Textile engineer Bill worked as a textile engineer which he was absolutely passionate about. He is also a great people manager and loves to organise. ‘Happiness to me is about being with people. I find that I get along really well with many different types and I have been fortunate to meet some extraordinary people […]
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Travelling with friends
Travelling with friends Katica has spent many years travelling with her friends, providing her with many happy memories and with opportunities to learn. Katica continues to have a very positive outlook on life with a desire to stay healthy, strong, and independent. Katica likes to support her many friends where she can. ‘I love to […]
Wedding photographer
Wedding Photographer Laurie worked as a wedding photographer for more than forty years. Photography has always been a passion for Laurie – when he was young he loved to take pictures of cats and dogs. His father, who was an engineer, passed on much knowledge to Laurie, and made some photographic equipment for him to […]
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 […]
Brunswick boer war memorial
Origins The impetus for a Boer War memorial in Brunswick was the death of Private Stanley John Barnard on 12 June, 1901. Barnard, a tram conductor in civilian life from North Brunswick, was killed in action at Wilmansrust while serving with the Fifth Victorian Mounted Rifles. In the months following Barnard’s death, the Brunswick Council […]
Glenroy
History of Moreland Fact Sheet 5 – Glenroy Late in the 1830s the senior surveyor of Port Phillip, Robert Hoddle, was given the job of charting the land around Melbourne on maps. His task was to divide the area into ‘parishes’ (this was the English name given to Local Government districts but in Australia was […]
Fawkner
In the late 1830s squatters pastured flocks of sheep from New South Wales and Van Diemens Land (Tasmania). Land was rented to squatters for ten pounds per year, and in the 1840s they could buy up to 640 acres where homesteads were established. John Pascoe Fawkner John Pascoe Fawkner was an early settler in the […]
Cracknell family of Panton Hill
The following article was submitted by Lois Kennett, family historian of the Cracknell family of Panton Hill June 2008. Samuel Cracknell The family connection with Panton Hill starts with Sam and Carolline Cracknell, and their children William, Samuel, Alfred, Ruby and Beatrice. Sam, Ruby and Beatrice have the longest associations with the area. Sam and […]
Country Life in Mahoneys Lane
When I was in the fifth grade, in the early fifties my life seemed to be changed forever. .. By Mary Renshaw (nee Eastman) The family left the busy suburb of Moonee Ponds to go to Keon Park where there were dirt roads, no electricity, no telephone, wood stove and copper and miles treed paddocks. […]
Migrating to Australia
Toula was born in Greece and migrated to Australia in 1958 to marry her husband, who had seen her photo and wished to marry her. Travelling to a new country as a young woman to marry and start a new life was both exciting yet terrifying -Toula was not really sure what to expect. In […]