Merri Creek is one of five major north-south flowing tributaries of the Yarra River, flowing perennially from its source in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range to its junction with the Yarra River in present day Collingwood, just east of Dights Falls. The creek is approximately 60 kilometres in length, the lower 20 of […]
Tag: Northcote
The Northcote Inebriates Retreat
Would many of the thousands of students, teachers and staff of Northcote High School ever have realised their every-day activities at the school were conducted on the former site of Melbourne’s largest institution for treating alcoholism? The Northcote Inebriate Asylum (a.k.a. the Northcote Inebriate’s Retreat) was originally a private organisation opened by Dr. Charles McCarthy […]
Joseph Alexander Fogg (1892 – 1970)
Joe Fogg started out his working life making felt hats until he began a change of career and started work at Northcote Swimming Baths. He became Manager of the Baths and remained in the job for 40 years, retiring at the age of 78 when the pool was closed and replaced by a new pool […]
World War 1 Casualty : William Michael McDonald (Preston)
From 12 Regent-street, Preston, McDonald was alternatively listed as an agricultural student and a cheese-maker on embarkation. Somewhat unique in our archives in that he served in Egypt and Palestine with the Camel Corps rather than a Light Horse unit, McDonald died in the 14 General Hospital, Cairo on 8 May, 1917 from a septic haemorrhage […]
World War 1 Casualty : Nurse Amy Vera O’Grady
Nurse Amy Vera O’Grady (Roman Catholic Presbytery, Clifton Grove, Preston) Nurse Amy O’Grady was one of around a dozen women from Darebin that served in the Medical Corps, and the first of just two that died, in her case of cholera in the Sisters Isolation Hospital, Calaba, Bombay There were around a dozen local nurses […]
George Alexander – Northcote’s First International Sportsman
The Preston Leader (and Melbourne newspapers) noted the death in a private hospital in Richmond on November 6, 1930 at 78 years of age of George Alexander, describing him as “a resident of Northcote for over 60 years” and living at ‘Terracedale’, 3 McLachlan Street at the time of his demise. (Preston Leader, 13 November, […]
Shadows On The Screen
—Bullant 17:59, 22 September 2011 (EST) The author did not identify himself by name but is easily identifiable as William McIntosh, the son of Andrew McIntosh, a long serving councillor and prominent baker in High Street. As the article reveals, William and his great friend James Morris were stalwarts of the cricket club and although […]
World War 1 Casualty : William George Vincent Williams (Australia’s First Fatality)
Few will be aware that the first Australian casualty of the Great War on 1914 was William George Vincent Williams from 36 Beavers Road, Northcote. Williams had spent five years in the Naval Reserve and had just a week left to serve out his time when war was declared and he was commanded into full […]
World War 1 Casualty : William Wailes (Preston and Epping)
William Wailes served as 3952, Private, 23rd Infantry and was 23 years of age when killed in action at Lagnicourt, France on 20 March, 1917. His military career was unexceptional – perhaps one or two more run-ins with officialdom than the norm – but he was unusual in that he was one of five brothers […]
World War 1 Casualty : Francis Joseph Tarrant (Northcote)
(The image shows the Commanding Officers and Officers of No. 3 Squadron, pictured in 1917. Tarrant is on the far right of the back row.) Frank Tarrant from 135 Westgarth Street, Northcote was one in our files that served the country outside of the A.I.F. and just one or two that died as a result […]