Picture Victoria - Images Of Eastern And Monash Construction

[adznight]

All this Eastlink talk got me thinking the other night. I was looking for some old pics of the Eastern Freeway construction and dates as the Mrs. and I were talking about it's construction the other night when we were driving in from Eastlink. I had no idea when it was built or when the Monash was built for that matter. Anyhow I'm a bit of a sucker for old pics etc and found a cool site some of you might like to look at, it's got a search function and there is all kinds of cool stuff in there! You can pretty much see Melbourne being built!

Link is - Picture Victoria

Work on the freeway entrance and the access from Hoddle Street. The shot tower and houses are visible in the background. Content of image: F19 Freeway

Freeway shortly after it was opened with a train crossing the railway bridge and Victoria Park school visible on the right. Content of image: F19 Freeway ; Eastern Freeway

The construction of the Morshead Overpass over Punt Road. The view from above looks along the Yarra with Hoddle Bridge in the foreground, past the MCG, with the city in the background.

The photograph shows the construction of the Morshead Overpass which goes over Punt Rd. The picture was taken from ground level looking west from north side of the Yarra near Punt Rd, with the contractor's sheds visible to the right.

[madbung]

Groovy..thx for the link.

[AGE]

Thats cool!

[i2icho]

Cheers man, Interesting stuff

[Jezza-gtR]

One of my family members got kicked out of their house 35 years ago for the start of the construction of the eastlink and now its finally done haha.

[eMsta]

pretty funny seeing the cars of yesterday trying out the new freeway.......

[SmashBoxx]

great find!

[saff_cossie]

Awesome find!

I used to spend a lot of time on sites like 28dayslater.co.uk which were slightly different in that most were adandoned but were sites from yesteryear. I knew quite a few of my local ones. Has some cool things like hidden tunnels, secret London underground stations from the war etc. Can spend hours on there but is more of an urban exploration site.