#FlashbackFriday ⏳ Looking eastward from approximately 138 Puckle Street, in 1917. In the same year, a fire broke out nearby at number 144, due to children playing with matches in bed upstairs... Perhaps these very children?! 🔥🚒

📷 NLA

#FlashbackFriday ⏳ Coles New World, Moonee Ponds, 1970. Fun fact: the Moonee Ponds Coles was considered 'the best supermarket in Australia' in 1997 and again in 2022. We'd have to agree. If you know, you know. 🛒🍣☕

📷 SLV

#FlashbackFriday ⏳ Construction of the 'Quartermile' bridge over the Maribyrnong River. Built in the 1920s, it was the highest railway bridge in Australia at the time. If you measure down to the river bed, it's still higher than the West Gate! 🌉

📷 SLV

✨AUTHOR TALK ✨

Join Isobel Beech in conversation with Jaclyn Crupi, as they discuss Beech's stunning debut novel 'Sunbathing'.

📆 Saturday 5 August, 11am
📍 Crown Street Stables, Flemington
🎫 Free, bookings 👉🏼 ow.ly/aPvl50PfOAX

#FlashbackFriday ⌛ The view from Flemington towards the city in 1985. Soon this area will be home to Djering Flemington Hub, a state-of-the-art community centre to service people in and around the Debney Park Flats! 🤩🏦

Image from our own collection. mvls.libsvic.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/s…

#FlashbackFriday ⏳ Sam Merrifield Library turns 55 years young this week! 🥳 This photo, published in the Essendon Gazette in February 1968, shows the prospective site of the library - to be the Essendon Public Library - from Pascoe Vale Rd (the back of the building).

Join us for our next author talk, with Ronnie Scott. 🤓 As many of us do, Ronnie's second novel 'Shirley' asks: 'what do you want from life while the world burns?' 🤔🔥

📍 Sam Merrifield Library
📅 Wednesday 19 July, 7pm
🎫 Bookings 👉🏽 ow.ly/q5Y550P13I4

#FlashbackFriday ⏳ Shots fired! 🎇 On May 23 1902 Mrs Guinn fired the first shot of the Essendon & Flemington Commonwealth Ladies' Rifle Club's opening match. The club formed one year earlier, later becoming the longest-running women's rifle club in the Commonwealth. 🔫
📷 Trove

The MilesFranklin Franklin Literary Award shortlist for 2023 was announced last week. Place your reservations for these titles now, before the waitlist gets too long! 🤩👉🏽 ow.ly/vxhe50OWLBi #mfla2023

The Flemington Library refurbishment is well underway! 🔨

♻️ Did you know, 98% of demolition materials have been recycled?

The library is expected to reopen in the next few months. 🔗 ow.ly/BNiB50OVnnx.

Moonee Valley Libraries

#FlashbackFriday ⌛ This woman was photographed outside A.C. Tuckerman fruit shop on Puckle Street, Moonee Ponds, sometime in the 1930s. 🍇 What was she waiting for? An Uber? 🤔
This building is now one side of the ANZ Bank. 💰

Image from our own collection.

#FlashbackFriday ⏳ Here's how the Queen's Birthday was marked in 1871; how did you spend your first King's Birthday long weekend? 👑🐎

'THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY PARADE AND SHAM FIGHT ON FLEMINGTON RACECOURSE': engraving by Thomas S. Cousins.

🖼 Image courtesy of SLV

We are super excited about our next author talk with Sophie Cachia. Sophie is joining us to discuss her mesmerising new memoir, 'Then There Was You', in conversation with the mighty Kelsey Browne .✨

📍 Sam Merrifield Library
📅 Tuesday 27 June, 7pm
🎫 ow.ly/um3s50OMwpq

References for previous #FlashbackFriday tweet:
📰 Newspaper article from The Age, August 18 1977
🦊 List of animals from Moonee Ponds Creek concept plan: flora and fauna, 1991

#FlashbackFriday ⏳ Here's some trivia to mark #WorldEnvironmentDay (Monday 5 June). In August 1977, a bottlenosed dolphin was found hanging out in the Moonee Ponds Creek. 🐬

Also for your perusal: a complete list of unexpected animals sighted in the Creek as of1991. 👀

#FlashbackFriday ⏳ Moonee Ponds Station in the early 1900s. The station originally opened in 1861. Nice to see some things haven't changed too much in 163 years! 🚂💨

📷 Courtesy of State Library of Victoria

#FlashbackFriday ⏳ Essendon Airport back in the day. Fancy a joy ride? 🛬

📷 Courtesy of State Library Victoria

#FlashbackFriday ⏳ May 14-21 is #NationalRoadSafetyWeek . 🚘 This here is an example of what not to do, from a window display at the Essendon Junior Chamber of Commerce in August 1954. 😬

📷 Musuems Victoria

#FlashbackFriday ⏳ How are you celebrating Mother's Day this weekend? This woman, child and dog recommend making daisy chains! 🌼👩‍👧🐶
📷 Photo by famous Moonee Ponds photographer Ruth Hollick, c. 1910-1930.

#FlashbackFriday ⏳ Pop down and get us some milk, wouldya?
📷 A milkbar in Ascot Vale, c. 1900.