By Kevin in Diamond Creek – the following reminiscences are not necessarily in chronological order. See also Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940 – 1953 part 1 Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940 – 1953 part 2 Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940 – 1953 part 3 Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940 – 1953 […]
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Reminiscences of Hurstbridge in the 1970’s
Hurstbridge in the 1970’s was a small town which felt a little bit ‘separate’ and different from the creeping urban sprawl for a number of reasons. People were attracted to the area in the move to ‘the land’ as the ‘back to earthers’ moved into farm houses and rental cottages in the area. These properties […]
Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940-1953 – part 4
Continued from Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940-1953 – part 1 Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940-1953 – part 2 Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940-1953 – part 3 Earning an extra quid After weathering the 1930’s depression, my father always taught me to try for that “extra quid”, and save for the rainy day. […]
Early days of Thomastown and Lalor
A Sunday School picnic from Thornbury as a child, used to be to either the Presbyterian church at Epping or Whittlesea. Epping road was only bitumen barely wide enough for two cars, with gravel on the sides, and most of the side roads were unmade until 1964. The original (Thomastown) Doctors surgery was a tin […]
Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940 – 1953 – Part 2
Living in a Brunswick Terrace part 1 8 year old Kevin in the kitchen One day when home alone, I decided to cook dinner for Mum and Dad. I fried up bacon and eggs using dripping from the jam tin container in the kitchen cupboard which stored dripping saved from other meals. A surprised Mum […]
Lalor Shopping Centre
The following article was written by Robert Wuchatsch and first appeared in the Hume Gazette in November 1995. The Lalor Shopping Centre began during the 1950s, shortly after the suburb of Lalor was created by ex-servicemen returning from the Second World War. The land on which the Lalor Shopping Centre stands was previously owned by […]
Nillumbik’s Fools Gold
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 […]
Holiday at Cockatoo
The following article was contributed following a reminiscences session held at Watsonia library June 2008, on the topic “Holidays”. It was around the year of 1938. I was about 8 years old at the time. We were living in a small rented home in Collingwood and there was very little money. My mother was a […]
Ern and Lil’s homes
The following article came out of a Reminiscence session held at Watsonia Library 10 March 2009 with long time residents Ern and Lil. Compiled by Lynne Siejka Ern told us about his parent’s house. They had bought the Californian Bungalow in 1925 for eight hundred pounds (which was about 5 year’s wages) on Derby Street […]
Elder Street, Greensborough
In 1971 when we moved to Elder St Greensborough to the house that we had built at the East end, the road was unmade. I looked at an old survey map and saw that we were in the original Elder St which was from Henry St down to the creek. In 1971 the street from Henry […]