This book traces the one hundered years of the development of the Shire of Whittlesea, from the discovery by Hume and Hovell in 1824 to the time of the centenary in 1975. The intervening years saw the settlement of Vandemonians, Sydney-siders, English, Scots, Irish and Germans, Black Thursday, the building of the Yan Yean Reservoir, the Plenty River flour millls, the timber industry, fruit-growing and export and vineyards. Personalities and pubs, subdivisions, stories of the Findon Hunt Club and various Shires including Epping. History of education and transiton from rural to urban in the south of the Shire. The work is illustrated with maps and photographs. The Shire is now the City of Whittlesea and is an immediate neighbour to the north of the Shire of Nillumbik. shire of whittlesea

History of St. Albans from 1850 to 1956.A Brief History of St. Albans 1850 - 1956st. albans, hume and hovell, john batman, charles grimes, st. albans primary school, miss couston, alfred padley

These photographs provide a visual record of assorted buildings, street views, and notable locations throughout Deer Park in 2020 including the COVID 19 lockdownsThis photograph collection documents Deer Park in 2020.5610.01 - Ballarat Rd - ICI Building 28th March 2020 Photo 01.JPG 5610.02 - Ballarat Rd - ICI Building 28th March 2020 Photo 02.JPG 5610.03 - Ballarat Rd - ICI Gates 28th March 2020 Photo 01.JPG 5610.04 - Ballarat Rd - ICI Gates 28th March 2020 Photo 02.JPG 5610.05 - Ballarat Rd - ICI Main Entrance 28th March 2020.JPG 5610.06 - Ballarat Rd 760 Deer Park - Deer Park Hotel.JPG 5610.07 - Ballarat Rd Deer Park - ICI Old Resident Grounds 28th March 2020 Photo 01.JPG 5610.08 - Blue Trio The Hunt Club Ballarat Rd Deer Park Photo 01.JPG 5610.09 - Blue Trio The Hunt Club Ballarat Rd Deer Park Photo 02.JPG 5610.10 - Deer Park Hume And Hovell Monument 2nd April 2020 Photo 04.JPG 5610.11 - Deer Park Hume And Hovell Monument 2nd April 2020 Photo 05.JPG 5610.12 - Deer Park Hume And Hovell Monument 2nd April 2020 Photo 08.JPG 5610.13 - Deer Park State School 2nd April 2020 Photo 02.JPG 5610.14 - Deer Park State School 2nd April 2020 Photo 04.JPG 5610.15 - John McLeod Reserve 2020 Photo 02.JPG 5610.16 - Kororoit Creek Deer Park 2nd April 2020 Photo 01.JPG 5610.17 - Kororoit Creek Deer Park 2nd April 2020 Photo 04.JPG 5610.18 - Old Braybrook Shire Office Photo 01.JPG 5610.19 - Station Rd 50 Deer Park - Deer Park Hall.JPG 5610.20 - Station Rd 106 Deer Park - Covid Testing 2020.JPG 5610.21 - Station Rd Bridge over the Kororoit Creek 2nd April 2020 Photo 02.JPG 5610.22 - Station Rd Bridge over the Kororoit Creek 2nd April 2020 Photo 03.JPG 5610.23 - Station Rd Deer Park - Leathercloth Factory.JPG 5610.24 - Station Rd Deer Park - Sassella Park 2nd August 2020 Photo 01.JPG 5610.25 - Station Rd Deer Park - Sassella Park 2nd August 2020 Photo 14.JPG 5610.26 - Station Rd Deer Park - Sassella Park 2nd August 2020 Photo 15.JPG 5610.27 - Station Rd Deer Park - Sassella Park 2nd August 2020 Photo 16.JPG 5610.28 - Station Rd Deer Park - Sassella Park Deer Park Photo 01.JPG 5610.29 - Station Rd Deer Park - Sassella Park Deer Park Photo 02.JPG 5610.30 - Station Rd Deer Park - Vic Weaver Platation 2nd April 2020 Photo 01.JPG 5610.31 -Station Rd Deer Park - Vic Weaver Platation 2nd April 2020 Photo 03.JPG 5610.32 -The Hunt Club Ballarat Rd Deer Park Photo 01.JPG 5610.33 -The Hunt Club Ballarat Rd Deer Park Photo 02.JPG 5610.34 -The Hunt Club Ballarat Rd Deer Park Photo 05.JPG 5610.35 -The Hunt Club Ballarat Rd Deer Park Photo 06.JPG 5610.36 -The Hunt Club Ballarat Rd Deer Park Photo 08.JPG 5610.37 -Station Rd Deer Park - Sassella Park COVID 2nd August 2020 Photo 08.JPG 5610.38 -Station Rd Deer Park - Sassella Park COVID 2nd August 2020 Photo 11.JPG 5610.39 -Station Rd Deer Park - Sassella Park COVID 2nd August 2020 Photo 12.JPG 5610.40 -Station Rd Deer Park - Sassella Park COVID 2nd August 2020 Photo 13.JPG deer park, ballarat road, station road, ici, deer park hotel, the hunt club and community arts centre, the hunt club, hume and hovell, deer park state school, john mcleod reserve, kororoit creek, old braybrook shire office, deer park hall, covid, leathercloth factory, sassella park, vic weaver platation

This is one of two Hume and Hovell Cairns erected in the City of Brimbank. The Sydenham cairn was erected on 19 December 1924, exactly 100 years after the explorers passed through the district. It was built by residents of St Albans and Sydenham as part of a statewide centenary program that installed 37 monuments along the expedition route. The monument has been moved twice due to road works as it was originally on the north‑west corner of Taylors Road & Sydenham Road. The first time it was relocated it was moved to position very close to the original position. The second time it was moved approximately 200 metres in a southerly direction and is now located at the Keilor Plains Station (East Esplanade). In November 2024, the Sydenham & District Historical Society held a 100‑year anniversary event for the cairn and a 200‑year anniversary of the 1824 expedition. Attendees included City of Brimbank Mayor Thuy Dang, Members of Natalie Suleyman MP’s office and local historians including Karen Schmidt and Bruce Lancashire. 5623.01 - Sydenham Hume And Hovell Monument 2nd April 2020 Photo 02.JPG 5623.02 - Sydenham Hume And Hovell Monument 2nd April 2020 Photo 03.JPG 5623.03 - Sydenham Hume And Hovell Monument 2nd April 2020 Photo 01.JPG Hume & Hovell passed here Dec. 19th 1824. Erected by Residents of St. Albans and Sydenham, December 19th 1924. sydenham, hume and hovell, keilor plains railway station

This is one of two Hume and Hovell Cairns erected in the City of Brimbank. The Deer Park Cairn was erected in 1924, one hundred years after the explorers passed through the district. It was built by ratepayers of Shire of Braybrook as part of a statewide centenary program that installed 37 monuments along the expedition route. The monument has been moved twice due to widening of Ballarat Road. The first time was in the 1960's. More recently it was moved onto the Deer Park Primary School land just outside the fence line. The original location is slightly southwest of the current position.5624.02 - Deer Park Hume And Hovell Monument 2nd April 2020 Photo 05.JPG 5624.01 - Deer Park Hume And Hovell Monument 2nd April 2020 Photo 04.JPG 5624.03 - Deer Park Hume And Hovell Monument 2nd April 2020 Photo 08.JPGhume and hovell, ballarat road, deer park

The ceremonial unveiling of the Hume and Hovell monument at Deer Park in 1924 by the shire president of Braybrook Cr Geo McKayhume and hovell club, cairn, deer park, ballarat road, mckay

Hume and Hovell Marker looking south east intersection of Ballarat Road and Station Road Deer Park Depicts sight of the marker prior to it being relocated to its present 1991 site to enable widening of Ballarat Roadhume and hovell club, cairn, deer park, ballarat road

Hume and Hovell marker or memorial on Station Road Deer Park before being shifted to its present 1991 site to enable widening of Ballarat Road Photo looking towards Deer Park State School in early 1940shume and hovell club, cairn, deer park, ballarat road

Great celebrations took place in Albury, NSW for the celebration of the Centenary of the Hume and Hovell expedition. The Hume and Hovell journey of discovery to Port Phillip took place during 1824-1825. On November 20, 1824, they successfully crossed the Murray River not far from Albury and proceeded on a route to Port Phillip. To celebrate the Centenary of this crossing, the city of Albury held a series of activities during the week of Sunday 16th November to Saturday 22nd November 1924. As part of these celebrations the Albury Race Club held a special race meeting conducted on Thursday 20th and Saturday 22nd November 1924. This badge was produced as a memorabilia for that meeting. Prize money over the two day meeting totalled over £3,000. The star events were the Centenary Cup of I mile and 3 furlongs with a prize of £1000 (one thousand pounds) and a Gold Cup valued at one hundred guineas, donated by Mrs. Jas. Mitchell of Tabletop, and the John Campbell Handicap of one mile carrying $500 and trophy valued at 50 guineas donated by the chairman of the Club, Mr. J. Campbell. A gold whip donated by Mr. Norman Crow was presented to the jockey riding the Cup winner. This item is significant because it is an example of memorabilia produced for the centenary celebrations for the Hume and Hovell Expedition.An enamelled fob medallion featuring a central image with a tree at the top and text. The tree is the Hovell Tree at Albury. The central image is of indigenous man facing Albury’s civic buildings with the Murray River in between. The fob is attached to a blue twisted cord.1824 1924 HUME & HOVELL CENTENARY RACE MEETING 20th and 22nd Nov 1924 On back: 244B SIMPSONhume & hovell, hume & hovell centenary, albury race club

These scrap books were put together by Tom Riggs, a past St. Albans Train Station Master, St. Albans Centenary Committee & Sunshine & District Historical Society member and they record a history of a wide range of subjects referring to the Sunshine & District. The following list is only a brief description of each scrapbook. 663.01 - People in official postions 1908|H.V. McKay Factory Gates|Part layout in vicinity of Sunshine Railway Station map 1910|Sunshine Station Signal Box|Harvester Museum|H.V. McKay|H.V. McKay Bulk Store|Sunshine's colorful history|Family of Nathaniel & Mary McKay family tree|Sunshine Smithy|Braybrook residents 1903 & 1906 Sands & McDougal listing|Nat & Joyce Wright|Sunshine Market Palce|Sunshine new police station|Sunshine new post office|S&DHS newspaper articles|Black Powder Mill|Deer Park St. John's Anglican Church|Robert Eric Parsons|Rubblish dumping issue|Bob & Cyril Parsons|Deer Park Bypass|Sunshine Leisure Centre|Sunshine Station Interchange|Dorothy Price|Sunshine Hospital expansion|Albert & Amy Russell|Wally O'Brien|Hospital pedestrain crossing|Our Lady's Primary School reunion|Mytle Baylis|Darling Albion Flour Mill|Pokie machines|Harricks Cottage|Jack Tighe|Cr Brooke Gujinovic New Brimank Mayor|Jack Collins|Isabella Williams Reserve|Cairnlea developement|Albert Holden|Old Sunsine Police Station Sun Crescent|Big bins|Phyllis Vance|Sunshine Pipe Band|Dick & Elsie Whiting|Historic house denmiolition|Boom gate deley|Brian & Doreen Duffy|Beth Argyle|Sunshine Railway Disaster|Les Hunter|Sunshine Pool closure protest|Clare Brennan|Mickey Vautier|Jack Sheridan|Balam Balam Reserve|Gwen Goedecke|Derrimut Hotel & licensee Wal Elms|Jimmy Gaylor|John & Leone Hawking|Centrelink move|Joan Carstairs|Hampshire Road roadworks|Lloyd McCallum postman retires|Mavis Kittelty & Sunshine Croquet Club closes|Frank O'Connor|Beth Argyle, Don Deeble, Shirley Wallace & Jack Sheridan|Sunshine Anglican Church & Father Stuart Soley|Ian Baker|Morris Street proposed flat development protest|Brimbank's rich cultural history|Church of Christ|Doreen Foster & Albion Tennis Club|Francis & Lillian Allen|Sunshine Wesleyan Methodist Churst|3LO-3AR radio transmitter|George & Gloria Hales|H.V. McKay Medal Trade Wing|Lorna Cameron|Noala Flynn|St. Ablans Baptist Church & Ralph Phillips|Apostolic Christian Church|Keilor Christian City Church|Sunshine City Band|Maidstone Our Ladys of Perpetual Church|Waterways|Ron & Margaret Craker 663.02 - Black Powder Mill|St. Albans Greek Orthodox Church of St. Paraskeve|Western Ring Road traffic|Joseph & Frances Testa|Sydneham Kimgdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses|Sydenham The Assemblies of God|Michael & Rosalia Skok|Werribee's State Rose Gardens|Tom & Maria Diele|Tom Rigg and the origin of the district's street names|Sunshine & St. Albans Baptist Church|ICI Estate protest|Sunshine Salvation Army Church|Macedonian Orthodox Church|Anita-Marie Neumann|Albanvale path of recongnition|Sunshine Pool action group|Minnie Gorsuch|State Election 2000|Jean Folry & Ilma Weir|Brimbank Uniting Church|Harvester Town book launch - Olwen Ford|Brooke Jujinovic|Keilor Cemetery grave stones|John Howard ignores Braybrook|Norman & Joan Wales|Clare Brennan Drive named after Clare Brennan|Fosseys Sunshine closure|Commonwealth Bank (CBA) Glengala Road closuer|James Frederick McKay|A history of Sunshine|H.V. McKay's Russell Street gates|Barry McMahon|Sunshine Swimming Pool Aquatic centre sale|Keith Buckley|Migrants' move to brave new world|Vasilos & Eugenia Karaoglandis|William Hyett|Darryl Myers|Kathleen Inkster|Sunshine RSL Kevin Keegan, Kevin Bryar & Fred Russell|Barney & Renee Cater|Mona Malouf|George Carter|Sunshine Pottery memorabilia & reunion|Des Johnson Duke Street Aborigine artifacts|Albert Drayton|Two pools planned|Sunshine Pool repairs approved|Olympic Tooch journey through Brimbank|Maurice & Kathleen Sanders|Paul & Suzanna Vicek|Deer Park By Pass Road|Bert & Noreen Craddock|St. Albans Legless Lizards under fire|Sunshine rare orchid scare|St. Albans Road black spot|Viet name for Burke street|Russell Street gates unveiling ceremony|Don & Val Byrnes|Emily Hall|Sunshine Swim centre|Water action plans|Melton Highway sugar gum tree removal by Vicroads|Sunshine Police Station Olympic Rings Brick|Emmaus Catholic School Sydenham opening|Black Powder Mill|Stevens Farm House fire|Yvonne Flack|Frank Gathercole|Commonwealth Bank closurer|Marion Martin|Deer Park State School|Tom & Flo Beagley|Call for railway land buffer|Clarrie Salvador|Braybrook Hotel|Sunshine Harvester Smithy|2000, A year to remember|Bus Re-route hits traders|Sunshine Swimming Pool end of life|Pam Chapman|Prune Goldrick - When the Whistle Blew|Wally O'Brien recalls Deer Park during his childhood|Western Highway / Ballarat Road traffic|Tom Rigg confusing St. Albans bus signs|Rubbish in Deer Park|Phyllis Frost|Basil Morcos|Allan "Titch" Williams|George Thoms|Clarrie Salvator|Tom Dile|Igor Balabin|John McArdie|Sam & Rita Attard|Jack & Dorothy Roberts|Joe De Gabriele|Beth Argyle|John Refshauge surgeon|Bill Fogarity|Brimbank Heritage Listing in peril|Museum of Victoria virtually tour of H.V. McHarvester Factory|Jock McLeod|John & lorna Stainer|Rita Shimmin|Smithy|Nettlefolds - Len Duxon, Betty Scott, Frank Richards, Thelma Burnett, Reg Ratcliffe & Frank Farrugia|Emma Broadhead|Bill Bunting|Gwen Goedecke|Ron Dorre|Sunshine Hospital Redevelopment|Braybrook Squash Centre|Megan Blair|Harvester Town book launch|Tom Rigg rail safty activist|Lloyd & Gislaine Simpson|Sunshine's past revealed|Legless Lizards site Jones Creek|Wetlands|St. Albans time capsule|Cainlea suburb name causing a stir|Agnes Clark|Norman de Pomeroy|Ern & Dot Nicholls|Anton & Maria Gerber|Peter & Margaret McManus|H.V. McKay Offices heritage listing|Cr. Chris Evans out|Two historial walks in Sunshine|Brink Back the H.V. McKay Smithy opening invite|Counicl destroys old files|Harricks Cottage|Special Exhibution Models of Sunshine made farn implements exhibition invite 663.03 - Wally O'Brien|Cr. Chris Evans|Sunshine pool debate|Black Powder Mill|Sydnenham / Hillside Primary School name changes|Say goodbye to Sydnenham, Watergardens|Spalding Reunion|Harry Unger|Gwen Goedecke|Frances Fitzgerald|Preerving Brimbank's significant landmarks|Bernard Reilly kindergarten train|Albert Holden|St. Peters Channel Catholic Church|Terry Muscat|Smithy|Norman & Geoff Pomeroy|Sunshine disaster recalled|Sydneham Railway Station|Sunshine Baseball Club|Albert Evans|Sunshine Pool anger|Albion car crash|Jackson School to loose portables|Black Powder Mill|John Kontek|Harvester basic wage case|Sushine Harvester & Offices complex|Deer Park Primary School|Sunshine underpass / subway shame|Albion Railway Station Rolando & Lilia Antonio|Furlong Road tragery|Anita Ciancio & baby Montana kidnapping|Harricks Cottage|Fence to keep out snakes|Shire of Braybrook Financial & Rate records donated to S&DHS|Bikini protest in Council Chambers|Talintyre Reserve name change from Tallintyre Reserve|Peter Somerville and the Blackbird|Keith Miller|Gerald Griggs|St. Albans Hume & Hovell cairn in the move|Iramoo Committee|Shopping bags ban|Harvester City, the making of Multicultural Sunshine book grant|Susan Jennison|Melchior Bajada|Ray Carlton book donation to Sunshine Library|Hampshire Road connection the Market Place with the Plaza|Girls should be girlsSunshine & Districtsunshine advocate, brimbank messenger, newspaper