CONTENTS
Acknowledgements (inside front cover).
Festival week booklet p1. Origin of Coburg Elderly Citizens Welfare Organization p1. Foundation members p3. Membership p3. Coburg’s rich history: interesting milestones in our progress p5. Church established (Holy Trinity Anglican Church) p7. Our first council p7. Road to goldfields brings gaol – 1851 p9. Warders form Pentridge Rifle Corps – 1859 p9. First Petty Sessions Court – 1860 p9. Board welcomes Press – 1862 p9. Move for postal delivery p9. Trouble over tolls – 1865 p11. Roads Board gets meeting place (Town Hall) – 1866 p11. Great social event (Pentridge Rifle Corps) – 1869 p11. Invitation to Tom Thumb – 1870 p11. Gun Club frowned upon (sparrows) – 1874 p11. Coburg becomes a Shire p13. Weighbridge did more than weigh p13. A nudist cult, too! p13. We get a Reserves Committee – 1876 p13. Goodbye to toll gates – 1877 p13. Road safety move – 1879 p15. A Football Club formed p15. Ratepayers seek a railway p15. Those horse trams – 1886 p15. Light in Sydney Road p17. Quoits catch on p17. Bell Street gets footpath p17. An enterprising publican (Mr Williams, Young Queen Hotel / Inn) p19. Petition for water supply – 1887 p19. A line for ‘Beetle’ (extension of railway line to Somerton) p19. Programme for festival p21. Pioneers turn back the clock: Mrs J. Cruise p25. Mr H. White p25. ‘Little Pentridge’ (row of stone houses, Reynard Street) p25. Mrs E. Keane p27. The Golden Fleece Hotel p32.

ILLUSTRATIONS
Jacob the Herdsman (front cover). Coburg’s early Presbyterian Church, later Lake Hall Theatre, then Prestige Hosiery p7. Pike’s High Class Tailoring and Men’s Wear (corner of Sydney Road and Bell Street – Warren’s Corner) p14. Corner of Sydney Road and Bell Street showing Pentridge Hotel, now Corner Hotel (Brown’s) and Warren’s Bakery, now Pike’s p15. Coburg Quoit Team 1907 p17. Sydney Road from north end of Dare’s Buildings, opposite Norman Street, 1914 p19. State Savings Bank of Victoria, Coburg branch, interior view p32. Walker’s Store p33.

ADVERTISEMENTS
Fraser’s Grocery and Delicatessen, 1 Merlyn Street, Merlynston (inside front cover). North Coburg Hardware, 836 Sydney Road, North Coburg (inside front cover). Bush’s Complete Home Furnishers, 853 Sydney Road, Brunswick, 510 Sydney Road Brunswick, 130 Bell Street, Coburg p2. Brace and Hughes, home sellers, 144 Bell Street, Coburg p2. Supreme Wire Fence and Gate Co., 603 Sydney Road, Coburg p2. P. & H. Electrical Service, 44a Gaffney Street, Coburg p3. Shedden Service Station, corner of Sussex Street and Gaffney Street, Pascoe Vale p3. Willson Furnishing Company, corner (north west) of Bell Street and Sydney Road p4. Eadies Men’s Wear Pty Ltd, 436 Sydney Road, Coburg p4. Kevin Cotter, Real Estate Agent, 120 Sydney Road, Coburg p4. Humeway Service Station, 1125-1129 Sydney Road, North Coburg p6. C.V. & R.F. Lutz, 413-415 Bell Street, Pascoe Vale p6. ‘Lamar’ Jewellery, 440 Sydney Road, Coburg p6. Moreland Motors, 63 Sydney Road, Coburg p6. A.S. Cattanach, Chemist, 1000 Sydney Road, Merlynston p6. Moreland Plumbing Service, 35-39 Sydney Road, Coburg p6. Coburg Courier p8. Union Knitting Mills, 37-41 Munro Street, Coburg p8. Cuthbert and Trenberth, Real Estate Agents, State Savings Bank Buildings, 486 Sydney Road, Coburg p8. Upholsterer (E. Lithgow), 9 Victoria Street, Coburg p10. N. Nimmo, Hairdresser, 11 Victoria Street, Coburg p10. R.J. Kelly, Boot and Shoe Repairs, 13 Victoria Street, Coburg p10. S. Newman and Son, Furriers, 7 Victoria Street, Coburg p10. Joe Rogers Hardware, 50 Sydney Road, Coburg p12. Coburg Radio Service, P.F. Jager proprietor, 76 Sydney Road, Coburg p12. Spicers, Moreland Road, East Coburg p12. Summerfield’s Modern Self-Service Grocery, 189-193 Moreland Road, Moreland and 452 Sydney Road, Brunswick p12. Sam Chapman, General Carrier, 118 Sydney Road, Coburg p12. Murday’s Dry Cleaning, 109-111 Sydney Road, Coburg p14. J.G. Dent Motors, 802 Sydney Road, North Coburg p14. J.G.E. Carew, Auctioneer, Estate Agent etc., 432 Sydney Road, Coburg p14. Pike’s High Class Tailoring and Men’s Ware (Warren’s Corner) p14. R.B. Penn Funeral Director, 170 Sydney Road, Coburg p14. Star Sewing Machine Depot, 382 Sydney Road, Coburg, 121 Bell Street, Coburg p14. Lindy Lou, M.E. Jamieson proprietor, 29 Lorensen Avenue, Merlynston p16. A.N. Davies Quality Butcher, 34 Gaffney Street, Coburg p16. Foley’s Commercial Hotel p16. John Ryan Real Estate Pty Ltd, 148 Sydney Road, Coburg (corner The Grove) p16. Gotex Knitwear, 11 Sydney Road, Coburg p16. Belworth Hosiery Mills Pty Ltd, 683 Sydney Road, Coburg p18. Barry Waters Estate Agents, 412 Bell Street, Pascoe Vale South p18. J.H. Brown’s Drapers and Mercers, 409-413 Sydney Road, Coburg p18. John P. Kasapis Real Estate, 150 Sydney Road, Coburg p20. Dawn Manufacturing Co. Pty Ltd, Manufacturing Engineers, Sheppard Street, Coburg p20. McKay’s ‘Hillcroft’ Dairy, Sutherland Street, Coburg p20. Gilmour’s Dairy, 21 Barrow Street, Coburg and 114 Derby Street, Pascoe Vale p22. N.R. Motors (Brunswick), 797 Sydney Road, Brunswick p22. Lofts Shoe Store, 428 Sydney Road, Coburg p23. Fox and Ising Automotive Engineers, 116 Sydney Road, Coburg p23. W.E. Cash Pty Ltd, 204 Sydney Road, Coburg p23. J.P. Esslemont, Chemist, 329 Bell Street, Pascoe Vale South p24. Farrington’s Self-Service Grocers, 23 Merlyn Street, Merlynston p24. S.J. Brown Pty Ltd, Caravan Equipment Specialists, 3-5 Sheppard Street, North Coburg p24. Superior Cars Pty Ltd, 333 Sydney Road, Coburg p26. Woodlands Hotel, 96 Sydney Road, Coburg, D.J. Marco licensee p26. J. Cruise and Sons, Painters and Decorators p26. Dads Service Station, 198 Sydney Road, Coburg p26. Kaora Worsted Mills Pty Ltd, Gaffney Street, Coburg p27. Berger Master Paints p28. The National Bank of Australasia Limited p29. Norm Pinne, Butcher, 431 Sydney Road, Coburg p30. N.W. Park Blinds, 85 Bell Street, Coburg p30. Ken Cook Pty Ltd, 429 and 392a Sydney Road, Coburg p30. Brown’s Corner Hotel, 502 Sydney Road, Coburg p31. The State Savings Bank of Victoria, Coburg branch, opposite Post Office p32. Arthur A. Reeve, Dispensing Chemist, 11 Orvieto Street, Merlynston p33. John F. Scanlon Real Estate, 91 Gaffney Street, Batman p33. Walker’s Stores Pty Ltd, 471 Sydney Road, Coburg p33. Hilton Hosiery Ltd, West Brunswick p34. Dewi M. Thomas Real Estate Agents, 450 Sydney Road, Coburg p35. Merlaine Shoe Store, Mrs M.P. Delaney proprietor, 31a Lorensen Avenue, Merlynston p35. Bishop Music Studio, 27 Munro Street, Coburg p35. Post Office Hotel, T.L. Tootell licensee, corner of Reynard Street and Sydney Road p35. Croft Bank Dairies Ltd, 170 Gordon Street, Coburg p35. Anode Latex Company, corner of Hossack Avenue and Charles Street, North Coburg p36. Lincoln Mills (Australia) Ltd, Gaffney Street, Coburg (inside back cover). T.R. Chuck Wire Fence and Gate Company, 3 Barkly Street, Brunswick (back cover).
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