Photograph, Looking down Pryor Street to Main Road, Eltham, c.1960

Historical information

Eltham Plumbing Supplies (Lennie Whiteway Plumbing) located on the right side of the street. It later became the Eltham Bookshop and sold cane ware as well.

On the corner with Main Road is the local branch of the State Bank of Victoria. The building still stands and is the present day Westpac bank branch.

The Railway Station Master's house on opposite side was later demolished to make way for a carpark.

27 Aug 1963: Pettion for Bankruptcy re Jeanette Patricia Whiteway of 88 Napoleon Street, Eltham, house duties, and lately carrying on a business at Pryor Street, Eltham in partnership with another as a plumber under the names Eltham Plumbing Supplies and L. & J.P. Whiteway
1963 'SEQUESTRATION ORDERS AND FIRST MEETINGS', Commonwealth of Australia Gazette (National : 1901 - 1973), 12 September, p. 3259. , viewed 10 Jul 2018, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241015035

Orders for discharge of bankruptcy suspended till 23 March 1967 for Leonard Whiteway and Jeanette Patricia Whiteway of 5 John Street, Eltham
1967 'NOTICE OF ORDERS OF DISCHARGE', Commonwealth of Australia Gazette (National : 1901 - 1973), 11 May, p. 2427. , viewed 10 Jul 2018, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241040009

Physical description

Black and white photograph prints (x3)
Negative (copy) 4x5 large format Black and White (x2)

Inscriptions & markings

Shire of Eltham

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