Taken opposite No., 140Streetscape development over timeRoll of 35mm colour negative film, 2 stripsAgfa CN S602mountain view road, briar hill

Taken opposite No., 140Streetscape development over timeRoll of 35mm colour negative film, 2 stripsAgfa CN S602mountain view road, briar hill

Black and white photograph of railway bridge, Mountain View Road, Montmorencybridges, railways, mountain view road, montmorency

1/90 Mountain View Road Montmorency. 2 bedroom home, private sale, sold 01/03/2013 for $555,000; and i11/09/2015 for $680,000Real estate advertising leaflet, 1 sheet, printed in colour both sidesmountain view road montmorency, mountainview road

Presented by Briar Hill Hall Trust and St Faith's Pre-School Centre, Saturday, 13th August 1955.1955, admission ticket, bedtime for bongo (film), briar hill hall trust, montmorency, mountain view road, picture night, price avenue, ronald regan, st faith's hall, st faiths pre-school centre, ticket, cinema, ronald reagan

Shire of Eltham road construction and realignment works on Baldwin Avenue, Lilicur Road and Price Avenue, Montmorency, c.197235mm colour positive transparency blue Agfacolour Service plastic mountbaldwin avenue, infrastructure, mountain view road, road construction

Negatives supplied by Marjorie North 1 July 1986 for Montmorency France albumRoll of 35mm colour negative film, 4 of 6 stripsKodak CP 100 5094montmorency, petrie park, petrie park hall, infant welfare centre, mountain view road

Negatives supplied by Marjorie North 1 July 1986 for Montmorency France albumRoll of 35mm colour negative film, 4 of 6 stripsKodak CP 100 5094montmorency, petrie park, petrie park hall, mountain view road, uniting church

Negatives supplied by Marjorie North 1 July 1986 for Montmorency France albumRoll of 35mm colour negative film, 3 stripsKodak CL 200 5093montmorency, st faiths anglican church, mountain view road

Negatives supplied by Marjorie North 1 July 1986 for Montmorency France albumRoll of 35mm colour negative film, 3 stripsKodak CL 200 5093montmorency, mountain view road, uniting church

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 4 stripsKodak GA 100 5095shire of eltham, briar hill hall, briar hill, mountain view road

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 4 stripsKodak GA 100 5095shire of eltham, briar hill hall, briar hill, mountain view road

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 4 stripsKodak GA 100 5095shire of eltham, briar hill hall, briar hill, mountain view road

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 4 stripsKodak GA 100 5095shire of eltham, briar hill hall, briar hill, mountain view road

From a collection of 35 photos taken by Doug Orford at 35 specific locations along the exact boundary of the then Shire of Eltham.Colour photographbriar hill, mountain view road

[Note: dated based on negatives 01791 (20 Jan 1986) as service station (in other frames on roll of film) and pricing for fuel very similar period; possibly late 1985]Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 7 stripsKodak CL 200 5093mountain view road, briar hill, sherbourne road

Roll of 35mm black and white negative film, 4 of 7 stripsIlford HP4bridge, bridges, montmorency, mountain view road, railways

Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 4 stripsFuji 100streets, mountain view road, briar hill

Originally donated in a photo album prepared by Doug and Gwen Orford of Historical Society trips.Invitation cardinvitation, activities, buffet dinner, henry petrie community centre, shire of eltham centenary

Spring selling season leaflet with sales results on back of page. 4 Murumba Street Greensborough, sold $1,115,000 ; 11 Sun Orchid Circuit St Helena sold $870,00; 6 Weemala Court Greensborough sold $1,666,000; 6 Howard Street Greensborough sold $737,000; 136 Elder Street Greensborough sold $772,000; 140 Mountain View Road Briar Hill sold $638,000 and 12 Sunrise Drive Greensborough sold 2018 for $1,320,000, previous sales January 1994 $103,000, July 1989 $100,000 and July 1988 $85,500.Real estate advertising leaflet, 1 sheet, printed in colour on both sides.sunrise drive greensborough, murumba street greensborough, sun orchis circuit st helena, elder street greensborough, howard street greensborough, mountain view road briar hill, weemala court greensborough

This postcard shows us what Britnells Road (now Mountainview Road) looked like in the WW1 era. Britnell Road is a former name of the Mountain View Road section between St Helena Rd and Sherbourne Rodd.A sepia toned postcard featuring a photograph of a rural road scene.2 photo mount remains on rear, nil on front.britnell road, greensborough, mountain view road.

Land sales pamphlet with hand-drawn 22 allotments of the Estate, Orchard Grove, Heathmont. Also showing Barnic Road and Mountain View Road. Maybe circa 1950s.

Hair Lounge is a hairdresser Shop 9 111 Mountain View Road Briar HillPart of a collection relating to local businesses.Printed both sides in black on white cardboardAddress, telephone no. and space for appointmentshairdressers

An elderly man has died in a suspicious house fire at Mountain View Road, Briar Hill.News article 1 page, black text.briar hill fire, mountainview road briar hill

Proposal to develop the site with existing buildings at 1-3 Mountain View Road Montmorency as a community hub. The buildings are a former church and kindergarten designed by Alistair Knox. 2 p., printed in black both sides on off white paper, plan, photographmontmorency hub, monty hub project

The house at 113 Mountain View Road Briar Hill, formerly the home of Bob Barling, scoutmaster in the 1950s, was totally destroyed by fire. These items were salvaged from the site.Two items salvaged from house fire: Tile fragment & teapot spouttile, teapot

"Buckingham & Company: Supporting the Local community, proud sponsors of these organisations". This leaflet lists some of the local organisations sposored by this company. On the reverse, 7 images of homes sold by Buckinghams in 2018: 13 Alban Street Montmorency ($1,850,000), 29 Banfield Terrace Greensborough ($1,061,000), 46 Cressy Street Montmorency ($1,400,000), 46 Mountain View Road ($940,000), 2/8 Wattle Avenue Montmorency ($1,320,000), 2A Rattray Road Montmorency ($670,500) and 3 Crellin Crescent Watsonia ($9000,000).Real estate advertising leaflet, one sheet, printed in colour on one side. 7 small colour images pasted on reverse.buckingham & company real estate agents

From Eltham Montmorency Uniting Church, History http://www.elthammontmorencyuca.org/history/ In 1914 a small group of Presbyterians living on 'The Montmorency Estate', which had been established when the railway was extended to Eltham several years before, began meeting for worship in the Rattray Rd home of Robert Sharpe. Two years later a small weatherboard church, administered from Scots Church, Heidelberg, was built on land donated by Mr. Sharpe. In 1931 this building was moved to the corner of Rattray Road and Mountain View Roads. In the next few years local elders were elected and the congregation adopted the name St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Montmorency.montmorency, montmorency presbyterian church hall, rattray road

Thursday, December 15, 1949, the quiet little bank was embroiled in an infamous wild shoot-out between a daring thief and two bank officers. Today, the building still carries the scars ; a bullet hole remains visible in a cedar bench testifying to the events that played out that day. 3.30 a.m., Friday, December 9. The manager of the Commercial Bank branch at Greensborough, Mr Harry Wallace and his wife are asleep in their bedroom of the little house behind the branch. Harry is awakened by a noise and sees an intruder in a corner of the bedroom. He calls out but the intruder who has switched off the power in anticipation flees through a side door and scarpers down Main Street. Harry summons the police but a search by First Constable Thomas of the Greensborough Police assisted by a wireless patrol car is unsuccessful. A report is filed noting the theft of a .25 calibre pistol from the wardrobe. Thursday, December 15th. It is 1pm and the Commercial Bank has just opened. The branch is only open Mondays and Thursdays from 1-3pm. The morning started off a little cool with some scattered showers but it has fined up and the temperature is now around 61 degrees (16 C). A new grey Singer sports car with soft-top pulls up on the opposite side of the road and a young man, neatly dressed in a dark blue suit, wearing a grey hat and carrying a brief case exits the vehicle. He looks around then crosses the road and walks up the steps and through the door into the bank. There are three people inside; Mr. Jack Burgoyne whose grocery store is situated just 50 yards up the road, Mr. Lindsay A. Spears, the Eltham Agency Receiving Officer and by chance, Mr Harry Wallace, manager of the Greensborough branch. Jack Burgoyne takes note of the young stranger; thinking to himself he appears nervous. The man approaches the counter and introduces himself as John Henderson of Greensborough and explains that he wishes to open a new account. He places his hat and £3 on the counter. Mr Spears attends to the paperwork. He asks the young man to sign two forms, which he does but then he withdraws from the counter and starts walking towards the door. Suddenly he spins around pulling an automatic pistol from his right-hand pocket. He exclaims forcefully; “The game’s on! I’ll take the lot!” Spears appears to comply by pretending to open a drawer. The man shouts loudly, “Keep your hand away from that drawer.” Spears instead reaches for a pistol in his pocket and challenges the man, “Here it is. Come and get it!” At the same time, Harry Wallace pulls a pistol from his pocket as well. The bandit fires a shot but misses, the bullet striking the counter. Both Spears and Wallace open fire and Jack Burgoyne ducks for cover. As the bandit turns and runs for the door leaving his £3 behind, he fires another shot, which strikes the ceiling. Spears fires back, and thinks he may have hit him in the foot. The bandit flees the bank and heads for the grey Singer car, registration NO-106, parked opposite. Wallace and Spears pursue him to the door and open fire again, striking the car three times around the driver’s door. Spears lets off eight shots and Wallace, seven before his gun jams. The getaway car initially heads slowly down Main Road towards Bridge Street. About 100 yards down the road, Dave Adams, a PMG employee, who has heard the shots, throws a steel manhole step at the driver. It hits the roof of the car nine inches above the driver’s head and tears the hood. Another witness claims to have seen the door blow open and the driver raise his hand. The car gathers speed and swings left into Bridge Street racing along at about 60 miles an hour careering recklessly past council employee, Mr. Percy Williams, who is driving a dray along Smarts Road [believed to be Bridge Street]. At the end of the road the Singer fails to get round the sharp turn and crashes into an embankment skidding to a stop outside the home of Mr John Clifford. One side of the car is wrecked. Mr Clifford, an aircraft engineer hears the fast travelling car bump heavily into the road bank at about 1.25 p.m. Hearing the whine of an engine he goes outside to find the grey Singer parked at the side of the road. Jack George also lives at the corner and hears the car crash. “The bandit opened the car door, ran 50 yards, and suddenly turned back,” exclaims Jack. “He took something from the car. It might have been a gun.” In his haste, the bandit drops his grey felt hat, size 6 7/8, on the road and dashes up Sherbourne Road for about 200 yards then disappears into the scrub carrying a brief case and a bundle in which a sailor’s cap can be seen. About 3 p.m., Mr H.D. Pettie of Mountain View Road, Montmorency is looking through his field glasses and notices a young man walking through thick scrub on private property some distance from his house. The man is wearing a sailor’s cap and disappears along the railway track toward Montmorency. As the day progresses, ten police cars, one motor cycle, and about 40 police led by Det. Sgt. McMennemin of Malvern CIB are searching for him. They believe he is hiding in thick scrub along the bank of the creek about half-a-mile outside Eltham township. Wireless patrol cars, four mobile traffic cars and the CIB area cars from Malvern and Kew are taking part. Police check the thief’s car and discover it was stolen from Helen Baxter, of Doncaster Road, North Balwyn from outside Victoria Barracks. Harry Wallace informs the police that he believes he recognised the bandit as the man who took his pistol from his bedroom the previous Friday morning. As night falls, armed police are posted at strategic points in the Eltham-Greensborough district. Police in cars are watching the roads. Others are searching the bush and checking passengers on trains. Little do they realise the young man has already slipped out of the net. SEQUEL YOUTH OF 19 CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED ARMED ROBBERY OF BANK AT ELTHAM Weekly Times, Wednesday 15 February 1950, page 6 Detectives who raided a house in Bell St., Coburg, Melbourne, charged a 19-year-old youth, of South Yarra, with attempted armed robbery at the Commercial Bank’s Eltham (Vic.) receiving depot on Dec. 15. Police say they recovered a loaded automatic pistol, diamond and signet rings worth more than £200, a complete set of house-breaking instruments, a sailor’s uniform, and chloroform gauze in the raid. The youth was charged that while armed with an offensive weapon, he attempted to rob Lindsay George Spears of a sum of money. He was further charged on six counts of breaking, entering and stealing. Police allege that the person who tried to hold up Mr Spears in the Commercial Bank receiving depot at Eltham on December 15. escaped in a stolen car, after Mr Spears and Mr Henry Wallace, manager of the bank’s Greensborough branch, had fired at him. After the car crashed, he escaped into thick scrub and is alleged to have changed into a sailor’s uniform. On December 9 an automatic pistol was stolen from Mr Wallace’s bedroom at the Greensborough bank. The chloroform pad recovered is alleged to have been stolen from the Dental Supply Company, Plenty Road, Preston. The rings are alleged to have been taken in a £513 burglary from the shop of James Paton. Sydney Road, Coburg. Det. Sgt. H. McMennemin conducted the investigations with Senior Dets. R. Newton and M Downie, Detectives l. Dent, R. Rayner, P. Pedersen and M. Handley and First Constable A. Thomas. The youth will appear at Eltham Court on February 22. Manager’s Gun Used in Holdup at Bank The Age, Thursday 23 February 1950, page 4 It was stated in Eltham court yesterday that a youth who robbed a bank manager of his pistol, later used it in an attempt to hold-up the bank. Kay Arthur Morgan, 19, draftsman, of Castle-street, South Yarra, was committed for trial on charges of breaking and entering, and stealing a pistol and attempted robbery while armed with an offensive weapon. He pleaded guilty. The manager of Eltham branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd., Henry Clifton Cabot Wallace, said he disturbed someone in the bedroom, in which he and his wife were sleeping, at 3 a.m. on December. 9, 1949. Later he found that his automatic- pistol was missing. On December 15 a youth, who said his name was John Henderson, entered the bank and opened a new account. As the youth was leaving the bank he turned round with a pistol in his hand and said: — “I want the lot.” Spear indicated a drawer under the counter; and said.— “Here it is. Come and get it.” The youth said:— “Keep your hand away from that drawer.” Witness said Spear then drew his pistol from his hip pocket. The youth fired at them, and Spear returned the fire. “I pulled my pistol and fired, too” said witness. The youth fired again, ran out to a car and drove off. Witness and Spear fired several shots at the car. The youth was the accused Morgan, sitting in court, witness said. Evidence was given that one bullet was found in the celling and the other in the bank. Morgan was allowed £100 bail on each charge. Morgan ended up serving three years for the failed armed robbery and became a notorious criminal. He had twin sons, Peter and Doug and even though only ten years old, Morgan would get his sons to act as lookouts whilst he committed burglaries. The lads became building contractors but when the industry suffered a downturn in 1977 and they were short on cash, they returned to the family business. Over the following 23 months they undertook 24 raids on country and outer-suburban TABs and banks. Whilst robbing one country bank for the third time, just like their father, it all went wrong ending up with a police officer shot. They were nick-named the “After-dark” bandits and are considered to be Australia’s last bushrangers. They were convicted and served 17 years in prison.5 x A4 photocopied pagesbank hold-up, cba bank, det sgt mcmennemin, eltham, h.d. pettie, harry wallace, jack burgoyne, kay arthur morgan, lindsay a. spears, main road