211 Weston Street The Caledonian Hotel was built in 1866/7 of bluestone from the nearby quarries which it served. It was rebuilt in brick in 1925. The word “Caledonian” means “Scotsman” but if this is a clue to the origins of the hotel then the connection is now obscure. The establishment is in a quiet […]
Eltham: a pretty little township
ELTHAM Eltham is a pretty little township on the Yarra Flats road, about 14 miles east north- east of Melbourne, from which place there is communication by way of Heidelberg. It has a population of nearly 400 inhabitants, but in addition it is the centre of a large district extending over about 203 square miles, having a population of 2344. The […]
Reverend Alfred Charles Kellaway
The Reverend Kellaway served 29 years as the vicar of All Saints Church of England, Northcote. (The foundation stone of the church – situated on the south-eastern corner of High and Walker Streets – were laid in January 1859 by the Governor Sir Henry Barkly. The church held services from August 1860). Born in Dorset […]
Edward Richard Bailey, J.P.
Born on June 9, 1844, Bailey arrived in Tasmania in March 1860 on board “The Hope” with his parents from the village of Worthing in Sussex. The sixteen-year old Bailey originally worked as a baker in Launceston at 7/6 per week and saved enough money after three years to move to Melbourne where he worked […]
Colonel William Braithwaite
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 […]
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 […]
Wallace (Champion Thoroughbred Sire)
Wallace, one of the Australia’s greatest thoroughbred sires of the first twenty years of the twentieth century commenced his stud career at Bundoora Park in 1896. By the champion Australian racehorse and sire Carbine from Melodious (by the imported Goldsborough), Wallace was a good but not exceptional two-year old, being placed in several leading juvenile […]
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) […]