This article is based on an interview conducted by a Council staff member, with a resident of Glenroy who has given her personal experiences, stories and anecdotes on growing up in New South Wales, moving to the Moreland municipality and having a passion and talent for the arts and crafts. These are personal reminiscences. Growing […]
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Aborigines in Moreland
Aborigines History of Moreland Fact Sheet 1: Aborigines Background The Woiworung people occupied 12,000 square kilometres in Victoria and it is estimated there were about 1700 of them in the years before white settlement divided into four clans (land-owning groups). For most of the year, the Woiworung lived in groups of between twenty and fifty […]
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 […]
William John Symons: WW 1 Victoria Cross Winner
Born on 10th of July 1889 in Eaglehawk, Victoria to William Sampson Symons and his wife Mary Emma (ne: Manning). William was the eldest of five boys and lived with his family in Eaglehawk until his father passed away in 1904 at which point Mary moved the family to the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick. After […]
City of Moreland
The City Of Moreland covers an area of 51 square kilometres; the Merri Creek is the eastern boundary, the Moonee Ponds Creek being the western boundary. It is bounded by Park Street in the south and the Western ring road in the north. It consists of the suburbs of Brunswick, Brunswick East, Brunswick West, Coburg, […]
Pentridge Prison
As a result of a greatly increased crime rate in Victoria due to the gold rush, the government decided to establish a number of penal stockades and also make use of abandoned ships. One of these stockades was set up at Pentridge (the old name for Coburg) to receive, in December 1850, sixteen prisoners from […]