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Hallelujah, Christmas carols are back on By Casey Neill Dandenong’s Carols by Candlelight event has received a reprieve. Greater Dandenong Mayor Jim Memeti announced that the council would run the event in Harmony Square, at the Monday 9 October council meeting. This followed the Journal revealing that the Greater Dandenong Chamber of Commerce had formally advised the council that it would not be hosting the event this year, after running it for 69 years. Cr Memeti said Monday was the first chance the council had to discuss the issue. “The Carols by Candlelight will continue,” he said. “It will be held at Harmony Square.” He said more details would follow. Chamber president Paul Broom said the cham-
ber would lose money to stage the event. “When we looked at the cost of infrastructure to stage it, and the income we were going to get in support, it was not realistic for the chamber to lose on staging it,” he said. The chamber had used Harmony Square for the past two years, but received low community support and lower attendance than expected. It was looking to return to the event’s original Dandenong Park location but the sound shell was demolished last year. Mr Broom said a temporary stage would need to be built, generators brought in and toilets provided. Despite the council offering a grant and sponsors also contributing funds, he said the costs were overwhelming. The Journal was inundated with community
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feedback on the decision, unanimously expressing disappointment. On the Journal Facebook page, Gaye Guest said the refurbished Springvale Town Hall would be a perfect location. Lauren Allisha said there were plenty of places in Springvale, including the town hall and Burden Park. “Not everything needs to be Dandenong-centric,” she said. Vicki Collier said the decision was an absolute disgrace. “This event was always a delight to attend. Another great family event scrapped,” she said. Adam Murray suggested the new Tatterson Park pavilion as an alternative location. “It would be a great way to open the new home of soccer,” he said. The Journal will provide further details on the event as they emerge.
Five boys will answer charges over two violent alleged attacks in Dandenong’s Palm Plaza. Greater Dandenong CIU Detective Sergeant Craig West said the first alleged victim was a 41-year-old man. He was walking through the McCrae Street shopping mall on Monday 2 October when it’s alleged that five boys of African appearance struck him with a piece of wood, punched and kicked him unconscious and stole his wallet. He alleged the gang struck again about 4.20pm on Thursday 5 October. A man was leaving the public toilet when five boys allegedly approached and demanded his wallet and money. He said that when the victim refused, the group produced a knife and a piece of wood and struck him several times. He alleged they also punched and kicked the man, who attended Dandenong Hospital for treatment. Two Dandenong boys, aged 12 and 15, a boy from Dandenong South, 13, and two boys from Endeavour Hills, aged 13 and 15 have been charged and bailed to appear at a children’s court on deception, armed robbery and assault charges.
Cops on trail of bandits Police hope CCTV footage will identify two violent bandits who struck in Noble Park. Greater Dandenong CIU detectives said a man was walking home from Noble Park railway station along Joy Parade about 11.25pm on Saturday 19 August. Two men, described as African in appearance, approached him from behind, demanded money, pushed him to the ground, assaulted Police are him and stole his wal- searching for this man. let. One attacker was wearing red shoes, denim jeans and a black zip up hoodie and was described as tall and thin and aged between 16 and 22. The second was wearing a blue/green jacket and was also aged between 16 and 22.
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Cheers! Celebrity businessmen to open brewery Eddie Maguire and Gerry Ryan are bringing a $10 million brewery to Dandenong South. Greater Dandenong Council gave the green light to the project at 16 Jayco Drive at the Monday 9 October council meeting. Jayco founder Mr Ryan watched on in the gallery. He later told the Journal that a few other local people were involved in the commercial brewery, as well as Maha chef Shane Delia and Collingwood Football Club president Maguire.
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A man exposed himself to an 18-year-old woman on a bus in Springvale, police allege. Transit Crime Investigation Unit detectives are appealing for public assistance following the 28 August incident. They’ve been told the victim boarded a 902 bus to Chelsea about 1.40pm. Police said the man who was sitting opposite the woman started rubbing himself inappropriately and exposed himself to her before exiting the bus near Harold Street in Springvale South. The man is perceived to be Indian in appearance and aged in his early thirties, with a medium build, dark hair and light beard. He was wearing a striped top with darkcoloured denim jeans and was carrying a black backpack. Call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential crime report at www. crimestoppersvic.com.au with any information.
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Quality grows through the ages Welcome to this special edition of the Dandenong Journal. Dandenong and neighbouring suburbs, Keysborough, Noble Park and Springvale, are rich in history stretching all the way back to 1834 when squatter and drover Joseph Howdon became the first European to settle in the area. The Journal itself has been documenting life in the Dandenong region for 152 years, first in printed form and now online and through social media. Older readers will be well acquainted with names such as Douglas, Keys, Buckley, Swords, Jarvis and Tharle. I hope loyal long-term readers will enjoy discovering names and places from the past. Meanwhile, I hope newer residents will be fascinated by the before and after photographs featured in this souvenir publication. Some sites and buildings are much as they were 100 years ago. Most, however, have been transformed beyond recognition. This special edition would not have been possible without the generous help of the Dandenong and District Historical Society. Life member Carmen Powell and her team were invaluable in helping me navigate the society’s vast pictorial archives and answering questions about the history of Dandenong. All the old photographs of Dandenong in this edition are from the society’s collection. Thank you also to Geoff Watcher for his memories and photographs of Noble Park and Colin Robinson and Robyn Robie for their reminisces about Springvale. Star News Group photographer Rob Carew was dogged in tracking down the exact locations to replicate old photographs. Fellow photographer Gary Sissons created the fantastic image of old and new Lonsdale Street featured on the front cover. And visit dandenong.starcommunity. com.au to see the Journal’s online interactive reveal of new and old Dandenong to go with this special publication. I hope readers enjoy this celebration of Greater Dandenong’s transformation from a collection of small villages into a thriving, multi-cultural metropolis. Narelle Coulter Special Publications Editor
Paper gets a fresh look From next week readers of the Journal will notice a few changes in their 152-year-old paper. Monday’s edition will have a new modern masthead and will be known as the Dandenong Star Journal. Inside readers will notice a fresh, open style. The Journal’s sister paper, the Journal News, will also have a masthead makeover and be known as the Endeavour Hills, Hallam and Doveton Star Journal. The new masthead is an acknowledgement of the Star Journal’s rich past as well as its future in print and digital under the umbrella of parent company Star News Group.
The Nu Hotel and a carpark now occupy the site of the old Journal office. A connection with the past remains thanks to Dickson’s Lane.
Star News Group is a family-owned independent news company which publishes a suite of newspapers and magazines with linked websites, including the Berwick News, the Pakenham Berwick Gazette and the Cranbourne News, making it the dominant media company in the South-East. Managing director Paul Thomas, the fourth generation of his family to run the business, said the masthead changes reflected the strength of the Star News Group brand in the South-East. He assured readers the Star Journal’s dedication to quality community journalism would continue as it had for 152 years. “This is part of the Star Journal’s evolution
in an ever-changing media market,” Mr Thomas said. “This is the start of a number of exciting initiatives that will benefit both advertisers and readers. “I hope readers enjoy this special edition and continue to access the Star Journal on a variety of platforms as their voice of the community.” The print edition of the Dandenong Star Journal is published every Monday. News stories are published daily on the Star Journal website. To sign up for an e-copy, visit dandenong. starcommunity.com.au or like the Journal on Facebook.
The old Journal office in Scott Street.
The earliest known picture of the Journal offices in Walker Street, Dandenong in the 1880s.
Journal was one of the first with the news The Dandenong Journal is one of Australia’s oldest newspapers. It was founded in 1865 by Irish immigrant Harvey Roulston. Mr Roulston had learned the newspaper game as an apprentice compositor on the Londonderry Sentinel. After arriving in Melbourne in 1853 he found work at the Melbourne Argus. Twelve years later Mr Roulston was his own boss when in August 1865 the first edition of The South Bourke and Mornington Journal rolled off his press in Richmond. The newspaper’s link with the Roulston family would last for more than 70 years. By 1875 Mr Roulston was feeling threatened enough by the Sword brothers who had launched a rival newspaper, the Dandenong Advertiser, the year before that he moved the Journal to a building in Walker Street, Dandenong. At that time the Journal covered an enormous geographical area and presented readers with news from Hawthorn, Boroondara, Templestowe, Nunawading, Berwick, Brandy Creek, Oakleigh, Moorabbin, Cheltenham and Frankston. Tragically, early copies of the Journal were de-
stroyed by a devastating fire in the paper’s printing works in 1876 and the oldest existing edition is from 10 January 1877. As was the custom in those days, the front page of that edition was devoted entirely to advertisements for, among other things, Dunbar’s Hotel in Dandenong, the Dandenong branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia and A. Griffith Shoe and General Blacksmith. Inside the newspaper carried advertisements for ‘Clarke’s world famed blood mixture’ which promised to cure a litany of ailments such as ‘ulcerated sores on the neck, blackheads or pimples on the face, scurvy sores and cancerous ulcers’ and Baker’s perplexing sounding ‘Anthelmintic nuts, or children’s worm cakes’. Harvey Roulston had six children, all of whom were involved with the Journal at various times. In 1892 he transferred ownership to his two spinster daughters, Lilias and Florence, with his youngest child, William Fenton Roulston, as printer and publisher. On 14 February 1896 Harvey Roulston died suddenly at his home in Pultney Street of “exhaustion following upon anasarca”. He was 68.
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His obituary in the Journal noted that “his last illness was a somewhat brief one, heart trouble tending to accelerate his end, which was of peaceful character”. “For a period of 30 years the deceased was closely identified with the affairs of this and the surrounding districts, but during the last few years of his life, did not take an active part in business matters.” Harvey Roulston’s remains were interred in Dandenong Cemetery. By 1900 the Journal had moved to “more commodious premises in Scott Street” and by then the Journal was printed on Dawon Wharfedale press. In 1910 the paper had expanded to six pages and proudly called itself the “best and largest penny paper in the district”. The newspaper continued to evolve and between March 1926 and August 1927 changed its masthead and became known as the Dandenong Journal. When Harvey’s son Bill Roulston died in 1938 the Roulston family’s connection with the paper ended and ownership passed to William Bennett.
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Newspaper preservation project By Narelle Coulter
Avocare founder and managing director Trish Keilty, work-for-the-dole project supervisor Cris Yanez and Dandenong and District Historical Society member Judy Grant. 173331 Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS Keilty said the Journal activity was popular with job seekers, many of whom went on to find positions in data entry, administration and within call centres. “Not everyone wants to work in a warehouse or a kitchen,” she said. “A lot of these participants are highly skilled overseas individuals that haven’t found work here. “They could have a masters or a computer science degree, so the skills vary,” she said. Ms Keilty said figures compiled by the Salvation Army put the return to work rate from the
project at between 45 and 55 per cent. Mr Yanez said progress had accelerated since the number of participants had expanded recently from 20 to 50. “I’m putting up new editions almost every day now where as I used to do it once a week.” Mr Yanez said participants enjoyed reading the stories in the old Journals, some discovering family connections. “They often remark to me about stories they have read in there. I’ve even had participants read about family members, one came across their grandfather’s obituary, for example.”
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Work for the Dole participants are learning vital job skills while helping to preserve old editions of the Dandenong Journal. Since the mid-2000s the massive project of digitising the Dandenong Journal has been underway. The project was instigated by the Dandenong and District Historical Society, which has a large collection of Journals dating back to the 1800s. Today the task is being managed by Avocare from its head office Dandenong South. Each week up to 50 Work for the Dole participants methodically upload information to a specially designed Heritage Wiki. The project is supervised by Cris Yanez. “The Dandenong and District Historical Society were the drivers of this,” Mr Yanez said. “They have the original Dandenong Journals dating way back - they’re all yellow, decaying and falling apart. “That was where it came from to digitally preserve those newspapers.” He said in the process of preserving the Journal, participants learnt skills such as typing, image manipulation, formatting and web layout. “Image files are processed using the GIMP image editor to remove scanning artefacts and are then compressed as lossless as possible into PNG web ready image files,” he said. The PNG image files are then uploaded into the Historical Heritage Wiki. “The uploaded newspaper images are then transcribed to populate the newly created Wiki pages. The Wiki pages are finally formatted to make the pages web ready/presentable. “Essentially, what we have is an online encyclopaedia of the Dandenong Journal separated by year, month and week.” The years 1958 to 1961 are on the Wiki, which is currently accessible by the DDHS upon request. With no end date, the project will hopefully continue until the entire Journal collection is online. Avocare founder and managing director Trish
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Bible is testament to family’s history By Helen Velissaris Tucked away in a filing cabinet in a Dandenong op shop lay a valuable piece of Ballarat history. A family Bible printed in 1860 somehow turned up at the Dandenong Benevolent Society without any clues as to how or why it got there. “I just found it in a filing cabinet, just stuffed away,” society volunteer co-ordinator Laura Andrew said. Members of the Springvale Learning and Activities Centre moved into the benevolent society premises in late 2016 and were cleaning up the place for renovations before reopening. “No one took much interest of it because the paper was ripped and it was just shoved underneath piles and piles of things,” Ms Andrew said. As her eyes scanned over the handwritten notes inside, her interest was piqued. “I realised this book has something to say but I don’t know where, who or what that was,” she said. Having worked for the Dandenong Historical Society before, Laura knew how to spot items of significance. While an old Bible might not be so interesting, the hand written notes in the front of the book gave it a special edge. They detailed major moments in the lives of its Ballarat owners, George and Mary Ellen Rand. They got married in 1858, had their first child, Ellen Jane Rand, a year later then three more children followed. The last child, Annie Mary Rand, sadly only lived for a year but her name was included in the Bible, keeping her memory alive. Dandenong Historical Society’s Jenny Ferguson was shocked at the detail and condition of the Bible and helped the ladies from the Benevolent society make some inquires. They soon found out that members of the Rand family were notable drapers and outfitters and had a number of shops in the mid-1800s. Their warehouse on Main Street actually physically collapsed because of mining underneath the
The Bible among the notes discovered about the Rand family. 173590
Laura Andrew, Dandenong and District Historical Society secretary Jenny Ferguson and Elena Sheldon discuss the old Bible. 173590 building, as noted in the Ballarat Star of 25 March 1865. “Even while the workmen were engaged in removing the goods the building could be seen yielding by the crack of some portions of the window frames,” the article read. Normally not interested in family Bibles, the Ballarat Gold Museum agreed to take it in for the Rand connection. “This is how people used to record their family history,” Ms Ferguson said.
“The Bible would have been a very important part of their everyday life.” The next challenge is getting the Bible up to Ballarat, she said. Some might not be so happy to see it returned home. Laura said the Bible has had its ‘admirers’. “It caused a lot of interest. One particular guy hasn’t stopped. Every week he comes in to see if the Bible has returned,” Laura said. Manager of the Springvale Learning and Activity Centre Elena Sheldon was tempted to put
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Changing views on main street Sue Jarvis was born and raised in Dandenong. Her father was former Dandenong mayor Maurie Jarvis. In 1972 she published a thesis about Dandenong in the 19th century. In this special edition of the Journal, Sue reminisces about the changes she has seen in the town’s main thoroughfare, Lonsdale Street. Otherwise known as the Main Street, Lonsdale Street was the centre of activity and the place to be in 1950s Dandenong, not just because my father Maurie had council meetings at the Town Hall. I remember the palm tree lined avenue, the parades and floats indicative of the close community spirit post War, and Anzac Day services when the Cenotaph was in the middle of the street. The Monash Freeway did not exist, so all traffic heading east from Melbourne flowed through the wide main street. Decades before, horses and carts for market (at the top end of town) could turn in the wide main street. In my youth, the busiest shops were all on the western side of the street, especially between Walker Streets and Scott Street. Most important was G.J. Coles (now Chemist Warehouse) where the footpath was the place to meet young friends on a Saturday morning. At the rear, one-third of the space was devoted to the Cafeteria. It was a treat to have a pie and vegetables with gravy, followed by jelly trifle. My father, son of Ethel and Bert Jarvis, lived for a time behind the Gippsland Tearooms, a double-storeyed and verandah clad building not far from the present city offices. Ethel was a great cook while Bert was away as a builder. Maurie had enough room in the rear yard to keep chooks and grow vegetables, selling his produce from a small wooden cart. In the ’60s the National Bank opposite the Town Hall was the first building above two storeys. My sister Bronwyn and I worked next door at Rockman’s clothing store as teenagers. Next door was Ewart’s Newsagency, the wonderful Vanity Arcade with its tiles and mirrored walls. It contained Osborne’s Delicatessen, Patchell’s Hair Salon, Toon’s Fabric, a dentists and travel agency. Further up Lonsdale Street Titcher’s Pharmacy was iconic, especially to budding photographers like me. Steve de George’s (Greek) café and the Golden Pagoda Chinese Café, upstairs in Clow Street gave us a taste of the multiculturalism that was to come. Yum! The Town Hall (including library, historical society rooms and council chamber) hosted all major functions for the shire and then city.
Lonsdale Street from the Town Hall at a time when residents were transitioning from horses to cars.
Panorama view of Lonsdale Street in 1919.
Princes Highway looking up Prospect Hill heading into Dandenong in the early 1900s.
Panoramic view of Lonsdale Street in 2017.
The same view today.
This included balls, concerts and the Dandenong Festival of Music and Art for Youth. I was involved in all of these. Dandenong High School which I attended held speech night there. In the ’50s the market site sold produce, haberdashery, cattle and even hosed the local Agricultural and Pastoral Show. The creation of the Capitol Centre we know today changed Lonsdale Street forever, with its blocking off of roads. The social hub of Lonsdale Street disappeared, coinciding with big retail businesses buying into the new complex. Perhaps the biggest change to Lonsdale Street was the building of a bypass of Dandenong - the Monash Freeway. The city was no longer divided east-west by a busy road. In 1972 I wrote a thesis The Character of Nineteenth Century Dandenong. By 2000, when I revised it, most of its subject matter had gone. A digital copy is at the Dandenong Library. I have since documented the re-development of Lonsdale Street for VicUrban, now PlacesVic.
Lonsdale Street looking toward Melbourne. 173386
Lonsdale Street from the Town Hall today. 173386
Lonsdale Street looking toward Melbourne now. 173386
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Brickworks laid industry’s base By Narelle Coulter
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band, George McKinnon, worked at the brickworks. George, who had grown up on a property on Frankston Road, was a farmer before joining the Ordish workforce. “He used to come home pretty dirty,” remembered Dorothy, who has lived in Dandenong for her entire 90 years. “He would ride his bike to work from Heatherton Road.” Dorothy remembers George enjoyed his job
operating machinery at Ordish and was sad to leave. He later became a gardener at the crematorium. Fellow resident Robert Kett and his wife Gwynne put together a short history of the Ordish Firebrick Company, which hangs framed in a room off the reception foyer. “It’s great for residents to know the history of the place and what was here before our lovely retirement village,” Cynthia said.
but the works continued production until 1975. The brick chimney was demolished in May 1984. The large tract of land was purchased by the developers of Valley Village Mews. The first residents moved into their new homes in December 1986. Today the village comprises 148 units and the former quarry is now a caravan park, tennis courts, bocce court and vegetable garden. Village resident Dorothy Moysey’s first hus-
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Visitors to Valley Village Mews often look quizzically at manager Cynthia Mack and ask her about the two loose pale bricks in the foyer of the Dandenong retirement village. “People say ‘why do you have those bricks here?’ I say because they’re special,” Cynthia said. The bricks are a link the village’s past, which was constructed on the site of the old Ordish Firebrick Company. William Percival Ordish was one of Dandenong’s pioneering business identities. When he died in 1930, a newspaper obituary paid tribute, “Mr Ordish, who lived at Dandenong, set out one day with a barrow and a shovel to prospect for clay. “In what was then a large open paddock on Stud Road, he found that for which he sought, and the digging of that first barrow load of clay laid the foundation stone of what was destined to become a flourishing business. “From humble beginnings in the early 1890s, the business flourished when Mr Ordish secured a contract to supply bricks to the Victorian Railways. It eventually became the best known firebrick manufacturer in Victoria. “No traveller along Stud Road has passed without being impressed by the great line of kilns which have grown upon that spot where a young man delved for his first barrow load of clay.” The Ordish Fire Brick Company became a family business, with William’s son Rowland and then grandson Joseph also among the Ordishes to work there. Rowland had two sons Thomas and Joseph. Tragically, their mother died when the boys were very young and the siblings were separated. Joe attended Dandenong Primary School. He worked in the family business before volunteering for World War I serving on the Western Front in France and Belgium. William Ordish sold his business in 1922
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Brother and sister put down first roots The Keys family played a pivotal role in the settlement of Keysborough, the suburb which to this day bears the family name. President of the Dandenong and District Historical Society and descendent Christine Keys wrote about her family’s history in a 2014 edition of the Gipps-Land Gate.
Christine Keys with councillor Roz Blades at the opening of the shared history archive at Dandenong South in 2016. minister to come to the homestead to conduct religious services. Eventually a Methodist minister from Brighton came, travelling through 12 miles of bush and forest to conduct the service
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The first two members of the Keys family to arrive in Australia were William and his sister MaryJane who arrived in Port Phillip aboard the Coromandel on 11 July 1840. The bounty system of migration to Australia brought a new hope to the Keys family of County Tyrone in what is now Northern Ireland, and it was the second eldest son, William, and eldest daughter Mary Jane, who agreed to be vanguards for their family in being the first to test the work of such migration. On the shipping records William’s occupation was stated as that of labourer and Mary Jane’s as a house-servant. Both could read and write and were members of the Presbyterian faith. On arrival both found work. William was engaged to work for Mr John Hogdson of Melbourne and Mary Jane worked for a Mr I. Shaw. Ten months later on 29 May 1841, the remainder of the family boarded the Catherine Jamison at Leith in Scotland and also sailed for Australia. When the family arrived in Melbourne on 22 October 1841, they leased land at Preston and began diary farming. In 1854 George Keys moved to a leasehold known as Moodie Yallow or Moodie Yallock, now Keysborough. George Keys and his sons applied for Crown grants from the Victorian Government. They obtained grants for most of the land bounded by Island Road, Wells Road, Edithvale Road and Hutton Road, and almost 1400 acres west of Edithvale Road between Mentone Road and Governor Road. Having become established at Moodie Yallow, George Keys tried to obtain a Wesleyan
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According to the Victorian Places website, in 1927 Keysborough had 36 farms engaged in dairying, pastoral and agricultural pursuits. The farming community continued relatively unchanged, running patriotic entertainments during World War II. Market gardens grew wartime vegetables for a cannery at neighbouring Dingley. Shortly after the war, a public hall and reserve were established in Cheltenham Road, fulfilling a long cherished wish for a community meeting place in addition to the church and school, which were further south and isolated. The centenary of Methodist services in the district was commemorated in 1953, with nearly 50 Keys descendants attending. The rural gentry added a bowling club in 1961 but soon some farm holdings were subdivided. Market gardens were not so profitable on the sandy soil as transport to Melbourne became cheaper. Soon afterwards Haileybury College, Hampton, established a second campus in anticipation of its coming school catchment area. In 1973 there were about 250 families and other addresses in Keysborough and the suburbanisation of Keysborough north occurred during the late 1970s and 1980s. The noted architects Edmond and Corrigan designed the heritage listed Catholic church (1976), parish hall, school and nearby elderly persons’ housing. The golf club began in 1899 in Albert Park and transferred to Keysborough in 1952, with facilities limited to a Nissen hut club house and a fibro cement dining room set among snaky wild grass. The golf club’s neighbours were the rural primary school, the CFA station and the Methodist church. In the 1980s to 1990s, residential housing was built north and east of the golf course, along with some multicultural entrants such as the Turkish community’s Isik College, the Serbian Orthodox church, a Serbian sports centre and Vietnamese, Sikh and Sri Lankan places of worship. Lastly, the Methodist church was acquired by a Samoan congregation.
Geo Hall and son road building in Keysborough circa 1897.
Keysborough State School students in 1939. attempting to cross the flooded Bangholm Creek on horseback in search of a lost cow. At the time of his death he owned well over 1000 acres and left behind wife Eliza, two sons and six daughters. Mary Jane Keys was 19 when she married shoemaker James Patterson on 14 December 1842. Sadly, James died from consumption on 9 June 1855 leaving Mary Jane with four young children. Mary Jane remarried in 1856 to James Jamison. She had a further two children with James. Footnote: Christine Keys is the great, great, great, grand-daughter of third son Isaac Keys. The land on Chapel Road on which the original Keysborough Primary School was built once belonged to the estate of Isaac Keys. Christine was overseas at the time of publication.
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Covered in history - and loving it By Helen Velissaris
Colin Robinson and Robyn Robie outside the Springvale Historical Society. 173575 Colin was introduced to the society when he was involved in making a display in 1996. He has a huge personal collection of artefacts and has become invaluable to the society.
He was named president in 2001. For Robyn a small push from her family was all she needed to get her through the door but she stayed for the love of history.
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Colin Robinson and Robyn Robie’s eyes light up when they get the opportunity show off some of the old but intriguing artefacts from Springvale’s past. They have just been inducted as life members of the Springvale Historical Society and still feel like kids in a candy store with the haul of oddities they get to look after. On a quiet Tuesday afternoon they were curiously looking at one of their new acquisitions - a Gestetner from the 1950s. “It’s one of the original photocopiers,” Robyn, 61, said. It is a duplicating machine that had to be attached to a typewriter and special paper inserted, a bit like carbon copy paper. Turning a handle for each page, the machine would print numerous copies of the one document, speeding up the process for businesses that needed flyers or advertisements. “That particular one was used in the 1950s by a local church for their newsletter and then by their cricket club,” Colin, 81, said. “You had to be so careful because you’d get black ink all over you.” The Springvale Historical Society was gifted it by none other than the man who put out the church newsletter all those years ago. Giving a new life to the forgotten relics from Springvale’s past is how the society has built up its name. It has more than 11,000 items ranging from the mid-1800s to the 1980s and constantly gets in new artefacts to add to the hundreds of exhibits. Recently the society had a display on Australian military uniforms, traditional wedding dresses and hats. It focused on colonial Australia, Springvale’s multicultural population and tradition and the First Fleet. The exhibitions can be curated by theme, period or area.
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As with anything spanning more than a century, there are gaps in the timeline. They said there was a rush of excitement whenever they receive something they never knew existed or belongs to an unknown part of the Springvale’s history. “You’re always looking for stuff, and there are gaps in the history,” Colin said. “You always find little bits and pieces - it’s a treasure trove.” Exploring their vast cabinets and shelves, it’s hard to know where to start or even look. There are sporting trophies, an old bottle of ginger beer, a box of starch, a glass bottle of
mouth wash, a deflated football, a tobacco kit, a bicycle lamp - the list goes on. One of Colin’s favourite items is a glass bottle feeder for babies. He said it dates back to the 1920s and that there were different sizes available as the baby grew. For Robyn, sentimental value makes it hard for her to go past her aunt’s Murano style glass and enamel holders from the 1920s. As a big reveal, Colin brings forward a box filled with tissue paper. Beneath the layers contains a perfectly intact green hoop dress from the 1880s. It is also joined
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Pre-1800s: Local Boon Wurrung people inhabit the land. 1840s: Farmers use the land for cattle grazing. 1852: Springvale gets its name from a hotel opened on Dandenong Road (Princes Highway). 1850-1870s: Land starts getting sold and divided up to speculators, graziers, farmers and gardeners and lumberjacks. 1861: Wesleyan Church was first built (followed by Lightwood (Springvale) Wesleyan church 1863, Anglican Christ Church at Dingley in 1873 and Keysborough Wesleyan Church 1877). 1874: School built for Keysborough community (Springvale farmers’ children get school in 1875). 1879: Railway line between Melbourne and Sale was constructed through the area. 1920s: Industrial boom after engineering plant Kelly & Lewis and the Rocla Concrete Construction Works open - flower industry and poultry farming become popular Braeside horse stud and stables developed, electricity installed. 1930-40s: Great Depression slows industry, unemployment hits area hard. WWII sees many people go off to war. 1945-50: Large population influx fuelled by immigration and returned armed forces personnel. 1955: Split from Dandenong Shire to become the Shire of Springvale and Noble Park. 1980s: Population quadruples in 30 years. 1990s: City of Springvale divided between Greater Dandenong City and Kingston City. Source: Gillian Hibbins, emelbourne.net. au.
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Geoff’s eggs lay out his history By Narelle Coulter
Noble Park’s first electric petrol pump was installed in the 1950s outside Berger’s Paints.
Geoff Watcher and his mother Clarice and sister Roma deliver fruit and vegetables via horse drawn cart.
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dom to hop on my bike and disappear. We’d come home again at sunset.” He remembers riding the family horse to be shod by blacksmiths in Dandenong and Springvale. “You’d hop on bareback, drop it off at the blacksmith and wander around town. Get back on and ride home. “Very few families had cars.” “In Stuart Street there were only three vehicles. Jim Kyle had a car, the Mitchells had a truck and my father had an old Dodge. “Henry James had an Essex, which was, basi-
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other children, including Douglas Street. The Buckley family school was opened in 1911, an Anglican church in 1912 and a railway office/ stopping place in 1913. A public hall was built in the same year. The town had six shops in 1923, and the 1933 census recorded 1507 residents. In his book Geoff writes that Frank O’Brien may have been the first trader in district. His store was located on the corner of Government Road (Corrigan Road) and Noble Street, diagonally opposite the site where the Simpson family later built the Cross Road Store. O’Brien sold food and general provisions to passing travellers. The centre of the town was dominated by two huge river red gums. The one that used to be right in the middle of the main street was a scar tree, known as a meeting place for local aboriginal tribes. It was cut down in the 1920s. “That was the tree under which the town grew,” Geoff said. In the 20th century the character of the town was changed again when European immigrants arrived. What was known locally as the Balt Camp was erected on the corner of Springvale and Heatherton Roads, where Burden Park is now, to house immigrants, mainly from the Baltic countries. “It was a pleasant little town,” remembered Geoff. “Everything was here. As a boy I had the free-
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In the shed of his Noble Park home, amateur historian Geoff Watcher digs around in a cupboard searching for his collection of old egg shells. “I know it’s in here somewhere. I saw it the other day,” he mutters. Finally, 84-year-old Geoff finds what he is looking for. He gently lifts out a wooden box with a glass lid. Nestled inside are 40 or so little eggs. Some are speckled, others a watery shade of blue, some a tawney brown. All have neat little numbers written on them. The remarkable thing about the collection is that Geoff gathered the shells more than 70 years ago when he was boy roaming the open country that surrounded the little village that was Noble Park, clambering up huge river red gums looking for nests. “Parents would go mad these days if they saw the trees we used to climb,” Geoff said with a grin. “There were a heck of a lot of birds in those days - sparrows, blackbirds, willy wagtails, gold finches. “There were trees here then. Now the trees are gone and birds are gone.” Few people know Noble Park as well as Geoff Watcher. He was six when his family arrived in the suburb in 1938. His parents Fred and Clarice bought their home in Stuart Street sight unseen. When the family arrived they discovered the house was uninhabitable because of the previous owner’s extensive menagerie. Stoically, they erected a tent in the yard and the cleaning and fumigating commenced. “It was much later that we discovered that this was the house that Joseph Bunn, the ‘Bush Baptist’ had built and lived in,” wrote Geoff in his book The Town of Noble Park and Some of its Early Residents. His parents ran a green-grocer business in the James building in Douglas Street. As a boy Geoff helped deliver the weekend orders in a horse and cart. When the roads flooded in winter deliveries always got through. Noble Park was built on part of the Carrum Swamp and in winter Douglas Street and the surrounding area became a muddy, almost impassable bog. Geoff said the wealthier early settlers chose higher ground and “the strugglers came to Noble Park”. He believes a number of settlers came from the gold mining village of Walhalla, bringing their homes down from the mountains and relocating them in Noble Park. Even a church was moved from Walhalla via bullock dray when the gold ran out. Many of the early settlers were also from Richmond and Collingwood who were forced out of their homes when the government embarked on a program of cleaning up the slums. “That’s why it was struggle town,” he said. According to the Victorian Places website, land in Noble Park started to be subdivided into market gardens in 1909. One of the vendors was Allan Buckley. The suburb was named after one of his six children, Noble Buckley, and streets were named after his
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Hall’s celebration and protest Residents of Noble Park celebrated the opening of their new public hall with a two-day carnival in July 1925. According to the City of Greater Dandenong Heritage Study, the foundation stone had been laid to a great deal of fanfare by local nurseryman Cyril Everett Isaac who proclaimed that the steps taken to build such a hall were “fine evidence of public spirit”. The opening celebrations extended over two days aimed at reducing the cost of the new facility. Initially the new hall proposal had appeared impossible to finance but the council had been persuaded to borrow £2200 on behalf of the community, which meant that £200 per year had to be raised for the repayments. To defray these costs the hall was leased to show pictures once a week and regular theme night dances held there proved to be extremely popular. From its opening the hall became the hub of the suburb’s important events and activities. It was the scene of a large and angry gathering to protest over the danger of the Noble Park railway crossing after yet another child was killed there in 1945. Threats were made to picket the train, and later that year a subway was constructed. Returned servicemen were welcomed home to their community with flags, flowers, dancing, music and singing. In 1948 a crowd of 400 was present at the unveiling of the WWII Honour Board, when there were just 600 houses in the township. Between 1949 and 1952 Anglican services were held in the hall after fire destroyed St Aiden’s Church. In 1961 it was used temporarily as quarters for the local high school until its own premises were opened. A proposal by Springvale Council to take over the hall was vigorously fought off in 1970, and when extensions were required in 1979 they were financed by a co-operative and built by voluntary labour. The rooms were named after long-standing chair of the hall trust, and former baker, Paddy O’Donoghue, who died in 1981.
The Noble Park Public Hall was built in Buckley Street in 1925.
The Noble Park Public Hall today.
Town built on road crossings According to the City of Greater Dandenong’s Heritage Study, Noble Park’s first shops were constructed on the corner of Buckley and Douglas streets. These were occupied in 1912 by Mr Hart and a Mrs Scott who conducted a post office from these premises. A boot maker’s business was also established in Douglas Street about the same time. In 1914, Mr Reeves built a shop in Douglas Street with a house at the rear. About the same time a general store was opened at the corner of Douglas Street and Leonard Avenue for Mrs O’Neill who also ran an agency for the State Savings Bank. As the population grew, so did the number of shops. After the Depression, hay and corn stores as well as timber yards were established at the Heatherton crossing by Dandenong Produce (1924) and later by Dalton and Saville (1927). Between 1922 and 1929 ‘private determination and Council representation helped to make substantial changes in keeping with the progressive spirit of a growing and prosperous Noble Park’, wrote local historian G. M. Hibbins. In the 1920s several new public buildings appeared, beginning in 1922 with St Anthony’s Church in Joy Parade which replaced an older building. Methodists began services in 1923 and they too built their own church in Alan Street in 1927. Frank Buckley donated the land for most of these buildings, as well as a further two acres for the railway station.
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He’s the best of British By Casey Neill Rob Boyle’s British butcher shop has been a Dandenong fixture for 26 years this November. “I used to work for a firm in Dandenong called Peter’s Meats,” he said. “They were behind the post office. I started there in ’88, I think. “They were Dutch background butchers. They were well-established, very good name.” He worked there for six years. “I was happy as a pig in mud,” he said. “After working around the traps for a while, in Australia, finding my feet, I really felt at home there. “But they said they were closing down by the end of the year. “I think they’d been in Dandenong since the ’60s, or something like that. “I wondered what to do. I thought I’d go out on my own and do a little bit of what I’d learnt from them.” Rob went to extraordinary lengths to find the perfect location. “I sat outside an empty shot in McCrae Street in Dandenong,” he said. “An old butcher’s shop had shut down. It was up for lease and I sat outside it every day in my lunch hour and counted the people going by to see if there was enough to make a living.” He sussed out his Lonsdale Street storefront in the same way. The previous tenant had gone bankrupt and owed the landlord money. Rob covered the debt and took on the lease. “I opened up Rob’s Continental Butchers,” he said. “I tried to make things I’d learnt. It was steadily going along. But people kept asking me, with my accent of course, ‘why don’t you make pork pie’. “I thought that was old hat and it wouldn’t go.” But Rob decided to give the food from his homeland a chance. “I asked the abattoir for a bucket of blood and he sent me 20 litres,” he said.
The world’s ‘oldest paperboy’ Alfie Goldburg with historical society vounteer Lorraine Webb. 173388 Picture: ROB CAREW
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Rob Boyle shows off English pork sausages and bacon. 173791 “I took two litres of it and got an old recipe out.” The black pudding he produced sold out within hours. “Now we make 260 kilograms of black pudding a week,” he said. “We send it all over Australia. “A lot of the hotels in the city here use it, like the Windsor.” He slowly made the transition to the British specialty butcher he runs today. Rob and his team make about 90 products, from British sausages to haggis. “We don’t just do English, we do Scottish and Irish,” he said. “The Scots were the first ones that came when I started making the products. They love the black pudding. “The Scots are a tight knit community. The word soon got around.
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“I think the British were a bit suspect. They’d had pork pies from the supermarkets. I had to reignite their tastebuds.” Rob has won countless awards over the years and is in the running for more from the Australian Meat Industry Council (AMIC) for his chicken snags, chorizo and kransky. “They say behind every good man is a better woman,” he said. “Jill is always there to encourage me. It’s been a long road but it’s been a good road and I’ve always enjoyed coming to work and doing what I do. “A lot of small businesses, especially in the meat industry, have gone under in the past few years. It’s pretty hard out there. “Supermarkets are always trying to underdo you. “It’s really up to the people to make sure small business keeps going. “It’s about getting off your backside.”
Alfie Goldburg calls himself the “world’s oldest paperboy”. Alfie, 91, delivers copies of the Journal to the rooms of the Dandenong and District Historical Society as often as his health permits. Shuffling into the society’s rooms in Clow Street, Alfie is greeted warmly by the handful of members who are busy researching, scanning and organising the society’s vast collection. He has four copies of the Journal to deliver on this particular day. “I’ve got a bit behind,” he said, removing his red beanie to reveal large divots in his skull where doctors had operated. Alfie moved to Noble Park in 1956. He was sales manager for Goldberg International, which imported shoes and clothing. “I got £30 a week plus a car, which was pretty good in those days.” Alfie and wife Audrey bought their home on Heatherton Road in 1957 for £3275. Alfie still lives there today. He organises the Journals in date order and carefully places them in a tray to be added to the society’s vast catalogue of local newspapers. Alfie never misses an issue. “I read the whole lot. I like to see who’s who and what’s what.”
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Blaze burns into their yesteryear By Narelle Coulter When fire damaged two buildings in Lonsdale Street in September the flames revealed hidden sections of Dandenong’s history. The fire peeled away modern hoardings, revealing the hand-painted signs on the original brickwork advertising the former tenants of the two old buildings - Judd’s Men’s Wear and Finlayson’s Pharmacy. According to records compiled by the Dandenong and District Historical Society, 277 Lonsdale Street was first occupied in 1870 by William Thomson who ran a newsagent. In 1912 it became a watchmakers and in the 1920s a drapery owned by PH Tullett. George Judd took over the building in 1932 opening Judd’s Men’s Wear. The Judd family later ran an electrical store there. Number 275 Lonsdale Street was first occupied in 1870 by storekeeper S. Smithson. In 1912 it became Couves Pharmacy. It remained a pharmacy under numerous different owners until the 1960s. On Wednesday 25 June 1952 the Dandenong Journal reported that Mr Finlayson had sold his business. “After having successfully conducted his well-known Lonsdale St. Pharmacy for approximately 20 years, Mr. A. G. (Bert) Finlayson has disposed of his business to Mr. Charles McKeon, of Beaumaris, an ex-Serviceman, who has previously conducted successful pharmacies at Wyong (N.S.W.) and Elsternwick. “Mr. McKeon takes over on July 1st, and as a young businessman will receive a cordial welcome. “He intends to take up his residence here as soon as possible.
A photograph of 275 and 277 Lonsdale Street from the archives of the Dandenong and District Historical Society.
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These are the men from Uncles By Casey Neill
The building’s former tenants were revealed after a fire in September. “After a long and successful business career Mr. Finlayson intends to go into well-earned retirement and take things easy. “The many friends of Bert and his wife will be pleased to know that they intend to continue to live in Dandenong. “Next Saturday they will leave on a 3-weeks’ trip to Cairns - and may they strike better weather than we’ve been having here!”
Uncles Smallgoods is the last man standing in what was once a bustling foodie strip in Dandenong. “These shops along here in Thomas Street are unchanged,” co-owner Bert Glinka said. “Uncles Smallgoods, that’s been used as a butchery and for smallgoods for, basically, forever.” Uncles appeared in 1994. Mr Glinka and Brendan D’Amelio acquired the store in September 2013. They opened cafe Young Uncles next door to sell quality coffee, meals featuring the deli’s smallgoods and more. “Young Uncles used to be an old pet shop, then it was a video library,” Mr Glinka said. But back in the day, the strip was home to fruiterers, grocers and bakeries.
“We’re the last one’s left standing,” he said. “You can still get a taste of the old in our deli. We’re still manufacturing here. There’s the same old smokers out the back.” Mr Glinka and Mr D’Amelio had corporate jobs they hated and decided to sell Uncles sausages at a festival, to huge success. “We really believed in the product, we couldn’t stop eating that sausage,” Mr Glinka said. The elderly Uncles owners were looking to step back and put the duo to the test with a truckload of wood for the smoker before agreeing to hand over the reins. This year they launched a sausage bouquet for Valentine’s Day and were inundated with demand. Their online store is now going strong, they acquired a factory in Dandenong late last year to pursue the wholesale market, and opened cafe Sunny and Thor in Dandenong’s Harmony Square to great success.
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Dedicated to their past By Narelle Coulter
Members of the Dandenong and District Historical Society, back from left, Ken Masters, Gwenda Fleming, Jenny Ferguson, Ray Carter, Carmen Powell and Tom Stein. Front, Margaret Weightman, Judy Grant, Beverley Purcell and David Nassau. 173388 Picture: ROB CAREW
Dandenong’s vast history is being carefully preserved thanks to a dedicated band of volunteers at the Dandenong and District Historical Society. Each Wednesday a handful of volunteers gather at the society’s rooms in the former municipal building in Clow Street. They index and digitally store photographs, documents and ephemera, they answer heritage inquiries from individuals, businesses and local government, and publish a twice-yearly magazine called Gipps-Land Gate. The society occasionally publishes books and hosts exhibitions including an annual exhibition at the Dandenong Show. It was a letter to the Dandenong Journal from
reader Susan Perham on 3 April 1963 that led to the formation of the DDHS. Ms Perham wrote to the editor urging the local community to record and preserve Dandenong’s history and memoirs before they were lost. An inaugural meeting was held in Ms Perham’s home on 5 June. Three weeks later the Dandenong and District Historical Society was formed. One of the society’s founding members was legendary Journal editor Greg Dickson. Mr Dickson became a life member and was editor of the Gipps-Land Gate for 22 years from its first issue until his death in 1993. When he sold the paper Greg Dickson donated his collection of South Bourke and Mornington Journals and Dandenong Journals dating back to 1877.
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Somehow history gets you … I like to find out the reasons why… JENNY FERGUSON
Another hero of the society’s story is Marjory Criddle who rescued a large number of historical negatives from disposal after Beaver Photographics was sold. Today the society has 135 members. Secretary Jenny Ferguson was in her 20s when she joined in 1973. She has been secretary since 2004. “I came to Victoria to work at the new Dandenong Library from South Australia. I thought I would join the society so I would find out a bit more about the place I was working.” Jenny’s late husband Alan joined her as a member. “Somehow history gets you,” Jenny said, who completed a thesis on the history of the Dandenong Market. “I guess I’ve always had a love of history. I like to find out the reasons why. Why did this happen as it did.” Tom Stein grew up in Dandenong and joined the society two years ago. Recently Tom has been helping digitally catalogue the society’s vast collection of material. When the Journal visited he was working through a folder of photographs of the town’s old ice works. Owned by the Brown family, the ice works were in McCrae Street before they moved to Cheltenham Road. “I enjoy getting things organised,” Tom said. “We don’t have any central catalogue so it’s important that we create one.” Fellow member Ray Carter’s interest in history was piqued when he wrote a history of the Salvation Army in the region in 1988. “I had to get a lot of information from the historical society and the people were so lovely and helpful that I joined.” Ray has created a slide show of photographs documenting the redevelopment of the Dandenong Market, which will be on display at November’s Dandenong Show. He loves visiting other historical societies when he is away on holiday and spends countless hours exploring old issues of the Journal on Trove, the online newspaper archive. Ray estimates that he has corrected 36,000 lines of text on Trove. Jenny Ferguson said people were welcome to visit the rooms on a Wednesday. She said the society needed volunteers who were good at research and were competent with computers. “We aren’t old-fashioned in the way we go about cataloguing. “We are preparing ourselves to be an internet resource,” she said.
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Left: The Cosy Corner Cafe inundated by flood water on the corner of Foster and Lonsdale, Dandenong. Above: The corner site is now home to the Arkana building.
The James family was inflential in early Noble Park. Bill ‘Pop’ James ran a general store and insurance business in Douglas Street. “They pretty well had the whole street,” remembered local historian Geoff Watcher.
Leonard Avenue was home to Noble Park’s nurse Lee. Local historian Geoff Watcher remembers the nurse’s residence doubled as a hospital in the 1930s.
In the 1960s nurse Lee’s Noble Park house was knocked down to make way for a strip of shops.
St Jame’s church celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2015. The foundation stone was laid on 5 July 1864 by the Governor of Victoria Sir Charles Darling and the opening and dedication took place on 2 January 1865. The church is one of Dandenong’s most historic buildings.
Dandenong’s Presbyterian Church and hall in 1919. Today the site is home to Dandenong Magistrates’ Court.
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The James Building is now home to Noble Park Discount Shop.
St Jame’s Church as it appears today.
Noble Park’s Leonard Avenue shopping strip as it appears today.
St Mary’s Parish Church was founded on 18 April 1883 by Archbishop Goold. The present site on Foster Street was obtained in 1855 and the first Mass was said there in December 1864 by the same Archbishop in a tent. The next day, he laid the first stone for the first St Mary’s Church, which was completed in 1866.
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Douglas Street, Noble Park, in flood looking towards Heatherton Road with the James store, W. Bartlett Bakery and the barber’s salon visible.
The same scene in Douglas Street today.
Left: Douglas Street, Noble Park, was notorious for becoming a muddy bog in winter. The business in the background is a barber’s salon. Above: The site is now occupied by K.J. Howard Real Estate.
The Dandenong Fire Brigade station on Walker Street was opened in 1930.
The site is now home to the Walker Street Gallery.
An earlier Albion Hotel photographed in 1861.
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The Noble Park Fire Station in Buckley Street was opened in 1931.
Worshippers gather outside Noble Park’s Methodist Church in Frank Street.
Thos Green Shoeing and General Smith operated on the Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, site where Woolworths would later open a supermarket.
The Noble Park train station now stands on the site of the old fire station.
The site of the old church is now park land.
Today the site is home to Chemist Warehouse.
The McRae family ran a butcher’s shop in Buckley Street, Noble Park.
Dandenong’s first Post and Telegraph Office was opened in 1879 in Lonsdale Street. This photograph was taken around 1890.
The original Ford Car Depot next to J.L. Tulloch blacksmith in Pultney Street, Dandenong.
The site is now a medical centre next to the Noble Park Fire Station.
The original post office was knocked down and rebuilt in the same location in 1962.
The site is now home to a collection of shops including a jewellers and beauty salon.
Sir Gilbert George Benson Boileau built a house on the triangle of land borded by the Princes Highway and Clow Street, Dandenong, in 1934. He lived there with his wife and five daughters. It was demolished in the 1960s and replaced with an Esso service station.
Crump General Store was on the corner of Walker and Lonsdale streets, Dandenong.
The corner of Douglas and Buckley streets in Noble Park was once home to a general store and post office.
The site later became home to McEwens and Savers and, most recently, Bestway.
Today the site is home to a grocery store with a international flavour.
Today the site is home to a KFC restaurant. GREATER DANDENONG THEN AND NOW
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Dandenong’s Bridge Hotel in Lonsdale Street in 1892. The hotel doubled as the the town’s Cobb and Co Coach station.
The Bridge Hotel is now the Jim Dandy. Some original features are still visible.
The Shamrock Hotel on the corner of Lonsdale and Scott streets, Dandenong.
The site is now occupied by Chisholm TAFE.
Tharle Bros. Butchers was on the corner of Walker and Langhorne streets, Dandenong.
That corner is now occupied by McLennan Real Estate.
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Drum Theatre’s landmark clock tower didn’t always feature a clock. The Lonsdale Street building started life as the Dandenong Town Hall in 1890. Greater Dandenong Council’s Bridget Flood said there weren’t the funds to install a clock in the John Beswicke-designed tower at the time. “That was very similar to a lot of town halls,” she said. “They built the town hall and the clock was installed years later.” Dandenong raised funds for the feature at jubilee celebrations in 1933. It was installed the following year and struck 117 times on the night it was unveiled.
“Someone had to go up there and turn it off,” Ms Flood said. “The clock would just go haywire in the middle of the night. “People used to have to go down there and turn it off.” Guests at the hotel across the street used to complain, and the caretaker living in the hall had to endure the incessant chiming. Ms Flood said lightning had struck the clock on several occasions and in November 1982 four youths risked their lives to scale the tower and smashed the clock face. But the timepiece has endured and is still a recognisable Dandenong feature. Ms Flood said the tower space wasn’t open to the public, so the Journal’s images offer a rare glimpse inside. GREATER DANDENONG THEN AND NOW
Market built an inspiring future By Narelle Coulter The weekly market for the sale of horses, cows, pigs, poultry, etc., has been commenced at Dandenong, at the newly erected market yards there. With that small newspaper notice published on Saturday 27 October 1866, the Dandenong Market was born. In the book Dandenong Market Fresh and Vibrant Since 1866, author Michael Schmith writes: “That spring Saturday in October, although it is still not known for certain if it was the actual first trading day, was Dandenong’s defining moment: when its transition from township to market town was assured, confident it would augur well for its future.” By 1870 when the market began operating weekly, it attracted about 300 vendors, including general merchandisers making the journey from Melbourne. In ensuing years the original market site quickly became crowded forcing the council to look at the long-term future of the market. In 1890 the council purchased the Grange Estate, a 13-acre site in Clow Street. However, it would be nearly 40 years before the market moved to its new home. Former Dandenong mayor Maurie Jarvis wrote of about cattle being driven through the streets of Dandenong by “whip-cracking horsemen”. “Sometimes I would wag school to spend time at the market, which was then located on Main Street (now Lonsdale Street) from Clow Street to the rear of the post office. “Cattle pens ran back from the footpath on the east side and a fresh produce section ran along the wide footpaths. “Every Tuesday, drovers and cattle dealers would drive a fairly large mob through the railway gates at the end of Pickett Street, along Railway Parade to Hemming Street and Close Street and across the highway to the market entry in the McCrae Street area. “A horseman would gallop up each footpath,
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closing the gates in the mainly picket fences, while residents and children watched the scene through the fences and windows.” It took until 1927 for the council to move the market from its small one-acre site on the corner of Lonsdale and McCrae streets to a much larger site on the corner of Clow and Cleeland streets. The Lonsdale Street site had become a severe health risk. “The combination of livestock in the middle of town, open drains carrying sewage and garbage, and a stench described as almost unbearable, was a health threat that could no longer be ignored,’ wrote Mr Schmith. The council borrowed £4000 and moved the market in stages officially opening it in October 1927. A Journal report written the same year notes that “the range of stalls included fruit, vegetables, confectionary, nursery products, books, fancy
goods, flowers, drapery, fish, meat, rabbits, hosiery, clothing, sewing machines, boots and shoes, leather and leather ware, ironmongery, chemists, goods, soft goods, groceries, whips, smallgoods, furniture and sundries”. During World War II the market site and the adjoining showgrounds were taken over by the military as an AIF training camp. From early June 1940, all of the produce sections, including the poultry section, had been converted into sleeping quarters for recruits more than 1000 men. In 1950 the Argus reported that “Dandenong’s stock market, at present in the centre of the town, is to be moved to near the railway station at a cost of £100,000 pounds. “Dandenong Market is regarded as the biggest general market in Australia, but the present yards are quite inadequate. “It is considered that many Gippsland graziers
who at present send their stock to Newmarket will patronise Dandenong when the new yards are built.” The stock and produce markets were split in 1958 when the new cattle yards in Cheltenham Road were opened on 13 January. Cattle were bought and sold at the site until December 1998 when the yards were finally closed. Several hundred people attended a commemorative stockman’s barbecue in one of the sale sheds. A cow was painted with the words RIP Dandenong at the final sale. The surviving market underwent major revitalisation in the first decade of the new millennium. Stage one (March 2005 to October 2006) included a new Aldi store, a loading dock and new waste areas. Stage two (January 2009 to April 2010) included a new general merchandise hall, as well as conversion of the existing general merchandise hall to create a meat, fish and chicken area. Last year the market celebrated its 150th anniversary with the commissioning of a commemorative book, mural and sculpture. Today the market is home to more than 200 traders. It attracts 100,000 visitors a week or 5.2 million visitors a year.
Still showing off its growing success This year marks 50 years since the Dandenong Show made its monumental move to Greaves Reserve. Its previous homes, both of which it outgrew, were the Dandenong Market site, which hosted the show from 1872 to 1907, and the Clow Street Market reserve, where it remained until 1966. The year 1967 saw the first show held at Greaves Reserve, which was named after the late William Greaves who donated a portion of the land. With 4175 entries and a gate total $4234, the show was a record breaker. A fixture of the Dandenong Show for more than 60 years, John Follett has seen the show develop into the event that is known and loved today. Having attended the show since his days in the pram, John has held a number of positions since joining the committee in 1971, including presidency in 1981, 2002 and 2003, as well as serving on various sub-committees. A safety committee member since 2000, John has been security chairman for more than 20 years and the grounds committee chairman since 2015. “I was elected to the committee in 1971 which was the year my father was president,” John said. “But I had a lot of involvement with show before that ... mainly with organising the show. But when we first went to Greaves Reserve my work was sitting on a tractor seat - pulling competitors in and out because the reserve land hadn’t been developed so there weren’t many solid tracks around the reserve to take horse floats and so forth.” Prior to the show’s move to Greaves Reserve, John admitted that the Clow Street Market reserve was “fairly cramped”. However, the relocation meant the show increased in space from “10 to about 40 acres”. In the years since, the reserve’s development has continued exponentially by way of erecting ground amenities, construction of exhibitions, sheep, poultry pavilions and cattle tie-up rails, the addition of arena fencing, galvanized seating around the arena and the installation of power, as well as the construction of an administration building, lighting towers, and the completion of GREATER DANDENONG THEN AND NOW
Stephanie, 6, Anna, 15 months, and Matthew, 4, on a family trip to the show last year. 146924
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On horseback at the show.
A picnic at the 1910 show.
the Historic Cattle Sale Ring Complex. John said that while the show attracted around 15,000 people annually, the organising committee strove to maintain the show’s link to Dandenong’s agricultural roots.
“We’ve endeavoured not to allow the show to become too commercialised - we can work on the back of a comment that was made at the Melbourne Show - that we aim bring the country to the city,” John said.
“But the show has got to where it is today through the volunteers - the dedication of the people, as well as the effort and time they put in.” This year’s show will be held on 11 and 12 November.
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Long lost era comes back to life Carmen Powell is a life member of the Dandenong and District Historical Society. She attended Dandenong East Primary School and Dandenong High School before getting a job at K. L. Farm Equipment in Gladstone Road. She opened the first art gallery in Dandenong in Vanity Court Arcade. Carmen reminisces about the friendly delivery men who were regular visitors to her childhood home in New Street. Two exciting regulars to come down our street were the milkman and the baker. The milkman was invisible - just a collection of sounds in the night. The first sound you heard was the slow echoey ‘clip clop’ of the milkman’s horse in the silent early morning air. Sometimes if the horse was too slow he would call aggressively, “camarn”. Then our turn was recognised by the squeak of the front gate, the rattle of coins being tipped from the empty bottles, the ‘clink-clink’ as empties were exchanged for full followed by the loud rattley crash as he tossed empties into the wire crates on his cart. Quietness was not a skill he bothered with. The horse would walk slowly the whole way without a driver while the milkman ran behind it from house to house with deliveries. Often by the time we fetched the milk from the gate in the early mornings, magpies or crows would have pecked holes in the cardboard bottle tops and drunk the first two inches of cream. Mr Staff was the delivery man for Robert’s Bakery. Mr Staff was a small man with a big sense of humour and I looked forward to his smile and friendly manner. He always wore a short white cotton dustcoat over his shirt and tie. If you were playing outside you could hear his cheery call and the horse’s metal shoes on the gravel long before he arrived outside our house. I would always run out the front to meet him if I wasn’t already hanging over the wire gate waiting. His brightly painted green and yellow wagon had the word ‘Baker’ painted in large burgundy letters on both sides. There was a padded seat at the front of the cart with a cantilevered roofline projected forward over the driver for protection from the elements. There was also some kind of wheel brake lever on the right hand side that locked the wheels when the wagon was stopped and the reins were looped around over the front rail. He called daily and never missed whether it was rain, hail or heat wave. There was no obligation for you to buy and many times I heard Mum say “nothing today, thanks”. His horse had leather blinkers each side of his head which narrowed his vision to the road in front. To keep the flies at bay plaited strings hung over his eyes. I sometimes parted the plaited strings so he could see clearly for a minute or two and I could look into his beautiful big brown eyes. His eyes and wiry eyelashes appealed to me, his twitching velvety nose was so warm to touch and the smell of him was enchanting. Occasionally he had a feed bag covering his nose and when they stopped he would press it on the road and snort loudly into it. Having found something to chew he would relax one back leg and his huge rump would sag to one side and that action tilted the wagon forward - wagon and horse moved in rhythmical unison. Mr Staff carried a huge cane basket full of fresh baked goodies around to your back door calling “ba-ker” as he went. Inside his basket was an assortment of bread styles - round, rectangular, or oval high tin loaves. He also carried spicy buns, bread rolls - round or long, sesame or plain, wholemeal or white. I guess he soon learned each customer’s preferences. One day while counting out the dozen iced buns Mum had ordered, Mr Staff added one extra and explained that a baker’s dozen was different to a regular dozen. On the way back to the kitchen with a new loaf of bread I often pinched out the end of a loaf and ate it. Then I’d hurriedly try to smooth the now concave end by eating more bits off the edge but it never quite worked. If anyone noticed - they never spoke it. When Mr Staff went off and left the door to the wagon open I would crane my neck and peer into the darkness.
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R. Robert and Sons mobile bakery. I could see wire racks of enticing wares. I always wanted to climb the couple of steps and make the wagon sway and lurch as Mr Staff did when he either climbed down or aboard. Each time when he opened the door of his wagon my nostrils flared as the wonderful warm freshly baked aroma hit me and beckoned me into that magical world of gluttony. After he had moved further down the street I loved the warm familiar smell of the steaming droppings occasionally left behind by his horse.
Judith Eckstein chatting with the milkman in Aratula Street, 1961.
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Tharle Brothers Butchers.
Meat Tharle’s, the butchers Tharle’s the local butcher shop in Langhorne Street - on the point where it met Lonsdale Street - was always an interesting and fun place to visit after school. I liked the smell of the thick saw dust coating the floor which was raked neatly into tiny rows in the mornings but welltrampled by afternoon. It was interesting to see the long twisted ropes of sausages hung from thick metal hooks. I could never forget looking at half of an upsidedown lamb, or pig, or a massive beef carcass all hung from hooks that were pierced through their naked skinny ankles and the high-pitched sound of metal on metal as the butcher pushed a carcass along the overhead rail which looped around the inside walls of the shop. I enjoyed the friendly smile and crazy comical banter of Mr Tharle the handsome butcher as he chatted with you while he rolled and sliced meat into matching sizes on the worndown wooden work table and chopped the
connecting bone with a cleaver to create a row of perfect little lamb chops. His white shirt with its rolled-up sleeves was protected by his thick and bloodied navy and white striped apron. The thick leather sheath on his hip that hung from the belt around his waist held his sharpened knives that rattled as he walked and I remember the ‘thunk’ when the knife landed back in the sheath and the ‘sliss-sliss’ as he sharpened his long knife on the sharpening steel. His trousers were always tucked into bloodied white gumboots. Then when your order was filled and wrapped neatly in white paper you took it to the chatty cashier near the door - a pretty greyhaired woman with a bright smile. I knew it as a happy place. Don’t miss next week’s Journal when Carmen writes about her father Alf Cruickshank and his brother, George, who were Dandenong ice and fuel merchants. GREATER DANDENONG THEN AND NOW
Irish home carries on the legacy By Narelle Coulter Wallara and Wintringham residents, back row, Bianca, Yasitha, Kim, Camilo and John and, front, Ruby, Alan, Kevin, Hong and Eddie. 173339 Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS
“The Swords held garden parties here. They used to play croquet on the lawn. If I close my eyes I can just see them, staff serving the guests, the cucumber sandwiches” Kay Noy is conjuring up a mental image of the fund-raising garden parties held at Nenagh Lodge, one of Dandenong’s grand old homes in Close Avenue. Joan Elizabeth Swords, widow of Fredrick Swords, whose family founded the Dandenong Advertiser newspaper, purchased the property in 1936. She named it Nenagh Lodge after the town in County Tipperary, Ireland, where Fredrick’s mother was born. The Greater Dandenong Heritage Study describes the house as a “gabled form English domestic bungalow style house with unglazed Marseilles pattern terracotta tiles to the roof, shingled and half-timbered gable ends, cement capped brick chimneys with tall chimney pots, unusual Tudor styled casement windows set in groups with leaded and stained glass, exposed rafter ends, bracketed and board lined eaves, and a gabled entrance porch”. According to a history of the Sword family prepared by the Dandenong and District Historical Society, the family took a keen philanthropic interest in the local community. That tradition continued at Nenagh Lodge where Mrs Swords held functions, including lavish garden parties, to aid the Dandenong and District Hospital as well as the agricultural society, St James Church of England and the Dandenong Boy Scouts Ladies Committee. During the Second World War she organised functions to raise money for the Red Cross. Joan Swords passed away at Nenagh Lodge in January 1948, aged 74. She and Frederick had 12 children. Her son Ted Swords then occupied Nenagh Lodge with his wife, Catherine, living there until 1967. On 13 November 1967 ownership of Nenagh passed to Dandenong charity Wallara, known in those days as the Dandenong Mentally Retarded Children’s Welfare Association. At the time a Journal reporter wrote that Nenagh was “set in an acre of attractive grounds and flanked by a swimming pool, it has been the scene of countless functions to aid various charities”. Fifty years later Nenagh is now known as Williamson House. Even though it lies within the grounds of Wallara, the house is used by Wintringham Aged Care as accommodation for the elderly. Its new name recognised the funding provided by the D.T. Williamson Foundation for the restoration of the property in 2011. Kay Noy is Wallara’s longest-serving employee. She has seen Wallara and Nenagh go through many transformations over the years. Part of her job is showing students around the vast Wallara complex in Potter Street. “It’s a lovely building. I run Wallara’s Insight Program and I always take students to the house and explain its history. “The students ask a lot of questions and I love
Nenagh Lodge before it underwent renovation in the mid-2000s.
Nenagh Lodge with its unusual Tudor-style windows.
The front parlour and wooden staircase.
talking to them about the Swords family and the garden parties held here.” One of those who remember the garden parties at Nenagh Lodge is life-long Dandenong resident Ken Masters. Ken’s mother took him to the garden parties when he was a boy. “The garden was extraordinary in the old days. It was a rare thing in Dandenong to have a swimming pool, even though every time I saw it the
pool was empty. The house was a beautiful big old home, double-storey with a sweeping staircase up the middle. “I was also fascinated by the peacocks in the garden.” Little remains of the original garden save for a huge Canary Island palm in front of the house. And there are also rumours that Nenagh is haunted. “Staff who worked here were convinced there
was a ghost,” Kay said. “Things they had moved had been moved back, noises, little things like that.” She said Nenagh was a special part of Wallara and she felt sure Mrs Swords would approve that her old home was being used as a place of shelter for the elderly. “I’m sure Mrs Swords would be delighted to know it is still helping those less fortunate than they were. It is really carrying on the legacy.”
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Keen to tune into the early radios The late Jack Johnson was the author of When the Clock Strikes, a fascinating account of growing up in Dandenong, his years tending to the city’s pipes and drains as a plumber and bringing up a family with wife Frances in their beloved home in Macpherson Street. On the left of Patterson’s Hay and Grain Store was William’s Radio Shop. This was in the early days of radio after crystal sets, before radio or wireless sets began to be mass-produced and a fair while before Bakelite sets replaced the wooden cabinets. Mr Williams also had the only public address system in Dandenong, which consisted of large speakers mounted on the roof of an old motor van. I think that van had not long replaced a horsedrawn vehicle.
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BACK JACK JOHNSON He attended all the Dandenong shows and gymkhanas held in the old showground in Clow Street. He also did many other gatherings including St Patrick’s Day sports. We would go into Mr William’s shop and were intrigued to get close to those large speakers which sat on the floor at the back of the shop.
On the right side of Patterson’s Store was McLennan Estate Agency which still operates in about the same spot alongside McLennan Lane. At that time the laneway was nothing more than a track with large timber and corrugated iron gates that led around the back of the McLennan shop to Patterson’s loading dock at the rear. It was through those gates that the horses and wagons entered the driveway coming and going from the roofed over loading dock. A circular driveway at the rear of the shops gave access to the horse paddock on McCrae Street. Also fronting the circular driveway were sheds, stables and a pair of can dunnies, male and female, for the use of the shopkeepers, as the Dandenong Sewerage Authority was not formed until 1936. There was an old post-and-rail fence on Mc-
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Crae Street to which people coming to the stock or produce market could tie up their horse-drawn carts. On the other side of the McLennan laneway in Lonsdale Street was Alexander’s Grocery Store which had, I think, one of the first motorised delivery vans in Dandenong. This shop would become part of Boyd’s Gippsland Hardware business, which also had warehouses on the other side of McCrae Street. Today it is the Dandenong Arcade and about where the warehouses were is now Myer’s front entrance in Palm Plaza. South Eastern Timber Company and Rockard Fibro Plaster also once operated from this warehouse area, and at this time the open drain still angled through the property.
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100 years ago 18 October 1917 Band rotunda proposed At a meeting of the Dandenong patriotic league on Monday evening it was reported the successful reception of returned soldiers. The need of a band rotunda in the park had been referred by the Hon Secretary of the brass band to bring the subject before the league members of the brass band would undertake the erection of the rotunda and members were invited to co-operate. The league supported the action taken by the band and intimated to the council that they are prepared to do so.
50 years ago 17 October 1967 A piece of history has disappeared Dandenong history went under the hammer
this week with the final demolition of the historical old weatherboard building the Salvation Army Citadel on a prime site at the corner of Walker and Mason Streets in Dandenong. Yesterday all that remained of the once proud building was a pile of still warm ashes from a small pile of rubbish raked together on the cramped block. A representative of Springvale Demolitions, which wrecked the citadel, said the old weatherboard materials would be sold. Tearing down the building took seven days. “We’ll be the first to let you know if we find a welcome nugget,” said one of the workmen jokingly. The old hall was brought from the historical town of Walhalla 50 years ago and the final Sunday service was held there last July. The site has been sold to Mr George R Shaw of Mt Eliza who will build a number of modern shops and offices there.
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Signs are good for manufacturing By Casey Neill
Tom and Todd Hartley on the Hilton Manufacturing floor in 2014. the CNC (computer numerical control) equipment we’ve purchased, the industry’s changed. “We’ve always been opportunists. “Even if we didn’t have the capability to make the part, we always told the client ‘of course we can make the part’. “We’ve, basically, grown the business on opportunity.” The Hartleys have always poured profits back into the business. “We’ve never been scared to buy the most re-
cent piece of equipment,” Todd said. “We knew the way to grow was by introducing new capabilities into our business.” Hilton has always manufactured everything in-house rather than subcontracting. “That made us very competitive out in the market place,” he said. Today’s clients include Kenworth, Volvo, Mack, Volgren buses, defence company Rheinmetall, and Jayco caravans. Hilton has also entered the traffic management
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Dream factory gives clients a lift By Helen Velissaris Anyone who walks into Norden Group’s Dandenong workshop would think they were in a mechanic’s garage. But in reality, Norden Group is in the business of making life-changing experiences come true. Norden Group director Robert Anson has been fitting out buses and cars to safely and efficiently transport those in wheelchairs for more than 40 years. The family owned and run business has become a leading force in car conversion in Australia for people with special needs. It has given families a ticket to a dream holiday, the ability to get to and from school or just the chance to forego relying on the community bus. Stefan Deane was able to realise his dream to visit Uluru thanks to the help of a Norden converted van. He wasn’t able to fly because there were no wheelchair friendly cars in the red centre and his fragile health was also a hurdle. But he not only got to Uluru but had a much longer holiday than expected. “I was driven around over 5500kms to Coober Pedy, Alice Springs and Kings Canyon in my wheelchair with oxygen machine, humidifier, suction pump and everything else,” he wrote after the trip. “Hurdles turn into mere road humps if you dare to dream.” Hearing those stories is why Robert Anson continues to push to make the technology better and more affordable. He’s helped thousands of clients become more mobile and achieve some added independence. “When you get the family in front of you, you’ve solved their problem, and they’re just thanking you - that’s just a buzz,” he told the Dandenong Journal. The business initially started as a body works shop to convert trucks and buses for businesses. Robert’s father, Ronald Anson, had a knack for fixing up old caravans and renting them out to holidaygoers. He decided to expand into commercial vehicles and in 1959 he opened Norden Group. The business began humbly but soon was offering chassis modifications, tipping bodies, custom-built semi-trailers, curtain side bodies and agricultural hydraulic fittings. But in the ’80s the business would enter a new phase thanks to a chance meeting. Ronald happened to sit down next to the chief executive of the Dandenong Hospital at his first Rotary meeting and in no time was asked if he could convert a vehicle to be wheelchair accessible. “Dad said ‘I had no right to say yes, but I did’,” Robert said. That inability to say no to challenging jobs is what has kept the business going and growing. The first conversion was a huge effort. “It was a bit painful,” Robert said. “We had to reinvent the wheel and learn as we went.” The finished product was exactly what the hos-
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Robert and Aaron Anson at the Norden workshop. 173264 pital needed and staff immediately started using it to transport patients to and from the hospital. Thanks to word of mouth, more clients came knocking. Norden now provides wheelchair conversions for the Victorian State Government fleet, taxis, disability organisations, aged care facilities, private families and multi-purpose vehicles. The modifications can cost between $12,000 and $25,000 but are built to last. The company also offers major servicing for its conversions and has a fleet of mobile units to fix minor repairs. Norden also makes parts because it struggles to source the right pieces. “We got frustrated because we never had the equipment we needed,” Robert said. From overseas shipping costs and elongated arrival times, it made sense to locally produce parts. Norden Hydraulic Connections began in 1986 to supply fluid conveying products and Norden RV came to life to stock parts for caravans, motorhomes and 4WDs. Like any long-running business, hard times have hit the company.
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One of the early bus conversions.
The 1992 recession saw bank appointed auditors visiting workshop every week but the family’s determination never waned. “We had in excess of $1 million worth of debt and dad doubled down on the property, mortgaged it to the hilt, mortgaged his house to the hilt,” Robert said. “But we got through it eventually.” Now three generations of the Anson’s work at Norden.
Son Aaron said some of his earliest memories are of running around the workshop and counting bolts during school holidays. He will be steering the campaign to see more families use converted cars for personal use and not have to rely on community buses and facility vehicles. For more information and to see the line of products available, visit www.norden.com.au or call 1300 99 68 93.
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EDUCATION CHOICES
Dandenong High School has been educating students since 1919. When the school opened as a result of the determined efforts of a group of leading citizens, students were placed in temporary accommodation in the fire station, Temperance Hall and Church of Christ. The foundation stone was laid in November and by 1920 the permanent and substantial two-storey red brick building was ready. Almost immediately the growth in student numbers meant the facilities were inadequate, necessitating urgent extensions. This pattern was to be repeated throughout the coming decades. A new wing was soon added, forming the familiar quadrangle of today.
In 2009 a regeneration project started at the school to create a ‘super school’ with seven new award-winning house buildings catering for more than 2000 students. The original building was retained.
Dandenong Primary School opened on 4 May 1874. The school moved to its present site on Foster Street in 1881. This photograph was taken in 1887 to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee.
The Gothic-inspired building as it appears today. In 1881 the ornate style was considered to add significantly to the architecture of the township. The building contained three rooms, one for boys, one for girls and a gallery. It had very modern fittings that included a porch, a hat rack and ventilation.
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Principal Anne Martin and award winners at the end of year Graduation Ceremony.
College focus on its young adults Hallam Senior College staff aim to provide all students with the maximum opportunity for personal and academic growth in a supportive environment, one specially designed for students in their later years of secondary education. Hallam Senior College offers an extensive range of study options in Year 10, VCE, VET and VCAL that enable staff to personalise a student’s timetable through a focused program approach. The Year 10 program includes a choice of more than 30 electives as well as specialist programs in sport, building and design, visual arts and STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths). Students are at the centre of all thinking, planning and actions. Staff aim to ensure that they provide positive learning experiences for every student in a young adult environment. With highly experienced staff ensuring quality
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of delivery across all subjects, students are treated as young adults with staff-student relationships based on mutual respect, co-operation and a focus on the common goal - learning. In a young adult learning environment students are encouraged to take personal responsibility for their learning. “The relationships forged with students and their families are critical elements of a student’s success at this important stage of their learning,” said Principal Anne Martin. “Hallam Senior College values relationships built on respect and responsibility where the relationships between people, learning and the environment frame our actions.” Contact Hallam Senior College on 9703 1266 for more information or to book a tour of the college.
Dandenong High School celebrated its cultural diversity through a whole-school concert. The International Week Concert is a long tradition at the school, acting associate principal Kellie Mason said, and students and staff look forward to it each year. “We run three concerts on the day to allow for every one of our large cohort of students to attend and to join in the celebration,” she said. “There are food vans also available and the canteen serves international cuisine.” This year’s event took place on Friday 22 September. “As performing at the International Week Concert is so sought after, students rehearse and prepare for months beforehand,” Ms Mason said. “It is a wonderful opportunity for students from Years 7 to 12 to work together and to celebrate their own cultural background with their peers.” She said the school was extremely proud of the event, which wraps up term three. “It is one of the many events that makes our school unique and an important part of the rich cultural community in Dandenong,” she said.
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Raising the bar, closing the gap Killester College is a Kildare Ministries school and is guided and inspired by the Brigidine tradition. The school motto ‘Strength and Kindliness’ challenges students to develop in strength and intellect, mind, body and spirit. Principal Leanne Di Stefano said students were encouraged to live out their faith in action by supporting and making a difference in the lives of the most vulnerable. “It is in this context that we aspire to be people of hope,” Ms Di Stefano said. “Every day we work with people from so many backgrounds and have the ability to explore ideas from varying cultural contexts. “Our students, therefore, have a much deeper global awareness and understanding of each other’s cultures. “We are very aware that the modern workplace increasingly demands skills and abilities such as critical thinking, problem-solving, working cooperatively and collegially with others, a possession of ICT capabilities and the ability to effectively communicate.” Killester has ensured such skills can be enhanced with the development of dynamic and student-focused learning facilities, including a flexible learning centre for Years 7 and 8, an open learning centre for Year 9s and a re-developed resource centre for students. The delivery of technology, integrated across the curriculum, focuses on the development of a skill set which is essential for the 21st century. Ms Di Stefano said the curriculum designed and delivered at Killester was progressive, student-centred and demands of students to continuously extend themselves beyond their current capabilities and capacities. Killester also has an enduring and productive relationship with Monash University. “Many of our graduates go to Monash Univer-
Estelle Battaglia, Nabo Khan, Jasmine Lam, Clare Mastin and Lois Madziro of Killester College are guided by the school’s motto of ‘Strength and Kindliness’. sity and are individually supported through the Access Monash program and other scholarships. “This special relationship extends to our close work with both the Education Faculty and PreService Teacher program and formal research that the university has conducted for Killester into the effectiveness of our Year 7 Raising the Bar Closing the Gap program. “This year we employed a team from Monash University to research the effectiveness of this
program on student achievement. “They examined our NAPLAN results, particularly our healthy gains in literacy and numeracy and they interviewed teachers and leaders involved in the program. “The final report was extremely positive in its findings, particularly in regard to the innovative and collaborative practice used by teachers in English and humanities and by the significant achievements by students in mathematics.
“An emphasis on mathematics teachers’ excellent abilities to combine the pastoral and academic transition was also explained. “We aim to use these findings to further extend the innovative, collaborative and student centred approaches in 2018 and beyond.” School tours are conducted on the second Monday of each month and inquiries regarding enrolments can be directed to the principal’s PA Susana Douglas on 9547 5000.
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Dance nights made runs for cricket By Narelle Coulter In the 1950s the Dandenong Town Hall came alive each Wednesday night as young men and women, dressed to impressed, gathered to dance, court and raise money for Shepley Oval. Former Dandenong mayor and handy cricketer Ian McDonald remembers the dances well. He helped patrol the popular events and it was also at a dance that he met his beloved wife, Pat. “On a small night we had 600 people. A big night would attract 1200,” remembered Ian. “The whole idea behind the dances was to take the Dandenong and District Cricket Association to the highest level of cricket in Victoria, then known as district cricket, now known as premier league.” The dances, which were held from 1952 until 1961, were wildly successful and raised enough money to build a pavilion at Shepley Oval, seven turf wickets and a training wicket among other improvements. Television had just come to Australia and many of Melbourne’s top young talents performed at the Dandenong Town Hall dances including Dorothy Baker, Frankie Davidson, Shirlene Clancy, Bert Newton, Patti McGrath, Ernie Sigley, Ian Turpie and Marjorie Mills. “The dance committee members were worried about a group of young bucks led by Roy ‘Bull’ Goodwin who had taken over the supper room for rock‘n’roll and jive dances,” remembered Ian. “I was assigned to keep a friendly eye on proceedings. I was even given a special jacket and tie to wear. “However, what the committee did not know was that Roy and I were mates and there was never any trouble.” The dances were alcohol free and finished at midnight. A small contribution bought a plate of supper laden with cream cakes and sandwiches. People travelled from all over the south-east and Gippsland. The night Ian met Pat he was sporting a black
Ian McDonald, right, with, from left, Jack McKinley, Terry Holden, Shirlene Clancy, Frank Davidson and Dorothy Baker.
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Ian and Pat McDonald. “I took her home but, of course, I had to take her two girlfriends as well.” They were married at St James’ Anglican Church on 21 July 1962. The dances finished in 1961. District cricket finally came to the oval in 1989 when the Waverley Cricket Club merged with Dandenong. The merged club, originally known as Waverley-Dandenong but now known as the Dandenong Cricket Club, has played its first XI and second XI cricket at Shepley Oval since. Today Shepley Oval is also home to the Dandenong Stringrays TAC Cup football team.
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Sport Breeding ground for footy talent By Nick Creely The Noble Park Football Club has been a staple of the Dandenong area for as long as anyone can remember. The famous sporting club, which plays its home games at Pat Wright Oval on Moodemere Street in Noble Park, is considered to be one of Victoria’s most successful breeding grounds for VFL/AFL players and has a rich history of senior and junior premierships. Noble Park established its first football team in 1918 - almost 100 years ago - under the presidency of Frank O’Brian. The team played in the Under-21 competition of the Berwick Association and later joined the suburban leagues, Caulfield and Oakleigh Association and the Dandenong and District Football Association (DDFA). Back in those days the club played in Richmond colours and was known as the Tigers. During the tough Depression years of the 1930s, fierce rivalries with local powerhouses such as Springvale and Dandenong were formed, and that spurred the club on to its first bit of success in 1934, when it was the runner up in the DDFA. 1935, however, remains one of the most famous years in the club’s history with the Tigers winning their first premiership under the coaching of R. Turner. It kick started a successful decade of glory with the club winning premierships under famous coach Haig Davidson in 1941, 1944 and 1945, before again winning in 1947, its fourth premiership in the space of six seasons. After the club achieved three more premierships in the 1950s (’51,’52 and ’53), the DDFA folded at the end of 1953. With Bill Norman in charge of the Tigers, Noble Park joined the Eastern Suburban League in what turned into a tough transitional period for the club. In 1959, the Noble Park and Harrisfield Football Clubs merged and were known as Noble Park Harrisfield Football Club, adopting the North Melbourne colours for the first two years, before transitioning into the Blue and Gold seen today and becoming known once more as simply the Noble Park Bulls. It sparked a mini run of success with back-toback premierships in 1961 and 1962 in the Caulfield Oakleigh District League before, in 1964, the club joined the Federal Football League, remaining there until 1982. In the famous Blue and Gold, the club had arguably one of its most stunningly successful eras, winning one senior premierships, two reserves flags and a further five Under-18 premierships. During this time, Noble Park had many champion players, with legends such as Dennis McGrath (1972 Seniors Best and Fairest), Doug
Team shot of Noble Park’s famous 1941 premiership team. Esnor - who kicked more than 350 junior goals in just three years - as well as the legendary Alan Campbell all playing for the club. During the early ’70s, the Noble Park Football Club also built its social club. Largely due to many hard-working volunteers, eventually the fully licensed Noble Park Football Social Club officially opened on 16 March 1978 in what was another landmark moment in the club’s history. When the Federal Football League ceased to exist at the end of 1981, the club joined the South East Suburban Football League to instance success and fear among opposition clubs. In a span from 1982 to 1992, the Bulls won seven Under-18 premierships, seven reserves and a further six senior flags, but it isn’t regarded as the most successful period of the club’s history. In conjunction with the Eastern Suburbs Churches Football Association, the South East League formed what is now known as the Southern Football League in 1993, with Noble one of its founding clubs.
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Caithness Bros service station on the corner of Lonsdale Street and FrankstonDandenong Road during the floods of 1934. Picture: The Dandenong and District Historical Society
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The corner of Dandenong-Frankston Road and Lonsdale Street has long been the associated with the motor trade. In the 1930s the prominent corner was home to the Caithness brothers’ service station. Today it is home to one of Dandenong’s flagship businesses, Coffey Ford. Allan Coffey Motors brought the dealership in the late ’50s. The business suffered a devastating fire in 1970 but recovered and three decades later underwent a major renovation in 2004, which created the modern Coffey Ford footprint. Staff have always been integral to the success of Coffey Ford. Long-serving employers who have worked for Coffey Ford for more than 20 years include John Marinelli, Irene Curry, Michael Firth, Rob Hoffman and Chris Walker. Peter Minnoti started by washing used cars and rose to become Dealer Principal. The current Dealer Principal Jon Wainwright started as an apprentice in the Coffey Ford spare parts department. Mr Wainwright said Coffey Ford now employs 65 staff and sells new Ford vehicles, quality used cars and will service any vehicle. Coffey Ford is also a parts wholesaler, boasts a state-of-the-art body shop and operates a satellite service centre in Hallam. Coffey Ford is one of the few dealerships in Victoria today to have an onsite body shop. Mr Wainwright said the name Coffey Ford had
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Booran Holden Dandenong
Holden Astra Sedan and Hatch
• Phone Projection with Apple CarPlay® & Android® Auto • Rear view camera • 17” Alloy Wheels • Halogen Projector Headlights • 6 Speaker Premium Audio System • 6 Airbags
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Holden Colorado 4x2 and 4x4
• Phone Projection with Apple CarPlay® & Android® Auto • 8” Colour Touchscreen • Remote Start and Windows • 5 Star ANCAP Safety Rating • Rear View Camera • 7 Airbags
& 7 Year Warranty!!*
Booran Holden Dandenong 25 Lonsdale Street, Dandenong Ph: 8751 2657 booranholdendandenong.com.au LMCT 8846 *Conditions apply. 7 year/175,000 km warranty (whichever occurs irst). Not available with other ofers. 12368409-42-17
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COFFEY FORD
Part of the Dandenong community Since 1958!
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Quality New & Used Cars • State of the art body shop & satellite service centre • Genuine Ford Parts 85 Lonsdale Street • Dandenong • 3175 • 9767 0600 • coffeyford.com.au * Terms and Conditions apply. See in dealership for details. LMCT11073 12368583-42-17
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