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During the Second World War, municipalities around Australia were expected to take their own precautions...
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Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Hobart Sturdee served as a surgeon in the 2nd Field Ambulance of the 16th...
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The first known references to the Belmont Hotel were in February 1857 when the Argus ran an articles calling...
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Bruce Kingsbury was born in Armadale in 1918. After working interstate for a while he joined his fathers real...
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In January 1900 Sydney was terrified by an outbreak of bubonic plague. In May a case was reported in...
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The weather in early February 1851 had been uncommonly hot,with the temperature regularly around the mid...
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Reported in the Leader - an accident during the construction of Northcote Picture Theatre:Charles Rattray, a...
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Corporal Henry Rogers (6 Infantry Battalion) was born in 1917 lived in both North Preston and Reservoir and,...
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Once upon a time the highlight of Northcote’s social calendar was the Mayoral Ball hosted annually by the...
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At 11:30am on the morning of 1st June, 1954, an explosion at Northcote Brickworks Company resulted in large...
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Mr F. P. Bird was the electrical engineer appointed by Preston Shire Council on June 17 1913. He surpervised...
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G. A. Groves Timber Mill in Merri parade was destroyed twice in the 20th Century by fire. The first in 1933...
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On the 1 April 1920 the first electric tram lines were opened simultaneously in Preston, Northcote and...
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Frank Leslie Lugton (1893-1916) was a promising young cricketer with the Northcote Cricket Club, a member of...
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The Beaufort was a twin-engine aircraft designed for torpedo or bomb carrying and produced by the Bristol...
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The McCrohan Hat Factory first opened in 1906 on the current site of 159-79 Heidelberg Rd Northcote. They...
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I'm now talking with Joan Clinnick of Reservoir. Joan has lived all of her life in Reservoir and in fact...
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(1888-1956)
John Albert Thomson spent the whole of his career (51 years) working for the City of Northcote,...
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District Coroner, Mr. Candler, was presented with an inquiry into the death of John James Maguire whose body...
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Private Leslie Alfred Swift (alias William Alfred Smith) of Mitchell Street, Northcote, was just 16 years of...
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A most peculiar case was reported in newspapers both locally and around the country during April and May...
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Collingwood born Norman Stanley Osborne served with distinction in both World Wars, achieving the rank of...
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Norman John Rowe was born on the 1st of February 1947 to Albert (Albie) and Constance (Connie) Rowe. He grew...
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Northcote has been through much change from its early beginnings as a township in 1854, to its current status...
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On 27th May, 1855 Northcote was rocked by an earthquake. It cracked walls, sent chimneys tumbling and...
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On May 25th, 1883 the township of Northcote had been created. In celebration the City of Northcote had ten...
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By 1914 the town of Northcote’s population had risen dramatically to over 21,000 people living in 4801...
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Built on the prime land known as James’s paddock and later subdivided as the Bellevue Park Estate, Northcote...
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For the last ninety years two cannons have straddled High Street in Westgarth, defending Northcote from...
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In late October 1912 Percival Brewster aged 7 years, drowned at the Northcote Brickworks. The water's...
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During the Second World War, Preston Town (City) Hall played an important role in coordinating defence...
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The Preston Cenotaph – a monument built to commemorate deceased persons whose remains lay elsewhere - was...
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On 14 July 1926 Preston was proclaimed as a City and a special archway was erected at the southern entrance...
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Private Claude Membrey (6 Battalion) of Merri Street, Northcote was killed by a sniper at Pozieres in 1916...
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Strong ties with Great Britain has led to numerous Royal visits to Australia since Prince Alfred toured in...
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In June, 1912 - a young boy, Eustace Price aged 8 years, accidentally fell 30m into the Northcote Brickworks...
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Richard Minifie was born in Alphington on 2 February 1898. In 1916 he joined the Royal Navy Air Service...
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Floods represent the greatest natural threat to lives and property in Darebin. With the Merri Creek to the...
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Howard, Arthur. Northcote’s bravest son : the story of Cpl. Rodney Breavington executed by the Japanese 2nd...
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In 1943, the Mayor, Cr. W.H.Robinson, on behalf of the citizens of Preston, presented a mobile canteen to the...
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Sargent’s Cakes at 40 Edwardes Street Reservoir was established in 1952 by James Percy G. Sargent and his son...
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Stokes swimming hole was located on the Yarra River near Yarraford Avenue, Alphington. Due to changes in the...
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The original Summerhill Hotel was opened in 1967, built by John Stoddard on the site of Preston Council...
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It's 21st June, 1982 and Arthur and I are going to Strathallan to visit Miss Sylvie Cook, and we're taking an...
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The first glimmers of local government started almost as soon as Northcote and Preston began to be settled....
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In 1947, a crew of seven volunteers from the City of Northcote travelled all the way to Darwin’s disposal...
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Reverend Alfred Charles Kellaway was born in Dorset in September 1856. The family came to Australia at the...
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Thomas (Tom) William Thrupp was born on 22 September 1903 in Cue, W.A., about 400 km north of Kalgoorlie. He...
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Vivian Bullwinkel was born in Kapunda, South Australia on 18 December 1915. After training as a nurse she...
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Schools in the Northcote area were usually not built in anticipation of population growth, but were put off...
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Misses Jessie and Isabel Westgarth opened Westleigh College for the education of young ladies in 1900....
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William Scott was born in New Zealand on 11 April 1881, before moving to Victoria in 1890.Enlisting in the...
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Able Seaman William G.V. Williams, aged 28, an electricity works employee, of Thornbury, was the first...
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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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The first known sighting by early settlers of the Yarra River was by surveyor Charles Grimes in 1803. Grimes...
