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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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