs from the old Shire of Cranbourne area can be seen here. 

This post, which I compiled, first appeared on my work blog Casey Cardinia Links to our Past.