The Pioneer Reserve Picnic Shelter, on the corner of St Helena Road, Greensborough is a tribute to the district’s pioneers and it was built as a joint project by the Shire of Diamond Valley and the Nillumbik Historical Society. The bluestone was recovered from the southern arch of Greensborough’s first Plenty River bridge built in […]
Tag: History
Racecourses of the north : Ivanhoe
The Ivanhoe Racecourse is noted from the late 1850’s, one report suggesting the course was on the Heidelberg-road, then a rough affair built by convicts, Heidelberg itself along with Brighton one of the first settlements established outside of the early Melbourne settlement. Most of the early references to the “Ivanhoe racecourse” actually refer to hunt […]
Victorian P-12 College of Koorie Education (former Glenroy High School, Box Forest campus), Glenroy campus
Victorian P-12 College of Koorie Education (former Glenroy High School, Box Forest campus), Glenroy campus. In the 1960s and 1970s the eight children in the Murray family (Diana, Stephen, Gary, Brian, Margaret, Wayne, Bev and Greg) attended Glenroy High School close to their home. They were the only Aboriginal children in the area and at […]
Shadows On The Screen
—Bullant 17:59, 22 September 2011 (EST) The author did not identify himself by name but is easily identifiable as William McIntosh, the son of Andrew McIntosh, a long serving councillor and prominent baker in High Street. As the article reveals, William and his great friend James Morris were stalwarts of the cricket club and although […]
Why study history
Why study history? by Kathy Shiels for the Brunswick Community History Group newsletter ‘Fusion’ July 2003 p4-5. ‘Stop writing that note!’ I boomed at the fourteen year old girl at the back of the room. I thought despairingly, ‘Aren’t they interested in anything but the next party?’ From the content of the previous notes that […]
Darebin Libraries
Darebin Libraries was created in 1995 with the amalgamation of the Northcote and Preston library services. It has four library branches stretching from Fairfield in the south, to Northcote, Preston and Reservoir and serves an area of 153.4 km. History The Northcote Library was first established in 1891 and housed in a small office in […]