After many long years, The former Plenty Uniting Church was moved mid August, from its site on the corner of Yan Yean Road, Plenty surrounded by trees – to the Heritage Park alongside the Plenty Hall. With the huge impact of the road realignment and loss of 2800 trees, the church has been saved for future generations and the social history of Plenty preserved in a new location and for new stories. The Plenty Methodist Church was built in 1925 and closed as a Church in the early 1980s. After some renovation the building was re-opened as “The Grace of Plenty” arts and crafts store and more recently operated as “Sugabuds”.
Plans for the Church will bring new life to the building and local community
Reading: Plenty News & Views Plenty Historical Society May 2018
Photo: Yarra Plenty Regional Library. Photographer: Kevin Patterson 1981.
I have spent some time trying to identify records at the Australian National Archives for a few individuals listed on the site – but without success. The individuals include Allen, Bert, Basto Antinio, Charman, Fred. Does anyone have perhaps year of birth from which parents could be identified. Thanks for your assistance
Hello Nillumbik HS
As you can see from my address I live in Lake Boga. However my mother, now deceased, used live in Greensborough and the easiest travel into there was Bendigo to Heathcote, Kilmore and then off to Wandong, Whittlesea, Yan Yean and Doreen
Once upon a time it was my beautiful scenic route and I’d thank the farm on my right as I headed towards Whittlesea for floodlighting their big gum tree. As we live in a much drier brown Mallee climate it was a joy to drive through the green hills in the spring and winter.
But my scenic route has been gradually ruined by the close development of housing estates. And now the widening of the Yan Yean Road.
Initially – for the comment below – I looked for a Yan Yean Historical Society and couldn’t find one so I sent a message to the Whittlesea HS who were kind enough to reply and point me towards you.
All I said was how dismayed I was at the demolition of trees, old stone gateways, buildings and front gardens. The road-works took me by surprise as sometimes I travel to my friend in Seaford bypassing your area.
Because of my surprise I did not take mental pictures of what was there before so I was asking if anybody took some ‘before’ photographs of all things demolished?
And hopefully these will be published on the NHS’s website?
Of course the society saved the old church whose bend in the road I remember.
I knew the trees would be made extinct – they were probably diseased just like the Swan Hill City Council trees are that they find are in the way of ‘progress’
What a staggering number – 2800 – that’s a forest.!
Regards,
Patricia McMahon