BIBLIOGRAPHY

Manuscripts

Listed here are significant collections at the Victorian Public Records Office. Lands Department; correspondence and files under various closer settlement and land selection Acts. Most relevant appear to be series (5357) includes correspondence up to the 1980s; (1262) selectors under the 1862 Act (831) applications under the important sec. 42, of 1862;.(130) index to selections, section 42 and the act of 1869; district selection files (sec. 19 and 20, Land Act 1869); (439) sec. 49, Act 1869 with index; (625) sec. 19 and 20 Act 1869; (627) sec. 31, act 1869 with index; all of these earlier acts may have had only marginal influence in shaping the character of Frankston. All held at the Victorian Public Records Office (VPRO).

Primary school correspondence files and building files registered separately in PRO 3.8.1 and 3.19.1. Useful for individual schools in the municipality. Held at the VPRO.

Frankston and Hastings Municipality Inwards and outwards Miscellaneous Correspondence 1904-1947 VPRS 6092 (VPRO) Essential for local buildings and public works, twentieth century. Frankston and Hastings; Council Meetings, General correspondence 1909-1948, 25 boxes, VPRS 6093 (VPRO) as above Steam navigation board 1853-1887 Correspondence 1850-1913 VPRS 562 (VPRO).
Pilotage records 1859-1926 VPRS 559 (VPRO).

Pilots reports VPRS 561(VPRO).

All of these not specific to Frankston but may have occasional references to local waterfront development. Melbourne Harbour Trust Commissioners Inward Correspondence VPRS 10321 Some references to outer bay activities. (VPRO) Country Roads Board Household survey Mornington Peninsula 1977-1978 VPRS 2488 (VPRO).

Railway Construction Branch Victorian Railways, historical collection, Frankston Railway Station, 1882-1888 VMS 4963 (VPRO) essential for railway development.

Public Works Department, Unused roads and water frontages, Branch records VPRS 4682-10332 (VPRO). Again some waterfront development. Minutes of the Victorian Motor Transport Committee VPRS 6897 (VPRO) Some information bout roadworks and Nepean Road Port Phillip District Surveyor General Pastoral Run files, VPRS 5359 (VPRO); for first pastoralists.

Town and Country Planning Board, Municipality files, 1945-1968 VPRS 3185 (VPRO).

Metropolitan Town Planning Commission, correspondence and traffic census VPRS 10281-10282; 10285 (VPRO) several local references.

Housing Commission of Victoria, Estate establishment files, VPRS 1811(VPRO); for later housing development.
Fisheries and Wildlife Fisheries regulations, 1896-1961, VPRS 2802 (VPRO). Some reference to Frankston.

In addition to these records, the local collections of the Frankston Historical Society, the Frankston Library, the Frankston Databank Project and the Frankston City Council holdings need to be searched.