The Rosanna Golf Club is situated in a picturesque valley where the Plenty and Yarra rivers meet and is a popular destination for golfers. Its’s website provides a good history of golfing in the area. The following are summarised news articles from “The Heidelberger” July 1966 The East Rosanna Progress Association is seeking the views […]
Plenty River Bridge
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 […]
Growling Frog Golf Course
The Growling Frog Golf Course at 1910 Donnybrook Rd, Yan Yean was opened in September 2004. It is designed by golfing legend and internationally renowned golf course architect Graham Marsh and is is nestled amongst stately 300 year old River Red Gums on more than 300 acres of Victorian countryside. The Growling Frog name is […]
Eltham Cemetery
The Eltham Cemetery is situated on the corner of Mount Pleasant Road and Cemetery Road, Eltham in the Shire of Nillumbik. The Eltham Cemetery Trust, established in 1858, selected the site on high ground overlooking the village of Eltham. Trustees appointed from various church and local organisations have administered and maintained the cemetery to this […]
Greensborough Pioneer Grave Site
The following article is partly based on an article in 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 settled there […]
Heidelberg business’ in the 1940s
This article by Dorothy & Bill Lemin written in 2006 was originally titled: “Business in brief – Heidelberg 1940s”. ‘Heidelberg was much a slower place. The saying was that you could fire a canon down Burgundy St and not hit anyone. Ivanhoe was a more up market place and closer to town. Lack of transport […]
The Gasworks, Heidelberg
For many years the two large gasometers (gas holding cylinders) on the south side of Banksia Street stood as distinctive Heidelberg landmarks. The Heidelberg Gasworks was bounded by Banksia, Dora and Yarra Streets and started in 1887as a private enterprise by Messrs Tipping and Wright. It was bought by the Shire Council in 1899 then […]
Tommy Gibson of “Tommy’s Hut”
Tommy Gibson was a paling splinter, cutting palings and shingles for sale at the Melbourne markets. He lived at “Tommy’s Hut” around 1862. His house was used as a sly grog shop and meeting place. Every few days, when he had enough palings to sell, he would load up his trusty wheelbarrow and wheel his […]
Pipe Track across the Plenty River
In 1927 the Maroondah Reservoir, on the Watts river at Healesville came into service. This flooded the 1891 weir. The open channel aqueduct coped with the increased flow but all the pipe sections were duplicated. These pipes on the Plenty River trail at Greensborough show the on the right the original pipe from 1891 showing […]
Kangaroo Ground Pioneer Cemetery
This article reproduced here with permission was first published in [The New Local]: news and views from Hurstbridge, Nutfield, Strathewen, Arthurs Creek, Panton Hill, Wattle Glen, St Andrews, Smiths Gully, Kangaroo Ground, Cottles Bridge, Doreen and Watsons Creek Issue 1 November/December 2008 page 16. The Kangaroo Ground Cemetery along the Eltham-Yarra Glen Road is the […]