What makes your Nillumbik home town/area unique? Who are the characters who have made it so? What sites have significance and why? During 2005 Nillumbik Shire Council and the Literary Reference Group invited members of the community to respond to these questions, to show us the history and flavour of your place – then and […]
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Kangaroo Ground
What makes your Nillumbik home town/area unique? Who are the characters who have made it so? What sites have significance and why? During 2005 Nillumbik Shire Council and the Literary Reference Group invited members of the community to respond to these questions, to show us the history and flavour of your place – then and […]
Eltham Library
Originally titled Nillumbik Library. See also Yarra Plenty Regional Library In the seventies the humble beginnings of the Eltham library was in the redundant red brick Council Chamber building. But behind the scenes, ideas were being thrown around by the people of Eltham, librarians and anyone with an interest in a decent library befitting the […]
Eltham – our special place
We were so young and innocent, Starting life together, We looked at houses day and night, In any sort of weather We got a call to see a house, Prior sale had fallen through, It needed lots of TLC, It was our dream-come-true The serenity of Eltham, Was a pleasure to behold, Life in this […]
Earning an extra quid in Nillumbik
Reproduced here with permission of the author, Kevin. This article first appeared in two parts of the “Nillumbik Custodian” newsletter of the Nillumbik Historical Society Inc. August and November 2008. By the start of the 20th Century the big pastoral runs of first settlement in the Nillumbik area had become small holdings of farms and […]
Horticultural Settlement at Arthurs Creek
At the close of 2012, it [was] 150 years since the arrival of the first selectors to establish a permanent settlement at Arthurs Creek. The selection acts of the 1860s were the result of pressure to unlock the land held by the squatters. The acts encouraged closer settlement and increased agricultural production, by allowing settlers […]
A Child’s memory of Warrandyte
Growing up as a child in Warrandyte during the 1960s was a wonderful time. We had a river frontage property on the Yarra. Koornong Crescent was like a private retreat at the end of a windy, dusty road about a mile and a half north of the village. There were ten houses and twelve properties, […]
Joseph Anderson Panton 1831 – 1913
Panton Hill is named for Jospeh Anderson Panton who in the 1860’s became the Assistant Commissioner of goldfields in Bendigo. He came to Kingstown with troopers to quell trouble between Chinese and European miners, : restored good relations – Goldrush town renamed Panton Hill in 1859 by grateful people. Joseph was born in Knockiemil Aberdeenshire Scotland […]
Eliza Smith (Band) Hotelier of St Andrews
Eliza Knell/Smith came to Australia as Eliza Band in 1854 from St Andrews, Scotland. Eliza lived in St Andrews, formerly known as Queenstown, (Shire of Eltham, County of Evelyn), for over fifty years. Eliza and her family owned the St Andrews Hotel and the Post Office for over sixty years. Eliza was a well respected […]
Jenni Mitchell
Jenni Mitchell grew up in Eltham and has been actively involved in the region for most of her life. She was elected by the community to serve as a Shire Councilor and has been a leader in local conservation and cultural issues within the region. She began painting at the age of ten with private […]