What makes your Nillumbik home town/area unique? Who are the characters who have made it so? What sites have significance and why? During 2005 Nillumbik Shire Council and the Literary Reference Group invited members of the community to respond to these questions, to show us the history and flavour of your place – then and […]
Living in Banyule Road
I enjoy living in Banyule Road because there are so many benefits. I have have friendly neighbours, a primary school, easy access to ViewBank College, Residential Age Care Respite care and a bus service across the road and a Shared Trail close by. Since I moved into Banyule Road many years ago, one of my […]
Lade Family at Edendale Farm
I believe it likely that my great- grandmother, Mrs. Annie Lade, (nee McConchie) with her son Norman Leslie (Les), and daughter Mary (Maimie) lived at Edendale farm for a period in 1910. I base this on family stories and some minor but incomplete research. 1910, Annie Lade with Les and Maimie, moved from” The Pines”, […]
Kangaroo Ground Cemetery
What makes your Nillumbik home town/area unique? Who are the characters who have made it so? What sites have significance and why? During 2005 Nillumbik Shire Council and the Literary Reference Group invited members of the community to respond to these questions, to show us the history and flavour of your place – then and […]
Kangaroo Ground
What makes your Nillumbik home town/area unique? Who are the characters who have made it so? What sites have significance and why? During 2005 Nillumbik Shire Council and the Literary Reference Group invited members of the community to respond to these questions, to show us the history and flavour of your place – then and […]
Holiday at Cockatoo
The following article was contributed following a reminiscences session held at Watsonia library June 2008, on the topic “Holidays”. It was around the year of 1938. I was about 8 years old at the time. We were living in a small rented home in Collingwood and there was very little money. My mother was a […]
Ern and Lil’s homes
The following article came out of a Reminiscence session held at Watsonia Library 10 March 2009 with long time residents Ern and Lil. Compiled by Lynne Siejka Ern told us about his parent’s house. They had bought the Californian Bungalow in 1925 for eight hundred pounds (which was about 5 year’s wages) on Derby Street […]
1950’s Eltham snapshot
What makes your Nillumbik home town/area unique? Who are the characters who have made it so? What sites have significance and why? During 2005 Nillumbik Shire Council and the Literary Reference Group invited members of the community to respond to these questions, to show us the history and flavour of your place – then and […]
Eltham Library
Originally titled Nillumbik Library. See also Yarra Plenty Regional Library In the seventies the humble beginnings of the Eltham library was in the redundant red brick Council Chamber building. But behind the scenes, ideas were being thrown around by the people of Eltham, librarians and anyone with an interest in a decent library befitting the […]
Eltham – our special place
We were so young and innocent, Starting life together, We looked at houses day and night, In any sort of weather We got a call to see a house, Prior sale had fallen through, It needed lots of TLC, It was our dream-come-true The serenity of Eltham, Was a pleasure to behold, Life in this […]