Local resident, Tom Harrington, Once told me that as a school boy in 1921 he remember a chemical plant in Haley Street Diamond Creek. He did not know what went on there but they used a lot of wood .Tom, it seemed, was the only local who could remember the plant. Some years after this […]
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Plenty Craft Group
The Plenty Craft Group was started after a meeting was called by Mrs. Kath Heard in early 1983, and originally called the Plenty Art and Craft Group. Kath had grandchildren attending the Plenty Primary School at the time and her own children had also attended the school. For the first few years we met at […]
World War One Casualties : The Shire of Eltham
World War One : The Shire of Eltham Update: April 2021 The website mentioned is no longer active,. [admin] Update: January, 2017 The related links below now include an index to Shire of Eltham casualties (currently 126 listed), plus an optional download of the full In Memoriam Roll (significantly larger file size) The original scope […]
Goldmines in Diamond Creek
Diamond Creek today has no visible signs that it was once a busy gold mining township with two major mines on the hill behind our new Op Shop, locally known as “Mine Hill”. Gold was discovered at Diamond Creek in the early 1860’s leading to a tunnel on the south side of “Mine Hill”, at […]
Mud bricks, Pise and character houses
The area of Eltham around Diamond Street to the west of the Diamond Creek is one that contains all of the elements of what is often referred to as the “Eltham Character”. They include the hilly terrain, extensive indigenous tree cover, some unmade streets and a significant proportion of “character houses”, many of which are […]
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 […]
Yarra River
When Melbournians consider the Yarra River, they think of the last few kilometres flowing through the city. But the Yarra is much more than this. It flows 242 kilometres from headwaters to sea – from its source on the flanks of Mt Baw Baw in the Yarra Ranges National Park, north-east of Melbourne, through the Yarra […]
Plenty Memorial Gates
In September 1945, the Federal Government offered funding to municipalities to establish War Memorials in various localities. A local committee of residents (called Plenty War Memorial Community Centre) was formed following a public meeting with the objective of planning an appropriate memorial. In attendance at this public meeting were: Cr W Elwers, Mrs L Elwers, […]
Nillumbik Now and then
The following article outlines the book “Nillumbik Now and Then” by Marguerite Marshall, Pictures Alan King with Marguerite Marshall (Research, Vic. MP Print Publications, 2008) Nillumbik Shire’s history in many ways mirrors that of Australia. Apart from the first people here, the Wurundjeri, this area’s characters and places have included a former convict, Thomas Sweeney, […]
Eltham Railway Trestle Bridge
Mona Bromely was in her early twenties when she first moved to Eltham, after marrying a pioneer to the area, Jack Bromley, who worked as an engineer building the Railway Trestle Bridge at Panther Place, Eltham. Mona is profiled in Celebrating Nillumbik Women 2010. Age 97, she is a resident of Eltham of more than […]