Date of birth: 6 December 1924 Place of birth: Patra, Peloponnesos Arrived in Australia: 25 September 1954 Occupation: Dressmaker and Factory Owner I was born in Patra. My childhood years were very happy because we were a very close family. We made a living from our property. At Easter, for one season only, we cultivated […]
Effie Salpingidis (b. 1946, Sphendami, province of Ekaterini, Macedonia, Greece)
Date of birth: 21 January 1946 Place of birth: Sphendami, province of Ekaterini, Macedonia Arrived in Australia: 21 January 1969 Occupation: Factory Worker My village is quite big. It had 300 houses, but I don’t know about the number of citizens it has now. It has a big church which is near my house. My […]
Andrea Kyriakou (b. 1918, Kalavasos, Cyprus, Greece)
Date of birth: 16 November 1918 Place of birth: Kalavasos, Cyprus Arrived in Australia: 16 July 1951 Occupation: Factory worker I was born in Cyprus in the village of Kalavasos. My village is big compared to the other villages of the region. When I left the village, the population was almost 1,520 people. It is […]
Harry Polites (b. 1906, Vasiliki, Lefkas, Greece)
Date of birth: 8 March 1906 Place of birth: Vasiliki, island of Lefkas Arrived in Australia: 17 November 1926 Occupation: Shopowner Our history in Australia goes a long way back. Some years after my mother’s death, my father decided to come to Australia. He arrived in 1923. He was in his mid-forties. I came aboard […]
Harry Pantelis (b. 1904, Kalimnos, Greece)
Date of birth: 27 July 1904 Place of birth: Island of Kalimnos, Aegean Islands Arrived in Australia: 16 October 1924 Occupation: Shopkeeper, Cook. There were three brothers in my family in Greece. One of my brothers, who was in France during the war, was wounded and died. Later, in 1920, my other brother came to […]
Mystery Chemical Plant
Local resident, Tom Harrington, Once told me that as a school boy in 1921 he remember a chemical plant in Haley Street Diamond Creek. He did not know what went on there but they used a lot of wood .Tom, it seemed, was the only local who could remember the plant. Some years after this […]
Six decades playing golf in Glenroy
Judy Manning has a storied history of playing golf in Melbourne’s North. Judy’s family first became golfers after her father Stan Williams came home from World War II looking for a sport he could play with one arm. The whole family first played at Royal Park golf course, with Judy taking up the sport at […]
Forza Juve – the role of football in forming community
By Carlo Carli, President, Brunswick Zebras Brunswick Zebras Football Club is a direct descent of the Melbourne Juventus Club. Today it is a large community club based in Sumner Park, Brunswick East. After starting out as an Italian club, it is now an all-inclusive club, with male and female teams and with players from diverse cultural and […]
South Preston State School : The Fires
The image shows the school as it looked in 1919 – it was expanded at least three times after that, but always in the same architectural style. Sadly, only two rooms of of the old brick building remains. There have been a few comments on the Preston South Primary School Facebook page on the fire […]
The Brunswick U13 Dragons’ 2013 premiership season
The following is a personal recollection of the Brunswick U13 Dragons’ 2013 premiership winning season in the Yarra Junior Football League. This is an edited version of an article by Director of Coaching Trevor Ludeman that was originally published in the Brunswick Junior Football Club 2013 Annual Report. The old adage in Amateur Football is […]