Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanfootball record, lew howard collection, panton hill football league, the spider (newsletter)

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanfootball record, lew howard collection, panton hill football league, the spider (newsletter)

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanfootball record, lew howard collection, panton hill football league, the spider (newsletter)

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Ferguson’s Paddock, Hurstbridge. A plaque on a boulder commemorates Peter Brock. Published: Nillumbik Now and Then /​ Marguerite Marshall 2008; photographs Alan King with Marguerite Marshall.; p167 On a rock in Ferguson’s Paddock, Hurstbridge, a plaque commemorates Peter Brock. It includes the words: ‘Boy from Hurstbridge without special privileges, grew to become champion of racetracks around the world but he never forgot his beginnings’. Brock came from a well-established local family. Born in Hurstbridge in 1945, he lived in Anzac Avenue as a child, attended the Hurstbridge Primary and Eltham High Schools and lived in the district most of his life. His father Geoff owned the Diamond Valley Speed Shop in Greensborough. Brock’s forbears were amongst the area’s earliest settlers. From Scotland, the Brocks arrived in Tasmania in 1830, to graze sheep. Family members moved to Sunbury, then Preston, grazing sheep in the Bundoora area. John Brock owned Janefield, possibly named after his wife. In 1855 he granted around two acres (0.8ha) of his estate for a school.1 In 1866 Lewis Brock bought 264 acres (107ha) in Nutfield, the first non-Aboriginal person to own that land. They planted an orchard, then from around 1935, Brock’s uncle Sandy and his grandfather Lewis, ran a dairy on the property. In the 1980s Brock and his then partner Bev, bought most of the property, which they sold after their separation in 2006. Brock’s father was a Hurstbridge Football Club President, but Brock’s uncle Sandy, of Brocks Road, Doreen, has been particularly active in local affairs. He was President of the Mernda Football Club (then Plenty Rovers), President of the Panton Hill Football League and he founded the Arthurs Creek and District Landcare Group. He also gave more than 50 years of service to the Whittlesea Agricultural Society, the Volunteers for Australian Football and the Doreen Rural Fire Brigade. Community service was important to Brock too. Brock, with his then partner Bev, established the Peter Brock Foundation in 1997, the year he retired from full-time V8 Supercar racing. The Foundation’s grants have included $100,000 towards the upgrade of a walking track in the Hurstbridge Parklands and other projects include a holiday house for the families of child cancer victims. Brother Lewis saw Brock as a spiritual person, who had a great affinity with people. He saw Brock as a role model of someone who could achieve their dreams. ‘The family didn’t have much money, yet that didn’t stop Peter realising his dreams. He was strong and didn’t let difficult times crush him.’ Despite his later successes, Brock’s most treasured trophy was for running 100 yards (91.4m)at his primary school in 1955, and he appreciated his head master Ted Griffiths’ encouragement of his sporting endeavours. At high school Brock became captain of Everard House. In his first year he bought a 1928 Austin 7 for £5. He cut the car into a box shape with an axe and enjoyed driving it – despite it having no brakes - at his grandparents’ farm at Nutfield. The turning point in Brock’s life came at age 23, when he built an Austin A30 in an old henhouse in Wattle Glen, using a Holden engine. He was laughed at until it won the Australian Sports Sedan Championship in 1968. Brock’s career then took off and he became a professional driver. Brock won Australian motor sport’s best-known event, the Bathurst 1000, nine times. Brock endured a bitter split from Holden in 1986 over control of his Holden-backed vehicle modification business and a car performance-enhancing device he called the ‘energy polariser’– despite it having no scientific evidence to support its claims. But Brock returned to Holden in 1994. Then in 1997, aged 52, Brock retired from fulltime V8 Supercar racing. However he continued to race at motor sport events. Brock won several awards, including an Order of Australia Medal in 1980, the Australian Sports Medal in 2000, and the Centenary Medal. On September 8, 2006, Brock died; after his car hit a tree during the Targa West Rally in Western Australia.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, ferguson's paddock, hurstbridge, peter brock memorial, peter brock

Panton Hill Football League match resultsDigital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match resultsDigital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results On reverse of clipping "Eltham has new Health Officer" about the appointment of Mr C.J. (Barry) Gaudion in succession to Mr W.U. Hughers who retired the previous month.Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanc.j. (barry) gaudion, health officer, lew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club, shire of eltham, w.u. hughers

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanfootball record, lew howard collection, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanfootball record, lew howard collection, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanfootball record, lew howard collection, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanfootball record, lew howard collection, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanfootball record, lew howard collection, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanfootball record, lew howard collection, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanfootball record, lew howard collection, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results On reverse of clipping another story "Petrol Warriors" about Eric Giggins and John Sternbergs who acquired a petrol station in Montmorency and initiated a petrol price warDigital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loaneric giggins, john sternbergs, lew howard collection, match details, montmorency service station, panton hill football league, petrol price war, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanlew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club

Panton Hill Football League match results On reverse of clipping is an article "Old document gift to Shire" (partially cut off) is about the presentation of a portrait of C.S. Wingrove and an illuminated address presented to Mr Wingrove prepared in 1868 by the Eltham District Road Board. Digital file only - scanned by EDHS from item on loanc.s. wingrove, charles symons wingrove, charles wingrove, eltham district road board, lew howard collection, match details, panton hill football league, research football club, shire of eltham

Early history of Greensborough Football Club and lists of notable players and achievements. Black & white document of 9 pagesIn pen on front page: Rex Smithgreensborough football club, diamond valley football association, heidelberg district football association, panton hill football association, rex smith