West Heidelberg RSL sub branch now known as RSL on Bell is located at 180 Bell Street, Heidelberg Heights, opposite the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital. Members were eager to raise funds for their building with local newspaper reports going back as far as 1947. A regular fund-raiser included the annual horse gymkhana at Warringal Park, Heidelberg. […]
Coulstock’s Mill
George Coulstock Port Phillip, later to become Melbourne was first permanently settled by the white man in 1835. Very shortly after, in 1837, the first crop of wheat was raised. It was ground into flour by hand-cranked mills, the only option until the first powered mills were built in the 1840’s. In 1833 a George […]
Wollert District Youth Club
Transcribed from hand written notes on four pages by Mr Geoffrey Howell in 1970. Donated to City of Whittlesea and forwarded to Yarra Plenty Regional Library by Sandra Scott (nee Scurlock) April 2019. Began in 1950, March (I think) at the request of 2 people aged about 15. I was approached and asked if I […]
Heidelberg Library Logo
The logo a feature of the exterior of Ivanhoe Library since the 1960s was designed for Yarra Plenty Regional Library’s predecessor – Heidelberg Regional Library: “H for Heidelberg with the apple of knowledge” soon after it was established in 1965. It features a fan of three leaves with a stem centred in a circle. Either […]
Moreland Remembers – War weariness
The ‘Moreland Remembers’ exhibition documents the mounting strain placed on communities and individuals as World War I continued with no end in sight. As casualty numbers overseas continued to rise, families at home watched more of their loved ones leave to replace soldiers already lost and waited a painful amount of time to receive news […]
WW2 and Home Front Regulations, or Deja Vu
The COVID-19 virus pandemic has been likened by our political leaders to a war like situation. We have been directed to ‘stay at home’ and practice social isolation in order to stop the spread of the virus. Many businesses have been ordered to close and many people are working from home. Our streets are quiet […]
James Aitken
James Aitken, Epping, was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1837, and landed in Brisbane, Queensland in 1865. Eighteeen months later he came to Victoria, and began living in Melbourne for a year, and at Kilmore for three months. He settled in Epping in 1868, and worked at his trade as journey-man blacksmith there until 1873, […]
Thomas A. Ahern
Ahearn, Thomas A. Epping (deceased) was born in Tipperary, Ireland in 1827, and arrived in Melbourne in March 1841. After farming for two years and paying a two years’ visit to New Zealand, he returned to Victoria, and went to the shearing on some of the principal stations up country, and settled down for a […]
Richard Bassett
Richard Bassett Upper Yarra Pioneer From Hazel Glen, Richard was born in Cornwall, England, in 1838 and coming to Australia in 1859 first went to Brunswick, where he worked at the quarries for a year, then to Darebin Creek as a farmer, and thence to Greensborough. He then selected land at Hazel Glen, where he […]
A Platform towards reconciliation
The Moor-rul pltaform was installed at Kangaroo Ground Memorial Park Tower in 2008. The Diamond Valley Leader reported: Years of co-operation, hard work and history have culminated in the completion of a Kangaroo Ground viewing platform and launch of Nillumbik Council Reconciliation Charter. Bagpipes heralded the official launch of the long-awaited Moor-rul platform and the […]