When I first saw Fawkner Memorial Park, I had just moved to Melbourne, and was exploring. I was not expecting to see a cemetery when I alighted at Fawkner station. But, as anyone who has left the train on the Upfield-bound side of the station knows, the huge cemetery fills your vision, with headstones and […]
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ReCollection – Meredith Lawrence and the Fawkner heart and soul singers
Edited transcript of interview with Meredith Lawrence, who established Fawkner Community House in 2000. I’ve been managing the community house for nearly 17 years and in fact, I set the house up. It was a lot of hard work, actually, we only had 15 hours of funding at the time. We had a building from […]
Brendan Casey – Merri Creek at Fawkner
Friends of Merri Creek have been conducting oral history interviews with residents who have lived on the Creek before 1970. The interviews form the Merri Creek Oral History Project. This is an interview with Brendan Casey who lived near the Merri Creek in Lovely Street Fawkner in his youth. The interviewer is Des Shiel. The date […]
Moreland quilt project – A changing community
The Moreland Quilt was a community arts and storytelling project curated by Tamara Russell, a textile artist specialising in free machine embroidery and hand stitching. The panels in the quilt record local stories, culture and history though imagery, colour and fabric. I lived on a dairy farm in Glenroy growing up. It was a lovely […]
Migration story – recent arrival
Madiha arrived in Australia in 2013 from Pakistan with her husband and two children. Initially they settled in Glenroy with family and then moved to Fawkner. Madiha is a qualified doctor in Pakistan and worked in a hospital and clinic. Her qualifications are not recognised in Australia so she would need to undertake more study. […]
Fawkner
In the late 1830s squatters pastured flocks of sheep from New South Wales and Van Diemens Land (Tasmania). Land was rented to squatters for ten pounds per year, and in the 1840s they could buy up to 640 acres where homesteads were established. John Pascoe Fawkner John Pascoe Fawkner was an early settler in the […]
Arthur Edward Griffiths : World War 1 veteran
WW1 Veteran: Arthur Edward Griffiths Lance Corporal No: 920 Born in Victoria ~ August 1893 (Narioka near Echuca) Died in Victoria ~ October 1945 He lays to rest at Fawkner Cemetery (Victoria) Garden of Remembrance 1 Compartment 34 Niche 23 Arthur enlisted in Echuca on 19 August 1914 & was discharged in Melbourne 23 September 1919. He […]