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What’s In A Name : Preston (or Irishtown?)

The Preston area from today’s Dundas Street north to the borders of today’s City of Whittlesea was divided by the New South Wales Government into 12 estates ranging from 312 to 1065 acres and sold at...

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ReCollection – Rock ‘n’ roll, cars and happily ever after

Edited transcript of interview with Heather Cox. When I started to go with John, I wasn’t quite seventeen. It was at the beginning of Rock’n’Roll and all those sorts of things, when the music was...

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Migration stories – Glenroy conversation club

Since February of 2017, an English Conversation Club has been meeting at the Glenroy Library as a part of the ‘Libraries After Dark’ project. In June of 2019, the attending members shared their...

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Melbourne’s Infancy and Growth: Heidelberg

The Argus, 6 December, 1884 “Heidelberg, which will be the last suburb dealt with in these articles, is eight miles north-east from Melbourne. It has been said that, next to Melbourne, this township is...

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Ivanhoe Presbyterian Church

A prime piece of real estate in Noel Street, Ivanhoe (now part of Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School) was donated to the Ivanhoe Presbyerian Church by Mr R. W. Kennedy of “Ravenswood”, Lower Heidelberg...

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2nd Eltham Sea Scouts

The 2nd Eltham Sea Scout Group has been an important part of our community for 62 years. Our youth members are aged 6—25 and cover all sections: Joeys, Cubs, Scouts, Venturers and Rovers. The term...

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Len Young Woolshed

Most of this building was 140 years old in 1996 – built in 1856 as a Wesleyan Methodist Church on land owned by a Mr King of Bridge Inn Road, Separation – an area near Bob’s Hill, west of Mernda. For...

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Wollert District Youth Club

Transcribed from hand written notes on four pages by Mr Geoffrey Howell in 1970.  Donated to City of Whittlesea and forwarded to Yarra Plenty Regional Library by Sandra Scott (nee Scurlock) April...

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Busy Bee Quilt

In 2019, early 2020, Heidelberg Historical Society held their very successful exhibition on Heidelberg’s Busy Bee Signature Quilt. Constructed in 1895-6 by members of Heidelberg’s Scots Church as a...

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Was the 1839 arrival of the David Clark “Victoria’s Mayflower”?

The October 1839 arrival of the David Clark brought the first British assisted immigrants direct to the Port Phillip District. Speaking at a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the arrival, a...

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