One of my first memories of school in the 70’s was drinking the milk in the morning. A large truck would deliver the milk which was left under the trees and the milk monitor would collect the milk bottles for the class. As we all sat in a circle on the floor, one student would […]
Methodism in Pascoe Vale
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Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940-1953 – part 4
Continued from Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940-1953 – part 1 Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940-1953 – part 2 Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940-1953 – part 3 Earning an extra quid After weathering the 1930’s depression, my father always taught me to try for that “extra quid”, and save for the rainy day. […]
Childhood Memories 1930
When I was a child, very few people had cars it was “depression” times. The first man in our street to get a car was the local plumber. Married women did not go out to work. The men rode bikes or used public transport. My brother Frank rode his bike from Preston to Carlton and […]
Greensborough Football Club
Club Formation 1890’s The Evelyn Observer reported in the Friday 30th June 1893 edition that the first match of the recently formed Greensborough Football Club took place on Saturday last (24th June 1893). It was played against Diamond Creek and resulted in a draw. Greensborough played various games during the period 1890- 1910 but not […]
Mill Park Library Anniversary, Saturday 23 June, 2012
Yarra Plenty Regional Library celebrated the 10th anniversary of Mill Park Library’s opening with a day of celebrations. The award-winning Library, designed by prominent Melbourne architects Oaten Stanistreet, opened in 2002 at a cost of $8 million and was awarded the Victorian Engineering Excellence Award in October 2003. One of Victoria’s largest public libraries, […]
Emms family of Bundoora
William Emms was the second child and eldest son of James Emms and Hannah Beadell. James was an excise – man and at the time of William’s birth in 1825 the family were living in Gravesend, Kent, UK. Hannah Beadell had been born in Kent in 1800 and James Emms b 1791 was the son […]
Mud bricks, Pise and character houses
The area of Eltham around Diamond Street to the west of the Diamond Creek is one that contains all of the elements of what is often referred to as the “Eltham Character”. They include the hilly terrain, extensive indigenous tree cover, some unmade streets and a significant proportion of “character houses”, many of which are […]
Princes Bridge to Hurst’s Bridge
The story of the Hurstbridge railway, with its strange and disjointed origins linked to the “railwaymania” of the 1880s, has much of interest to social, local and railway historians Oddly, the first section of it to open to traffic was completely isolated from the rest of the rail network. When the railway to Heidelberg was opened, at […]
Merri Creek
Merri Creek is one of five major north-south flowing tributaries of the Yarra River, flowing perennially from its source in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range to its junction with the Yarra River in present day Collingwood, just east of Dights Falls. The creek is approximately 60 kilometres in length, the lower 20 of […]