the Boronia rail crossing, I believe, was considered the most dangerous in the state, with 27 fatalities in the newspaper posts shown in this video. There was a problem that Dorset and Boronia Roads didn't meet at right angles, and, of course, before the time of boom gates, and even flashing lights with bells ringing, you had to know when the train was coming. This crossing was obviously an early candidate for grade separation.

Great Bassist! Nice n tidy little variations.

For a time, I lived in a unit just across the road from the scout hall, on Chandler Rd. It was actually a very good unit, close to shops, and the railway station, but set back from the road enough to have peace and quiet. It also backed onto a nature reserve behind Rangeview Primary School.

I remember the Rangeview Rd milk bar from when I was attending Rangeview Primary school, it was just across the road. We used to by a whole Boston bun there for 20 cents.

They put an overpass there finally…. Interesting history thanks.

Very good , well done enjoyable too to those of us who use to wait for traffic lights and trains to cross.

I worked in Coles back in the early 60's. and also on the telephone exchange next to the post office. Before I left Alex to join the Army

Fantastic video well presented

great video well done

Great to see how Boronia evolved. Happy New Year to you and the Family Danny

Remember it all well unfortunately..as an old .......would.

We need more of this

I went to Boronia high school. Great memories, thank you.

Should make it a popular dining hall with liquor pub environment

I'm 53 years old next year I'm old

Il be 53 in January the 25 th next year

I'm very old now I'm 52 years old now

Yes it brings back some memories

An interesting history. Although I'd managed the signals in Dorset Rd and Boronia Rd and environs for 15+ years after the train line went underground, I never went into the mall 'proper'... but the photos show that it was very much a 'Doncaster Shoppingtown' wannabe, down to the facades of the shops, the suspended 'fountain', the 'split level' walkways & stairs and the 'crossbridges' between the 'upper levels'... all of which were quite different to Eastland, Chadstone (at the time) and Box Hill Plaza (around a similar time). Fascinatin'...

Great to see the then and now. Very cool 😎

Goodness me, I'm 72 and went to the high school. Lovely seeing these. My dad bu8lt the old woolworths buildingwhich is now a club. 😮

I went to Sunday school in the white building (town hall) with Miss Chapman as my Sunday school teacher. Anyone else remember her?

N they had the white rabbit out in the street with the children that rabbit hole goes pretty deep⚫😎

I live in Boronia not far from the glorious old Boronia Mall. I remember going there not long after it first opened and remembering how busy it was. Now, sadly, it is akin to a ghost mall a ghost town with so many closed businesses, only a very few remain that are active. Many attempts over the years have been made to revive the Mall but they have all failed. Many factors have led to its huge demise and decline one of which would have been Knox Shopping Centre. Ps: I love the old tiled wall in the Mall it serves as a reminder of how things once were and should be classified as old forgotten art.

I used to go there as a teenager I'm 52 now old

bosnia gang rise up!

bosnia gang

a train line probably guaranteed that Boronia would be a suburb, and not a backwater. But the crossing proved to be one of the most dangerous built. It went underground in line with the trend that was to come. It's two large shopping squares continue to attract patronage from a good reach, and densification with townhouses and apartments, is an obvious trend around the central district. Picturesque and still without congested throng, except on AFL Grandfinal day at Dan Murphy's, Boronia offers underrated amenity. ,

the Boronia Progress Hall is a kind of send up of Boronia, in that the building has remained largely untouched from times past. It is the antithesis of progress. But Boronia has one of the most picturesque settings in Melbourne, and plenty of shops, punching above it's weight because of mountain catchment. Compared to closer in suburbs, it has loads of parking and less of the rush of the modern day. An underrated suburb.

good work

I loved living in the basin as a child. Nice memories.

I. Can. Remember. When. I worked. In. Melbourne. In. The. 70 s. I walked. To. Boronia. Fruit veg. Market. From. The gully.

Boronia Rd now massive competition to build the ugliest units ever I live here since 1968 it is not a good thing but I don't miss the railway crossing lost a lot of time waiting for trains to go through

Very sad the 70s where the best time to grow up in Boronia. The record shop is still there hat's of to them it must get pretty depressing in there centre management needs akick in the arse.

This was very well done.

Someone tried to carjack me in Boronia at the Boronia Rd/Dorset Rd lights about 15 years ago. I called it "Bosnia" after that.

Wow that brings back some memories

Wow that brings back some memories

Memories

Shit mall

Nice piano

I remember Snoopy on the half-circle sign from back in the day.

Who remembers K-Food. An attempt in the 1980’s to have a hypermart style store of department store and supermarket combined. Think they later tried to brand it ‘Super-K’. Didn’t work for some reason.

I remember Venture and Waldron's.

Are they tearing it down

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Nice, would be good if you had the time stamps of each pic 👌🏽

so what is there now can anyone please tell me that?

used to go to that milkbar on albert av all the time

This is a great channel.. I found your website looking for information about the Bayswater Boys Home. It gives a new depth to living in a town to imagine its history. Thanks