Sunday, 17 February 2019

Pascoe Vale Football Club in the 1950s

About three years ago, this photo was donated to Coburg Historical Society by a local man who played in the featured Pascoe Vale Football team some time in the 1950s.




There are no names to go with the players, so if you know anyone in the photo, I'd be delighted to hear from you.

I'm also trying to track down the location of the photo, so any help on that would be appreciated, too. 

I thought maybe it was Raeburn Reserve in Landells Road, but I don't recognise any of the buildings. 

The two buildings in the first snip from the main photo look a bit like army huts and the big white building in the second snip looks too big to be a domestic dwelling but I don't think it's Blessed Oliver Plunkett Church (or school), which is just across the road. Maybe you can help? 









Wednesday, 6 February 2019

Bruce Smalls Sydney Road shop - The Value Centre of Coburg - in 1953


Advertisement in Ruskin's All about Coburg, 1953


At Smalls you could buy bicycles (Malvern Star cycles, for sure), motor cycles, Vespas, refrigerators, washing machines and radios. Quite a selection!



Ad in the Age, 24 January 1953.