When I drive past Rosanna Golf Links Primary School it brings back childhood memories. The site was part of a 17 acre (6.8 hectares) property owned by my parents, Bonnie and Harry Banfield. My little white pony grazed over the area, and later when I was older and had outgrown Silver, my horse Percy did the same.
Our frontage was on Lower Plenty Road, where Rosanna Views now stands, and our back boundary was Finlayson Avenue, then a dirt road named Heidelberg Avenue. I loved to canter my horse flat chat from Greensborough Road up to the crest of the hill in the avenue.
