Aerial photograph of Bank street, Box Hill - looking west - showing the ANZ Bank on the corner of Station Street and Main Street, and Whitehorse Plaza in the background. C.1970's. Railway line visible through the trees. The water tower in Elgar Road and the communications tower in Canterbury Road is visible.whitehorse plaza, anz bank, bank street, station street, main street, shopping centres, banks, transport, water towers, telecommunications equipment, aerial photographs

The PMG / Telecom / Telstra tower was built in 1961-1963 as a relay station to support television and radio links between city and regional broadcasting stations. The tower itself was 45 m in height with a 2 storey building for equipment and staff surrounded by garden. From the beginning it was opposed by local residents. The location is said to be the second highest site in Melbourne, sometimes described as Delaney's Hill.Two A3 photocopied sheets of a map showing part of Surrey Hills, roughly between Windsor Crescent and Belmont Street (north / south) and Standard Avenue and Balmoral Crescent (east / west). The map shows contour lines and house sites, 16 of which are numbered. One sheet has been inscribed in top RH corner with notes regarding the significance of the numbers."Contour map of potential sites / for the telecommunications tower which / was eventually sited at 2. / Jock Campbell OBE was our neighbour / at 4 Theodore St when we moved into / the area in 1984. He was responsible in his / job at the PMG in deciding on the /site of the tower - Note site 5 was / behind his (& our) house. / Jack ended his career as Deputy Director / of the PMG. He sat on international committees / after WW2 to decide the split of the electronic / spectrum for radio, TV etc. / His group developed a "mobile phone" using / fixed towers but the phone was a truck full of gear."contour map, telecom tower, maps, jock campbell, john duncan campbell

PMG Tower 1. For Surrey Hills, The Sun, 5.7.1961. (1 page). 2. Letter to Telecom Australia from SHNC History Nook (JC. Resburn), 3.11.1980, and from John Barth 30.10.1980. (2 pages). 3. Letter from Whitehorse City Council, 27.1.2015 (1 page), with Whitehorse Planning Scheme amendment C169. (1 Page). 4. ‘‘’Dominating eyesore’’: Council wants heritage protection for ageing radio tower’, The Age, 2.4.2015. (2 pages). 5. Photo of Telecom tower, The Age, 2.4.2015 (1 page). 6. ‘’Eyeful but it’s no Eiffel’’, Whitehorse Leader, 27.7.2015. (1 page). 7. ‘’Heritage-listing bid dropped after outrage from surrey Hills residents’’, 30.6.2015. (2 pages). Refers to a 1961 article ‘Stir over surrey Hills Tower Plan’. 8. ‘’Public support key for ‘ugly’ heritage’’, The Age, 4.10.2015 (2 pages). 9. Telstra Tower to remain. SHNN No. 204 Oct/Nov 2013 10. Telecommunications Relay Tower 1961-1963. Built Heritage Citation No. E004. City of Whitehorse Post-War Heritage Study pmg tower

Aerial view of the reservoir in Canterbury Road. The photo is looking south over Surrey Hills and the telecommunication tower.aerial photographs, canterbury road, surrey hills, telecommunications equipment