Most conversant with the districts covered by WikiNorthia will be vaguely conscious of Larundel and its many decades as a mental institution, but few will be aware that it took eleven years from plans being announced to it operating in its proposed role. Approval was given in January, 1938 for a new mental hospital at […]
Melbourne’s Infancy and Growth: Heidelberg
The Argus, 6 December, 1884 “Heidelberg, which will be the last suburb dealt with in these articles, is eight miles north-east from Melbourne. It has been said that, next to Melbourne, this township is the oldest in the colony, older even than Geelong. At any rate, Heidelberg must be the oldest suburb of Melbourne. There […]
Banyule Senior: Nelun Tirimanne
City of Banyule resident, Nelun Tirimanne, has been volunteering with Yarra Plenty Regional Library (YPRL) for over 5 years spending approximately 15 hours per week volunteering her time and skills. During that time, she has become increasingly involved with seniors’ activities, both within the branches and outreaching into the community. She is involved with science […]
Whittlesea Senior: June de Chalain
June De Chalian of South Morang was profiled in the Victorian Seniors Festival October 2018 June de Chalain likes to stay busy, help others, and contribute to her community. Her work with the Whittlesea Council’s Seniors Link Up Program helps isolated older people in the community to find local programs, groups, activities and events they […]
My Scout Stave
I was a member of the 6th Preston Salvation Army Scouts in Gower Street, Preston. I started as a cub in the S.A. saving section before the affiliation with the Boy Scout Association in the 1940’s. I went through the cub, scout and senior sections and became scoutmaster at age 18 years. In 1957 I […]
Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park
When I first saw Fawkner Memorial Park, I had just moved to Melbourne, and was exploring. I was not expecting to see a cemetery when I alighted at Fawkner station. But, as anyone who has left the train on the Upfield-bound side of the station knows, the huge cemetery fills your vision, with headstones and […]
Migration story – Laiba
Laiba was born in Peshawar, a city in the North West of Pakistan. She smiles when describing her early life, as the ‘princess’ of her parents, belonging to an economically sound family who employed enough servants that she never even had to do any house chores! She invested her time studying a master’s degree in economics at […]
Migration stories – Glenroy conversation club
Since February of 2017, an English Conversation Club has been meeting at the Glenroy Library as a part of the ‘Libraries After Dark’ project. In June of 2019, the attending members shared their stories of migration to Moreland. Giovanni Giovanni was born in Calabria, a city in the South of Italy. In 1966 he travelled to Australia […]
ReCollection – Meredith Lawrence and the Fawkner heart and soul singers
Edited transcript of interview with Meredith Lawrence, who established Fawkner Community House in 2000. I’ve been managing the community house for nearly 17 years and in fact, I set the house up. It was a lot of hard work, actually, we only had 15 hours of funding at the time. We had a building from […]
ReCollection – Rock ‘n’ roll, cars and happily ever after
Edited transcript of interview with Heather Cox. When I started to go with John, I wasn’t quite seventeen. It was at the beginning of Rock’n’Roll and all those sorts of things, when the music was changing. My cousin Richard first started us going over to the Westbreen Hall. They’d started a dancing school and he’d […]