ELWOOD TIMELINE

By jackranieri

  • Draining of Elwood Swampland

    Major works being to drain Elwood swamplands and build Elwood canal.

  • First electric tramline in Victoria opened

    from St Kilda station via Elwood to Brighton.

  • Elwood Park Created

    Rifle range (eleven acres) closed at Elwood Beach to become Elwood Park.

  • Shops and Local Clubs open

    Elwood Life Saving Club is the first recreational club on the foreshore. Elwood’s earliest shops open in Ormond Road.

  • Elwood Primary Developed

    Elwood Primary School opened on former swampland

  • Flats Built

    Early flats built at 73 Mitford Street, the housing type that will eventually comprise 65% of Elwood’s living space.

  • Business Expansions

    Elwood village grows to almost thirty businesses.

  • Polio Epidemic

    Polio epidemic alarms population. Elwood canal feared as ‘Plague Canal’.

  • Marina Opened

    St Kilda Marina opened on twenty acres of land reclaimed from the sea.