Photograph of Bob Maurer and Barry Taylor at Greensborough Tennis Club (mid 1960s).Digital copy of black and white photograph.Photograph is named on back.greensborough tennis club, bob maurer, barry taylor

From caption on back: Photograph of Robert (Bob) Maurer (left) and Barry Keith Taylor, now dec. (right). Greensborough Tennis Club near Plenty River mid 1960s. Barry's parents lived behind the Commercial Bank of Australia in Main Street; Greensborough. He attended Ivanhoe Grammar early 1960s. Very good tennis player.Original photograph of Greensborough Tennis Club players 1960s.Black and white photograph of two men at tennis club.Caption on back of photo.greensborough tennis club, robert maurer, barry keith taylor, rosemary isaacs

Michael Collins, senior tennis player and coach at Greensborough Tennis Club played in the successful Australian team in the Von Cramm Cup in June 2015.News clipping, black text, colour image.michael collins, greensborough tennis club

Article on the formation of the Greensborough Methodist Tennis Club, and a report on the Sunday service. Many old Greensborough pioneers are named.1 p. transcript of original article, downloaded from Trove.The Advertiser Hurstbridge 26th December 1930greensborough methodist church, greensborough methodist tennis club

Online bookings have made access to court hire easier at Karingal Drive Tennis Club GreensboroughNews clipping, black text, colour image.karingal drive tennis club, tennis

Of mice, men & motorways, Diamond Valley Railway, Who runs your home? You or T.V.?, Real adventure playgrounds, The Montessori method, Septic tanks **!!***!!!, Depression, Kinder news, Nillumbik Historical Society, Karingal Tennis Club, Nursing Mothers Association, Parent Australia, From the Council Chamber, Montmorency & District Horticultural Society, This and that.Newsletter, 23 p., illus. and textgreenhills and north greensborough progress association, greenhills, apollo parkways progress association, apollo parkways

Photograph of a function at Plenty Tennis Club 1935. Myrtle McLaughlin is on far right. Part of a collection of photographs owned by Myrtle McLaughlin who was born in Greensborough to John McLaughlin and Rosalie Ellen Whatmough. Digital copy of black and white photograph.plenty tennis club, myrtle mclaughlin

Article on the formation of the Methodist Tennis Club on 26 November 19301 p. textgreensborough methodist church

Report on the annual meeting of the Grace Park Golf Club 1930; a car accident in Greensborough; and, A local tennis tournament.Copy of article from Advertiser (Hurstbridge) 25 April 1930grace park golf club, greensborough

Page 1 Protest Meeting re Lack of Funds from Federal Government means that the Country Roads Board (CRB) cannot help municipalities Reference to newly formed Diamond Valley Chamber of Commerce Bridgeworks on unidentified bridge Diamond Creek wedding- LOTT – STEIN LOCAL newspaper new home in Greensborough Page 2 Mudbricks Eltham Gymkhana (and add page 3) – in aid of war memorial trust Memorial window at St Helena Church Page 3 Annual report for South and North Ridings, incl photo of Dr. Corder Bus Route in Research Hurstbridge Hall Rolls Royse hits out Labor Member At the films – Greensborough, Eltham, Diamond Theatre and Montmorency Theatre, RSL Hall, Page 4 Bus journey between Eltham and Warrandyte (inc photos) Page 5 Article on campaign inviting better local shopping conditions for the DV Public Properties for sale, some with photos in Croydon, Greensborough, Montmorency, Warrandyte including a 5 acre flower farm in Briar Hill with house. Page 6 Article with photo on Eltham butcher Don Dureau (no personal history however) Panton Hill Cricket Club annual dinner Page 7 CWA Diamond Creek branch 5th birthday – Letter to editor referring Cr. Alice Peake and re-subdivision of the City of Heidelberg two yrs ago. Panton Hill Red Cross Page 8 Electric light for Research, Eltham North, Hurstbridge, St Andrews Page 9 Hurstbridge Methodist Community Phone box for Wattle Glen. Page 11 Report on Heidelberg Council Page 12 Pigeon racing DV Tennis association Adds for the following local businesses The Blue Gum (deli meats and cakes) Cnr Pryor and Main Rds Eltham p, 2 Eltham Hotel (inc photo) Main Rd Eltham - p. 2 Eltham Meat Supply – Main Road – p. 2 A & S Davis, (Paint store_ Main Road Eltham – p 4 and 10 Presswells Garage, Main Street, Eltham East – page 4 (and article on page 9 reference to “newly named” Eltham East – Post Office and News Agent J N Burgoyne & Sons (groceries) Main Rd, Eltham – page 6 John Mclean & Son Eltham (Chook Breeder) Eltham – page 7 Eltham Hardware & Timber Co, Main Road Eltham – page 8 I J Thompson Chemist, Eltham – page 8 E L Owen Carrier Dudley St Eltham page 8 Arnetts (bakers) Main St Eltham p. 9 Jean Kimber Florist Hillcrest Ave. Eltham p. 9 J C Rains haberdashery , drapery, school wear – Main road Eltham P. 10 Alistair Knox (joinery) York Street Eltham – p 11 T. R.. Walker Plumber Main rd Eltham – pa 11 John McLean & Sons (supplies for poultry farmers_ Main rd Eltham – p 11 Briar Hill Iceworks Beaconsfield Rd, Briar Hill p. 9 Briar Hill Timber & Trading – page 4 D & E Middleton (Steelworkers) Sherbourne Rd Briar Hill – page 9 and 10 R W Fell Delicatessen Supplies (with photo) Montmorency Eltham Taxi service, Rattray Road (Montmorency) – page 6 Tozer & Whiteway (Grover) Were St Montmorency = p 4 W. Hutchinson (sand, screenings, soil, stone) Rattray Rd Montmorency 0. 7 L & W Stephenson (grocer) Were St Montmorency p.9 M Ricardo painter Elizabeth St (off Looker St) Montmorency back page. Ken Smith Fire Wood Main Road Lower Plenty Hillcrest Dry Cleaners Main road Research p. 11 C Jessop and Co, Greensborough – p. 2 The “Rose Bower” Floral Salon, Main St, Greensborough – p 2. J. D. Baines (Upholsterer) 140 Grimshaw St, Greensborough p. 4 Greensborough and DV Real Estate, Cnr Grimshaw and Main St Greensborough p. 5 Greensborough Hardware p. 6 P. B. Stubley & Son (Chook Breeder and fencing ) Greensborough – page 6 and 11 Vaness Motors Grimshaw St Greensborough page 6 Fred Shaw Motors Main Street Greensborough p. 6 Dennis Hogg electrical contractor McDowell St Greensborough p. 7 D.R Ross (electrician) Main Street Greensborough p. 8 S Page Fencing William St Greensborough p. 11 Greensborough District Bakery – p. 11 Moir and Lott Pty Ltd (Chook Breeder) Hurstbridge – page 7 Hurstbridge Motors Main Street Hurstbridge – page 8 W & U Freeman (Clothing, Footwear , knitting wool and patterns) Main Street Hurstbridge p. 9 Avonlea Diary / Scales Dairy Hurstbridge page 9 A R Saunders car truck farm plant Hurstbridge – page 9 W Saville poultry seller Hurstbirdge – p 11 John R Horton Hurstbridge bakery Hurstbridge p 11 W. F. Burrell Motors 238 Plenty Road Preston (agent for Ferguson mechanised farming) -p 6. Macleod Hardware Between Provlan’s Garage and Macleod railway station p. 7 W S Heard Electrician Macleod -page 8 Sew – Ezt Sewing Machine service – 227 Upper Heidelberg Road, Ivanhoe – p 7 G. W. Middleton (dam and road construction) Diamond Creel -page 9 L R Bassett Pty Ltd (Hire of bulldozer) Diamond Creek p. 10 Warings General Store Diamond Creek p. 9 Davey Jones’ Locker Chinese and English cooking Panton Hill – page 9 The friendly pub – Panton Hill back page T H Fisher dairymen Yarra Glenn p. 10 Local newspaper (complete); 12 pagesnewspaper, local newspapers, diamond valley local

Possible explosion of commercial and retail activity at Greensborough Montmorency Bowling Club Rates Saturation limit When land values are a sore point Garbage Truck service – birds Lonie report on public transport recommended closing Eltham -Hurstbridge link Briar Hill Pre-School – vandalism Bills Up – Timber firm may close – Briar Hill Timber Company Controversy over DV tennis club lights Hurstbridge Primary School pets on parade Eltham District Cubs Yarrambat Plenty Waterworks Trust Plans for indoor pool complex at Hurstbridge Salvation Army Fair Montmorency Primary School Eltham Little Theatre Re-Zone application for shopping centre at Grimshaw St Greensborough 1st Grimshaw Cub pack (photo) Big sketch of and add for Greensborough Hotel p. 36 Green Valley – special section Carl Jensen – spiritualist and healer St Andrews Co-op – painter, potter, leather, woodwork and silver and paintings 10 years on after the introduction of the metric system New release – Diamond Hills Estate Greensborough Sewerage treatment plan Diamond Creek School honours its Olympian – Watsonia Primary School – Ian Campbell triple jump at Moscow Olympics Local newspaper (complete); 80 pagesnewspaper, local newspapers, diamond valley news

The Golden King Mine poppet-head stands at the school’s Yan Yean Road exit gate. Published: Nillumbik Now and Then /​ Marguerite Marshall 2008; photographs Alan King with Marguerite Marshall.; p23 Early Yarambat - Tanck's Corner Its early settlers, who in the 1840s were amongst the first non-Aboriginal people in the area, found life tough as they grazed their sheep and cattle. Yarrambat was then known as Tanck’s Corner or Reynolds Corner, after wood carter, Frederick Tanck, who owned land north of Ironbark Road, at the corner of Yan Yean Road, and Thomas Reynolds, owner of the opposite property. After Reynolds sold his land, the corner became known as Tanck’s Corner. In 1929 the district’s name was changed to Yarrambat, believed to mean ‘high hill’ in the Wurundjeri language. Tanck’s Corner was in the centre of gold-bearing country and the district is honeycombed with old tunnels and shafts. However although gold played a dominant role for decades, there was insufficient to develop a substantial township. Meat and agricultural produce made a greater impact. Until the mid-20th century the only substantial building was the primary school. The first gold rush occurred around 1860, the second after 1900; then during the Depression, the Government paid men to pan for gold. The first rush attracted hundreds of Chinese people to Smugglers Gully, who constructed round diggings to keep away spirits. Alluvial miners lived along the Plenty River in tents or humpies - some fenced with gardens - and some miners distilled their own ‘plonk’. It was a wild time and bushrangers - and later gangster Squizzy Taylor - were said to hide4 in the old Pioneer Tunnel in Dunne’s Gully between Heard Avenue and Pioneer Road. Mines opposite Tanck’s Corner included Beer’s Line, Golden Crown and Golden Stairs. Some of the big mines had batteries and stampers to process quartz. At first there was plenty of alluvial gold, as much as two ounces to the ton. At times gold was exposed after heavy rains so fossickers panned for gold around orchard irrigation trenches. Gold was mined until 1984 when Yarrambat’s last operating goldmine, the Golden King Mine, in North Oatlands Road, closed. The Clayton family operated it full-time, making a comfortable living and in the 1960s it was the only private family gold mine in Victoria.5 Gold was such an important part of Yarrambat’s history that a gold poppet-head is the Yarrambat Primary School’s logo. The Golden King Mine poppet-head stands at the school’s Yan Yean Road exit gate. However this school was built in 1988. The original school No 2054, at the corner of Ironbark and Yan Yean Roads, was opened in 1878 and modified to its present form in the 1920s. In 2000 it was relocated to the Heritage Museum at Yarrambat Park.7 The school, whose first head teacher was Charles Planner, consisted of one room with a three-roomed residence. The school was also the community centre. On Saturday nights it was crammed for dances or euchre parties, community singing or other social events. On Sundays, services for different denominations took turns each week. However the school had its teething problems. Parents accused Charles Planner of neglecting his duties and the school closed several times. When it closed in 1892, only church services continued. Social activities moved elsewhere, such as the tennis club to the Stuchbery tennis court opposite. A sports day and woodchop on Boxing Day around 1900 was held at the Evelyn Hill Hotel, also called Evelyn Arms and Tunnel Hill Hotel, on the Greensborough–Diamond Creek Road. An annual agricultural show in Diamond Creek paraded through the town, and New Year’s Day picnics at the Yan Yean Reservoir included highland dancing and competitions. Also popular were the Indian hawkers who visited every three months, selling trinkets, clothing and other items. One called Jimmy ‘Allem dem Bedi’, gave presents and told stories, played draughts and sold delicious curries he cooked over his camp fire at night.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, golden king mine, tanck's corner, yarrambat primary school