Join us in a trip around Koo Wee Rup

Join us in a trip around Koo Wee Rup. These are part of  a little souvenir booklet of fold-out images of Koo Wee Rup, produced most likely in the late 1940s or early 1950s. The photos are reproduced here in the same order which they are in the original booklet.

Cover of the souvenir booklet

St John the Baptist Catholic School, opened in 1936.

Station Street, looking towards the Royal Hotel, which is the double storey building in the background. The E.S & A Bank was erected in 1906 and extended in 1919.

The Mills buildings (where the Radio shop is) were built about 1925.

 The Main Drain or the Bunyip River, at Koo Wee Rup.

 Rossiter Road. Scott's guest house was opened in 1934, the Alcove cafe next door was opened in 1933. The fire station is on the right - the Fire Brigade was established in November 1943 and a temporary fire station operated until the permanent building opened in 1947.

The Primary School at Koo Wee Rup. The original school was opened in 1884; it moved to this Rossiter Road location in 1910. This building was built in 1915 and burnt down in 1950. The Primary School relocated to Moody Street in 1960. The High School is now on this site.

Rossiter Road, taken from the railway crossing.

 St George's Church of England. It opened in 1917, and due to declining numbers the last service at the Church was held in 2012.