by Arthur B.W. Yong JP Since 1998, a number of individual residents from Whittlesea’s culturally and linguistically (CALD) communities have been working with the local service providers, local, state and federal government members and council staff to establish a Whittlesea Multicultural Community Council (WMCC). WMCC is a proposed peak body, which seeks to represent the […]
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Rosanna Golf Links Primary School Once a Farm, Now a School
When I drive past Rosanna Golf Links Primary School it brings back childhood memories. The site was part of a 17 acre (6.8 hectares) property owned by my parents, Bonnie and Harry Banfield. My little white pony grazed over the area, and later when I was older and had outgrown Silver, my horse Percy did […]
Morang South Primary School No. 1975
“The Morang South Primary School opened on 1 November 1877 under head teacher Thomas Doyle. The neat bluestone building, with attached four-room residence, had been erected by Richard Davies at a cost of 796 pounds 18s.6d. It stood on four acres formerly reserved for a cemetery. Although the school was designed to accommodate fifty pupils […]
Greensborough State School Reminiscences
Extracted with permission from “Centenary of education in Greensborough 1854-1954” (Greensborough State School no. 2062) p. 25 – 27 These are some of the many stories of the school in Mr. Amiet’s day. (Mr Louis Amiet, head teacher 1896-1919) “… Mr. Amiet had a dog called Brunzo that he had taught to obey commands given […]
Coburg Primary School
The story of Coburg Primary School begins during the Victorian gold rush decade of the 1850s when Coburg was a small rural village called Pentridge. In those days, market gardens and orchards lined the banks of the Merri Creek, cattle and sheep grazed on land that would later be occupied by factories, and farmers grew […]
Mont Park Hospital
The former Mont Park Hospital was located in Macleod near and on the site of LaTrobe University and Springthorpe Housing development. Mont Park mental asylum was opened in 1912, and in 1915 an army hospital opened for war injuries, disease and mental illness.
Kangaroo Ground Post Offce
What makes your Nillumbik home town/area unique? Who are the characters who have made it so? What sites have significance and why? During 2005 Nillumbik Shire Council and the Literary Reference Group invited members of the community to respond to these questions, to show us the history and flavour of your place – then and […]
Honeymoon railway of 1912
When a Mr and Mrs Edgerton were married in 1911 their honeymoon destination was a tiny wooden work cabin in the Eltham railway yards. The groom was a brand new civil engineer fresh out of the R.M.I.T. and his first job was Engineer in charge of the Eltham/Hurstbridge rail extension. The bride soon made the […]
Greensborough Railway Station
The following article is reproduced by permission of Noel Withers and extracted from “Banyule City Council Spring Outdoors Programme 2008: Greensborough & the Plenty River Pioneer Trail With Dennis Ward & Noel Withers. A ramble from the lower part of town and along the river bank learning about historic sites and the pioneering families that […]
Willis Vale
The following article is reproduced by permission of Noel Withers and extracted from “Banyule City Council Spring Outdoors Programme 2008: Greensborough & the Plenty River Pioneer Trail with Dennis Ward & Noel Withers. A ramble from the lower part of town and along the river bank learning about historic sites and the pioneering families that […]