Continued from Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940-1953 – part 1 Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940-1953 – part 2 Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940-1953 – part 3 Earning an extra quid After weathering the 1930’s depression, my father always taught me to try for that “extra quid”, and save for the rainy day. […]
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Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940 – 1953 – Part 3
Continued from Living in a Brunswick 1940 – 1953 terrace Part 1 Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940 – 1953 Part 2 My Mate Joe After starting work in 1948 I continued hanging out and holidaying with my school mate Joe for some years until the end of my bachelor days. This is Joe and […]
Catherine Clinton
Brunswick Pioneer Passes MRS CATHERINE MARY CLINTON, AGED 92 Interesting reminiscences recalled By her passing away at the Sacred Heart Hospital on August 29, Brunswick has lost another of its oldest colonists in Mrs Catherine Mary Clinton, who had reached the age of 92 years, during 80 of which she has been a resident of […]
Brunswick Community History Group Inc
Brunswick Community History Group (BCHG) is a community-based organisation interested in the history of our local area. BCHG is interested in all aspects of history – research, reminiscences, families, historic buildings, documents, and photographs. Our AimsThrough our members, BCHG aims to• Foster a greater appreciation of Brunswick’s history and urban environment• Increase community access to […]
Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940 – 1953 – Part 2
Living in a Brunswick Terrace part 1 8 year old Kevin in the kitchen One day when home alone, I decided to cook dinner for Mum and Dad. I fried up bacon and eggs using dripping from the jam tin container in the kitchen cupboard which stored dripping saved from other meals. A surprised Mum […]
Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940 – 1953 – Part 1
Part 1 By Kevin in Diamond Creek – the following reminiscences are not necessarily in chronological order. In 1940 we moved to a terrace in Donald Street, North Brunswick. It was a house from another time with a remnant gaslight fitting in one room, and at the end of the yard was a pull the chain […]
My history of living in Melbourne’s north
I left Italy in April 1963, with my Dad, Mum, and 2 young brothers. All the other 5 brothers were already living in Melbourne. We arrived at Victoria dock early in the morning on the 13-5-1963. My first impression of Melbourne was not the best, as it was a very grey morning. When I looked […]
Brunswick
Background The area that surveyor Robert Hoddle marked out, destined to be Brunswick, was determined by two straight lines (which later became Park Street and Moreland Road), drawn from Moonee Ponds to Merri Creek. Halfway between the creek a line north to south was marked which at first was known as Pentridge Road and was […]
Brunswick boer war memorial
Origins The impetus for a Boer War memorial in Brunswick was the death of Private Stanley John Barnard on 12 June, 1901. Barnard, a tram conductor in civilian life from North Brunswick, was killed in action at Wilmansrust while serving with the Fifth Victorian Mounted Rifles. In the months following Barnard’s death, the Brunswick Council […]
Aborigines in Moreland
Aborigines History of Moreland Fact Sheet 1: Aborigines Background The Woiworung people occupied 12,000 square kilometres in Victoria and it is estimated there were about 1700 of them in the years before white settlement divided into four clans (land-owning groups). For most of the year, the Woiworung lived in groups of between twenty and fifty […]