This file contains nine pages about people related to this property: 1/Copy and pasted eight pages taken from Census Records and Trove items. Articles include the death of Thomas Livingstone Cleland during WWI. Various social notes regarding his family up to 1953. There are articles on the W.J. Mathieson family, who also resided there, as well as residing in Benalla. 2/Print from Trove of an article from the 23/11/1934 edition of The North Eastern Ensign (Benalla, Vic) about the wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs W.J. Mathieson, held at Cumbernauld on 27/10/1934.cumbernauld, thornleigh grange, house names, cleland thomas livingstone, cleland annie, gardeners market, clayton road, ‘hillside’, caulfield, anderson street, cleland sydney, cleland margaret, cleland james, cleland adelaide, cleland robert, cleland bessie adelaide, cleland agnes, cleland lily, cleland alick douglas milkman, cleland aggie, cleland tom h.s. draftsman, cleland kenneth malcolm, cleland ethel, cleland hector, cleland edna may, mathieson w.j., mathieson isabel, burrows f.a. lieut., east st. kilda, hawthorn road, ‘thornleigh grange’, south caulfield progress association, south caulfield junction, caulfield court, jenkins harry, giles alfred, grafton street, elsternwick, dawes john, chloris crescent, st. john’s presbyterian church, mathieson evelyn mary, marks theodore leslie, mathieson kitty, masonic hall, st. george’s road, haverfield frank, haverfield mrs, haverfield robert ross, rynn mary buckley, cyclists, cycling, donald alexander, martin lottie, whitelaw joan, trinity hall, brighton road, gilmore patricia phyllis, brooklyn ave., point nepean road, north road, brighton court, cleland nora, seaview drive, cleland john stuart, mathieson isabella cristina, kalymna grove, mathieson catherine m., tailor, mathieson william james, councillors, social events and activities, births deaths and marriages, anniversaries, world war 1914-18, soldiers

This file contains five items: 1/Two copies of a document titled THE OUTER CIRCLE RAILWAY by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and the Australian Railway Historical Society, Vic div. It details the history of the construction of the Outer Circle Railway and discussed expenses and other factors affecting the construction of the line. Notes compiled by R.K Whitehead, Research and Archives Officer Australian Railway Historical Society Victoria Division. The document includes three maps of the outer circle railway line. 2/Four newspaper articles detailing the history of the Outer Circle Railway Line. They include ten black and white images of various aspects of the railway and three line maps. The first article is titled ‘Rail Link with the Past’. In the COLLINGWOOD COURIER dated 07/10/1970, author unknown. The second article titled ‘Ghost trains of the Outer’ by Kenneth Joachim in the HERALD dated 18/04/1975. The third article is titled ‘Tracks in Time’ by Norman Thompson from NEWS, dated 13/02/1973. The fourth article is titled ‘Our Ghost Railway’ by John Townsley from the HERALD, dated 06/11/1974. 3/A letter from Victorian Railways Chief Estate Officer N.A Wigmore to the Honorary Secretary of the Caulfield Historical Society, dated 19/11/1975 regarding the leasing of land along the Outer Circle Railway Reserve from Dandenong Road to the Hughesdale Station. 4/Two copies of an article titled ‘Outer Circle Railway’ in the CAULFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER undated detailing the history of the outer circle line. The article includes a map of the section of the line in Caulfield. 5/A Photocopy of two images of train line locations on the Outer Circle Line. One on Warrigal Road, looking south from Ashburton dated 1936. The second is of the Black Bridge over Gardiners Creek dated 1935.outer circle railway, normanby road, caulfield station, outer circle line, rosstown junction railway, monash john, caulfield historical society, poath road, deepdene dasher, ashby dasher, dandenong road, gippsy goods, mallee root mercury, outer circle railway reserve, railway lines, railway stations, steam trains

This file contains four items: 1/A black and white photocopy of a letter dated either 07/08/1889 or 09/08/1889, from Robert Lundon to an unidentified recipient discussing an agreement reached between the author – on behalf of the recipient – and Soon Hang Hi in regard, in regards to the allotment known as Webber’s. The agreement is outlined in the letter in what appears to be Chinese characters, and includes the marks of Robert Lundon and Soon Hang Hi. File note from Joy Wu states that the calligraphy is not Mandarin or traditional Chinese. 2/Three sheets of hand-written working notes with information taken from the Victorian Government Gazette on THE ROSSTOWN AND MURRUMBEENA LAND COMPANY LIMITED, THE ROSSTOWN JUNCTION RAILWAY AND PROSPERITY COMPANY LIOMITED, and THE ROSSTOWN JUNCTION, ELSTERNWICK, AND OAKLEIGH RAILWAY COMPANY LIMITED, covering dates between 1887 and 1894. The notes concern meetings and creditors claims relevant to the companies, with reference numbers for the information source. Date and author of the notes are not recorded. 3/A black and white photocopy of the a partial map of the Rosstown Railway and surrounding area, undated. The map includes the names of landholders in the areas of Brighton, Garden Vale and Elsternwick, as well as other railway lines present in the region. 4/A fold-out map and guide of the Rosstown Rail Trail, including a brief general history of Caulfield as well as a more extensive biography of William Murray Ross and the Rosstown Railway. The map marks and describes significant sites along the trail, including photographs of some of these sites, provided by DF Jowett.documents, correspondence, webber’s, lundon robert, chinese characters, ethnic communities, signatures, text, settlements, taxes, fraser john grieves, lovell r.h., price davies, meetings, communication activities, soon hang hi, commercial events and activities, the rosstown and murrumbeena land company limited, victorian government gazette, bulmer richard, parry john, osment henry, shareholders, creditors claims, the rosstown junction railway and property company limited, finch and best, lawyers, the rosstown junction elsternwick and oakleigh railway company limited, cameron w.c., phillips p.d., garden vale, elsternwick, elsternwick railway station, rosstown, rosstown railway, thomas street, bay street, kooyong road, melbourne and brighton railway, hawthorn road, bambra road, caulfield and frankston railway, booran road, grange road, koornang road, murrumbeena road, north road, north road railway station, east brighton railway station, south road, railway routes, railway lines, railways, land transport, murphy j., caulfield, hamilton t.f., dane p., holloway, webb, ailee john, payne t.b., brodie chas, dane john, o’neil h., mccombie john, mcmillane a., smyth c.d., cooper, ebden, landholders, jeffrey j.d., gill j., balcombe a.e., cooper h., mcnab j., white j., sutherland j., greeves a.f.a., newton m.c., chamley f.b., fowler j., inglis p., grant t., stooke j., swanson g., cochrane c., adams e.b., mccombie thas, keyes robert, brighton cemetery, burials grounds and graveyards, war-ein road, were j.b., holland j., mcmahon c., winter t.l.m., dendy henry, mitchell w., jackson s., were j.e., wickham francis dawe, bryant jane, east brighton railway station, railway stations, maps, allotments, land titles, roads and streets, rosstown rail trail, city of glen eira, tourism, trains, tourism information bureaus, tours, pamphlets, elsternwick railway park, oakleigh junction, princes park, ee gunn reserve, packer park, sites, jowett d.f., weickhardt i.g., return to rosstown: railways land sales and sugar beet ventures in caulfield, land sales, walking trails, ross william murray, transport objects, locomotion, walking, cycling, driving, sports, country mansions, people, caulfield john, builders, construction and demolition workers, occupations, careers, professionals, topography, geology, landforms, horticulture, market gardens, primary industry workers, city of caulfield, mood kee, pennington harold, annual general meetings, caulfield town hall, glen eira city council, carnegie, carnegie station, rosstown station, people by circumstance, migrants, sugar beet, sugar beet mill, sugar beet industry, mills, factories, sea beach lines, bent thomas, parliamentary representatives, neville street, miller street, lemann’s swamp reserve, koornang park, cane sugar industry, breweries, rabbit processing plants, health establishments, hospitals, food production establishments, abattoirs, thieves, social problems, vagrants, theft, squatting, financial economics, debt, finance industry, insurance companies, company managers, bentleigh, ross leila, the grange, leila road, wild cherry road, financial trouble, mortgages, gisborne street, archibald street, riddell parade, victoria railways, glen huntly road, clarence street, college street, gladstone parade, parrell street, aileen avenue, seaview street, land subdivisions, dover street, sussex street, landfill, marara road, booran road, woodville avenue, dorothy avenue, ormond park, royal avenue, ormond railway station, oakleigh road, melten avenue, miller street, munro avenue, lord reserve, neerim road, toolambool road, the rosstown hotel, rosanna street, murrumbeena crescent, commercial establishments, the national bank, rosstown road, kangaroo road, poath road, freda street, hughesdale kindergarten, oakleigh council, hughesdale community centre, civic establishments, galbally reserve, plaques, warrigal road, out and about brochures, orion estate

File contains 3 items: 1/Original handwritten notes by Leo J Harrington (VR Melbourne) and T O’Callaghan titled ‘Victorian Railways to ‘62’. Notes include dates of electrification of lines, station openings, valuations, railway station names and their origins. Reference to council minutes regarding request to change the name of Elsternwick station to Caulfield in June 1871. 2/Original newspaper article from ‘The Age’ dated 10/06/1978 by Graeme Davidson titled ‘A case study of Railway politics’. Article refers to a publication called ‘Return to Rosstown, Railway, Land Sales and Sugar Beet ventures in Caulfield’ by D. F. ‘Return to Rosstown’ recounts the story of the Rosstown Junction railway and its creator, William Murray Ross. Tells of Ross’ life since coming to Australia from Liverpool and how he prospered as a land speculator owning large tracts of land in Caulfield, the sugar mill and his plans to operate a railway. 3/Original newspaper article (and image) from ‘Moorabbin Standard’ dated 25/11/1981, titled ‘Centenary train to carry mayors’. Article reports that a special train will run from Spencer Street Station to Mordialloc railway Station on Saturday 19/12/1981 to celebrate the centenary of the railway line to Mordialloc. Story mentions that in 1881, the Caulfield to Mordialloc line was a single track and that passengers can also board the special train at Caulfield Station. Image is of steam train with red ‘tait’ carriages (undated).victorian railways, caulfield, glenhuntly, glen huntly, elsternwick, carnegie, murrumbeena, ormond, steam train, glenhuntly road, glen huntly road, ripponlea, north road, rosstown, rosstown junction railway, ross william murray, railways, trains, south caulfield, grange road, railway stations, mirrambeena, caulfield city council, sugar mill, electrification.

This file contains 5 items about this property: 1/Handwritten notes from titles searches of 18 Elster Avenue complied by Peta Darke dated 29/07/2014 – photocopy 7 pages. 2/Handwritten list of Sands & McDougall entries for 1915 to 1970, and notes to present, compiled by Peta Darke dated 29/07/2014. 3/Photocopy of two pages of the title to the property dated 22/10/1909. Includes plan of subdivision of the area. 4/Photocopies of five advertisements from The Argus relating to the property: 28/08/1918 Land Wanted 12/07/1921 Lost Heifer 26/04/1919 Owner has House For Sale (20 Elster Avenue) 10/05/1919 same – No. 20 For Sale 29/11/1927 M. M. Taylor has Oats and Barley For Sale. 5/Photocopy of photograph of exterior taken by R. Darke circa 1998.elsternwick, gardenvale, elster avenue, robinson charles, caulfield, robinson william henry, robinson george augustus, inglis robert, davies matthew henry, ross william murray, colonial investment and agency company, victorian permanent property investment and building society, calder william anderson, watson john, rosstown junction railway and property company, kooyong road, college street, parnell (muntz) street, lempriere john thomson, thomson william hamilton, collinson william morris, elizabeth street, cumming euphemia, taylor thomas, hill caroline, evans alexander cameron, evans horace, evans gordon lemaitre, roach joyce rubena, evans mary arthur, nallo luigi, nallo joyce, north road, darke richard alexander, darke peta, peile edgar stoddart, corio, darke caroline elizabeth, darke cameron andrew, oswald street, bertram street, taylor m. m., land subdivision, architectural styles, edwardian style, brick houses, teak street, caulfield south

Six items pertaining to Glen Eira Residents Asssociation Inc. 1/Two copies of the minutes of a Committee Meeting of Glen Eira Residents Association Inc., held on 04/12/2001. The minutes cover a range of routine meeting items, as well as the postponed release of the Princes Park Master Plans and the proposed construction of car parks at Caulfield Racecourse. 2/A copy of Glen Eira Residents’ Association Inc.’s 30/05/2003 newsletter, notifying members of matters presently before Glen Eira City Council for purposes of evaluation. Matters include an admonishment to the Council to sort out anomalies between the C25 Amendment (80/20 Plan) and the Melbourne 2030 Plan, the success at convincing the Ministerial panel to adopt GERA’s views regarding the C14 Council Plan for the Caulfield Racecourse, a request for information from the Council regarding the previous year’s rate increase, a request for information from the Council regarding spending on planning for improvements to Princes Park, a call for the Council to improve its consultative procedures, a recommendation that the purpose of Glen Eira News be expanded to the making of suggestions for city improvement, and a notification of the measures implemented to improve the visibility of Caulfield Racecourse’s usability by the public. Includes a black-and-white photograph of Orrong Road, Elsternwick, illustrating what Glen Eira’s roads would look like if lined with trees, which was excluded from Glen Eira News on account of a current prohibition on the making of suggestions for city improvements. 3/Four copies of a booklet entitled ‘A Short Guide to Planning Procedures’, composed 08/2006, which endeavours to explain, as concisely as possible, the methodology by which Glen Eira City Council approves real estate developments and issues planning permits. 4/A booklet containing the minutes of the 05/10/2009 Annual General Meeting of Glen Eira Residents’ Association Inc. Details both routine items and more specific matters of discussion, such as inappropriate charges on the part of the Glen Eira City Council and the proposed inception of a questionnaire to evaluate local residents’ opinion of the Council. 5/A booklet announcing the 07/10/2010 Annual General Meeting of Glen Eira Residents’ Association Inc. at St. John’s Uniting Church, Elsternwick. Front cover details agenda and contains four colour photographs pertaining to public transport (buses, trams, trains) within the city. Interior features president Don Dunstan reflecting on issues relevant to GERA occurring over the preceding twelve months, with an emphasis on the dubious behaviour of the City Council, as well as two colour photographs: one of Dunstan himself and one of traffic at Elsternwick Junction. The rear cover contains the Financial Statement presented to the Meeting. 6Two copies of a printout of an article from the website of Glen Eira Residents’ Association Inc., accessed 19/06/2012, explaining the affects wrought as a result of the implementation of Planning Scheme Amendment C87. Said amendment changes the Planning Scheme protecting neighbourhood character by replacing the previous Significant Character Area (SCA) designation with the new designations of Neighbourhood Character Overlay (NCO) and Design and Development Overlay (DDO). In developing the Amendment, Glen Eira City Council commissioned Planisphere to procure the Planisphere Final Report, in which recommendations regarding the expansion, creation and deletion of SCAs were offered. The article contains a summary of said recommendations.glen eira residents’ association inc., clubs and associations, glen eira, meetings, minutes, campbell jack, dunstan don, marwick geoff, pleydell max, teseriero dominic, robins kevin, princes park, south caulfield, glen eira city council, local government, councillors, brennan martin, victorian local government association (vlga), erlich mayor, project manikato, caulfield racecourse, caulfield racecourse flat, racecourses, parks, car parks, kennedy cr., kennedy norman mr., crown land, glen eira road, rippon lea, c25 plan (80/20), melbourne 2030 plan, c14 council plan, rates, orrong road, elsternwick, trees, station street, caulfield north, neerim road, glenhuntly, glenhuntly park, orrong ward, grossbard cr., martens cr., building permits, delegated planning committee (dpc), steward joy, brohier peter, campbell fliss, scutt alex, ray darren, hannah brian, st. john’s uniting church, mees paul dr., elsternwick club, sandham street, melbourne weekly bayside, glen eira debates, walsh investigation, whelen investigation, forge cheryl cr., whiteside helen mayor, save our suburbs (sos), walsh mary, walsh kevin, french christine, elsternwick junction, planning scheme, planning scheme amendment c87, significant character areas (scas), planisphere final report, oakdene crescent, carnegie, blackwood street, housing diversity areas, urandaline grove, caulfield, normanby road/park crescent, kambrook road, balaclava road, hawthorn road tramway estate, caulfield south, ulupna road, ormond, murray street, prentice street, kambea grove, chestnut street, mcpherson avenue, queens avenue, caulfield east, derby crescent, clarinda street, st. james parade/downshire road, exhibition street, mckinnon, field street, boyd park, murrumbeena, lindsay avenue, lydson street