In 1932 Margaret Williams became a Brownie at 1st Elsternwick Brownies Pack, on the Hotham Street corner, meeting on Saturday afternoons. With three younger brothers, her mother had enrolled her in this all-girls’ activity. Margaret progressed into Girl Guides and joined the 1st Elsternwick Guides Company in 1935 until her family moved to 63 Altona […]
Tag: Reminscences
Memoirs of Early Ivanhoe
The following article was published by the Heidelberg Historical Society in one of their early newsletters in the late 1960’s. Samuel Grey King who came to Australia early in the 1850’s and founded the business of King, King & Co. – importers of Errol St., Nth Melbourne – was my grandfather. On the 31st […]
Brendan Casey – Merri Creek at Fawkner
Friends of Merri Creek have been conducting oral history interviews with residents who have lived on the Creek before 1970. The interviews form the Merri Creek Oral History Project. This is an interview with Brendan Casey who lived near the Merri Creek in Lovely Street Fawkner in his youth. The interviewer is Des Shiel. The date […]
Arthur (Mick) Graham – Merri Creek at Clifton Hill
Friends of Merri Creek have been conducting oral history interviews with residents who have lived on the Creek before 1970. The interviews form the Merri Creek Oral History Project. This is an interview with Arthur (Mick) Graham who is a long term resident near the Merri Creek in Clifton Hill. The interviewer is Des Shiel and […]
Pauline Atkins – Merri Creek at West Preston
Friends of Merri Creek have been conducting oral history interviews with residents who have lived on the Creek before 1970. The interviews form the Merri Creek Oral History Project. This is an interview with Pauline Atkins, who lived on the Oakover Estate, West Preston, from the 1930’s to the 1950’s. The interviewer is Des Shiel, and […]
Family Secrets: the last hangman in England
My name is Ann Marie Johnson and I have just relocated from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland where I have lived for the past 10 years. My husband and I returned to Victoria in November 2012 and have just moved into our new home in Doreen. I have been teaching genealogy for the past 10 years […]
The impact of Black Saturday from a safe house in Diamond Creek
I arrived home from work, on Saturday February 7, at midday. On my way home I noticed that the temperature was already 40 degrees and that it was extremely windy. I once lived in St Andrews for eight years and I was a member of the local fire brigade. I learnt so much about bushfire behaviour […]
Growing up in Pascoe Vale
I started school at the Catholic school in Kensington and soon after we moved to Pascoe Vale. That would have been about 1940 or 1941. I started at Pascoe Vale Primary School then all the Catholic children transferred to Blessed Oliver Plunckett’s. We spent many years in Ray Street, Pascoe Vale. Most people in the […]
Living in a Brunswick terrace 1940 – 1953 – Part 1
Part 1 By Kevin in Diamond Creek – the following reminiscences are not necessarily in chronological order. In 1940 we moved to a terrace in Donald Street, North Brunswick. It was a house from another time with a remnant gaslight fitting in one room, and at the end of the yard was a pull the chain […]