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Aerial view of an industrialising landscape, Clayton, looking east, 1959

Title: Aerial view of an industrial landscape, Clayton, Victoria.

Author/Creator:

Airspy (Firm), photographer

Date: 7 October 1959

 

Featurs in this image include (from bottom to top):

 

- Factories adjacent to Browns Road.

 

- Centre Road level crossing with Haughton Road and Carnish Road intersections.

 

- Industrial area centred around McNaughton Road, including (left to right) Chesebrough-Pond's, Allied Iron Founders, BALM Paints, the Kirkstall-Repco drop-forge plant (featuring the dark building), BOSCH and VW factories.

 

- Intersection of Centre, Dandenong, Police and Springvale Roads.

 

- View over Mulgrave and Wheelers Hill and onwards.

 

See locale on Google Maps.

 

Notes: Photographer possibly Charles Pratt

Date stamped on envelope: 7 OCT 1959

Industries. Clayton.

Stamped on envelope: 1 C 110

Typed on envelope: Piper

 

Summary: Elevated view over factory complexes, residential streets, road and railway line, with paddocks in background.

 

Copyright statement:

This work is in copyright

Copyright restrictions apply.

 

Subjects:

Industries -- Victoria -- Clayton

Clayton (Vic.)

Genre/Form

Aerial photographs

Aerial views

Film negatives

Notes:

Photographer possibly Charles Pratt

Date stamped on envelope: 7 OCT 1959

Industries. Clayton.

Stamped on envelope: 1 C 110

Typed on envelope: Piper

Summary

Elevated view over factory complexes, residential streets, road and railway line, with paddocks in background.

 

 

Source: SLV

Identifier(s): Accession No : H2010.91/410

Source / Donor

Gift; Estate of Charles Daniel Pratt; 1972

Series:

Airspy collection of aerial photographs

Airspy collection of aerial photographs: A series

Airspy collection of aerial photographs: Clayton 1956-1959

Record ID: 9938857423607636

Link: handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/4223615

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