48 years ago: This photo shows the intesection of Fenaughty and Union streets, with the Morning Star Service Station on the right of the picture and the Kyabram pool enrty in the distance. The service station site is now the M&S Insurance building. Photos from 1974 floods courtesy Judy Widdup.
As flood waters ravage the townships of Echuca, Moama, Rochester, Mooroopna, Shepparton and Seymour – all towns based on riverways – Kyabram has been left to remember its own history of flooding. The town, prior to enormous measures being taken to avoid such events, suffered floods in 1956, 1974 and 1993. The community has reached out to the towns on the Goulburn, Campaspe and Murray Rivers to offer support, both financial and volunteer, in the recovery effort.
Allan Street flood: Kyabram Hospital’s memorial walkway was a flood plain when a rain storm hit the town in May, 1974.
No access: Kyabram hospital and the nurses’ home building in 1974.
Lake Road (literally): This photograph was taken from Allan St in 1974, with the Baptist Church at the Fenaughty St intersection on the right of picture.
66 years ago: Children on bikes riding along Kyabram’s Fenaughty St, past the site of the Kyabram pool (right of picture) in 1956. Photo courtesy Eileen Sullivan, Kyabram Historical Society.
Three decades ago: 1993 sandbagging in South Boundary Road, at the end of Lake Road outside the site of the former Kyabram abattoir.
Water world: Kyabram Caravan Park was completely flooded in 1993, the water spreading into the adjacent Kyabram showgrounds at the eastern end of Allan St.
Flood zone: A truck travelling along Union St in the 1950s. Photos from 1950 courtesy of Sandra Brown.
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