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
Warneet – Blind Bight CFA
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Barcham plaque on CFA signage Transcription Donated by / Barcham family / in memory of / Tom
Old Cheese Factory
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In 1854 William John Turner Clarke (1805-1874) purchased just over 3,000 acres in Berwick where the Old Cheese Factory is situated. The property was known as The Springs. The homestead (now the tea rooms) was constructed in 1865 from hand made bricks. The kitchen/wash house was also constructed at the time. The cheese factory was… Read More
Cannons Creek Community Place
September 11, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Opening Ceremony plaque Transcription Cannons Creek / Community Place This building was officially opened by / the Mayor, Cr Ron Mantel, / on the 18th February 2001.
Bonnie Watson Reserve
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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
Henry Joseph Moran Reserve
February 20, 2012 by 3 Comments
Henry Joseph Moran Reserve Transcription Botanic Rise Estate / Henry Joseph Moran Reserve Henry Joseph Moran was apprenticed to Mr. Guilfoyle, director of the / Melbourne Botanic Gardens at the age of fifteen. When he died at the age / of 38 in 1886, he was foreman of the Gardens in charge of glasshouses. /… Read More
Robinson Reserve
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Home of: Doveton Football Club Doveton Cricket Club Doveton Tennis Club Waverley & District Tennis Association LS Reid Oval no signage at time of surveys LS Reid Plaque Transcription ~ Leonard Stanley Reid DFC ~ / 29.9.1916 – 22.4.2003 / State Member for Dandenong / 1958 – 1969 / First Federal Member for Holt /… Read More
KM Reedy Recreation Reserve
January 17, 2012 by 1 Comment
Home of: Hampton Park United Soccer Club Heinz Southern Districts Cricket Club Casey Panthers Soccer Club Hampton Park Auskick KM Reedy Plaque Transcritpion ~ K.M. Reedy ~ Ken Reedy’s parents came to Hampton Park in 1918 to take up a / soldier settlement farm, part of which is now known as Huntington Park Estate. / He was… Read More
