The original Avenue of Honour in Frankston. By Peter McCullough In her book “Echoes from the Front”, Val Latimer tells how as early as 1917 a committee was formed to honour all…
Tag: History
By Lance Hodgins Kinfauns is a luxury housing estate which dominates the landscape between Hastings and Bittern. For well over a century the land passed through the hands of a succession of…
Patrol Leader Paul Francis By Ilma Hackett, Balnarring & District Historical Society It would be a huge understatement to say Paul Francis enjoyed his scouting activities. The young lad’s enthusiasm was boundless.…
Above: A recent aerial photograph of ‘Heronswood’ By Ilma Hackett, Balnarring & District Historical Society It was the fairy palace with an enchanted garden. So thought young Margaret Sutherland when visiting ‘Heronswood’,…
By Peter McCullough DURING the 1960’s the Prahran Methodist Mission, assisted by the local community, undertook this project which involved thousands of working hours freely given by children, teenagers, and adults. Origins…
By Ilma Hackett A problem? “Go and see Ron Stone. He will know what to do!” This was the advice given to residents of Somers during the middle decades of the 20th…
John McLure’s hut (watercolour by Edward Latrobe Bateman) By Ilma Hackett & Keith Murley It was referred to, humorously, as the ‘University of Arthur’s Seat’. The small slab hut roofed with thatch…
A drill on the Hastings Foreshore with one of the forty pounders. By Peter McCullough LONG before the extensive and frightening casualty lists monopolized the Melbourne papers in the years 1914 –…
Mt Martha House, circa 1915. By Gill Gordon – Volunteer Manager of the Historical Collection. Mount Martha House Community Centre is a local landmark, well known in the area and beyond as…