Historical information

Small black and white photograph of the entrance to Victoria Park showing high iron gates that are open. The gates are open but the gate on the right is behind the fence. There are caste iron lamps at either side of the gates in front of the bowed-top picket fence. Between the gates, in the distance the fountain is visible. Murray pines are also visible. Wide dirt approach.

Significance

Victoria Park is of social and historical significance to the people of Echuca and district. It includes a state park that has a natural dry schreyphyll forest with a canopy of eucalypts. The Park also includes sporting grounds and facilities and picnic areas. This photograph depicts the entrance to the Park in the 1920s showing a dirt approach with the caste iron lights, iron gates and caste iron gate posts and the bowed-top picket fence.

Physical description

Black and white photograph of the entrance to Victoria Park showing high iron gates and lamps with bowed-top picket fence. Wide dirt approach.

Inscriptions & markings

On the back of photograph, in pencil, "Park Entrance"