Home to the Cannons Creek Community Place Bonne Watson Reserve information board Transcription (1st paragraph) The Bonnie Watson Reserve One of the earliest pioneers of Cannons Creek was the Watson family. Their gift of this 10 acres of land provided a recreation reserve for the people of / the creek. In the 1940’s the block… Read More
James Alexander Reserve
September 6, 2014 by 2 Comments
James Alexander plaque Transcription ~ Jim Alexander ~ Jim Alexander grew up in the Berwick-Dandenong area. His mother’s parents / lived on a Soldier Settlement farm in Clyde Road after World War 1. Like many other locals Jim Alexander believed this / reserve with its extensive views and stand of casuarina forest / made it… Read More
Ron Andrews Park
September 5, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Ron Andrews plaque Transcription Ronald Clifford Andrews / 18 August 1930 – 20 December 2003 This park is dedicated to Ron (Mick) Andrews / who was born and raised in this district. His major entrepreneurial achievements are the quarrying operation that he founded – / The Pakenham Blue Metal at Mount Shamrock. His finest… Read More
Pioneers Park
September 1, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Pioneers Park plaque Transcription This land was the site of the Berwick Primary School from 1869. At the end of Term 3 in 2003, / the Berwick Primary School was relocated to a new site in Fairholme Boulevard, Berwick. As a result of the initiative of Mr Bill Hudson and Mr George Wilson CMG; a number… Read More
Akoonah Park
March 9, 2014 by 3 Comments
Akoonah Park was orginally called the New Berwick Showgrounds and Recreation Reserve but in 1959 Cr CA Harris of the Shire of Berwick suggested the name be changed to Akoonah Park. Akoonah is an Aboriginal word for ‘running waters’ which are just beside the park in the form of the Cardinia Creek. Terence O’Connor took up… Read More
Endeavour Hills
February 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Conceived during the bicentenary of Cook’s discovery of the east coast of Australia, Endeavour Hills narrowly missed being called Piney Ridge or Pine Hills and was named in honour of James Cook and the crew and scientists aboard HMS Endeavour. Endeavour Hills was proclaimed as a suburb on 28 October 1974. Consequently, many streets in… Read More
Narre Warren Mechanics Institute Hall
March 22, 2013 by 4 Comments
In 1890 Mr Sidney J. Webb donated land from his farm “Holly Green” for a Mechanics Institute. The original building was funded by donations and collections from well known local identities. By December 1890 it was noted in records that the equivalent of $286.50 was received from donations and a further $455.20 was receipted from “entertainment”. The total… Read More
City of Casey
January 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
On 15 December 1994 the City of Berwick, the City of Cranbourne and a small section of the City of Knox merged to form the City of Casey which is named after Lord Richard Gavin Gardiner Casey, Australia’s longest-serving Foreign Minister and 16th Governor General. Lord and Lady Casey lived at Edrington in Berwick. Reference: Our first decade… Read More
Cranbourne Street Signage
October 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Bushranger Cluster: Cranbourne East see separate page Singers Cluster: Cranbourne East A small group of streets in Cranbourne East remembers Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Bob Marley and Frank Sinatra. Surveyed: 17 Jan 2017 by Lynne Joseph Banks Crescent Naturalist/Botanist aboard James Cook’s Endeavour. Surveyed: 20 Jun 2012 by Rex Cyril Beechey Lane Cyril Lewis Beechey was born in 1911. He loved… Read More
La Trobe Tetley Anzac Student Prize
May 7, 2012 by 1 Comment
Announced 23 April 2012 by Laura Smyth (La Trobe MP). The La Trobe Tetley Anzac Student Prize commemorates Arthur Norman Tetley, from Berwick who served in the 8th Light Horse and took part in the Anzac charge at the Nek on the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915. Arthur was seriously wounded at Lone Pine and died… Read More