William Braithwaite was born in Northallerton (the name of his later home at the corner of High Street and Murray Road in Preston), Yorkshire in 1853 and came to Australia on the “Royal Family” with his parents in 1863. His father William established a tannery in Murray Road in 1867 and William junior was trained […]
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Carl Augustus Adolph. Schwaebsch
“For six years a Northcote councillor and recognised as the leading historian of cycling in Australia, Mr. Carl A. A. Schwaebsch of Mitchell Street, Northcote has had a very interesting career. “He was born in Northcote in 1865 and received his education at the Helen Street State School and Carlton College. His parents were amongst […]
Darebin : 1881 Victoria Derby winner
“Darebin, the winner of the blue ribbon of the Victorian turf, of whom our artist has drawn a very correct likeness, is a brown colt, of great substance, but slightly deficient in quality, by the imported horse Peer, from the New Zealand mare Lurline, who was one of the best and gamest horses that ever […]
Brunswick Secondary College Centenary
CENTENARY+COMMUNITY+FORUM+2+-+FLYER+A4 This Wednesday 2nd December past staff and students are welcome to visit the school for a guided tour and light lunch. We’d love you to come and share your memories of Brunswick Technical School and Secondary College with us.
Racecourses of the north – Fitzroy
This entry may seem a little outsie the scope of WikiNorthia, but the so-called “Fitzroy” course was actually in well and truly in Northcote. In 1891, Messrs Byrne and Callahan, two private investors, purchased 30 acres of land on the west side of St. Georges Road in Northcote (between today’s Gadd Street and Wootton Avenue) […]
Racecourses of the north – Croxton Park
Most readers will be familiar with the popular Croxton Park Hotel in High Street and what is now regarded as Northcote, but most will not be aware of the rich sporting traditions of the hotel and its grounds. Like others in Melbourne – Epsom, Ascot and Sandown – it was another track that took its […]
Racecourses of the north – Heidelberg
The exact location of the Heidelberg course – or courses – is generally accredited to be at the Heidelberg Cricket Ground and one report from 1880 has jockeys weighing-in in the cricket pavilion, but whether this represents today’s layout of Warringal Park is uncertain. . Today’s cricket ground is to the north of the Warringal […]
Racecourses of the north – Thomastown
Occasional race meetings at Thomastown to the north of Melbourne were noted along with others at Preston, Heidelberg, Ivanhoe in the late 1850’s, the first at Thomastown itself noted in 1858. (Both Mill Park and Lower Plenty had annual races as early as the late 1840s) In January, 1889, a long letter to the weekly […]
Racecourses of the north : Ivanhoe
The Ivanhoe Racecourse is noted from the late 1850’s, one report suggesting the course was on the Heidelberg-road, then a rough affair built by convicts, Heidelberg itself along with Brighton one of the first settlements established outside of the early Melbourne settlement. Most of the early references to the “Ivanhoe racecourse” actually refer to hunt […]
A refugee journey from Africa to Australia
Amongst other things, Baraka Emmy is employed as a casual library officer at Moreland City Libraries. This is a personal account of his journey from the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo to Australia. By Baraka Emmy