Historical information

Album of personal photographs of family members, friends, groups of children, and areas of Whittlesea, Glenvale, Preston, Northcote, Jack's Creek, Strathbogie, Mornington, Eltham, Heidelberg, Britannia Creek, WW1 service men and camp and a defence plane.

Page 1
1. Remains of School after fire Britannia Creek 1926
2. Result of Bushfire Britannia Creek Creek 1926
3. Fish pond destroyed by fire 1926
4. Children Britannia Creek 1926

Page 2
1. Three men and a boy after the bushfire Britannia Creek 1926
2. Men and a car, Mentone, J. Gollary, Tom O' Connor
3. Dog and a kennel, "Brownie", Preston 1925
4. Group of children, "An apple a day", Britannia Creek 1926

Page 3
1. Whittlesea Show
2. Three women, Strathbogie
3. Timber track Britannia
4. Two girls sitting, "In the right mood"
5. 9th Patrol Preston ? Bruthen

Page 4
1. The moon
2. House and fence, St George's Road, Northcote
3. Biplane, A Defence Plane
4. Close up, plane landed, service men looking at plane, "A close up view"

Page 5
Top of page, "Dranold" Hawking St, Preston
1. House with fence, "House"
2. Garden right side
3. Garden left side
4. Man in garden holding a watering can, "Back garden"

Page 6
Four photos of Kinglake
1. Fern Gully Plenty Ranges
2. Plenty Ranges
3. Mt Disappoinment
4. Road through water shed

Page 7
1. View of Whittlesea Township
2. Eel pond, Glenvale
3. Haymaking, "Stacking", Glenvale
4. Harvesting Glenvale

Page 8
Four photos of creeks
1. Jack's Creek
2. Jack's Creek and shed (this looks like the Toorourrong Reservoir
3. A barrel in the water, "Bruce's Creek"
4. Water running over rocks, "Bruce's Creek"

Page 9
1. Horse and rider with 2 men, Whittlesea
2. View from Mt Hope looking South Glenvale
3. Cricket Ground Heidelberg
4. View of a cliff, bottle necked swallow's nests

Page 10
"Eltham Cup Day" at top of page
1. Norm and Syd - men playing cricket
2. Ralph - playing cricket
3. Norm and Syd - playing cricket

Page 11
1. 8 boys - Preston B Baseball Team
2. Group of men - Eltham
3. Woman standing - V. Townsend
4. Horse and Wagon - WW1 Williamstown Camp, C. Jose

Page 12
1. Man sitting on bricks - Stan
2. School boy - He? F Greenough
3. Boy posing with baseball bat
4. Ted Cecil

Page 13
1. 2 woman, 2 men standing in bush setting - "The Grants"
2. Woman standing on a hill overlooking a township below
3. View of water - "Mornington"
4. A house - "Mornington"

Page 14
Strathbogie
1. Man standing outside a wooden building
2. Man standing outside a wooden building having a wash
3. Girl and boy
4. 3 children standing next to a wooden house

Physical description

Brown coloured, detachable leaf paste-in photo book, 7 loose pages, cord threaded through eyelets on the left side. Photographs pasted on to both sides of pages. Total of 56 photos, black and white. Descriptions handwritten above or below each photo. Some of the photos dated 1925 and 1926.

Inscriptions & markings

Inscribed on the front of the album, "The Warwick Album"