It's raining again - Merlynston floods, 1949

Herald, 20 July 1949

Age, 21 July 1949

The street identified in two of these photographs is Sussex Street, which runs all the way from Bell Street through Pascoe Vale and across Boundary Road in North Coburg, where it is very close to the Merlynston Creek, which one caption tells us had overflown. The grocer and the baker still managed to make their deliveries, however. The milkie didn't, but as we see here, Mrs G.A. Allsop saved the day and delivered milk to 'marooned householder' Mr E. Blackmore.