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Racecourse - 1950 ground photo and 1945 aerial survey

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I’ve been thinking about  today’s post  (1950 ground level photograph) in the context an earlier aerial survey (1945) as mentioned here  on my blog, then speculating on where the 1950 photo was taken against the 1945 image. Firstly Rob Medlen’s 1950 image, with mark-up by me (as usual, click on image for full size): Rob Medlen’s 1950 image – mark up by me   Legend: A : “Existing palm”  (text from Rob’s letter) B : “Kiosk” C : “Grandstand” D : Other out building (full details not yet known) Here is the 1945 aerial survey (source here ) marked up with the same legend, plus my speculation as to the (approximate) location of the photographer and the area captured by their image (the pale aqua arrows)   1945 aerial survey (with my speculation of 1950 photo items)  
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Williamstown Racecourse - 1950s images (migrant hostel)

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A number of people have kindly sent my images over the last few years. I have gained permission to post them, but ask you respect these are the property of the provider and shouldn’t be used without their permission. Background The old racecourse was used as a migrant hostel from about 1949. Rob Medlen’s father ran a business there and sent me scanned images with some very valuable hand written text, which I have manually transcribed. Rob Medlen’s Images The source of this is a handwritten letter to me from September 2015. Rob’s father “had his business” [a ‘kiosk’- more later on this] here at the old Racecourse, “from 1950….up until the late 50’s when the migrant hostel was consolidated north of the Kororoit Creek & numbers of immigrants dropped significantly from the hostel system” He adds “Dad also had the catering contract with Braun Transworld Corporation when they were building the refinery & pip...
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