Pipe Track across the Plenty RiverThe following article is reproduced by permission of Noel Withers and extracted from “Banyule City Council Spring Outdoors Programme 2008: Greensborough & the Plenty River Pioneer Trail with Dennis Ward & Noel Withers. A ramble from the lower part of town and along the river bank learning about historic sites and the pioneering families that settled there from 1840 onward." Constructed as part of the Maroondah Aqueduct and requiring an extensive workforce of labourers who frequented the adjacent Evelyn Arms hotel, previously the Halfway House near were the Shell service station is at present. High spirited patrons received a dunking in the horse trough, their ear cuffed or a boot up their behind by the local constable to calm them down. Reading Along the length: an account of living and working on the Maroondah Aqueduct by Fred Sadlier ; edited (with introduction and additional notes) by Leigh Ahern ; photographs by Gwen Sadlier ... (more ...) |
Whittlesea Hertiage Program
Good evening everyone and welcome to the Great Hall for the start of our tenth anniversary heritage celebrations –a genuine milestone. Over the next six months we will enjoy 33 different heritage events, our largest program ever and possibly the largest in Australia. It’s a program that reflects the diversity of our City and our residents. It includes indigenous history and the City’s community life since the earliest days of settlement. Black Saturday It’s a big year for heritage in more ways than one and I will start by saying that one of the most recent events that has happened in our backyard, the Black Saturday bushfires, which occurred on the 7th of February will be part of our heritage for ever. Our hearts and prayers go out to all ... (more ...) |
