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War

  • Air Raid Protection Services (ARP)

    During the Second World War, municipalities around Australia were expected to take their own precautions...
  • Alfred Hobart Sturdee

    Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Hobart Sturdee served as a surgeon in the 2nd Field Ambulance of the 16th...
  • Australian Army

  • Bruce Kingsbury

    Bruce Kingsbury was born in Armadale in 1918. After working interstate for a while he joined his fathers real...
  • Corporal Henry Rogers

    Corporal Henry Rogers (6 Infantry Battalion) was born in 1917 lived in both North Preston and Reservoir and,...
  • Frank Leslie Lugton

    Frank Leslie Lugton (1893-1916) was a promising young cricketer with the Northcote Cricket Club, a member of...
  • From Cornflakes to Beaufort gun turrets

    The Beaufort was a twin-engine aircraft designed for torpedo or bomb carrying and produced by the Bristol...
  • Joan Clinnick

    I'm now talking with Joan Clinnick of Reservoir. Joan has lived all of her life in Reservoir and in fact...
  • Leslie Alfred Swift

    Private Leslie Alfred Swift (alias William Alfred Smith) of Mitchell Street, Northcote, was just 16 years of...
  • Norman Osborne

    Collingwood born Norman Stanley Osborne served with distinction in both World Wars, achieving the rank of...
  • Normie Rowe

    Norman John Rowe was born on the 1st of February 1947 to Albert (Albie) and Constance (Connie) Rowe. He grew...
  • Northcote's cannons - defending the neighbourhood

    For the last ninety years two cannons have straddled High Street in Westgarth, defending Northcote from...
  • Preston Air Defence HQ

    During the Second World War, Preston Town (City) Hall played an important role in coordinating defence...
  • Preston Cenotaph

    The Preston Cenotaph – a monument built to commemorate deceased persons whose remains lay elsewhere - was...
  • Private Claude Membrey

    Private Claude Membrey (6 Battalion) of Merri Street, Northcote was killed by a sniper at Pozieres in 1916...
  • Richard Pearman Minifie

    Richard Minifie was born in Alphington on 2 February 1898. In 1916 he joined the Royal Navy Air Service...
  • Rodney Breavington

    Howard, Arthur. Northcote’s bravest son : the story of Cpl. Rodney Breavington executed by the Japanese 2nd...
  • Salvation Army

    In 1943, the Mayor, Cr. W.H.Robinson, on behalf of the citizens of Preston, presented a mobile canteen to the...
  • Sargent's Cakes

    Sargent’s Cakes at 40 Edwardes Street Reservoir was established in 1952 by James Percy G. Sargent and his son...
  • The Kellaway family

    Reverend Alfred Charles Kellaway was born in Dorset in September 1856. The family came to Australia at the...
  • Thomas William Thrupp

    Thomas (Tom) William Thrupp was born on 22 September 1903 in Cue, W.A., about 400 km north of Kalgoorlie. He...
  • Vivian Bullwinkel

    Vivian Bullwinkel was born in Kapunda, South Australia on 18 December 1915. After training as a nurse she...
  • William Henry Scott

    William Scott was born in New Zealand on 11 April 1881, before moving to Victoria in 1890.Enlisting in the...
  • William Williams (1886-1914)

    Able Seaman William G.V. Williams, aged 28, an electricity works employee, of Thornbury, was the first...
  • Y.M.C.A. Hostel, Northcote

    In the first decade of the 1900’s George Wardrop - a tailor - bought and lived in a house that stands at what...
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