Historical information
Contains 9 items:
1/Typed statements from Keith Stodden, dated 03/09/2004, contributing his list of tram routes in Glen Eira from 1920-1970 and 1970-2004.
2/’Trams in Glen Eira (Caulfield) – A Time Line History’, by Keith Stodden, dated 03/09/2004, listing opening and conversion dates and a detailed time-line from 1888 through 1995, of tram lines in Glen Eira (7 typed pages). Included is Mr Stodden’s handwritten draft of this time-line (13+2 pages).
3/’Trams in Glen Eira, notes prepared by Keith Stodden’, dated 27/05/2004, briefly describing tram routes in Glen Eira (2 pages).
4/Page from unnamed Melbourne newspaper (dated December 1895 in pen) with advertisement for tendering for lease of property for Caulfield Tramway.
5/’Our Tramways’, photocopy of cutting from unnamed newspaper, hand dated 1913, about recent developments on Melbourne tramways.
6/’Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, location of cars at end of 28 day period, 16 June 1928’, listing by tram depot (2 pages); ‘Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, location of cars at end of 28 day period, 9 June 1934’, listing by tram depot (2 pages); ‘Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, location of cards at end of financial year, 30 June 1938’, listing by depot (2 pages).
7/’Glenhuntly Road’, cutting from Southern Cross newspaper, dated 14/05 but without the year (perhaps 1980), with brief history of Glenhuntly Road and photograph of first electric tram there, April 1913.
8/Flyer (2 pages) for ‘The Tramway Society of Victoria Ltd’, about the history of the Society (undated).
9/’Caulfield Conservation Study-Tramways Reservation-Dandenong Road’, photocopied description (5 pages) of reservations in the centre of Dandenong Road, with photographs. Assessment and one photograph dated March 1994.
Subjects
- tram services,
- tram depots,
- trams,
- glen eira,
- caulfield,
- transport,
- glen huntly road,
- leslie street,
- elsternwick,
- hawthorn road,
- grange road,
- dandenong road,
- derby road,
- carnegie,
- balaclava road,
- stodden keith,
- glen huntly depot,
- caulfield tramway,
- elsternwick,
- watts thomas,
- elstercreek,
- architectural features,
- flannagan leonard j.,
- ward andrew,
- tram companies,
- land transport,
- tram shelter