About the Pallaconian Brotherhood The Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria “Leonidas” was established in 1961. It was originally formed in order to bring together all Australians that trace their descent from Laconia – a region in the southern eastern mainland of Greece, with the capital of Sparta. Since 1989 the Brotherhood’s Clubrooms have been […]
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William John Symons: WW 1 Victoria Cross Winner
Born on 10th of July 1889 in Eaglehawk, Victoria to William Sampson Symons and his wife Mary Emma (ne: Manning). William was the eldest of five boys and lived with his family in Eaglehawk until his father passed away in 1904 at which point Mary moved the family to the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick. After […]
City of Moreland
The City Of Moreland covers an area of 51 square kilometres; the Merri Creek is the eastern boundary, the Moonee Ponds Creek being the western boundary. It is bounded by Park Street in the south and the Western ring road in the north. It consists of the suburbs of Brunswick, Brunswick East, Brunswick West, Coburg, […]
A History of 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 […]
Home of John Curtin Prime Minister
In December 2011 – A former home in Melbourne of Australia’s wartime Prime Minister, John Curtin, was sold at auction. It is a double-fronted house in Fallon Street in Brunswick and was built in 1906. Curtin lived there from 1912 to 1915. At the time, Curtin was Secretary of the Victorian Timber Workers Union, an […]
A Pub Crawl That Didn’t Crawl At All
by Julie Stratford for Brunswick Community History Group To celebrate Victoria’s History Week in October, the Brunswick Community History Group conducted a “Virtual Pub Crawl” to celebrate Brunswick’s fabulous, historic and interesting old pubs on 27th October 2010. The event was well attended after information was listed on the Victorian History Week website and flyers […]