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Lost Shepparton Historic photos of Shepparton (Victoria, Australia) - what has been lost or forgotten. The name of Shepparton was first used by Sherbourne Sheppard. Geoff

Please post old photos, newspaper articles, stories, memories of what has been lost or maybe forgotten about Shepparton. It began as a sheep station and river crossing before undergoing a major transformation as a railway town. Today it is an agricultural and manufacturing centre and the centre of the Goulburn Valley irrigation system, one of the largest centres of irrigation in Australia. By uploading to Lost Shepparton we may contact you for further use of your images. Thanks for the support of this page.

From 1949: A selection of photos from the Weekly Times shows a sampling of the civic groups, school committees, and yout...
16/10/2026

From 1949: A selection of photos from the Weekly Times shows a sampling of the civic groups, school committees, and youth clubs of the time. There are doubtless some familiar names here, with captions under each photo describing who is in the shot. ~JM

Stoning apricots at SPC, January 1946, taken by the State Electricity Commission. ~JM (Museums Victoria)
15/10/2026

Stoning apricots at SPC, January 1946, taken by the State Electricity Commission. ~JM (Museums Victoria)

Fishing with the family 1940's. (Doherty/MacFadyen collection) Nothing like some time at the river.Jeanette
15/10/2026

Fishing with the family 1940's. (Doherty/MacFadyen collection) Nothing like some time at the river.

Jeanette

The official opening of the Raymond West Swimming Pool on March 5, 1955. It marked the start of countless fond memories ...
14/10/2026

The official opening of the Raymond West Swimming Pool on March 5, 1955. It marked the start of countless fond memories for the community. ~JM (SHC collection)

This photo was taken by Wilson P. Evans on a touring holiday in Victoria. The date listed is possibly 1938. The photo lo...
13/10/2026

This photo was taken by Wilson P. Evans on a touring holiday in Victoria. The date listed is possibly 1938. The photo looks south from the Tarax Bar corner (Martin's corner). ~JM (SLV collection)

Fryers Street, showing (some of) Fairley's Corner, P&O Cafe, Neo Cafe, Coles, amongst other stores. A Rose Series photo....
12/10/2026

Fryers Street, showing (some of) Fairley's Corner, P&O Cafe, Neo Cafe, Coles, amongst other stores. A Rose Series photo. ~JM (from RAHS on Flickr)

You may not recognise the man, but you will certainly recognise his architectural contributions to Shepparton. John Augu...
11/10/2026

You may not recognise the man, but you will certainly recognise his architectural contributions to Shepparton. John Augustus Kenny Clarke (better known as J. A. K. Clarke) is described best by Ron Michael in his his 1988 book "On McGuire's Punt":

"The legacy of John Augustus Kenny Clarke was everywhere in Shepparton but, in the words of Hal Porter, some of his finest works and those of others have been done an “aesthetic mischief”. Gone are the former Post Office, the Agricultural High School and disintegrating is “The Pines”. Gone is the former NEWS office and hidden is the former Shire Hall. Surviving, though, are the Catholic Church Dookie, Wesley and Scots Sunday Schools, his own residence “Nettlecoe” and nearby “Ivanhoe” as well as “Fairley Downs”, “Ambermere” and private residences of architectural elegance.

Born in Melbourne prior to the gold rushes, J.A.K. Clarke had a ride on a camel from the party of Burke and Wills before it set out on its ill-fated journey in 1853 [sic: 1860?]. He and his wife settled in Shepparton during the winter of 1890 although as an architect in the railways he had previously advised on the extension of the railway to Dookie. Happy with the Shepparton climate, he and his wife disposed of their Williams Road, Toorak, home and remained in Shepparton where each lived to a great age.

In Melbourne, before coming to Shepparton, he was one of the co-promoters of the first Austral Wheel Race on the Melbourne Cricket Ground and in Shepparton he became a promoter of trotting as a spectacle at Agricultural Society Shows. J.A.K. was renowned, though, for driving his own sulky at a snail’s pace.

On his passing in 1945 at the great age of 93 years, journalist J. F. Hillier described him as “one of nature’s greatest gentlemen” and a “never absent member of the Agricultural Society”. It is to be hoped that much of what is still left of his legacy is preserved."

It is impossible to attach an exhaustive list of the buildings Clarke designed, but many are included with the post:
1. Nettlecoe, Clarke Court (Google Maps)
2. Ivanhoe (SLV)
3. Ambermere (Judith Bryant collection)
4. Hurlstone (Lost Shepparton collection)
5. Wanganui Homestead (NLA)
6. New grandstand, 1914.

~JM

Ian Wong:I spy… Australian design details. It’s all in the detail they say. Well I was surrounded by design in our famil...
11/10/2026

Ian Wong:
I spy… Australian design details. It’s all in the detail they say. Well I was surrounded by design in our family home in Shepparton designed by architect Keppell Turner with my parents, but mostly my mum, as client. Built in 1971 these textural images share so much that is common for families growing up in Australia. Cream brick, stained louvered doors, Turner k***s and cupboard handles, Kempthorne lighting and enamel paint. We had speakers in the ceiling and fantastic glass panels. Every piece of Vegemite toast consumed by a family of nine in this house used a knife from the wood grain Laminex cutlery drawer with an iconic Turner set of handles. This house had several Sunbeam toasters, Wiltshire Staysharp knives, Crown Crystal bowls, Regis glasses, Dorf taps, Caroma toilets, Willow tins, Kambrook power boards, Breville sandwich makers, and plenty of Decor homewares. End of an era with 281 Doyles Road Shepparton to be Auctioned this Saturday at 11.00am. Public viewing from 10:15. All in the area are welcome. Celebrating

In 1885, the first secondary school in the Goulburn Valley was established by P. A. (Paddy) Hassett, in Shamrock Lane, W...
10/10/2026

In 1885, the first secondary school in the Goulburn Valley was established by P. A. (Paddy) Hassett, in Shamrock Lane, Wahring. Four years later, it transferred to Shepparton, being initially conducted from premises behind Hassett's home at the corner of Corio and McKinney Streets. The school later moved to Edward Street. It closed in 1904 when Mr Hassett relocated to Melbourne. In 1908, the Shepparton Advertiser detailed "a notable re-union" at the new Armadale for past and present students:

"When the lights were turned on the ballroom was the attraction—mirth, fast and furious, was the order of the evening. I noted, with pleasure, many Shepparton boys present who looked happy with the world and their surroundings. The young folks were fully engaged till 11 o’clock, when trains had to be caught, and an ever-memorable event closed auspiciously with the Scotch bard’s beautiful song, “Should auld acquaintance be forgot.”"

The photo does not have a date attached, but fashions indicate it is likely turn of the century, so reaching the end of the school's Shepparton tenure. Most info about Paddy Hassett is from Elsie Brady's "Streets of Shepparton" ~JM (SHC collection)

This is taken at the Younger Set ball in 1958. What a terrific organization the younger set was. Names- Left to right ...
09/10/2026

This is taken at the Younger Set ball in 1958. What a terrific organization the younger set was.
Names- Left to right - Jill Clark, Bev Anderson, Lol Irwin, Lynette Gillespie, Del scott, Mary Bathman, Elaine thomson, Denise Allen, Millicent Stewart, Dot Shields, Syd Curtis.
Many of these young ladies are still with us today.

Jeanette

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