Aerial view - Historic images - Walkaround : Swanpool Victoria Australia

Swanpool is a town in north-east Victoria, Australia. The town is located on the Midland Highway and in the rural City of Benalla local government area, 209 km (130 mi) north east of the state capital, Melbourne.
Swan Pool (sic) Post Office opened on 10 May 1877 and closed in 1994.
Swanpool used to have an Australian Rules football team competing in the Ovens and King Football League until being kicked out by AFL Country.
Swanpool is a rural village on the Midland Highway, 23 km south of Benalla in north-east Victoria. The highway links Mansfield and Benalla, and the area around Swanpool was a convenient stopping place. The Broken River is about 1 km east of the highway, and it is thought that the name came about from swans resting on part of the river.
Farm settlers requested the provision of a school in 1869, and one was opened two years later. It operated in conjunction with schools at Lima and Lima South. A dairy co-operative and a butter factory were established in the 1890s, later becoming the Swanpool and Moorngag Butter Making and Dairy Co-op and operating until the 1970s.
In 1914 a railway from Benalla to Tatong was opened, with the Lima station a short way north-east of Swanpool. It was a short-lived rural freight line, closing in 1947. Swanpool planted an avenue of honour along the Midland Highway in 1920. The highway is also flanked by Anglican and Uniting churches, a bowls club, a general store and a public hall. The hall is notable for hosting old-time cinema, Fridays to Sundays. There is also a recreation reserve and a local football and netball team. The Swanpool and Tatong netball and football clubs resisted merger with Goorambat in 2013. Swanpool school outlasted Lima and Lima South, and is a campus of Peranbin primary college.
Credits and References:
State Library - Victoria - www.slv.vic.go...
Photographers and contributors;
Le Dawn Studios, photographer
Collins, John T. (1907 - 2001)
Ferguson, W. H.
Swanpool Cinema - www.swanpoolci...
Museums Victoria
collections.mu...
Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.o...
Victorian Places - www.victorianp...
Contributor: John Young
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[@michaelhatherly6508]

Great Video - Shared/Scheduled

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every town has something to offer

[@gidget9101]

Come from Mansfield. On.y ever driven through. This is fantastic

[@urbanaerialexplorer1885]

As a kid and with my son as a child, we would come through every year to Mt Buller - I was lucky to start skiing at a very early age and have done the same for my son - We always stopped at Mansfield for a pub meal on the way home.

[@johnhaller7017]

I had family friends that lived in Kilfeera rd Molyullah. I went with the two brothers one Saturday night back in the 70's to a dance in Mollyulah and then we went to Swanpool, the 'big smoke' That joint was jumpin'.

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@@johnhaller7017 it must be a little difficult for country folk to hook up and the cinema is a great idea !

[@johntaylor8822]

If my memory serves me rightly, they used to show vintage films in the cinema

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I believe they still do ! www.swanpoolcinema.com.au/cinema