Friends of Merri Creek have been conducting oral history interviews with residents who have lived on the Creek before 1970. The interviews form the Merri Creek Oral History Project. This is an interview with John Jordan, who has lived near the Merri Creek in Bakers Road North Coburg since boyhood. The interviewer is Des Shiel. The […]
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Joe Garita – Market Gardener on Merri Creek
Friends of Merri Creek have been conducting oral history interviews with residents who have lived on the Creek before 1970. The interviews form the Merri Creek Oral History Project. This is an interview with Joe Garita who worked his market garden beside the Merri Creek in Harding Street Coburg for many years. Also contributing is […]
ReCollection – Moreland’s geography and early European settlements
Edited transcript of the interview with Malcolm McIlvena, former President of the Coburg Historical Society (2006-2017). Well probably the first thing that people don’t realise is that there were to the north, of us and Pretty Sally is one of them, there were seven volcanoes. We’re going back several hundred thousand years here and those […]
ReCollection – Transforming the Merri Creek
When Ann and Bruce McGregor moved to Brunswick in 1967, the Merri Creek was in bad condition. They worked with many community groups through their roles in the Merri Creek Coordinating Committe and the Friends of Merri Creek to bring the creek back to life. They were also integral in setting up the Merri […]
ReCollection – Kicking around Coburg in the sixties
Edited transcript of the interview with Dr. Sue Lopez Atkinson. My father was born in Cooraminta Street in Brunswick in 1914 and he grew up in Brunswick. He met my mother in Brunswick, got married in Brunswick, and then after he got married they moved to Coburg. In the house that he grew up […]
Dane Certificate’s Magic Tricks, Gags & Theatre
Dane Certificate’s Magic Tricks, Gags & Theatre was founded by Dane Certificate in January 2012 in a location situation immediately behind Sydney Road in Brunswick. Only accessible via a laneway off Cozens St, for years the hidden gem of a theatre has provided Moreland with a unique venue for a wide array of musical and […]
The extraordinary in the ordinary: the story of Piera Street
From a talk given at the Brunswick Community History Group in 2011 by Cheryl Griffin. A bit about Piera Street Piera Street is located on the east side of Lygon Street, Brunswick East, off 132 Lygon Street. It’s two streets south of Glenlyon Road and on the corner with Lygon Street is one of my […]
Remembering Newlands High School
by Cheryl Griffin Up until the early 1990s, Coburg had two high schools: Coburg High School in Bell Street and Newlands High School in Murray Road. For many years there was no Year 7 to 12 secondary school in Coburg, but thanks to the successful community campaign ‘High School for Coburg’, there is now a […]
Mihno Mourtoulakis (b. 1927 Skepasto, Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date of birth: 23 March 1927 Place of birth: Skepasto, province of Thessaloniki, Macedonia Arrived in Australia: 7 October 1966 Occupation: Factory Worker I was born in the village of Skepasto, in the province of Thessaloniki. Our village is a very small village. It had about 150 houses then. It’s at the foot of the […]
Lyndhust Hall
This building stands on an impressive site near the top of Coonans Hill. It’s believed to have been pre-fabricated and imported by Edward De Carle in 1852 and first erected near Nicholson St and Merri Creek in East Brunswick. The house was later dismantled and re- erected for Mr Alan Strange to its current site. […]