December 1987 Melbourne Herald newspaper editorial by Caroline Wilson on Norwood High School's success in Lord's Taverners Champion School Cricket Competition.The North Ringwood (Norwood) school ... fostered the likes of Paul Salmon and Geoff Parker.

October 1987 local newspaper report on students' Social Service Week fundraising of $750 towards the cost of a wheelchair for Lionsbrae Elderly Citizens Hostel in Ringwood.Photo caption: Norwood High students Kristan Renkema, Andrew Strachan, Sonja Simunkovic and David Mendoza present a wheelchair to Mrs Doris Anderson.

October 1987 local newspaper report on year 7 students' staging of "mini Olympics" activities as part of history studies on ancient Greece.

August 1987 local newspaper report covering selection of year 10 student Josephine Wright to spend three months at the beginning of 1988 in France as part of Norwood High School's exchange program with foreign student participants from USA, Brazil, Switzerland, Norway and Japan.

August 1987 local newspaper report with photograph of new relieving principal, Mr Ian Macfarlane, and Mr Stan Cousens who has retired.Mr Macfarlane hopes that the appointment will be confirmed by the school council next year. The deputy principal for the past 20 years, Mr Cousens, retired on Friday after 42 years.

February 1987 local newspaper report covering address to school community by Principal, Mr Lou Toscano, regarding student expectations and social pressures.

Soft cover school magazine showing alternative covers - "Wicked Witch" and "Good Witch" editions. Winter supplement attached "Looking back on Semester One".non-fiction

Twelve-page booklet including photographs and performance dates throughout August (1987), with full list of performers and production personnel.Presentation by arrangement with Chappell & Co. (Aust.) P/L, music & lyrics by Richard Adler & Jerry Ross, book by George Abbot & Richard Bissell.

Brief 1987 report covering the Lord Taveners Champion School Cricket Competition - best Victorian schoolboy cricket team award won by Norwood, trophy presented to David Mendoza, team captain.

Order of proceedings, with names of School Captains, Prefects, House Captains, and SRC representatives.Special Guests - Mayor and Mayoress of Ringwood, Cr. J. Caffyn and Mrs. Caffyn, General Manager, Eastern Metropolital Region, Mr. Peter Cutter, President of School Council, Mr. Max Williams.

Programme, sample invitation, newspaper clippings and photograph relating to the official opening of the school's administration building, staff offices and common room.Newspaper clipping extract: "The Minister for Education, Ms Hogg, has officially opened the Norwood High School - 30 years after it started teaching students. The Minister was about to open the School;s new administration block, completed at a cost of $830,000, when she discovered the school had never been officially opened."

Ticket to Bush Dance held in the school hall on Saturday, 4th June, 1988.

2-page information sheet outlining 1988 school carriculum, student opportunities and associated activities.Enrolments are increasing and this year more than 1018 students attend Norwood. Further information available through School Prospectus, Year Level Handbook, or interview with the Principal and staff. Principal: Mr. Ian Macfarlane, B.A., B.Ed. School Council President: Mr. Max Williams.

Foolscap manilla folder containing double-sided flyer advertising residential subdivision development, including outline of local facilities and services, with locality map and layout of Monterey Park streets. Subdivision includes Parkwood High School, Tortice Drive, Heape Way, Appleberry Place, Stringybark Court, Conifer Court, Crawley Grove, Monterey Close (later Monterey Place), Lucy Place, Middlebrook Drive, Gahnia Close, Glanfield Court, Cone Close, Jull Parade, Pinus Close (later Pinetree Court), Radiata Close, Old Warrandyte Road, and entry from Warrandyte Road. Vendor - Jennings Industries Limited, 690 Springvale Road, Mulgrave, 3170, Phone 5618000. A4 enclosures with tables showing each allotment List Price, Builders Price, Cash Price and Terms Price. Information page headed "Form of Restrictive Covenant to be incorporated in Transfer" specific to Certificates of Title. Restrictive Covenant (summary): (Name/s) "... will not erect or construct or cause to be erected or constructed on the land hereby transferred (a) Any front boundary fence, other than a fence which does not exceed one metre in height unless the same is set back as least 1.5 metres from the front boundary and the same is effectively screened from that boundary by the planting of trees, shrubs or plants. (b) Any side boundary fence other than a fence which is set back at least 1.5 metres from the front boundary on which does not exceed 1 metre in height within 1.5 metres of the front boundary. (c) For a period of 5 years from the date hereof, any building on the said land unless and until the Plans and Specifications thereof have first been approved by the said Residential Developments Pty. Limited. (d) For a period of 2 years from the date hereof whilst the said land remains vacant any Signboard or Notice advertising the sale of the said lot or any other lot. These covenants shall appear on the Certificate of Title to issue for the said land and run with the land."

Vassilieff dynamited rock from his own property to build his house. Stonygrad is reminiscent of a grotto and in parts, of a sculpture. Covered under Heritage Overlay, Nillumbik Planning Scheme. Published: Nillumbik Now and Then /​ Marguerite Marshall 2008; photographs Alan King with Marguerite Marshall.; p135 Stonygrad, the home built by Expressionist painter and sculptor Danila Vassilieff, is reminiscent of a grotto and in parts, of a sculpture. Vassilieff, who amongst others influenced painter Sydney Nolan and Albert Tucker, was a member of the artists group the Angry Penguins. He was also a highly regarded art teacher at the nearby Koornong Experimental School and taught at Eltham High School. Art critic Robert Hughes described Vassilieff’s painting as ‘lyrical without social commentary’, and said Vassilieff was ‘the most oddly neglected artist in recent Australian History’. Vassilieff, who was born in 1897 in Russia, had an unusually adventurous life before he settled in Warrandyte. The 12th of 18 children, he lived on a farm in the Don Basin. Vassilieff trained with the Imperial Military Academy at St Petersburg and fought in World War One as an officer in the White Russian Army against the communists. In 1920 he was captured, then escaped from prison, stole a horse and rode bareback 150 miles to the Black Sea, helped at first by Tartar freebooters. He then travelled to India, Shanghai and arrived in Queensland as a refugee in 1923 where he began painting. He and his wife Anisia bought a sugar farm near Ingram, and later he constructed railway lines at Mataranka, in the Northern Territory.4 In 1929 Vassilieff went to Brazil for formal art training from former fellow-officer Dmitri Ismailovich, but he soon left to travel up the Amazon River. He then worked as a sidewalk artist in the West Indies and travelled for two years in England, France and Spain. In 1937 he arrived in Melbourne where he lived until his death in 1958. His first major Australian series was the Carlton streetscapes and from 1951 he sculpted in local hard limestone. Vassilieff rejected all dogma and regarded religious subjects as suitable only for decorative arts. In 1944 he helped defeat a communist attempt to take over the Contemporary Art Society. For a short time, from around 1955, Vassilieff taught at various Victorian schools. The Angry Penguins painted mainly between 1937 and 1947, and included Arthur Boyd, Albert Tucker, Sidney Nolan and Joy Hester. The group formed as they felt isolated from European thought and art (including Surrealism) from which their work was derived. They were also angry at what they considered to be the complacency and insularity of their society. They maintained Australians at first were scarcely aware of the threats of the Wall Street Crash and Hitler and were little interested in the Spanish Civil War. The Angry Penguins also objected to the White Australia Policy. Hughes said although most of the Melbourne Expressionists in the 1940s were unskilled and their work crude in style, they helped jolt Australian painting from its pastoral complacency. Their style influenced nearly every painting produced by significant figurative artists in Melbourne in the 1950s such as Charles Blackman. From 1939 Vassilieff built Stonygrad, mainly with local stone. The house stands at the end of a private road surrounded by trees with the quiet occasionally broken by the sounds of bellbirds. To build his house Vassilieff dynamited rock and cut trees from his own property. The original section of the three-level house is of irregular-shaped pieces of solid stone, exposed inside like the exterior. Vassilieff later built sections with timber and brick. Inside is rustic and cave-like, and several rooms are linked by arched openings with no doors. One undulating wall was carved out of rock from which two sculptured heads protrude. Several ceilings are of rough-hewn logs and the built-in table and bookcase are rough, as is a timber ladder leading to a bedroom. Not for the elderly or unsteady! Yet the general impression in the muted light is beautiful, with artistic originality.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, danila vassilieff, hamilton road, north warrandyte, stonygrad