Photographs from the early 1900s to 2004 have been put on the wall of an Albury supermarket as part of a makeover

Old buildings, roads and cricketers feature in the black and white images that extend from the early 1900s to 2004.

They are part of a mural that will also include an Aboriginal artwork and a portrait of basketball champion Lauren Jackson.

Graphic designer Lisa Goff devised the imagery after approaching IGA supermarket owner Bob Mathews.

"He wanted to redesign the facade and make everything look a lot more exciting and colourful and I suggested a mural," Ms Goff said.

"He wanted to include some history, hence I researched all the old photos."

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Mr Mathews has no doubt they will become a drawcard, with plenty of interest from passersby as they were being installed yesterday.

"I love the old photos and I'm not alone, you look at the people coming along here and having a look," Mr Mathews said.

"There's this one of the East Albury A grade cricketers and I can imagine people coming up and saying 'that's my father' or 'that's my grandfather'."

Mr Mathews said the photos complemented Albury images that have for years sat on aisle signs inside the store.

"We don't call ourselves Mathews IGA, we call it East Albury IGA because people aren't interested in me, they're interested in their history," he said.

However, Mr Mathews believes the project would not have occurred without COVID because that meant "people are now far more looking to stay local".

The earliest image depicts a muddy Doctors Point Road in the early 1900s and the latest shows the installation of a pedestrian bridge across the Hume Freeway in 2004.

There are also pictures of the base hospital under construction in 1994 and the saleyards which once occupied its site.

The photographs were sourced from the Albury City Collection, the Dallinger family, historian Howard Jones and Richard Lee of the East Albury cricket club.

Ms Goff said the most recent images were altered from colour to black and white to maintain continuity.

Indigenous artist Tamara Murray will produce a motif that is expected to highlight the role of Mungabareena as a meeting place.

It is at the start of the mural and a stylised river will then flow along the wall to the portrait of Jackson and East Albury in large lettering.

Year 8 visual arts students from North Albury's Xavier High School will assist with painting today.

The mural is expected to be complete by next week with alterations to the roof facade to follow with a large LED IGA logo to be erected above the verandah and its poles to be beautified.