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.
Snapshot of the past - “Jackie” the lyrebird
A photograph capturing the framed tail feathers of “Jackie the Lyrebird” who was part of the McNeilly family and became quite a famous resident of Drouin. To put the story into context, the forests of West Gippsland were alive with native lyrebirds...