Flooded street with children playing, Sesame Street, Mount Waverley, circa 1970s
A note on the original slide says "Sesame Street" which is likely Sesame Street, Mount Waverley.
The flooded area is a dip in the road that corresponds with former orchard land that occupied the western half of Sesame Street. Aerial photographs of the site in Monash Maps show a creek bed passing through the orchard where what is now the middle of Sesame Street.
The photo has been taken looking east, towards Blackburn Road, and the nearest houses to the left are 25 and 27 Sesame Street; Gary Street, which is adjacent to 27, is barely visible. See locale on Google Maps.
There were no houses on the Lawrence Road end of Sesame Street until after the 1972 aerial on Monash Maps, as the land was still an orchard. This photo shows a few remaining orchard fruit trees to the left of the street.
Note that the road nearest the camera is asphalted but gravely, the footpath and gutters appear new and the nature strips have not been landscaped.
From slide donated by John King.
Flooded street with children playing, Sesame Street, Mount Waverley, circa 1970s
A note on the original slide says "Sesame Street" which is likely Sesame Street, Mount Waverley.
The flooded area is a dip in the road that corresponds with former orchard land that occupied the western half of Sesame Street. Aerial photographs of the site in Monash Maps show a creek bed passing through the orchard where what is now the middle of Sesame Street.
The photo has been taken looking east, towards Blackburn Road, and the nearest houses to the left are 25 and 27 Sesame Street; Gary Street, which is adjacent to 27, is barely visible. See locale on Google Maps.
There were no houses on the Lawrence Road end of Sesame Street until after the 1972 aerial on Monash Maps, as the land was still an orchard. This photo shows a few remaining orchard fruit trees to the left of the street.
Note that the road nearest the camera is asphalted but gravely, the footpath and gutters appear new and the nature strips have not been landscaped.
From slide donated by John King.