After earlier connections to Preston shortly after what appears to have been an unsuccessful first marriage, Dr. Mary Ethel Josephine Thornton, nee Cantwell established a further connection to the north and north-eastern suburbs when in 1937 she married Dr. Wilfred Kent Hughes, a prominent Eltham resident for over a decade before moving to Warrandyte circa […]
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Gunner Arthur Hubert Day
Gunner Arthur Hubert Day by Bev Day No. 34336, Gunner Arthur Hubert Day, 3rd Division, Australian Imperial Forces Arthur Hubert, known as Hubert or Hugh, was the elder son of Arthur Joseph (Art) Day and Annie Jordan Cope. His father was the eighth child of Alexander Day and Beata Stratton, and was born at “Chocolyn”, […]
Eltham Library reminscences
As Eltham Library looked forward to its 20th birthday in May 2014, the community were asked to contribute their stories and memories about the library: Staff and borrowers contributed the following: This year the Eltham Library became a temporary refuge centre during the Warrandyte fires. It was Sunday and nothing else was open so many […]
Living in Whipstick Gully in the 1970’s
Whipstick Gully is smack bang in the middle of Warrandyte but in 1970’s once you headed down the Gully it was so quiet, dank and remote,you felt you were in a forest far from anywhere. Warrandyte in 1975 was a smaller village than it is today, and Whipstick Gully had a total of 2 houses […]
A Child’s memory of Warrandyte
Growing up as a child in Warrandyte during the 1960s was a wonderful time. We had a river frontage property on the Yarra. Koornong Crescent was like a private retreat at the end of a windy, dusty road about a mile and a half north of the village. There were ten houses and twelve properties, […]