Time Travellers in Essendon, Flemington and the Keilor Plains
Libraries - Hygienic, Public, Circulating
Known local circulating libraries
| Ascot Vale |
Essendon |
| Flemington and Kensington |
Moonee Ponds |
Ascot Vale
RAAF Lending Library 1930s? Possibly at the Showgrounds. Sam Merrifield Local Heritage Collection - The golden Hades (nd), RAAF Ascot Vale Lending Library, previously Laby, 128 Flinders St, Melbourne, (inside dates 1929 and 1933-34).
Cadets Library. [1915]
Cadets' Library. (1915, May 27). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor,
Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 -
1918), p. 2 Edition: Morning. Retrieved September 1, 2013,
from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74588913
79a Epsom Rd
- Mrs E P Askew, 1940
150a Epsom Rd
- W D Burchett, 1940
Advertising. (1939, March 28). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 14.
Retrieved August 9, 2015, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12111965
146 Epsom Rd
- · A M Higginbotham, 1944/45, 1951, 1955
- · Everyman's, 1957, 1960, 1961-1965
193 Maribyrnong Rd
- · Mrs S A Borden, 1940
- · Mrs L M Baker, 1951
- · F & E Dalton, 1957
The Vale Library
Courtesy of Moonee Valley Libraries. Probably from the 1950s.
195 Maribyrnong Rd
- E Suter, 1935
269 Mt Alexander Rd
- P J Smith, 1957
In 1965 P J Smith dry cleaner at this address.
383 Mt Alexander Rd
- Miss E O Shepherd, 1935
433 Mt Alexander Rd
- G H Holden’s Hygienic Library, 1936, 1937, 1939 Trove
Advertising. (1937, December 4). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957),
p. 16 Supplement: The Argus Week-end Magazine. Retrieved July 30, 2015,
from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11129885
496 Mt Alexander Rd
- · Mrs A M Holden, 1935
- · H H Courts, 1935, 1940, 1944/45, 1951
601 Mt Alexander Rd
- Mrs M Botten, library, 1940, 1944/45
Station Ave
- Miss I Smale, 1935
23 Station Ave
- Stuckey’s Corner Library, 1937 Trove
Advertising. (1937, December 4). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957),
p. 16 Supplement: The Argus Week-end Magazine. Retrieved July 30, 2015,
from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11129885
28 Station St
- E Ross, 1930
45 The Crescent
- Anwin & McLeod, 1935-1936
- Anwin & McCarthy, 1937
- Miss T Drene, 1938
- C Hocking, 1939-40
- Mrs M Lehman, 1941-1945
- Mrs Ella Coleman, 1946-1947
See ‘Threepence a book’ by Lorraine Rogers in Threepence a Book & Other Stories from Moonee Valley, by Joe de Iacovo & Contributors. Wingate Avenue Community Centre, 2001.
195 Union Rd
- H V Jeffery, 1918
ESSENDON CHRIST CHURCH v. ASCOT VALE METH. (1918, February 14). Flemington Spectator
(Vic. : 1914 - 1918), , p. 1. Retrieved June 13, 2016, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92031631
212 Union Rd
- Ascot Book Club, 1940, 1944/45, 1951
224 Union Rd
- Jones' Newsagent's Library, 1936
Advertising. (1936, December 5). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957),
p. 41 Supplement: Week-End Magazine. Retrieved August 1, 2015, from