BHS CollectionBendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from Monday, May 19, 2003. Winners: loddon Valley League football team and officials who beat the Bendigo Association team by four points in a night match at the Bendigo Showgrounds in 1951. Back row from left: D.L. Twigg, A.R. Collins, Ed Harrison, Don Collins, Don Curnick, Lester Haeberle, Charl Catto, Trevor Hayes, Cam Higgs, Charlie Sutton, Bob O'Sullivan, W. Graham. Middle row: Max Perry, P.A. Smith, Jack Allen, Dick Winter, Merv Mason, Keith Hunt, Harry Pettifer, Eric Rothacker. Front row: J. Dunne, Keith Perry, Kevin Stuart, Pere Trower, Keith Graham, Arthur Lacey, Wally Nelson, Arthur Harrison. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

Set of 9 postcard, document or images framed with a wooden frame at the time of the "Presentation of an Essay to the Department of Transport Victoria, March 1994". Has a white backing for postcards and photos, approx. 145 x 100. Items have been placed it appears on an under backing. Glazed, craftwood backing secured with staples into the frame. On the rear has a printed label with a red border on white paper with the number "27" in black. From Top left to bottom right: , Postcard of Swanston St with St Pauls, Note about the presentation and the work undertaken by Jack Cranston, Postcard of Queens Bridge Melbourne, looking north from the south side of the Yarra, Postcard of Flinders St, Photo of Jack Cranston with Minister for Transport, Alan Brown MP, Postcard of Collins St Melbourne, Photo of presentation party - Jack Cranston, Con O'Carroll, Robert Wilson, Graham Jones, Robert Green, John Keating and Alan Brown., Photo of Alan Brown, Jack Cranston and Kim Wells holding the Plans and Sections folder (see Reg Item 583)., Photo of Alan Brown and Jack Cranston.trams, tramways, cable trams, horse trams, mto co, melbourne

Alistair Knox Park, an oasis of peace and beauty. Covered under National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Landscape Significance and Heritage Overlay, Nillumbik Planning Scheme. Published: Nillumbik Now and Then /​ Marguerite Marshall 2008; photographs Alan King with Marguerite Marshall.; p173 It is hard to imagine that the Alistair Knox Park, an oasis of peace and beauty beside busy Main Road, Eltham, was once the township’s rubbish dump. It was only in the 1970s that the tip was transformed into this beautiful six hectare space, which later earned it a National Trust Landscape classification. Before its life as a dump, the area was used for small farms. Thanks largely to the foresight and efforts of local environmental builder Alistair Knox, the park was designed sympathetically with the character of the wider Eltham landscape. Then, appropriately, the park was named after Knox, who was an Eltham Shire Councillor from 1971 to 1975 and Shire President in 1975. The park designers were four major forces in the urban bush landscape garden –Knox, landscape designer Gordon Ford, artist Peter Glass and landscaper Ivan Stranger.1 The National Trust citation for the park, originally called Eltham Town Park, includes the Eltham railway trestle bridge and the Shillinglaw Cottage. The citation states ‘the semi-natural setting of the parkland provides a landscape which is evocative of the history of the area’. Manna Gums (Eucalyptus viminalis) and Candlebarks (Eucalyptus rubida) are significant features. Most of the park’s construction was directed by Bob Grant, Superintendent of the Parks and Gardens Department for the Eltham Shire Council. First plantings occurred in Arbour Week in 1973, then the lake and botanic area were completed in 1975, with Federal Government funding, and the toilet block in 1978. Bounded by the Eltham railway line, Panther Place, Main Road, Bridge and Susan Streets, the park is in a valley about a kilometre wide overlooked by steep hills at the east and west. The Diamond Creek flows through it and the picturesque historic timber trestle railway bridge edges the north. Informal plantings of Australian indigenous and native species in open and undulating grassed settings blend with the natural landscape of the Diamond Creek to the west. The bush-style plants, particularly around the creek, balance with open lawns, paths and a cascade flowing from a small lake to another below. A footbridge over the creek leads to the park’s west. The park includes an adventure playground and barbecue areas. The park stands on part of the land bought from the Crown in 1851 by Josiah Holloway, who subdivided it into allotments and which he called Little Eltham. Most of the land was subdivided into residential lots, but the creek valley, on which the park stands, was subdivided into farm-size lots, used mainly for orchards and grazing. One of the earliest owners was John Hicks Petty, who in 1874 bought a plot from Holloway. Other families who owned properties in that area, included Rees, Clark, Waterfall, Graham, Hill and Morant.2 In 1901 the railway was built through the area. Jock Read, an Eltham resident since around 1920, remembers several farms in the 1920s and ’30s that occupied the site of today’s park. A poultry farm, which extended from present day Panther Place, was owned by the Gahan family. Next to that farm was another for grazing cattle owned by Jack Carrucan. Beside this was land owned by John Lyon. A doctor lived beside this, and at the north-west corner of Bridge Street and Main Road stood a memorial to the soldiers who died in World War One, which was later moved to the RSL site. Mr Read also remembers other farms and orchards west of the creek In the early 1960s the Eltham Council began buying these farms and in the late 1960s turned the areas east of the Diamond Creek into a garbage tip. When this was filled above the creek’s flood plain, the tip was moved to the west of the creek.This collection of almost 130 photos about places and people within the Shire of Nillumbik, an urban and rural municipality in Melbourne's north, contributes to an understanding of the history of the Shire. Published in 2008 immediately prior to the Black Saturday bushfires of February 7, 2009, it documents sites that were impacted, and in some cases destroyed by the fires. It includes photographs taken especially for the publication, creating a unique time capsule representing the Shire in the early 21st century. It remains the most recent comprehenesive publication devoted to the Shire's history connecting local residents to the past. nillumbik now and then (marshall-king) collection, alistair knox park, eltham

Gemma Starr Collection: Re: Heritage Council Victoria Submission Former School Site and Avenue of Honour 93 Strickland Road, East Bendigo. Contents: Statement of Cultural Heritage Significance, Overview of Victorian State School's WW1 Efforts, Early History of Bendigo East School and Avenue of Honour, Bendigo East School and Avenue of Honour Site Today, Men Commemorated in Bendigo East's Avenue of Honour, Comparison between Eurak Avenue of Honour Site and Bendigo East School and Avenue of Honour Site, School Avenues Planted before Bendigo East's Avenue, School Avenues Planted on the same Dade as Bendigo East's Avenue, Later School Avenues Mentioned in Heritage Victoria's Report, Final Comments, References, Appendices. Includes copies of original correspondence, newspaper articles and interviews with various people. Avenue of Honour planted 1916, Submission for Heritage Protection prepared 2016. Originally 23 trees planted then additional trees planted to make a total of 31 with plaques honouring 31 soldiers from the district. Brief biographies are listed within the submission for each soldier. The school merged with Weeroona College, and the doors closed on East Bendigo State School December 1998. Names associated with Submission: Gilbert Dyett, John Hampson, Keith Emmonson, Samuel C. Brittingham (Senior Architect). Joseph William Fairbanks (Building Contractor), Randall Jones, Stanley Symes. Jack Whitting, Mr. Phillips (Head Master 1916), Mr. Graham Parker (Last Principal), Mr. Donald Campbell (Principal)bendigo east state school, anzac, avenue of honour, heritage submission