Little River Historical Society

Collecting, preserving and promoting the history of the Little River area

Galleries

A selection of photos from our recent and distant past. If using for your non-commercial or NFP website or organisation, please credit the Little River Historical Society and the photographer (as noted on individual photos). For commercial use, please contact us.

Of course, we have plenty of additional photos in our Collection and you can contact us if you wish to know more…you can also ‘like’ our Facebook page where we regularly share images of the area.

Little River buildings, structures and places

The former Campbell's Store...in 1882 the store was let to storekeeper James Berry, but records are unclear as to when it closed.

This is the original Catholic Church 1857-1922. The current St Michael's Catholic Church benefited from a bequest from Ewan McIntosh and was the only debt free Catholic Church in Victori

Photo donated by Lindsay Bull, taken by Otto Walter of Grants Bridge, You Yangs Road. The windmill and tank were destroyed in the 1969 fire.

Little River General Store c1920s

Little River General Store 1960s

Kirk's Bridge was originally a wooden construction built in 1870 and replaced with the current concrete bridge in 1970.

Carroll : Mick Shaw : McNaughton's butcher shop pre-1940 on the corner of River and Rothwell Streets. This building was moved to Mortimer St, Werribee in the mid 1950s,

Little River train station

Little River train station August 1969

LR station building, date unknown.

Steam train through Little River station August 1969

Our beautiful railway station was built in 1876. Up until the 1950's there were 3 station staff employed on shift work and four or five on the track maintenance gang. There were also 6 r

Little River people

Another of Bev Fields photos from the 1960's. A photo shoot for the Dodge car with LR railway station. The horse belonged to Bev.

Hands up if you live on Devine's Road! It was named for John Devine, a local farmer who had land on Edgars Road and served as the 11th President of the Werribee Shire (now Wyndham City C

Possibly a photo taken outside the Mouyong Woolshed, but no information on identities of people shown.

Pellow's Blacksmith shop on River St, Little River

Pellow’s Blacksmith shop on River St, Little River

This locally famous photo was taken in 1909. The fellow on the tricycle with white top is Archie Boadle and the guy standing on the platform with the white shirt is Tom McLean (snr). Oth

The very last game the LR Football Club played was on August 27, 1966. This photo is of the 1957 under 15 team.

This photo is of the Davis family in front of original Davis House, somewhere circa 1900. It was in Station St (now Rothwell Road)

Won't see a back drop like this again. Old General Store and Fink:Rowland house without the fence. and image the horse sitting in Geraldine & John Newlans' living room. (Photo courtesy B

Filming of Mad Max

Mad Max cars scene from the first movie c1979

Mad Max bike scene from the first movie c1979

Mad Max Mel Gibson sitting between takes on a rock near the Rothwell Bridge c1979

TT Races

TTs

TT 2

Matchless Corner, was Old Melbourne rd junction with Little River Rd. Matchless were a sponsor of the races.

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