Includes index.

CONTENTS:

Foreword p6. Acknowledgements p7. Two acre village p9. Bushrangers creating havoc: O’Connor and Bradley p17. The Post Office at Cheltenham / Derek N. Baker p25. Cheltenham Mechanics’ Institute, Free Library and Temperance Hall p31. Old Cheltenham Cemetery: a brief history / Travis M. Sellers p43. Cheltenham State School no. 84: a boon to the neighbourhood p53. Cheltenham Cricket Club: the beginning p63. Cheltenham Railway Station p71. Steel tramway in Kingston p77. Clash of opinion on standards at Cheltenham State School p87. The Victorian Rangers at Cheltenham p93. A home for wayward girls [House of Mercy] p99. Cheltenham Recreation Reserve p111. The Cheltenham Creamery and Butter Factory p117. Off to the war in South Africa 1899-1902 p123. Murder at Cheltenham p135. Larrikins and hooligans at Cheltenham p141. Beautifying Cheltenham Park p149. Cheltenham Bowling Club: finding a site p157. The Melbourne Benevolent Asylum comes to Cheltenham p167. Soldiers’ Hall: Cheltenham p179. The Cheltenham World War One memorials p189. The beginning of the Cheltenham Golf Club p195. Don’t cut down those trees p205. Robert Whitbourne remembers the Methodist Homes / Norman Marshall p211. Sunday sport p223. Laying the blame: the typhoid epidemic 1943 p231. The dry welcome home for World War Two diggers p237. When tiger moths attacked cabbage patches / Tom Sheehy p243. The Exchange Affair: 1973 [Exchange Hotel] p253. Westfield spans Nepean Highway [shopping centre] p257. Source of illustrations p264. Index p265.



ILLUSTRATIONS (selected):

Cheltenham, Victoria (from Victoria and its metropolis) p2. Sub-division plan of Two Acre Village p8. Aerial view of a portion of ‘Two Acre Village’ 1951 p8. Llewellen sub-division p10. Cheltenham Hotel built near the corner of Centre Dandenong Road and Nepean Highway on the site of the Cheltenham Inn originally established by Charles Whorral; Charles Keighran took over the hotel in 1886 p13. Aerial photo of a section of Two Acre Village, 1964, showing tremendous development since 1951 photo p14. Nepean Highway, Cheltenham at intersection with Charman Road, showing Clark Rubber to the left, Co-op Stores and Exchange Hotel, about 1966 p15. House in Chesterfield Road, part of the original Two Acre Village, built by Jamison, a district pioneer; an early manager of ES&A Bank, Harold Ewin, brother Charles and sister once lived there, later owned by E.A. Le Page, about 1973 p15. Exchange Hotel, Point Nepean Road, about 1920 p15. Graves of settlers and soldiers in the Norfolk Island Cemetery 2005; both Connor and Bradley spent time as convicts on ‘Ocean Hell’ p16. Map: showing King homestead, South Brighton p21. Cheltenham Post Office, Telephone Exchange and Mechanics’ Institute viewed from across Point Nepean Road, 1972 p24. Cheltenham Post Office 1903: Post Mistress on balcony with Leo Reynolds in foreground p27. Cheltenham Post Office, about 1940, also showing the Police Station and the Court House p28. Cheltenham Post Office as seen from Charman Road, 1974 p29. The junction of Point Nepean Road and Charman Road, about 1910: from the left, the Post Office and Mechanics’ Institute halls and billiard room, to the right is the Boer War Memorial p30. Mechanics’ Institute and Temperance Hall, about 1910 p33. Gathering of adults and school children outside the Mechanics’ Hall, Temperance Hall and Free Library on the occasion of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee 1897, note the paddocks to the right p34. Men’s dinner at the Mechanics’ Institute, about 1914 p35. Mechanics’ Hall dance in support of St Matthew’s Tennis Club, about 1950 p37. Committee of the Mechanics’ Institute, about 1945: including Wally Rose, Everest Le Page, George Sanders p38. Architectural drawing prepared by Ian Turner and Associates, 1958, [of proposed new hall to replace the Mechanics’ Institute] p39. Demolition of the Mechanics’ Institute building in 1958 to make way for the new Cheltenham Hall, part of the façade can still be identified p40. City of Moorabbin Library at Cheltenham; built as part of the Cheltenham Hall which replaced the Mechanics’ Institute, 1965 p41. Graves in the Old Cemetery at Cheltenham, about 1995 p42. The graves of: Thomas Attenborough; John Hunter; George Whitehead; Henry Comport, the headstones reveal in some cases the names of other family members who share the grave p45. Caretaker’s cottage, Cheltenham Cemetery, 2003 p47. Members of the Cheltenham Cyclists’ Club outside the main gate of the Cheltenham Cemetery, about 1920 p48. Angel of Mercy statue on the grave of Brian Earle, died 14 June 1929, aged 8 p51. Cheltenham State School, about 1912, pupils gather outside the school and the main gate p52. Cheltenham School, prior to 1911 p55. Past pupils of Cheltenham State School attend a reunion, 1936 p56. Children say farewell to Miss Francis after 46 years’ service to the Education Department, 1962, showing school, old pavilion and boys’ toilets p57. Class group of Cheltenham State School with their teacher, 1898 p58. Upper first grade at Cheltenham State School, 1906 p59. Group of children attending Cheltenham State School in 1930 p60. Cheltenham Ladies Cricket Team: M. Howard (Mrs Judd), L. Ward (Mrs Davis), G. Parry and R. Gays (Mrs Kennedy), other names unknown p62. Charman Road, Cheltenham, about 1910, area behind the shops was used as a cricket ground p65. Cheltenham Cricket Club team 1898: E. McSwain, R. Woff, S. Cullen, F. Bodley, T. Chandler, C. Warne, A. Organ, J. Monk, C. Roberts, A. Hewett, F. Chandler, R. Chandler, H. Beulke, F. Groves p66. Cheltenham cricket team 1945-6: H. Tickle, W. Harman, D. Shields, J. Brymer, W.L. Rose, A.M. Rose, L. Marriott, W.R. Todd, A. Robinson, W.G.T. Rose, S. Marriott, T. Connor p68. Early Cheltenham cricket team p69. Cheltenham Railway Station, about 1920 p70. Architectural drawings of Cheltenham Railway Station, 1881 p72. Architectural drawing for Cheltenham Railway Station, 1899 p73. Cheltenham Railway Station, about 1920, up station with prize-winning garden to the right, manually operated gates and gate keeper’s house in the distance p74. Cheltenham Railway Station down platform, 1982 p75. A remnant of the plateway in Centre Dandenong Road, Cheltenham, opposite the Moorabbin Airport, 1973 p76. An advertisement for the Steel Road Rails used on the Centre Dandenong Road section of the network p76. Heavy steel tank filled with human waste being trenched in the sandy soils of Moorabbin p78. A heavily laden market gardener’s wagon loaded with vegetables for the Melbourne market p79. Map: plateways constructed south of Melbourne p80. J.L. Smith leading a horse down Jasper Road, Bentleigh, note steel plateway in Centre Road protruding from the surface of the road p83. Ken Smith and colleagues retrieve a piece of tram plate from the Cheltenham Golf Course where it was used for edging in the garden, 1998 p84. Back to Cheltenham School 1962, former students attend a reunion p86. Senior class pupils outside the front of Cheltenham State School, 1913 p88. Walter Meeres, first headmaster of State School no. 84 on location in Charman Road p89. Miss Reynolds with her grade two class, about 1915 p90. Cheltenham State School no. 84, prior to 1911 p91. Cheltenham Rangers’ annual dance, 1909 p92. Lieutenant William McKnight; Major Robert Rigg of the Victorian Rangers, headmaster of Mordialloc State School; George Stayner p94. A meal break for the Cheltenham members of the Rangers p95. Cheltenham members of the Rangers prior to the commencement of World War One: including E. Le Bon, P. Davis p97. The Retreat House, Cavanagh Street, Cheltenham, 2000 p98. Sister Esther, the foundress of the Community of the Holy Name p100. Sister Christina, one of the early members of the Community of the Holy Name and sister-in-charge of the House of Mercy for 44 years p102. House of Mercy showing original laundry, about 1930 p104. Two sisters of the Community of the Holy Name, Sr Maree and Sr Avrill walking dogs in the grounds at Cavanagh Street, Cheltenham, 1986 p107. House of Mercy, later called the Retreat House, managed by the Community of the Holy Name, 1972 p108. Map: Cheltenham Green – part of the subdivision of land formerly The Retreat House, owned by Anglicare p108. Cheltenham Football Team, 1935 p110. Cr Brownfield; Cr Francis Le Page p113. Cheltenham Recreation Reserve, 1973 p114. Cheltenham plays Clayton [football] at the Cheltenham Recreation Reserve, 1972 p115. Charman Road, Cheltenham, about 1915 [showing railway crossing and shops] p116. Directors of the Invicta Butter Company at Cheltenham Show Ground: Mr Penny, Mr Wilson (accountant) and G.T. Allnutt, Cheltenham Creamery, about 1906 p118. Cr R.A. Mills, a detail from the photo of Moorabbin Shire Council, 1912 p119. Charman Road, Cheltenham, looking towards the railway line from Park Road, 1966 p120. Station Street intersection with Charman Road, E.C. Hattam drapery store on one corner and the pharmacy of G. Tait on the other, 1973 p121. Marching down Collins Street, Melbourne, before departure for South Africa p122. Members of Bushmen’s Third Contingent at Victoria Barracks before departure for South Africa, 1900 p124. Major William McKnight of Cheltenham, about 1901 p125. Loading the horses on the ship ‘Euryalus’ for their journey to South Africa p126. Herbert Fisher p126. Members of the Third Contingent of the Victorian Mounted Rifles parade at Cheltenham before proceeding to embarkation at Port Melbourne, the Methodist Homes are in the background p127. Officers of the First Contingent: Lieutenant Tremearne, Lieutenant Pendlebury, Major Eddy, Captain Bruche and Captain McInerney p128. Members of the Second Contingent, Victorian Mounted Rifles, 1900 p129. Lance Corporal Tom Matson, member of the Second Contingent of Victorian Mounted Rifles p130. Members of the Patriotic Committee: J. Lannan, Lamb Smith, T. Mewett and W.P. Fairlam p130. Private W. Daff from South Brighton p131. Private George Stayner of First Contingent, Victorian Mounted Rifles p131. Boer War memorial on its original site close to the corner of Point Nepean Road and Chesterville Road, Cheltenham p132. At the Langwarrin Camp p133. Church of Christ in Chesterville Road, Cheltenham; the Fagin’s house in Pine Street, second from the left p134. The room where a murder was committed in Hickson’s house, Constable McCarthy inspects the scene p136. The Fagin cottage in Pine Street, Cheltenham p137. Cheltenham Police Station, about 1960 p138. Victorian Supreme Court, about 1900 p139. David Lea, Member for Sandringham, Victorian Parliament, looks at graffiti on Cheltenham Railway Station, 1986 p140. Boer War memorial on its original site on the corner of Point Nepean Road and Chesterville Road, vandals had destroyed the lamps, about 1956 p142. Cheltenham Mechanics’ Institute with the billiard room on the corner of Nepean Highway and Charman Road, 1960 p143. ANA Festival and parade at Cheltenham, participants assemble outside the billiard hall of the Mechanics’ Institute, the parade marshal, G.T. Allnutt in ‘field marshal’s’ uniform, astride his horse, 1916 p144. An ‘Aster’ billiard table, 1983 p145. Church of Christ choir, about 1910 p147. Members of the Church of England Fellowship from St Matthews, Cheltenham, on a trip to the snow, 1952 p147. Band at Cheltenham High School, 1964 p147. Tennis Club in the Cheltenham Park, about 1902 p148. Western Oval in Cheltenham Park, 1973 p150. Trees in Cheltenham Park, 2006 p152. Trees in Cheltenham Park, 1987 p153. Flowering ti-tree in Cheltenham Park, 1987 p154. Entrance to Cheltenham Park, about 1987 p155. Members of the Committee of Cheltenham Bowling Club at the opening of the green for 1948-49 season: Henry King, Ray Barnett, Alf Marriott, Edgar Searle, Fred Judd, Tom Corrigan, T. Johnson, M. Daff, J. Moore, Wally Rose, Perc Woff, John Allnutt, Bernard Hudson, C.C. George, H. Sutton, Everest Le Page p156. ‘Faithful Five’ of the Cheltenham Bowling Club: H. Comport, W. Fairlam, J. Keys, R. McFarlane and J. Wedd, 1908 p158. Men and women on the green of Cheltenham Bowling Club in the Cheltenham Park, 1908, the Cheltenham Railway Station is in the background with the cemetery to the right p161. Cheltenham Bowling Club in Cheltenham Park, women in long white dresses with men in waistcoats and hats; the club’s pavilion is in the background with the cemetery to the left, 1908 p162. Members of the Cheltenham Bowling Club outside their clubroom on the corner of Centre Dandenong Road and Wilson Street, Cheltenham, official opening of the green for 1948-49 p164. Florrie Barnett and Ivy Woff bowling the jack and the first bowl at the opening of the Cheltenham Bowling Club, 1908 p165. Aerial view of Melbourne Benevolent Asylum with the Heatherton Sanatorium to the left, 1956; in 1965 the Asylum was renamed Cheltenham Home and Hospital for the Aged p166. The early building with additions to the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum, 1973 p166. Melbourne Benevolent Asylum, North Melbourne, 1900 p168. Preparing the ground for the building of the Benevolent Asylum at Cheltenham p169. Ornamental lake at Benevolent Asylum p171. The light railway locomotive ‘Elfreda’, with guests to be conveyed to the laying of the foundation stone p172. Laying the foundation stone, 1909 p173. Patients arriving from North Melbourne after the opening of the Asylum at Cheltenham in March, 1911 p174. Aerial view of Kingston Centre, 2002 p177. Fire at former Soldiers’ Hall, Nepean Highway, Cheltenham, 31 October 2000 p178. The Cheltenham RSL Hall, then the RSSAILA – Returned Sailors’, Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Imperial League of Australia, on Point Nepean Road, about 1940, the Cheltenham Fire Brigade building is in the background p181. The Soldiers’ Hall after the widening of Nepean Highway and the removal of the World War One memorials to Cheltenham Park and subsequently to Centre Dandenong Road, 1973 p182. Function for the City of Moorabbin being held in the Memorial Hall, about 1950, people are sitting on theatre seats p184. Main entrance to the Soldiers’ Hall on Point Nepean Road, Cheltenham, the RSL coat-of-arms is over the doorway, about 1940 p186. Cheltenham Moorabbin RSL, Centre Dandenong Road, Cheltenham p187. Anzac Day service in the Cheltenham Park, 1963 p188. Australia soldiers returning home after World War One listen to a band playing on the deck of the ship, 1919 p190. Walter Rose placing wreath on World War One memorial outside Soldiers’ Hall on Nepean Highway, Cheltenham p191. Cheltenham Police Station, Point Nepean Road, participants assembling for a procession to Mentone Recreation Reserve, to attend a carnival in aid of returning wounded from World War One p192. World War One memorials in Memorial Park at the rear of the Cheltenham – Moorabbin RSL Clubrooms in Centre Dandenong Road, Cheltenham, 2010, moved to this new location in 1999 p193. Watering a green at the Cheltenham Golf Course, 1973 p194. The Victoria Golf Club clubhouse, 1973 p196. Land sale poster for the Charman Estate, 1888 p199. Club house at the Cheltenham Golf Club, 2006 p200. Spectators at the International Match at the Cheltenham Golf Club, 1973 p201. Pine trees in the school yard at Cheltenham State School, 1912 p204. The invasive nature of the roots of a pine tree seen in Cheltenham Park p206. Cheltenham State School football team, with pine trees in background, about 1917 p208. Grade 6 class photo taken underneath the pine trees at Cheltenham State School, 1946: Rob Emblin, Brian Abbott, Ernie Tricky, Brian Redstone, Bernie Day, David Wilkes, Cyril Fields, Norm Parsons, Howard Stone, Brian Purcell, Jim Beckett, George Ingram, Rae Judd, Esther Matthews, Valerie Brown, Valerie Tilley, Judith Ellis, Millicent Dove, Lynette Coleman, Lorraine McQueen, Marjorie Farrow, Margaret Towns, Anne Taylor, Carol McCathy, Beverley Siede, Heather Elliott, Ian Hornibrook, Don Biggs, Graham Whitehead, John Dustin, Deed Weigel p209. Architect’s sketch of the original building [Methodist Homes] on Point Nepean Road, Cheltenham, architects were Butler and Usher p210. Horse and lake at Methodist Children’s Homes, about 1950 p212. Methodist Homes lake with rowers Ernie Peacock and Laurie Billings, 1938 p213. School at the Homes, about 1919 p214. Methodist Church, Charman Road, Cheltenham p216. Bickford Wing opened by George Swinburne, 12 December 1908 p217. Four buildings of the Methodist Homes, Cheltenham, facing Point Nepean Road p218. Cato Cottage p220. Queen Victoria Cottage, the foundation stone was laid 25 October 1902 p221. View of Cheltenham from the tennis courts in Cheltenham Park, showing Exchange Hotel, Mordialloc railway line with the gatekeeper’s cottage, St Matthew’s Church of England, about 1908 p222. Members of the Tennis Club, outside their clubhouse, Cheltenham Park, about 1920 p225. Members of Cheltenham Tennis Club standing on the steps in front of the pavilion, Cheltenham Park, about 1920 p226. Memorial Park created on the site of the Cheltenham Tennis Club, 1988 p228. Charman Road, Cheltenham, 1973, eastern side of Charman Road taken from the railway gates, Blooms occupying site of Fairlam’s hardware and estate agency p230. Cr Everest Le Page p232. Dr Keith Stephenson, medical practitioner at Cheltenham during the typhoid epidemic p234. Dr Bernard Hudson, medical practitioner at Charman Road p234. Returned servicemen marching to the Anzac Day service in Cheltenham Memorial Park, 1963 p236. The unveiling of the World War Two memorial in Cheltenham Park by Sir George Holland, watched by Alan Dark, president of the Cheltenham RSL, 1962 p239. Aerial view of Moorabbin Airport, about 1960, showing the beginning of the Moorabbin Airport Museum p242. Plane above the control tower at Moorabbin Airport, 1986 p244. Wirraway Airplane at the Moorabbin Airport Museum p245. Aerial view of Moorabbin Airport, about 1965, showing runways, Centre Dandenong Road and Lower Dandenong Road p246. Control tower at Moorabbin Airport, about 1970 p248. Emergency services standing by as a Beechcraft plane made a forced landing at Moorabbin Airport, 1975 p249. Mayor of the City of Moorabbin, Cr Ron Brownlees, unveils the memorial to Harry Hawker, aviation pioneer, 1989 p250. Exchange Hotel, Cheltenham, about 1943 p252. Barmaid Teresa Murphy, 1973 p254. Bette Olle, 1973; George Coote, about 1980 p255. Aerial view of Westfield and Cheltenham Market prior to the construction of the bridge across Nepean Highway, about 1997 p256. View of the demolition of Cheltenham Market, 1998 p258. Bridge being constructed across Nepean Highway, 1998 p259. Building the bridge and extensions to Westfield’s Southland, Cheltenham; looking along Nepean Highway towards Moorabbin, 1998 p261. Inspection of Southland extensions by Kingston councillors and officers, 1998 p262. Aerial view of Westfield, Southland, Cheltenham showing bridge across Nepean Highway, also Fry Reserve, 2000 p263.



NAMES FROM THE INDEX:

Cr David Abbott. Justice A’Beckett. Eliza (aborigine). Tiger (aborigine). J.A. Adams. Margaret Alexander. G.T. Allnutt. John William Allnutt. Len Allnutt. Don Anderson Mrs G. Andrew. Minister of Lands Angus. Thomas Attenborough. Reg Bailey. Stephen Beaton Balcombe. Harriet Barclay. Dr Barker. Cr William Henry Barnett. Florrie Barnett. George Barrow. Captain Bawdy. Annie Beasley. H. Beazley. James Beazley. Eddie Belfield. F. Belhl. Thomas Bent. Cr Frederick Bevers. Rev Bickford. H.V. Bignall. A.A. Billson. S.E. Bindley, architect. George Birkbeck. D.W. Birrell. James Moorhouse, Bishop of Melbourne. Dr Graeme Blackman. Cr Richard Goff Bloxsidge. Blyth and Josephine Johnson, architects. H. Booker. Emanuel John Boss. Inspector John Bothroyd. – Bottoms, Secretary of Education Department. A. Boyd. Henry Bradley. Brigadier General Brand. Charles Bright. Edward Brine. John Peter Brookes. Charles Brown. George Brownfield. Henry Brownfield. J. Brownfield. T. Brownfield. Inspector G.W. Brown. Henry Brown. W. Bruton. William Burgess. Burgoyne and Casey. Burke and Scott, estate agents. S. Butler. Thomas Archibald Butters. Mr Butterworth. Rev Alfred Caffin. Alexander Frederick Caldwell. Amy Cane. Constable Canty. Sir Thomas Carmichael. – Caudwell. E.M. Caughey. – Chandler. Arthur Chandler. Thomas Chandler. John Chambers. Wing Chang. Stephen Charman. Ben Chifley, Prime Minister. Will Christie. Major Clarke. Cr James Claydon. Gareth Clayton. Michael Clements. G. Cochrane. P.W. Coleman. Arthur Coles. James Collins. Percy Colman. Community of the Holy Name: Christina Cameron; Ellen Okins; Emma Caroline Silcock; Sister Flora. Henry Comport. W. Cook. Sydney Cooper. George Coote. Charles Corstorphan. David Corstorphan. Councillors: David Abbott; John William Allnutt; Thomas Bent; Richard Goff Bloxsidge; Edward Brine; George Brownfield; William Burgess; Thomas Archibald Butters; Alexander Caldwell; James Claydon; Michael Clements; Arthur Cronin; Charles Fairbank; William Percy Fairlam; Benjamin Ferdinando; Charles George; Alfred Harston; Clyde Hoffman; Archibald Jackson; Everest Le Page; Francis Thomas Le Page; Frank Le Page; Ian Lyons; Robert Marriott; Thomas Marriott; Frederick William McKittrick; George Mickelburough; Robert Mills; Barry Neve; Bill Nixon; Edwin Penny; Inga Peulich; John Rogers; Frank Scudds; Leslie Allan Sheppard; Alfred Edmund Small; William Lamb Smith; George Stayner; William Henry Stooke; de Henzel Storey; Edward Luke Vail; William Ward; Davie White. Countess of Hopetoun. John Cowan. M. Cowen. Gordon Craig. Francis Joseph Cramling. – Crawford. Annie Crawford. F. Crawford. H.M. Cremean MLA. Arthur Cronin. Mary Crossland. Lane Cummins. – Currie. William Daff. Corporal Daniel. Alan Dark. – Darling. Mr David. David Munro and Company. – Davie. Davies and Batty, builders. Matthew Davies. Alfred Deakin. Charles D’Ebro. Laurie De Longville. Captain Dobbin. Brigadier General Drake-Brockman. W.T. Drummond. Arthur Dwight. Charles Dwight. Maud Dwight. Eliza (aborigine). Ellerker and Kilburn. Reg Ellis. H.B. Erwin. John Ezard. George Fagin. Jane Fagin. Catherine Mary Fahey. Charles Fairbank. William Fairlam. Lula Fay. Benjamin Ferdinando. – Fischer. Albert Fisher. Governor Fitzroy. H.L. Fluck. John Foster. Rev Fowler. – Fraser. Alice Blanche Fyans. Charles George. Tom Germaine. William Gillespie. Mr Gillies. Angela Ginnochio. William Gledhill. Michael Gleeson. Canon Godby. Mrs Goe. Fred Goss. Sarah Gott. William Gott. J. Gouldthorpe. Mr Gowrie. James Gray. Mr Greenwood. John Grieve. Dr Grieves. Des Grogan. Constable Guinane. Leon Hain. Rev Canon Henry Hewett Handfield. Mrs Hanish. John Hardy. Mr Hargraves. Alfred Harston. Miss Bessie Harvey. Harry Hawker. James Hawkins. George Hayes. Stanley Hayes. Annie Hays. Head Teachers: D.W. Birrell; John Chambers; Thomas Evans; Michael J. Gleeson; Frederick Meeres; Walter Meeres; Daniel Ninnes; M.J. Power; Charles Tranter. Rev Hewitt. Mary Hicken. Inez Hicks. Nina Hicks. Mr Hickson. J. Hingston. John Hitchen. Clyde Hoffman. H. Hogg. Sir George Holland. Josiah Morris Holloway. – Holyoak. James Robert Hornby. Jonathan House. Muriel Howard. Robert Howe. William Howitt. Dr Bernard Hudson. John Fullerton Hunter. Benjamin Huntsman. Hyndman and Bates, architects. Ian Turner and Associates. T. Irvine. Archibald Jackson. P.A. Jackson. James Jamison. James Jarvie. Harry Jenkins. C. Jensen. Horace S. Jewell. T.G. Johnson. – Jones. Eric Jones. F. Jones. Mr Journeaux. Robert Kay. Charles Keighran. Colonel Kelly. Jeff Kennett. Lieutenant Kessell. – Ketteringham. John Keys. R.G. Keys. T.E. Keys. – King. Emanuel King. John King. S.J. Kingston. Arthur Knight. Lady Northcote. Charles Laing. Lewis Lakeland. Laura Elizabeth Lake. B. Lambell. Grace Blamey Lane. Jack Lang. Matthew Lang. Rev John Leaver. Geoff Leigh. Shire Engineer Lennox. Peter Leonard. Everest Thomas Le Page. Francis Thomas Le Page. Frank Le Page. Len Le Page. Nicholas Le Page. Mr and Mrs Letcher. Cornelius Lister. F. Livesley. John Masten Llewellyn. John Logan. Lohmann and Co. Lord Forster, Governor General. Lord High Chancellor. J. Louden. Henry Lowther Clarke. Steven Lowy. Ian Lyons. Mr Mackrell, Minister of Health. Rob Maclellan. Macpherson and Kelley. J.P. Madden. Mary Madden. Mail contractors: G. Cochrane; Horace S. Jewell; George Monk; W. Taylor. J. Maple. Thomas Marriott. J. Martin. Tom Matson. Constable McCarthy. J.A. McCarthy. – McCaughan. Isabella McColl. J. McCormack. James McCormick. Mr McCormick. Lindsay McCurry. Andrew McCutcheon. James McCutcheon. Mr McFarlane. Mrs McFarlane. R. McFarlane. – McKenzie. Frederick William McKittrick. James McKnight. Mary McKnight. William McKnight. – McLean. - McNee. H.A. McNeice. – McQueen. B.F. McSwain. E. McSwain. Norman McSwain. Emily Meeres. Frederick Meeres. Walter Meeres. Members of Parliament: Gareth Clayton; Jack Lang; Geoff Leigh; Mackrell, Minister of Health; Rob Maclellan; R.G. Menzies. R.G. Menzies. Charles Mewett. George Mickelburough. Robert Alfred Mills. Isabella Mitchell. Jane Mitchell. William Mitchell. George Monk. Henry Monk. James Monk. Mrs H. Moody. James Moorhouse. F.T. Moorhouse. J.D. Morris. Les Morris. Diane Morrison. John Murphy. Teresa Murphy. Lieutenant Murray. James Nagle. Sadie Neave. Barry Neve. Leslie Newbegin. William Nicholls. Charles Nicholson. Daniel Ninnes. Mary E. Ninnes. Bill Nixon. Sergeant Nolan. – Northcott. Beatrice Oakley. Eva Ockenden. Sergeant Farrier Ockenden. Patrick O’Connor. J. Oliver. Bette Olle. D. Organ. W. Organ. A.T. Oscar Gimsey and Associates. Trooper Ostler. Patrick O’Sullivan. Colonel Otter. Jonathan Stanway Parker. Paton’s and Baldwin’s. R. Patterson. Dr Pearce. Mrs Pearson. Alfred Pennington. Edwin Penny. Inga Peulich. James Phelan. Head Teacher Philips. Alfred Phillip. Jack Phillips. Ernest Pitman. Police: Constable Canty; Constable Guinane; Constable McCarthy; Sergeant Nolan; Cadet Edward Thompson. Politicians: H.M. Cremean; Geoff Leigh; Geoff Kennett; John Keys; Rob Maclellan; Andrew McCutcheon; Inga Peulich. Rev A.J. Porter. Tom Porter. Postmasters: Thomas Chandler; Sydney Cooper; Laurie De Longville; John Hitchen; William Nicholls; George E. Scott; George D. Spicer; Thomas R. Wickham; Archibald A. Will. Postmistresses: Harriet Barclay; Alice Blanche Fyans; Mary Madden; Isabella McColl; Janet Trail; Margaret Trail. Quigley Brothers. – Quinn. Samuel Ramsden. Lily Ray. Robert Reed. Mr Richards. Mary Richardson. T. Ricketts. Robert Edward Rigg. William George Rigg. E. Rippon. James Roberts. Frank Robertson. J. Robinson. John Rogers. Arthur Rose. George Rose. James M. Rose. Thomas Rose. Walter Rose. Olive Ross. Arthur Ross. William Ruse. Captain Ian Rushworth. J. Rusk. Brigadier General Grantville Ryrie. Alan Salter. George Sanders. Ralph Saulep. Dr George Scantlebury. George E. Scott. Frank Scudds. Mr Scullin. Rev W. Seamer. Tom Sheehy. Leslie Allan Sheppard. F.E. Shillabeer, builder. Sarah Silcock. Thomas Silcock. – Sinclair. Robert Singleton. Sister Christina. Sister Esther. John Slater. Mr Sloss. Alfred Edmund Small. – Smith. A.C. Smith, shire engineer. William Lamb Smith. John Smith. John Matthew Smith. Mr Spencer. George D. Spicer. Charlotte Spiers. Mary Spiers. George Stayner. Dr Keith Stephenson. Lily Stevens. J. Stewart. Egils Stokans. William Henry Stooke. Harry Stooke. De Henzel Storey. Mary Ann Sullivan. Fred Sutcliffe. F.W. Symonds. A. Tause. Taylor and Spargo, builders. Fairlie Taylor. G.W. Taylor. Mr Taylor. W. Taylor. Mr Thacker. E. Thomas. J.E. Thomas. Wilson Begg Thomas. Cadet Edward Thompson. Tiger (aborigine). W. Tomlinson. Inspector Charles Topp. Betty Toumbourou. Wilson Begg Thomas, town clerk. Janet Trail. Margaret Trail. E.J. ‘Eddy’ Trait. Charles Tranter. H. Trussier. Mr Turnbull. T.W. Morris and Son Pty Ltd. Mr Tyler. Edward Luke Vail. W.F. Vale. William Vaughan. Wadey and Company. Mr Walker. – Walton. William Ward. Ward and Donnelly. V. Wawn. J. Wedd. Dr Gerald Weigall. Henry Wells. Mr Whelan. Robert Whitbourne. Dave White. G.F. White. Amelia Whitehead. E. Whitehead. George Whitehead. James Whitehead. John Whitehead. J.J. Whitehead. Ken Whitehead. Mrs Whitehead. H.S. White. Bugler Whitford. Charles Whorral. Thomas R. Wickham. C. Wilkins. Archibald A. Will. Justice Williams. Louis Williams, architect. Sir Richard ‘Dickie’ Williams. W.C. Williams. Dr Wilmot. John Wilson. Ivy Woff. May Woff. R. Woff. William Woff. Professor H. Woodruff. Roy Worthington.



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PLACENAMES, INSTITUTIONS, FROM THE INDEX:

Aborigines. Air raid shelters. Alfred Hospital. Anglican Church. Anglicare Victoria. Ararat. Archbishop of Canterbury. Armagh Hotel. Asling Street. Asphalt courts. Asylum Committee. Australian Commonwealth Horse. Australian Imperial Mounted Bushmen. Australian Labor Party (ALP). Australian National Airlines (ANA). Australian Natives Association (ANA). Balcombe Swamp. Baptist Church. Bass Strait. Beaumaris. Beaumaris Cemetery. Beaumaris Common School. Beaumaris Estate. Beaumaris Wesleyan School. Bendigo Street. Bentleigh. Bequests. Bernard Street. Bickford Court. Board of Land and Works. Boer War: Bushmen’s Contingent; Durban Light Infantry; Imperial Contingent; Kaffrarian Mounted Rifles; Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts. Boer War Memorial. Boroondara Cemetery. County of Bourke. Bowling Club. Boyle and Scott Challenge Cup. Boys’ Brigade. Brighton. Brighton Borough. Brighton Cemetery. Brighton Council. Brighton Town Hall. Bristol freighter. Bullecourt. Burials: common; pauper; private. Bushmen’s Contingent. Canberra. Cape Schanck. Capetown, South Africa. Capital Golf Course. Carrum Swamp. Cato Cottage. Cavanagh Street. Cemeteries: Beaumaris Cemetery; Boroondara Cemetery; Brighton Cemetery; Old Cheltenham Cemetery; St Kilda Cemetery; Cemetery Trustees; Williamstown Cemetery. Cemetery extension. Cemetery Trust. Cenotaph. Centre Dandenong Road. Centre Road. Chadstone. Charlton. Charman Road. Chelsea Council. Cheltenham Airport Protection League. Cheltenham Bowling Club. Cheltenham Citizens’ Welcome Home. Cheltenham Committee. Cheltenham Common School no. 127. Cheltenham Court of Petty Sessions. Cheltenham Creamery and Butter Factory. Cheltenham Cricket Club. Cheltenham Exchange Hotel. Cheltenham Football Club. Cheltenham Hotel. Cheltenham Lawn Tennis Club. Cheltenham Library. Cheltenham Literary and Debating Club. Cheltenham Market. Cheltenham Masonic Institute. Cheltenham Mechanics’ Hall. Cheltenham Mechanics’ Institute. Cheltenham Park. Cheltenham Park Planning Committee. Cheltenham Post Office. Cheltenham Primary School. Cheltenham Progress Association. Cheltenham Protestant Hall. Cheltenham Quadrille Assembly. Cheltenham Railway Station. Cheltenham Reserve. Cheltenham Rotary Club. Cheltenham RSS&AILA. Cheltenham Soldiers’ Hall. Cheltenham Telephone Exchange. Cheltenham Temperance Hall. Cheltenham Tennis Club. Cheltenham-Beaumaris Young Men’s Improvement Society. Cheltenham Bowling Club. Cheltenham Cemetery no. 2. Cheltenham Court. Cheltenham Creamery and Butter Factory. Cheltenham Cricket Club. Cheltenham Elderly Citizens’ Club. Cheltenham Football Club. Cheltenham Golf Course. Cheltenham Hotel. Cheltenham Inn. Cheltenham Mechanics’ Cooperative Society. Cheltenham Mechanics’ Hall. Cheltenham-Moorabbin sub branch of RSL. Cheltenham Park. Cheltenham Primary School. Cheltenham Progress Association. Cheltenham Protestant Hall Company. Cheltenham Railway Station. Cheltenham Recreation Reserve. Cheltenham State School. Cheltenham Ward. Chesterville Road. Chief Commissioner of Police. Churches: Baptist Church; Church of Christ; Church of England [Anglican]; Disciples of Christ; Lutheran Church; Methodist Church; Presbyterian Church; Roman Catholic Church; Wesleyan Church. Church of Christ. Church of England. Circular Head. City Council. City of Kingston. City of Moorabbin. City of Mordialloc. City of Mordialloc Citizens’ League. Common burial. Common Schools’ Board. Community hospital. Community of the Holy Name. Community of St Mary the Virgin. Como House. Coronial inquiry. Councillors. Country Roads Board. Courthouse [Court House]. Court of Petty Sessions. Creamery. Dads’ Association. Dakota (aeroplane). Dandenong Shire. Daphne Cottage. Deaconesses. Denominational Board. Department of Agriculture. Department of Civil Aviation. Department of Defence. Diocese of Ballarat. Disciples of Christ. Donald. Dromana. Edithvale. Education Department. Elsternwick Hotel. Endowment funds. Epsom. Essendon. Exchange Hotel. Fallshaw billiard table. Federal Football Association. Films. Flanders. Football Club. France. Frankston Brick Companies. Furniture vans. Gallipoli. Gate keepers. G Company, Victorian Rangers. Gilt Edge. Gisborne. Glaciarium Ice Skating Rink. Glebe Avenue. Goulbourn [Goulburn] Street. Government authorities: Department of Agriculture; Department of Civil Aviation; Department of Defence; Education Department; Health Commission; Lands Department; Postmaster-General’s Department; Public Transport Corporation; Public Works Department; Metropolitan Board of Works; Railway Department; VicRoads; Victorian Housing Commission. Government Gazette. Government Road. Governor of Victoria. Grand Hotel, Mordialloc. Half Moon Bay. Harcourt marble. Harrow Hill. Head teachers. Health Commission. Heatherton. Heatherton Cricket Club. Heatherton Hall. Herald Street. Highett. Hindenburg Line. HMVS Cerberus (ship). Holmby Road. Home of Mercy. Hooligans. Horse tram. Horticultural Society. Hotels: Armagh Hotel; Cheltenham Hotel; Elsternwick Hotel; Exchange Hotel; Plough and Harrow Hotel; Royal Oak Hotel. House of Mercy. House of Representatives. Imperial Contingent. Imperial Light Horse. Indoor Bowls Association. Insanitary conditions. Jamieson Street. Jellicoe Street. Johnstone Street. Kaffrarian Mounted Rifles. Keighran’s Hotel. Keighran’s paddock. Kilmore. Kingston. Kingston Centre. Kingston Heath Golf Link. Kingston Heath Reserve. Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts. Ladies’ Committee of Ways and Means. Lands Department. Langwarrin. Law Department. Library. Light railway. London. London Mechanics’ Institute. Lord High Chancellor. Lower Dandenong Road. Lutheran Church. Mail coach. Mail contractors. Market Gardeners. Market Gardeners and Fruitgrowers’ Association. Market Gardeners’ Picnic Committee. Martini-Henri rifle. Masonic Institute. Mayfield (property). McIvor Street. Mechanics’ Cooperative Society. Mechanics’ Hall. Mechanics’ Institute. Mechanics’ Institute Committee. Medic. Melbourne Anglican Retreat House Limited. Melbourne Athenaeum. Melbourne Benevolent Asylum. Melbourne City Council. Melbourne Home and Hospital for the Aged. Melbourne Mechanics’ Institute. Members of Parliament. Memorial Park. Memorials. Mentone Airport. Mentone Chamber of Commerce. Mentone Hotel. Mentone Recreation Company. Mentone Recreation Hall. Mentone Skating Rink. Merit Certificate. Merry Hawks. Methodist Church. Metropolitan Board of Works. Milk supply. Minister of Health. Minister of Lands. Minister of Public Instruction. Minister of Public Works. Minister of Railways. Ministers’ Fraternal. Mission to Streets and Lanes. Moorabbin City Council. Moorabbin Airport. Moorabbin Bowling Club. Moorabbin Methodist Circuit. Moorabbin Council. Moorabbin District Returned Soldiers’ Association. Moorabbin District Tennis Association. Moorabbin Football Club. Moorabbin Hill. Moorabbin Historical Society. Moorabbin Road Board. Moorabbin Shire Council. Mordialloc. Mordialloc Coffee Palace. Mordialloc Council. Mordialloc Hotel. Mordialloc State School. Mums’ Auxiliary. Municipal Association. Municipal Golf Links. National Land Company. National Trust. Nepean Highway. Night soil. Norfolk Island. North Melbourne. Norwich Union Insurance Co. Oakleigh. Obelisks. Ocean Hell. Old cable tram. Old Melbourne Cemetery. Old Melbourne Gaol. Omnibus. Orderly Room. Organisations: ANA Lodge; Cheltenham Airport Protection League; City of Mordialloc Citizens’ League; Dads’ Association; Ensign Masonic Lodge; Ministers’ Fraternal; Mums’ Auxiliary; Public Transport Users’ Association; Red Cross; RSL Women’s Auxiliary; South East Combined Chambers of Commerce; State School Mothers’ Club; Union of Australian Women; Victory Club; Victorian Air Observation Corps; Welcome Home Committee; Women’s Christian Temperance Union; Women’s Electoral Lobby. Organised Sunday sport. Oxford Movement. Park Road. Patrick Street. Pauper burial. Payment by results. Pickpocket. Pine Street. Plebiscite. Plough and Harrow Hotel. Point Nepean Road. Police. Politicians. Port Melbourne. Port Phillip Bay District. Portuguese East Africa. Post and Money Order Office. Postmasters. Postmaster-General’s Department. Postmistresses. Poultry Association. Prahran. Premier of Victoria. Presbyterian Church. President of the Returned Soldiers’ League of Victoria. Prime Minister of Australia. Prisoners of war. Private burial. Protestant Alliance. Protestant Alliance Friendly Society Hall. Protestant Association. Public Transport Users’ Association. Public Works Department. Quadrille Assembly. Queen Carnival. Queen competition: Queen of Roses; Good Queen Bess; Queen of Moorabbin; Queen of Peace; Queen of Scots; Queen of Diggers. Queen of the Moorabbin District. Queen’s Park. Race days. Railway Department. Railway line. Railway Station. Recreation Hall. Red Cross. Referendum. Register of Historic Buildings. Reredos. Rescued Children’s Home. Reserve. Reserve Road. Retreat House. Returned Soldiers’ Association. Rifle butts. Rifle Club. Rising Star Cricket Club. Royal Australian Air Force. Royal Commission of 1890. Royal Oak Hotel. RSL. RSL Women’s Auxiliary. Rupanyup. Sabbath. Sand pits. Schnapper Point Road. Schools: Beaumaris; Cheltenham; Mentone State no. 2950; Timor State School. School committee. Scouts. Seamen’s Union. Second World War. Secretary of the Benevolent Society. Sewage system. Shire of Moorabbin. Shire President. Six o’clock closing. Skating rink. Soldiers’ Hall. Sophia (small trading ship). South African Constabulary. South African War. South Brighton. South Brighton Excelsior. South East Combined Chambers of Commerce. Southern Investment and Agency Company. Southland. South Moorabbin and Mordialloc General Cemetery. South Richmond. Sparrow eggs. SS Euryalus (ship). Standard News. Standards. St Andrew’s, Brighton. Star of Moorabbin. State School Mothers’ Club. Stawell. St John’s Church, La Trobe Street. St Kilda Cemetery. St Matthew’s. St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne. St Peter’s Church, Eastern Hill. Strangers’ Ground. Strip shops. Sunday School. Swaziland. Tableaux. Table Mountain. Teachers’ College. Telephone Exchange. Temperance. Temperance Hall. The Glebe. The Lord’s Day. Third Contingent. Tiger moths (aeroplane). Trained teachers’ certificate. Trustees of Cemetery. Tulip Road. Typhoid fever. Unemployed Relief Board. Union of Australian Women. Urban and Regional Land Corporation. Vandalism. Vandemonians. Van Diemen’s Land. VAOC. Veteran. VicRoads. Victoria Golf Club. Victorian Air Observation Corps. Victorian Contingent. Victorian Football Association (VFA). Victorian Housing Commission. Victorian Rangers. Victorian Rifle Volunteers. Victorian Supreme Court. Victory Club. Victory Day. Vigilance Committee. Violet Assembly. Wangara Road. Warburton. Warren Road. Water reserve. Water Supply Department. Weatherall Road. Wesleyan Church. Wesleyan School. Western Port. Westfield. Wickham Road. Wilmansrust, South Africa. Wilson Street. Wiltshire Regiment. Wirraway (aeroplane). Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Women’s Electoral Lobby. Woodlands Golf Links. World War One. Yorkshire Insurance Company.