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.
Our History
Snapshot of the past
A photograph of Lambert Lieshout carting milk cans in the Longwarrydistrict. We often hear how technology is changing our lives forever. But, of course, it has always been this way, just as the invention of the wheel changed the way we cart goods...