The railway is located amidst a natural bushland setting, along the banks of the Diamond Creek in the Eltham Lower Park, Eltham, Victoria. It is a popular tourist attraction in Eltham especially for families. Trains include scaled diesel locomotives and real miniature steam engines, suburban red rattlers and sugar cane trains. The railway operates between […]
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Panton Hill Primary School Honour Board
Information for the following article from local historian Danielle Clode with permission. In 2008 the World War 1 Honour Board located at Panton Hill Primary School was refurbished. (From grant funding received under the Restoring Community War Memorials Grants Program 2006-7). Part of this project was a research project into the names on the board. Some […]
Friends of Darrabi Aboriginal Native Food Garden
Friends of Darrabi are a volunteer group of parents and others who are working with Hurstbridge Primary School and the local community to: *help every child at Hurstbridge to put in and look after their plant *maintain and grow the Darrabi Native Food & Reconciliation Garden *conserve and rehabilitate the surrounding native bushland *protect and […]
Churinga
One of the most advanced residential centres for mentally handicapped children in Australia, at the time of opening in Greensborough in 1967, the St. John of God centre, Churinga, off Diamond Creek Rd, Greensborough opened in July of that year. The centre was moved from Cheltenham to make way for Southland. It provided residential care […]
Kangaroo Ground Post Offce
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 […]
Arthur’s Creek Mechanics’ Institute and Free Library
The following is an extract from a paper prepared for Mechanics’ Institutes World Conference 2004 by Ken Murphy and Bruce Draper. On the 11 March 1886 a public meeting of persons interested in erecting a hall was held at the Arthur’s Creek School. Present at the meeting were Fred Simms, H. Plant, Angus McDonald, Owen […]
Sutherland Homes for Children
The first part of the following article is extracted from the booklet: “Selina M Sutherland – Her Life Story and Work” by J C Jessop and contributed by Neisha Forbes Plenty Historical Society Miss Selina Sutherland was the significant person who set up the Sutherland Homes for Children, prior to the organization moving out to […]
Worlingworth
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 now – in a 500 word anecdote. The original title of this article was: “The story of Worlingworth” The property known as […]
Eltham Barrel restaurant
The Eltham Barrel restaurant was situated off Main Road, Eltham towards Research. The barrel shaped building was constructed in the late 1960s. It was claimed to be the biggest barrel in the world at the time according to a now deleted article on Wikipedia. It had a capacity to hold over 8 million litres. Built […]