A prime piece of real estate in Noel Street, Ivanhoe (now part of Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School) was donated to the Ivanhoe Presbyterian Church by Mr R. W. Kennedy of “Ravenswood”, Lower Heidelberg Road in December 1914. It was “of sufficiently large dimensions to serve the cause for all time”. The church which was founded […]
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Memoirs of Early Ivanhoe
The following article was published by the Heidelberg Historical Society in one of their early newsletters in the late 1960’s. Samuel Grey King who came to Australia early in the 1850’s and founded the business of King, King & Co. – importers of Errol St., Nth Melbourne – was my grandfather. On the 31st […]
Ivanhoe War Memorial
In August 1914, Len Everitt, aged 20 became the pride of the Heidelberg Shire when he won the five mile handicap race at the local athletes’ meet. In 1915 he was still the pride of Heidelberg. Quarter-Master Sgt Len Everitt became the first Heidelberg man to be killed in what was to become known as […]
Great Uncle Frank and the Great War
by Marian MacNally Private Francis Harrup Northey has garnered the sort of attention from my family that other relatives never could, as his real fate was never entirely certain. There were niceties that prevented us talking about him with his immediate family, and the fact that people who lived through the war years and grief […]
Last Survivor of the 14th Battalion
Maurice Gerald “Gerry” Hevey, one of the last surviving members of Jacka’s Mob – the 14th Battalion, Ist A.I.F. and pioneer archer passed away in Ivanhoe, Victoria on Tuesday 21 June 1994. He was aged 95 years. As a young man Gerry had been very keen to join the fight. “I, like many others, went […]
Story of a Chalice
First published as The Story of the Chalice Heidelberg Historian (Heidelberg Historical Society) October 1994 On 25 August 1994, a special service in the Ivanhoe Grammar School Chapel was the occasion of the presentation of an historical chalice by members of the 2/14th Battalion Association. The story of the chalice was provided in the order […]
Women were there too
Olive’s story: women were there too – Olive Haynes (Dooley) By Liz Pidgeon ‘I am so glad I brought my gramophone that was given to me. The men simply love it, and I have to promise it days ahead to the different huts and tents. They start it going the minute they awake, and never stop until they have to. […]
World War 1 : Sister Olive Lilian Creswell Haynes
The discovery of Sister Olive Haynes’ post-war connection is largely based on Women Were There, Too, one of the contributions written by Liz Pidgeon for “Fine Spirit and Pluck”, an anthology of WW1 stories from Banyule, Nillumbik and Whittlesea, published 2016 by Yarra Plenty Regional Library). Sister Haynes re-entered the spotlight as a result of […]
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 […]
The thriving Darebin shopping centre in the 1940s
In the 1940s the small group of shops clustered around the Darebin Station on Heidelberg Road was a thriving shopping centre, in the days of one car and no car families. The trek to the Ivanhoe shops from the Fairy Hills-Darebin area was a major exercise up the hill and beyond – especially for people […]