Charles Henry Fulford was a Wonga Park orchardist. He was the first child born in the Eight Hour Pioneer Settlement at Wonga Park. He was born 4/8/1896 and married 11/2/1922 Violet May Hooper at St Mark's Church of England Wonga Park (being the first wedding held at that new church building) He lived initially in Paynters Road with his parents and later in Fulford Road. He had two sons and six daughters - Dorothy Isabel born 11/12/1893, Violet May born 19/5/1928, David Walter born 24/9/1926, Madge born 7/8/1928, James Henry born 17/6/1930, Betty born 4/12/1934, Ethel Beatrice born 19/5/1939 and June born 29/1/1943Grey coloured card

Charles Henry Fulford was a Wonga Park orchardist. He was the first child born in the Eight Hour Pioneer Settlement at Wonga Park. He was born 4/8/1896 and married 11/2/1922 Violet May Hooper at St Mark's Church of England Wonga Park (being the first wedding held at that new church building) He lived initially in Paynters Road with his parents and later in Fulford Road. He had two sons and six daughters - Dorothy Isabel born 11/12/1893, Violet May born 19/5/1928, David Walter born 24/9/1926, Madge born 7/8/1928, James Henry born 17/6/1930, Betty born 4/12/1934, Ethel Beatrice born 19/5/1939 and June born 29/1/1943Blue coloured card

Charles Henry Fulford was a Wonga Park orchardist. He was the first child born in the Eight Hour Pioneer Settlement at Wonga Park. He was born 4/8/1896 and married 11/2/1922 Violet May Hooper at St Mark's Church of England Wonga Park (being the first wedding held at that new church building) He lived initially in Paynters Road with his parents and later in Fulford Road. He had two sons and six daughters - Dorothy Isabel born 11/12/1893, Violet May born 19/5/1928, David Walter born 24/9/1926, Madge born 7/8/1928, James Henry born 17/6/1930, Betty born 4/12/1934, Ethel Beatrice born 19/5/1939 and June born 29/1/1943Red coloured card with Black printing

Photocopy of image of house and farm of William and Jessie Cant, Salters Rush, Queenstown. The orchard grew cherries, apples, plums, pears, quinces and berries - raspberry, blackberry, gooseberry, red currants and black currants. Also vegetables and flowers. All cultivation done by hand. (Chancellor photograph)houses, farming, orchards, salters rush, queenstown, smiths gully, william cant, jessie cant

Transcript of an Interview on "Rear Vision - on ABC Radio National - Trams: Australia", dated 8 October 2006, with Annabelle Quince, Robert Lee, Paul Mees, Michelle Zeibots, Frank Kirby - 10 A4 sheets. Looks at the history of trams in Australia, Sydney and Melbourne in particular. Had sound effects. Obtained from the ABC website, 9/7/2007.trams, tramways, abc radio news, tramways, sydney, melbourne, history, passengers

Annie and William Booth, with their five children, left England to migrate to Australia in 1923. They came on the maiden of the S.S.Demosthenes. They bought and occupied land - six and half acres in Orchard Grove, Blackburn South - from 1923 to 1942 when the moved to Salisbury Street, Mont Albert.|William Booth obtained an office position with Danks where he remained till retirement.|The home in Orchard Grove was called 'Marple' after the place in England where the honeymooners.|They ran poultry and an orchard - apples, plums, quinces and peaches which were sold for additional income. This was fairly common at the time for the man to have a job but to use their property for extra income.|The Anglican Church is built on the Booth's top paddockBlack and white photograph of of 'Marple', the Booth family home on Orchard property in Orchard Grove, South Blackburn.marple, booth family, orchard grove, blackburn south, anglican church

This postcard belonged to Blanche Constance (Nina) Casement 1891-1972 whose fiancé, Arthur Woodzell Ayers (1887-1964), enlisted with the Australian Imperial Force in 1914 and served at Gallipoli and the Western Front. Arthur was completing officer training at Oxford New College 23 Feb 1917 - 27 May 1917 when he sent these postcards. Nina and Arthur married in 1919 and moved to Avonsleigh in 1929. This postcard was passed to their daughter Frances Nobelius (Ayers).This is an example of communications between Australian soldiers and family members during World War I.Postcard with photograph of Oxford New College Dining Hall. On the back is a handwritten message postmarked 18 April 1917.On front of postcard, printed: 'Oxford New College Dining Hall (Founded A.D. 1386)' On back of postcard printed: ' POST CARD / This space to be used for Communication. The Address only to be written here.' On back of postcard postmarked: 'MELBOURNE / 6 IF 74 A' 'OXFORD / 8.30 PM / 18 APR 17' On left side of postcard printed: 'George Davis, 7 The Turl, Oxford.' On back of left side of postcard handwritten: 'This is where we / have our meals / and some of / the lectures / We are going/ to Warwick on / Sunday for 5 / days. / Love W' On back of hand side of postcard handwritten: 'Miss Nina Casement / C/o Mrs Quince / Roy Court / Mit-ford St / St Kilda / Melbourne / Victoria / Australia [an alternative street address in Richmond, Melbourne has been crossed out]' world war i, nina ayers, postcard, 1917, arthur woodzell ayers, oxford new college

Viewed from intersection of Mount Pleasant Road and Metery Road looking northwest. The dairy is in the foreground situated on Dalton Street. An unmade Bible Street can be seen running down the hill at the left to intersect with Dalton Street. Dalton Street runs from left to right between the dairy and the Carrucan family home opposite located on the southeast corner of Bible and Dalton streets. Doug Orford recalls the dairy was at a slight angle to Dalton Street. Tim Erickson, (a nephew to Betty Erickson, nee Carrucan) reacalled (9 May 2025): the bottom front paddock ran from MeteryRoad to Mount Pleasant Road The brick dairy from 1thje 1950s had 10-15 milking cow , Jersey and Guernsey6 and the used to send the cream to Eltham Dairy The garage when Tim was a child used to house a couple of sulkies The laundry was a local home built job The small house built late 1940s for Betty Carrucan for her family The small orchard grew Quince, Apple and Plum The main block was the upper paddock Cypress trees remain present as of 2025 Originally 2 buildings but a third was added in the early 1900s for a kitchen and diningDigital TIFF file Scan of 35mm Ilford HP4 black and white transparencybible street, carrucan dairy, carrucan home, dalton street, eltham, mount pleasant road

Irish-born John Murray and his wife Mary (daughter of Thomas Sweeney) married in 1849 and settled in Eltham North. John and Mary were amongst the earliest inhabitants of Eltham. John was a farmer and their block of about 80 acres, called ‘Laurel Hill’, was on the eastern side of the Diamond Creek, extending east to beyond Zig Zag Road. It was later extended southward by the purchase of a further 60 acres. He is recorded as a supporter on the petition for a school in Eltham and he served on the National School Board of the Eltham school. John died in 1867 and is buried in Eltham Cemetery with Mary and with two of their grandchildren. Their eldest son Johnnie inherited the property. Then in about 1902 his younger brother James purchased about 50 acres on the western side of the Diamond Creek immediately opposite Laurel Hill, extending west to slightly past Wattletree Road. Eltham North Reserve now lies just beyond the southern boundary. James built a family home on top of the hill on the northern boundary, together with a dairy and milking shed and a food cellar. It is thought that the barn with stables was already there. When Johnnie died in 1912, the two properties (though severed by both the creek and the railway line) effectively merged. The land was worked as an orchard with apples, pears, quinces, and possibly apricots and peaches. Later it became a dairy farm. By 1986, almost all the land had been sold off for residential subdivision and the house had been condemned as unfit for habitation. John's grandson Jim retained a small portion of the land and built a new house. He kept the old one as a storage shed, but it was demolished after he died in 1993. The very old barn is still standing. Located in the Roman Catholic section In Memory of John Murray Who died Dec. 1867 aged 50 years Also his wife Mary Murray Who died 7th Sep. 1909 aged 76 years And of their grandchildren Thomas and Mary Ellen DrainBorn Digitaleltham cemetery, gravestones, john murray, mary ellen drain, mary murray, thomas drain

"Who would have thought that a boy born in 1889 from the Victorian Mallee would become a successful artist on New York’s Staten Island? This finely illustrated, exhaustively researched and beautifully written biography on Leason features the artist’s entire career as a painter and cartoonist renowned for his depictions of Australian society in the 1920s and 1930s. Leason’s story is a poignant one tracing his beginnings as a cartoonist, to the bohemian Melbourne art scene in the early 20th century, to his involvement in the artists’ camps of Eltham, to his important series of portraits of Lake Tyers Indigenous Australians, and his eventual move to the US where he has been acknowledged as making an enormous contribution to the New York arts scene. This story, as yet untold, fills a gap in the history of art in Australia and offers a new perspective on Australian art in the first half of the 20th century." - Thames and Hudson website A NEW HOME IN ELTHAM Once they had settled back into Melbourne, Perry and Belle began to look for a place to make a permanent home. Having enjoyed the bush setting of Mosman, they decided to explore the rural fringes of Melbourne. Each weekend they packed a picnic and travelled to the towns in the nearby hills - such as Ferntree Gully, Sassafras, Lilydale and, of course, Cockatoo Creek. Eventually deciding these places might be a little too far from The Herald office, they searched closer to the city. The Heidelberg and Box Hill regions that had inspired his old teacher McCubbin, had become busy, urban areas but further east, towards Warrandyte and Templestowe, there were still large tracts of bush. Finally they settled on Eltham, an area Percy knew very well, having often painted there with Jock Frater. Perry's old friend Dick McCann and his wife Margery had also settled in Eltham. The township was fifteen miles from Melbourne and serviced by an electric train that went to the central Melbourne station of Flinders Street, near where The Herald offices were located. Eltham was a small village in 1925, separated from Melbourne by the Yarra River, and surrounded by orchards and large tracts of bush. Small farms dotted the landscape and the main businesses revolved around ironmongers, blacksmiths, and farming supplies. Of particular appeal to artists was Eltham Park, a large expanse of bushland bounded by the Yarra River on the south side and the Diamond Creek on the east. The park included a playing field that was busy on weekends with cricket or football matches, but for the rest of the week it was mostly empty and an ideal place to paint. The scenery there provided the inspiration for many paintings by Leason, Meldrum and other artists such as Colin Colahan and Peter (A.E.) Newburv. The Leasons found a rundown old farmhouse on four-and-a-half acres of land in New Street, now known as Lavender Park Road. The site was splendid, at the top of a gentle slope which gave panoramic views east to the Dandenong hills, south over the Templestowe orchards and north to Kinglake. The front lawn was taken over by onion grass (or wiregrass as Leason called it) and scattered about the property were many wattles and gum trees. Aloe cacti covered much to the front of the house, while old quince and lucerne hedges separated the house and out-buildings from a rundown apple orchard. Here they would build a new home. ·with financial assistance from The Herald, Leason bought the property and immediately commissioned an architectural firm to design a new house in the popular bungalow style of the time. The old farm house was demolished but Percy saved the siding boards, bricks and corrugated iron for the outbuildings of his new home. The new house was a two storey, triple brick with a large, gabled, terracotta tiled roof. It was situated at the very top of the slope. The paint and varnish were barely dry when the family moved in during the summer of 1925-26 and the fumes were overpowering in the heat. Despite the house being wired for electricity, power poles had not yet reached the area and initially the family had to rely on kerosene lamps and candles. When electricity did arrive, Leason reflected on the community's reception of electricity at the expense of the old growth gum tree corridors in his cartoon, Electricity comes to Wiregrass. The family had now grown to seven. Jack was nearly nine, Jean was seven, Marjory was four, Nancy was two and the baby Patricia was seven months old. Jack and Jean were enrolled in the local primary school down the hill. A retired farmer, Jock McMillan, came to live on the property and help out with the general maintenance. Jock built himself a shack and Belle provided him with meals. He was kept occupied building structures around the property·, such as the garage, the outside toilet, garden beds, trellis arbours and a number of ponds. The elderly, bearded Scotsman with his old hat and baggy pants also provided the inspiration for one of the characters Leason regularly included in his cartoons. Like Leason, Jock smoked a straight stemmed pipe. A neighbour was employed to help Belle with domestic chores, and so the family settled down to live comfortably in their new Eltham house. Two dogs, Maginary and Wodger, completed the large and vibrant household. “Percy Leason; an artist’s life” by Margot Tasca, Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd, Port Melbourne 2016, pp 63-64 Hardback Bookpercy leason, margot tasca, biography, artist, landscape