Caroline Avenue Named for Caroline McBride. Caroline and her husband James had seven children, five daughters and two sons. Surveyed by: Lynne and Eileen on 29 March 2021 McBride Street James and Caroline McBride arrived in Cockatoo in 1903. They bought land in what was then known as Main Street. They lived in a guest… 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
Jerry the railway dog
August 14, 2021 by Leave a Comment
No one knows where Jerry came from, in need of help and a place to stay, he showed up one night in 1929 at the home of Lionel and Beatrice Orr in Upper Ferntree Gully. Lionel and Beatrice were in their fifties by this time, with no children of their own. Lionel and Jerry quickly… Read More
Cockatoo War Memorial
March 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
1914 – 1919 / AIF Transcription Auhl AH / Belcher C / Belcher J / Bellchambers RH / Bell D / Bilton FC / Brodrick A / Brodrick J / Cairns AJ / Carrigy P / Cullen AB / Cullen AC / *Cullen F / Cullen W / Cunning F / Cook EW / Dennis… Read More
Alma Treloar Reserve
March 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Happy Creek Plaque Transcription Happy Creek / by John Bernard O’Hara The little creek goes winding / through gums of white and blue, / a silver arm / around the farm / it flings, a lover true; / and softly, where the rushes lean, / it sings (o sweet and low) / a lover’s song,… Read More
