Baby Health Centres in Coburg in 1953

(Ruskin's 1953 All About Coburg)

This would have been just around the time my mother was taking me to what one of my waggish friends calls the 'Baby Elf Centre'. I even have the little book that was kept recording my progress. (Mum kept all of our books. They make amusing reading.) Our family was living in Kerang in the Mallee then, so I was a pretty long way from Coburg where we moved in the 1960s.

Coburg Television Centre, Sydney Road, Coburg, 1953

Ruskin's 1953 All about Coburg

I'll leave you to decide why this shop was called Coburg Television Centre. Television broadcasts didn't begin until November 1956, although there had been earlier demonstrations. You can read about the history of television in Australia here.