Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Your Council - 100 years ago - Shire of Berwick

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This is a report form the Dandenong Advertiser of July 1, 1915 about the Shire of Berwick Meeting held on June 19, 1915. What were rate ...
Saturday, 6 June 2015

Duck pond at Fountain Gate Shopping Centre at Narre Warren

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As many of you are aware, the City of Casey is building Bunjil Place at the Fountain Gate Shopping Centre at Narre Warren. This is a 125 mi...
Tuesday, 19 May 2015

That haven under the hills: memoirs of Yallock Village 1928-1940 by Freda Thomas

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The Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp Historical Society has a small booklet written by Freda Thomas about her time spent living in Yallock.  Yallock was ...
Friday, 8 May 2015

General Motors Holden - aerial photographs

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Here are aerial photographs of the General Motors Holden (GMH) plant in Dandenong.  The factory opened in 1956, I don't have an exact da...
Wednesday, 29 April 2015

The Lions of Berwick - Part one

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There are two lions near the War Memorial in the centre of High Street in Berwick, In 2009 Jim Mynard wrote an article in the Pakenham Gazet...
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Monday, 20 April 2015

Victorian Municipal Directory 1974 - City of Berwick

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In the last post we looked at the entry from the 1974 Victorian Municipal Directory for the Shire of Cranbourne. In this post we will look ...
Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Victorian Municipal Directory 1974 - Cranbourne Shire

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Back in the olden days, well the late 1970s, when I did Librarianship at RMIT, we had to study various reference books so we knew where to l...