Hurstbridge Memorial Park and the Hurstbridge Avenue of Honour stand as memorials to local soldiers who served in WW1 and the spirit of the local community On Saturday 31 August 1919, residents and visitors from the city gathered at Dorset House to honour the soldiers who had died or fought in the First World War […]
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Hurstbridge Lads
This postcard size studio portrait (cropped here) of Hurstbridge locals Stanley and Allan Verso was sent home to their family in March 1918. Both brothers had worked as orchardists on the family property Versdale in Boyd’s Road before enlisting in 1916. Both survived the war and were awarded the Victory Medal, the British War Medal […]
Diamond Valley Parish of the Uniting Church in Australia
The Diamond Valley Parish of the Uniting Church began as an outpost of the Heidelberg Primitive Methodist Mission over 150 years ago. Worship services commenced in a barn near the site of the present Diamond Creek East Primary School in the spring of 1861. The Primitive Methodist Church originated in nineteenth century England and followed […]
End of the Line
I was in the 7th Coburg Scout group which was based beside the public swimming pool in Pascoe Vale. In 1969 or 1970, four of us had to go on a two day hike as part of an achievement award. I can’t remember where the hike started from but by the time we reached our […]
Reminiscences of Hurstbridge in the 1970’s
Hurstbridge in the 1970’s was a small town which felt a little bit ‘separate’ and different from the creeping urban sprawl for a number of reasons. People were attracted to the area in the move to ‘the land’ as the ‘back to earthers’ moved into farm houses and rental cottages in the area. These properties […]
Princes Bridge to Hurst’s Bridge
The story of the Hurstbridge railway, with its strange and disjointed origins linked to the “railwaymania” of the 1880s, has much of interest to social, local and railway historians Oddly, the first section of it to open to traffic was completely isolated from the rest of the rail network. When the railway to Heidelberg was opened, at […]
Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940 – 1953 – Part 3
Continued from Living in a Brunswick 1940 – 1953 terrace Part 1 Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940 – 1953 Part 2 My Mate Joe After starting work in 1948 I continued hanging out and holidaying with my school mate Joe for some years until the end of my bachelor days. This is Joe and […]
Henry Hurst
Article originally titled: Murder of Henry Hurst by Burke the Bushranger At about 8 o’clock in the morning of Thursday 4th October 1866, a stranger with a poncho on his arm was seen walking towards the house at Hurst’s station on the Diamond Creek. He was the bushranger Robert Burke who on the previous Tuesday […]
Friends of Darrabi Aboriginal Native Food Garden
Friends of Darrabi are a volunteer group of parents and others who are working with Hurstbridge Primary School and the local community to: *help every child at Hurstbridge to put in and look after their plant *maintain and grow the Darrabi Native Food & Reconciliation Garden *conserve and rehabilitate the surrounding native bushland *protect and […]