Amongst other things, Baraka Emmy is employed as a casual library officer at Moreland City Libraries. This is a personal account of his journey from the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo to Australia. By Baraka Emmy
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Six decades playing golf in Glenroy
Judy Manning has a storied history of playing golf in Melbourne’s North. Judy’s family first became golfers after her father Stan Williams came home from World War II looking for a sport he could play with one arm. The whole family first played at Royal Park golf course, with Judy taking up the sport at […]
Forza Juve – the role of football in forming community
By Carlo Carli, President, Brunswick Zebras Brunswick Zebras Football Club is a direct descent of the Melbourne Juventus Club. Today it is a large community club based in Sumner Park, Brunswick East. After starting out as an Italian club, it is now an all-inclusive club, with male and female teams and with players from diverse cultural and […]
The Brunswick U13 Dragons’ 2013 premiership season
The following is a personal recollection of the Brunswick U13 Dragons’ 2013 premiership winning season in the Yarra Junior Football League. This is an edited version of an article by Director of Coaching Trevor Ludeman that was originally published in the Brunswick Junior Football Club 2013 Annual Report. The old adage in Amateur Football is […]
Coburg General Cemetery : At War
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission lists 176 World War One servicemen and women as being buried in Coburg General Cemetery in Bell Street (or now the Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery to use the official Commission designation). The Cemetery appears to have been the preferred place of burial for many of those that died while in […]
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 […]
Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940-1953 – part 4
Continued from Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940-1953 – part 1 Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940-1953 – part 2 Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940-1953 – part 3 Earning an extra quid After weathering the 1930’s depression, my father always taught me to try for that “extra quid”, and save for the rainy day. […]
The Coburg Bluestone Cottage
The Coburg Bluestone Cottage The Bluestone Cottage at 82 Bell Street Coburg was built in 1864. James Smith and his wife, Maria came from Ireland as assisted immigrants to Victoria in 1852. They landed at Portland and he was employed as a farm labourer. After a year the family moved to the Pentridge district where […]
Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940 – 1953 – Part 2
Living in a Brunswick Terrace part 1 8 year old Kevin in the kitchen One day when home alone, I decided to cook dinner for Mum and Dad. I fried up bacon and eggs using dripping from the jam tin container in the kitchen cupboard which stored dripping saved from other meals. A surprised Mum […]
Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940 – 1953 – Part 1
Part 1 By Kevin in Diamond Creek – the following reminiscences are not necessarily in chronological order. In 1940 we moved to a terrace in Donald Street, North Brunswick. It was a house from another time with a remnant gaslight fitting in one room, and at the end of the yard was a pull the chain […]