By Anne Course The approaching 100 year anniversary of the landing at Gallipolli put my head in a spin, my Grandfather had volunteered, what was his experience and how did it effect his life. I was I like a dog with a bone, can’t let is go until I have all the information possible and […]
Tag: Bundoora
Darebin’s Boer War
The Preston Contingent ”Three Musketeers” in the persons of Messrs Chas. Patterson, Steve Prowse and Fred Michell – all Preston boys – called at this office in a high state of jubilation on Thursday, having been picked the day before to go with the Victorian contingent and fight for the liberties of their fellow Britishers […]
Emms family of Bundoora
William Emms was the second child and eldest son of James Emms and Hannah Beadell. James was an excise – man and at the time of William’s birth in 1825 the family were living in Gravesend, Kent, UK. Hannah Beadell had been born in Kent in 1800 and James Emms b 1791 was the son […]
Bundoora Park
The 450 acre park in Plenty Road when first established was a joint project with the adjoining (former) Councils of Preston, Diamond Valley and Whittlesea. It includes a golf course, scenic drive and picnic sites amidst beautiful mature gum trees, including an Aboriginal Canoe tree. The picnic sites are used to capacity in the warmer […]
Wallace – Champion Thoroughbred Sire
“Wallace”, one of the Australia’s greatest thoroughbred sires of the first twenty years of the twentieth century commenced his stud career at “Bundoora Park” in 1896. By the champion Australian racehorse and sire “Carbine” from “Melodious” (by the imported “Goldsborough”), Wallace was a good but not exceptional two-year old, being placed in several leading juvenile […]
Darebin – Sydney Cup winner and Thoroughbred Sire
Darebin (thoroughbred sire) “Darebin” (by “The Peer” (imported) from the colonial mare “Lurline”) was bred at Bundoora Park just north of Melbourne by Samuel Gardiner in 1878 and numbered amongst his victories went on to win the Victoria Derby, Sydney Cup and Adelaide St. Leger. His Sydney Cup victory in 1883 was a bitter-sweet weekend […]
John Cain (1931 -)
John Cain (1931 – ) 1When John Cain was born in 1931 his father was the Labor Deputy Opposition Leader of Victoria. John Cain Senior went onto to lead Victoria as Premier on three separate occasions before his death in 1957. With such a strong political presence in his life it was no surprise when […]
Bundoora Homestead Ghosts
Bundoora Homestead staff have investigated the ghosts that are said to haunt it. The homestead, built in 1900, is now an arts centre but had previous lives as a horse stud, convalescent farm and mental repatriation hospital. It used to reside in the former Shire of Whttlesea but is now located in the corner of […]