Melbourne’s North. Wurundjeri lands. The traditional owners, the extended family of the Wurundjeri-william clan, called this place home. They lived near and around the banks of the Merri Creek–a creek which bears its original name to this day, “Merri Merri”–meaning “very rocky.” Today the area looks very different. Suburbs hug the bends in the creek, […]
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Leigh Trevaskis – Glenroy Library 1971
In 1971, I was 17 and attending Oak Park High School in Plumpton Ave, Oak Park. I was in Year 12 and hoping to do well enough to get into university to become an English teacher. I liked to wear jeans but could only afford Wrangler, not Levi or Lee. I listened to music by […]
Les Roberts – Growing up in Glenroy
Born at Sacred Heart Hospital in Coburg, Les Roberts grew up with his parents and three brothers. In 1956, they all moved from Brunswick to George Street in Glenroy. The family lived there until 1965, although Les left to join the Navy in 1963. Old school Glenroy Les remembers the Glenroy he moved to. Around […]
Moreland Remembers – War weariness
The ‘Moreland Remembers’ exhibition documents the mounting strain placed on communities and individuals as World War I continued with no end in sight. As casualty numbers overseas continued to rise, families at home watched more of their loved ones leave to replace soldiers already lost and waited a painful amount of time to receive news […]
Moreland Remembers – Women and the War
The ‘Moreland Remembers’ exhibition documents the monumental efforts of Australian women during World War I. During this time, Women played the role of family and community leaders, displaying courage and strength while suffering with the emotional burdens of missing their loved ones and the grief of losing husbands and sons to the War. Women at […]
Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park
When I first saw Fawkner Memorial Park, I had just moved to Melbourne, and was exploring. I was not expecting to see a cemetery when I alighted at Fawkner station. But, as anyone who has left the train on the Upfield-bound side of the station knows, the huge cemetery fills your vision, with headstones and […]
Migration story – Laiba
Laiba was born in Peshawar, a city in the North West of Pakistan. She smiles when describing her early life, as the ‘princess’ of her parents, belonging to an economically sound family who employed enough servants that she never even had to do any house chores! She invested her time studying a master’s degree in economics at […]
Migration stories – Glenroy conversation club
Since February of 2017, an English Conversation Club has been meeting at the Glenroy Library as a part of the ‘Libraries After Dark’ project. In June of 2019, the attending members shared their stories of migration to Moreland. Giovanni Giovanni was born in Calabria, a city in the South of Italy. In 1966 he travelled to Australia […]
ReCollection – Meredith Lawrence and the Fawkner heart and soul singers
Edited transcript of interview with Meredith Lawrence, who established Fawkner Community House in 2000. I’ve been managing the community house for nearly 17 years and in fact, I set the house up. It was a lot of hard work, actually, we only had 15 hours of funding at the time. We had a building from […]
ReCollection – Rock ‘n’ roll, cars and happily ever after
Edited transcript of interview with Heather Cox. When I started to go with John, I wasn’t quite seventeen. It was at the beginning of Rock’n’Roll and all those sorts of things, when the music was changing. My cousin Richard first started us going over to the Westbreen Hall. They’d started a dancing school and he’d […]