This article is one in a series of Ivanhoe Primary School Memories (2004) Extracts from the Supplement to Slab Hut to Red Brick: the history of Ivanhoe Primary School (2004) compiled by Theresa Casteltevetere, Dianne Fox and Louise Ryan, including recollections of former students & staff. Rhonda Matties: 1960s The following are snippets of memory […]
Ivanhoe Primary School Memories 1950s
Extracts from the Supplement to Slab Hut to Red Brick: the history of Ivanhoe Primary School (2004) compiled by Theresa Casteltevetere, Dianne Fox and Louise Ryan, including recollections of former students & staff and articles from Ivanhoe Primary School Memories. Access at Yarra Plenty Regional Library Nola Buzza (nee Booth): 1949-1954 I have very happy […]
Ivanhoe Primary School Memories 1940s
Extracts from the Supplement to Slab Hut to Red Brick: the history of Ivanhoe Primary School (2004) compiled by Theresa Casteltevetere, Dianne Fox and Louise Ryan and Ivanhoe Memories (2004), including recollections of former students & staff. MARGARET HENDRIE (nee Griffith): 1940-1946 My first grade teacher was called Miss Giles, and at that young age […]
Ivanhoe Primary School memories 1920s and 1930s
Extracts from the Supplement to Slab Hut to Red Brick: the history of Ivanhoe Primary School (2004) compiled by Theresa Casteltevetere, Dianne Fox and Louise Ryan, including recollections of former students & staff. My name is Daniel Nolan. I am in Grade Five at Ivanhoe Primary School and my family has a long association with […]
Greensborough State School Reminiscences
Extracted with permission from “Centenary of education in Greensborough 1854-1954” (Greensborough State School no. 2062) p. 25 – 27 These are some of the many stories of the school in Mr. Amiet’s day. (Mr Louis Amiet, head teacher 1896-1919) “… Mr. Amiet had a dog called Brunzo that he had taught to obey commands given […]
Sussex Neighbourhood House Community Quilt
In May 2007, the participants of Sussex Neighbourhood House celebrated Neighbourhood House Week with the launch of a beautiful community quilt created by the many groups who regularly meet at the neighbourhood house. Each panel of the quilt was created by a group within the House, and the process of creating the concept for the […]
Coburg Primary School
The story of Coburg Primary School begins during the Victorian gold rush decade of the 1850s when Coburg was a small rural village called Pentridge. In those days, market gardens and orchards lined the banks of the Merri Creek, cattle and sheep grazed on land that would later be occupied by factories, and farmers grew […]
Friends of Darrabi Aboriginal Native Food Garden
Friends of Darrabi are a volunteer group of parents and others who are working with Hurstbridge Primary School and the local community to: *help every child at Hurstbridge to put in and look after their plant *maintain and grow the Darrabi Native Food & Reconciliation Garden *conserve and rehabilitate the surrounding native bushland *protect and […]
Churinga
One of the most advanced residential centres for mentally handicapped children in Australia, at the time of opening in Greensborough in 1967, the St. John of God centre, Churinga, off Diamond Creek Rd, Greensborough opened in July of that year. The centre was moved from Cheltenham to make way for Southland. It provided residential care […]
Diamond Valley Baptist Church
Situated near the Yan Yean/Diamond Creek Roads intersection, at 309 Diamond Creek Road, Plenty and snuggled into a hollow, passers by may not realise that this Baptist church when built in 1985 was the largest mud brick structure in Australia. Construction commenced in 1983. The large vertical timbers are reclaimed piles from the old Nelson […]