Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society Honour Board Transcription Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp Historical Society Inc. / Established in 1974 YEAR PRESIDENT V. PRESIDENT JUNIOR V. PRES SECRETARY ASS SEC. TREASURER LIFE MEMBER HISTORIAN 1974 KJ Huxtable WL Black AJ Mills A J Mills 1975 KJ Huxtable WL Black JA… Read More
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Pepi’s Land
November 19, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Sam and Alice Pepi grew potatoes here on about 56 hectares of land. They were advised by the then Victorian Ministry of Agriculture to use dieldrin to control disease in the crop. When dieldrin was later found to be dangerous and the land contaminated and unsuitable for potato growing the State Government purchased the land… Read More
Pakenham Street Signage
June 25, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Governors of Victoria cluster Dallas Brooks Place General Sir Reginald Alexander Dallas Brooks, GCMG, KCB, KCVO, DSO, KStJ (22 August 1896 – 22 March 1966) was a British military commander who went on to become the 19th and longest-serving governor of Victoria.Surveyed by: Lynne on 29 May 2011 Gobbo Place Sir James Augustine Gobbo, AC,… Read More
Warneet Foreshore memorial seats
June 21, 2022 by Leave a Comment
When our volunteers visited Warneet they found three seats with plaques along the path on the foreshore. Tom Barcham memorial seat In Loving Memory Of / Tom Barcham1982 – 2005 / Warneetian Edward White memorial seat Edward Thomas White / 31-8-1915 – 29-9-2001A Warneet resident who loved God, / his family and this view Alannah… Read More
Holy Family Church
March 27, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Opening ceremony plaque Transcription The Holy Family Church / was blessed and opened by / Archbishop D Mannix D.D. / on the 3rd day of September 1950. Portrait of Father Pooley Transcription Fr WA Pooley 1912-1969Presented to the people of Maryknoll / in memory of Brian Carroll Holy Family Community connections information Transcription Holy Family… Read More
Wilson Botanic Park Berwick
February 27, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Wilson Botanic Park opening plaque Transcription Wilson Botanic Park This park was officially opened by / His Excellency / The Honourable Bill Hayden, A.C., / Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia / on 26 July 1992.Mayor – Cr. Kirsty J Lottkowitz / Chairperson, Advisory Committee – Mrs Janice Bateman, OAM, JP / President, Friends of… Read More
Fell Family
January 8, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Fell Family plaque Transcription The Great War 1914-1918Lest We Forget Handsome was the soldier of stone,With rifle fixed, his aim unknown,Was he rmembering two brothers who fell?In Flander’s fields, mid Wars fiendish hell.Unknown young soldier, I knew him well.Lest we forget, his story I tell. When the war drums beat,And the War Lords cry.And brave… Read More
Ivens Reserve
January 1, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Ivens Reserve was named in memory of Edward and May Ivens who farmed the property where the reserve is now in the 1930s. Edward was born in Baddaguinie, Victoria in 1891. He was twenty-four years old when he enlisted for service in the Great War. He served with the 24th Howitzer Brigade as a gunner… Read More