Living in a Brunswick Terrace part 1 8 year old Kevin in the kitchen One day when home alone, I decided to cook dinner for Mum and Dad. I fried up bacon and eggs using dripping from the jam tin container in the kitchen cupboard which stored dripping saved from other meals. A surprised Mum […]
Category: Moreland
Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940 – 1953 – Part 1
Part 1 By Kevin in Diamond Creek – the following reminiscences are not necessarily in chronological order. In 1940 we moved to a terrace in Donald Street, North Brunswick. It was a house from another time with a remnant gaslight fitting in one room, and at the end of the yard was a pull the chain […]
Migrating by ship
Migrating by ship Grace migrated from Italy to Australia, and being on the ship is one of her favourite life memories. She had never been on holidays before so it was very exciting to board the ship, and she will always remember this experience. Upon arriving in Australia it was difficult initially as she could […]
A History of Brunswick
Background The area that surveyor Robert Hoddle marked out, destined to be Brunswick, was determined by two straight lines (which later became Park Street and Moreland Road), drawn from Moonee Ponds to Merri Creek. Halfway between the creek a line north to south was marked which at first was known as Pentridge Road and was […]
Pentridge Prison
As a result of a greatly increased crime rate in Victoria due to the gold rush, the government decided to establish a number of penal stockades and also make use of abandoned ships. One of these stockades was set up at Pentridge (the old name for Coburg) to receive, in December 1850, sixteen prisoners from […]
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. […]