This land in Greensborough was owned by Jonah Britnell and then William Poulter however the orchardists Robert and Emmett Whatmough leased the land for many years and lived on the property for a while hence the name. The Partington family took possession of the property in about 1946 and replaced an existing building with a […]
Tag: Parks
Eltham Lower Park
Prior to the extension of European people into the lands of the Nillum-bik in the late 1830s the Wurundjeri people had been meeting for thousands of years at the junction of the Diamond Creek with the Yarra River, in the area now known as Eltham Lower Park. The first European settlers were squatters or leaseholders. […]
My life in Reservoir
I left Italy by plane on the 21st of April 1962 and arrived in Melbourne Australia on the 23rd of April. I stayed with my aunty at 38 Campbell Street in East Coburg, for 5 months before I got married on the 22nd of September the same year. We had our honeymoon in Sydney for […]