Gilligan Collection

The kiosk trading busily on a Sunday in the early 1950s.

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A tow truck recovering a truck that has run off the west side of Stud Road about opposite where the Polish Club is now located.

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A tractor takes its turn in trying to recover the crashed truck.

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Bon Gilligan is standing beside his mother while his grandmother is nursing his son Lawrie. Probably Taken at Moonee Ponds in the early 1940s.

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Irene (far right) was an attendant at the wedding of one of her uncles.

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Irene and Bon Gilligan with their daughter Irene on her wedding day.

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Ray holds the dog with Patricia in the Greenvale cart.

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Lawrie Gilligan (right) with his son Paul on Paul's wedding day.

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Note the original entrance which opened onto Stud Road. Later the entrance was moved to a service road which ran behind the giant screen on the northern boundary of the Drive In.

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In the 1950s Rowville parents put on a Christmas party for the children of the district.

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Trucks marooned in a flood in the 1950s.

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Approaches to the Stud Road bridge over Dandenong Creek under flood waters in the 1950s.

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Dandenong Creek in flood over Stud Road in the 1950s.

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A line-up of cars at Gilligans' kiosk in Stud Road in 1951.

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The litle kiosk beside Stud Road.The sign reads: "SCALDED CREAM IN CARTONS EGGS HONEY HOME MADE JAMS". Gilligans' scalded cream was a very popular commodity and the family could not keep up with the demand for it.

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Note the narrowness of Stud Road in the early 1950s.

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The shed that replaced the kiosk. Note that it was set back from the roadside with a driveway constructed.

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Looking south along Stud Road from the corner with Wellington Road. The Gilligan home can be seen to the left of the picture behind the kiosk.

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"The water rushed in the front door and we had to open the back door to let it through." (Irene Gilligan)

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Moving the Gilligan house after it was flooded in 1950. It was moved about 100 metres to the south along the eastern side of Stud Road. Later, Bergins Road was diverted to run past its northern boundary.

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Gilligans' Chic-Inn - the shop that grew from the kiosk. The first chicken rotisserie installed in Victoria was set up in this shop. Note the old house - since demolished - at the side. This was the house that had been moved after being flooded in 1950.

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Before the advertising signs were added.

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This photograph taken in the 1960s shows the considerable amount of space in front of the shop before Stud Road became a four lane road.

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The old house was removed and the shop extended in the 1970s. The widened Stud Road now ran right up to the front of the property.

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East of Stud Road, south of Wellington Road.

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Looking south from Gilligan property with tree-lined Stud Road on the right.

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This truck has lost its load on the tricky S-bend that used to be in Stud Road on the hill near Police Road. This photo also shows the wet flat land that is now the Tirhatuan Golf Course.

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