Particulars of Sale of Freehold land at Heidelberg All that piece of land being part of Crown portion 5 Parish of Keelbundora County of Bourke and being lot 13 on plan of subdivision No 4658 lodged in the Office of Titles together with a right of carriage way over Heidelberg Avenue* shown on said plan’. […]
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Home of John Curtin Prime Minister
In December 2011 – A former home in Melbourne of Australia’s wartime Prime Minister, John Curtin, was sold at auction. It is a double-fronted house in Fallon Street in Brunswick and was built in 1906. Curtin lived there from 1912 to 1915. At the time, Curtin was Secretary of the Victorian Timber Workers Union, an […]
Marble Hall
The 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 […]
A Pub Crawl That Didn’t Crawl At All
by Julie Stratford for Brunswick Community History Group To celebrate Victoria’s History Week in October, the Brunswick Community History Group conducted a “Virtual Pub Crawl” to celebrate Brunswick’s fabulous, historic and interesting old pubs on 27th October 2010. The event was well attended after information was listed on the Victorian History Week website and flyers […]
My life in Reservoir
I left Italy by plane on the 21st of April 1962 and arrived in Melbourne Australia on the 23rd of April. I stayed with my aunty at 38 Campbell Street in East Coburg, for 5 months before I got married on the 22nd of September the same year. We had our honeymoon in Sydney for […]
Growing up in Preston
The following article was contributed following the first reminiscences session held at Watsonia library April 2008. It is John’s reminiscences about growing up in Preston. John was born at the Bethesda Hospital in Richmond, 17.12.1936. His family took him home to 15 Dean St, East Preston. John has memories of living in Dean St from […]
A Northcote Memory
Since coming down to Melbourne from the northern Victorian town of Cobram in 1971, to attend La Trobe University, I have lived in Northcote, and worked in Preston and now Reservoir. The north obviously suits me, and while I miss the mighty Murray, the Merri Creek will do. I greatly appreciate the rejuvenation of this […]
Ben Morgan
Cr. Ben (Baden) Morgan Ben Morgan (c1901-1985) was of Welsh background and Northcote councilor, union organiser and ALP member. Councilor for seventeen years from 1959/60 to 1975/6 though was never a mayor. From 1941 lived at 115 Roberts St. in Northcote. A boilermaker by trade, employed at the Newport railway yards. Was actively involved with […]
Bruce Kingsbury (1918 – 1942)
Bruce Kingsbury was born in Armadale in 1918. After working interstate for a while he joined his fathers real estate business in Northcote. Kingsbury lived in Gilbert Road in West Preston. When the World War II broke out Kingsbury quickly enlisted. Sent to Palestine Kingsbury saw action in both Egypt and Syria. In 1942, Kingsbury’s […]
The Whalley brothers
The local Leader newspapers were established in 1888, the Preston and Northcote editions being identical except for the masthead. At the outbreak of the war, the papers were published by the Whalley brothers, (John Stott and Richard James Whalley) and local readers were uniquely fortunate that the proprietors were touring Europe when war was declared. […]