My parents Mavis (May) and William (Bill) O’Neill had a Greengrocer’s shop in Main Street next to Bob Willett’s Butcher’s shop from 1953 until 1969 approx. Bill and Bob had a reciprocal deal whereby they provided each other with weekly supplies and no money needed to change hands. Dad got up at 2 am three […]
Category: Banyule
Greensborough Bushfire
In 1965 I was 15 years old and on my way home from Zercho’s Business College in Melbourne when the train was stopped at Macleod and the passengers told there was a fire and the train would go no further. No arrangements were made and we were expected to make our own way home so […]
World War 1 Casualty : Malcolm Stuart Kennedy (Greensborough)
Malcolm Kennedy was the highest ranking officer from the Shire of Heidelberg to be killed during the war. His sacrifice is commemorated on the Greensborough War Memorial, but his link to the area appears tenuous and his background proved one of the most difficult to trace. His father was noted at “St. Cliens”, Greensborough when […]
World War 1 Casualties : The Shire of Heidelberg
World War 1 : The Shire of Heidelberg The original scope of the project was to research the areas covered by the Yarra Plenty Regional Library, i.e. the existing municipalities of Banyule, Nillumbik and Whittlesea. This proved somewhat difficult in assess just where some of the outlying settlements would have fitted into today’s topology, hence a later decision was to instead take Dr. […]
Rosanna Library Lovers
Next year my family have lived in Banyule for 50 years. I am now 80 years and have been an avid reader since childhood, my family share this passion. The library has been an important focus from school projects, special interests, reference, discussions and leisure. I love books, the jacket, capturing your interest, the design, type face, margins, […]
Burying my baby at Heidelberg Cemetery 1951
I was thinking about Philip the other day and trying to remember where exactly we buried him. Mary rang the council and the next day a lady from Heidelberg Town Hall sent her a photo of his grave and the exact location of his plot. Marvelous thing, emails. ‘There is no headstone’ The lady from […]
History of Montmorency
Montmorency takes its name from a town in France. Settlement of the area dates from the mid 1800s. The population was minimal in the area until the early 1900s. The population rose in the 1920s, when the township was established, following the opening of the railway line. Originally the area was used for orchards, poultry […]
Rosanna Primary School 1972 -1978
One of my first memories of school in the 70’s was drinking the milk in the morning. A large truck would deliver the milk which was left under the trees and the milk monitor would collect the milk bottles for the class. As we all sat in a circle on the floor, one student would […]
Childhood Memories 1930
When I was a child, very few people had cars it was “depression” times. The first man in our street to get a car was the local plumber. Married women did not go out to work. The men rode bikes or used public transport. My brother Frank rode his bike from Preston to Carlton and […]
Greensborough Football Club
Club Formation 1890’s The Evelyn Observer reported in the Friday 30th June 1893 edition that the first match of the recently formed Greensborough Football Club took place on Saturday last (24th June 1893). It was played against Diamond Creek and resulted in a draw. Greensborough played various games during the period 1890- 1910 but not […]