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HISTORY NEWS
ISSUE.347 APRIL 2020
Chadstone
Shopping Centre INSIDE THIS ISSUE
President’s report If trees talked
What’s on History Victoria Support Group
Chadstone
Around the societies
Heritage report
Castlemaine
Obituary: Christine Evelyn Gray
How the Yarra got its name Wedderburn
Warracknabeal Books received
Windows on History Bookshop report
President’s
RHSV NEWS
Report
Our affiliated societies are very important already be felt in this issue of History on the current strength of the society
to the RHSV. Since 2004 we have had a News, which will feature more local or the availability of the right personnel
History of Victoria Support Group, which stories of our affiliated societies. Also to produce it. I am currently pondering
has done excellent work in bringing ideas ‘Around the Societies’ will be enlarged how we can share the best examples
and resources to various regions through and its presentation revamped. Being of our newsletters so that all can see
seminars and presentations, and it has now largely digital, History News these to boost the quality of their own
also provided another way for societies can accommodate this by, at times, publications. A page on our website will
to network, apart from the regional expanding to twenty pages without a soon host examples considered to be of
support networks that many areas of the significant financial cost. high quality.
state enjoy. I have recently had occasion to read Also, this page can share ideas for
Alleyne Hockley has just stepped down several dozen newsletters from our newsletter articles to give harried editors
as Coordinator of the HVSG after many societies and I will continue to do more assistance. The RHSV Publications
years of fine service and Pauline Hitchins, so throughout the year. I am often Committee in recent years had used
a recent addition to this group, has moved to write to an individual society innovative ideas to strengthen History
taken on that role. Pauline has been a congratulating them on their newsletter, News. We instituted new article series,
communications officer with both the and again, will continue to do so as the including: ‘Murders in Melbourne’,
National Trust and Heritage Council of year unfolds. ‘Halls of Fame’, ‘If Trees Could Talk’
Victoria, giving her a deep knowledge The newsletters of affiliated societies of and ‘Windows on History’, which have
of our state. Pauline’s influence will course vary in size and quality depending provided many fine articles.
The newsletter of any society is key to its
activities. It not only informs the outside
world about the society, its executive and
its events, but also binds the society to
the local community and to the wider
history movement.
The local historical society informs a
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What’s On
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‘May you live in interesting times’
Well, that old curse has gained potency recently. It seems
that being part of large-scale history-in-the-making is quite
uncomfortable and alarming.
Nearly all our planned events up to and TRANSURBAN GRANTS OPEN Aerial view of Chadstone shopping
including July have been cancelled or complex and car parking with the Convent
A silver lining to the COVID-19 shut-down is that of the Good Shepherd in the background,
postponed. All ticket buyers can get a full we will have time on our hands to complete all on Dandenong Road (Princes Highway),
refund when their event is cancelled. those niggly back-burner projects including Chadstone.
Some events will move to Zoom, including the lodging grant applications. Get cracking! Pratt, Charles Daniel, 1892-1968,
History Writing Group and the History Bookclub. Transurban will open their Community Grant photographer.
Our AGM in May will also be a virtual meeting applications on April 1, 2020 for the month and
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/386104
to which we will invite our members to attend close April 30, 2020.
through their computer.
One group of our volunteers is developing a series
Grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded for Chadstone: a new
projects bringing social and environmental
of simple history-based activities for all ages benefits to communities in Melbourne near era in surburban
that are designed to bridge our social isolation. Transurban’s roads. Projects in the following local
government areas are geographically eligible:
shopping
AWARDS OF MERIT Chadstone, The Fashion Capital, was
• Moreland City Council
Melbourne’s first shopping centre and was
Awards of Merit closing date: 5pm Thursday • Moonee Valley City Council
the largest in Australia. Chadstone Shopping
9 April • City of Port Phillip
Centre, located at 1341 Dandenong Road,
Every historical society has dedicated • City of Melbourne
Malvern East, stands on the former site of
volunteers who deliver exceptional work for • Boroondara City Council
the Convent of the Good Shepherd, built in
their society, year in, year out. This is your • Stonnington City Council
1883. Kenneth Myer, of the Myer Emporium,
opportunity to nominate those volunteers for an • City of Yarra Council
Please see our website for application criteria.
purchased 30 acres of their land in 1958 and
RHSV Award of Merit or Fellowship and make although Myer had plans to build a shopping
sure they know they are appreciated. centre in Burwood East, the plan was
The presentation of these awards usually takes BOOKCLUB: dropped in favour of the prosperous south-
place at our AGM, however, this year it would Our new bookclub meets monthly on the 2nd eastern suburb of Malvern East. Chadstone
be better if the presentations took place later Tuesday of each month at the RHSV. We ponder Shopping Centre was built at a cost of six
in the year. the big and the small issues over a glass of wine million pounds and was opened by Victorian
and some cheese. Premier Henry Bolte, on 3 October 1960.
Its attractions were ample parking near the
2020 COMMUNITY HERITAGE GRANTS And we are not going to be vanquished by
shops and shoppers’ freedom to walk from
NOW OPEN COVID-19! Our bookclub will meet through
shop to shop without conflict with cars.
Closing Date: 4 May 2020 ZOOM. We can’t pour you a glass of red so
you’ll have to do that at home but we can have The post-war years brought numerous
‘Community Heritage Grants’ is a federally changes to Melbourne with the arrival of a
a lively charged discussion.
funded grants program, operating since 1994, million immigrants over a twenty-year period.
which offers grants of up to $15,000 to assist Our next three books are:
The small business which had served inner
in preserving cultural heritage collections of 14 Apr 5:30pm - 7pm city neighbourhoods, was increasingly being
national significance. Truganini: Journey replaced by sprawling shopping centres. In
Not-for-profit organisations, such as historical through the apocalypse by 1953, Kenneth Myer returned from a visit
societies, regional museums, public libraries Cassandra Pybus. to the USA, where he’d met with a number
and Indigenous and migrant community groups The haunting story of the of architects involved with the design of
throughout Australia, are encouraged to apply. extraordinary Aboriginal shopping malls. In 1958, the American
As an example, the RHSV has just completed woman behind the myth firm of Welton Beckett and Associates
the three stages of this grant program which of ‘the last Tasmanian was appointed as the design architect,
started with a Significance Assessment, then Aborigine’. Truganini also spent a large part with Tompkins and Shaw Architects as the
a Preservation Needs Assessment followed, of her life in Victoria and early Melbourne. production architect. During the project, the
finally, by new archival quality shelving and 12 May 5:30pm - 7pm senior board of Myer was concerned that
storage materials for our manuscript collection. The Maddest Place on Earth by Jill Giese the architects didn’t fully understand the
9 Jun 5:30pm - 7pm
Australian concept and were adopting the
Mannix by Brenda Niall
American shopping mall model.
VICTORIAN COMMUNITY HISTORY
AWARDS
Initially Chadstone Shopping Centre included
72 shops, a three-level Myer department
NOW OPEN Please check our website for updates and store, a supermarket, an upper and lower
Closing date: 5pm, Wednesday 8 July further information on the activities listed mall, 3UZ radio station, exhibition hall,
on this page. medical centre and child-minding facilities.
The Victorian Community History Awards are
now open for entry. From our website you can Also, please be aware - We continue to In 1963, Myer added a new floor to its store,
download an entry form or you can complete work in the Drill Hall and if you wish to but there were no further developments until
an online entry. Or you can request a hard copy contact us, please do so through our the Gandel Group acquired Chadstone in
entry form be mailed out. website, by email or by telephone. 1983. The shopping centre has had several
We thank all the historical societies which major expansions since that time, continuing
Please pass the word on to any friends,
have let us know that they have closed its reputation as the largest shopping centre
colleagues or members who might have
their museums and cancelled events. We in Australia.
published or created a Victorian history project
between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2020. are looking forward to Spring and its gifts Rose Raymen
of rebirth and renewal.
RHSV NEWS APRIL 2020 3
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Heritage Report
Covid-19 has eclipsed the bushfires, but Fawkner Park is a classic nineteenth- removable via forklift, called ‘Point of Sale
people are still suffering and significant century Melbourne park characterised by storage’, would be refrigerated storage
community assets have been lost forever. tree-lined avenues and on the Victorian cabinets with sales counters on top to
It is appropriate now to consider how Heritage Register. The City of Melbourne replace the current jumble of trestle table
to safeguard collections against an proposes to improve it with a new stalls set up by traders. These cabinets
increasingly uncertain future. multi-use court, much bulkier than the would replace existing storage at Franklin
To this end, the Federation of Australian current basketball court, and located on a Street, enabling conversion of the existing
Historical Societies has announced the prominent site where it will intrude on the car park into an events space called
Local History Backup. Local historical traditional layout and replace a significant ‘Market Square’. Traders would no longer
societies will create real time capsules, grassed area. bring their own vehicles to their stalls and
of five to ten objects, and share photos Heritage Victoria refused a permit trade from them, as they have done for
of the objects and of the burial ceremony. because the multi-use court would 140 years, but would drop their goods
Societies can also create virtual time require a network of new paths running at loading docks and then somehow
capsules for the Federation’s Digital Time counter to the historic avenues and would transport them to their fixed stalls. These
Capsule. If fire or other disaster were intrude visually on them. The City argues drastic changes would destroy the market.
to destroy part of your local historical that relocating the court would solve a Council asserts that they will increase
society’s collection, what would you drainage problem! profit—presumably because they think
most wish subsequent generations to Surprisingly, instead of altering its proposal, the clean, modern look would attract more
remember about the history of their the City appealed to the Heritage Council customers! But Council’s own projections
community? Clear instructions can be to overrule Heritage Victoria’s ruling. Is show revenue steadily increasing, with
found on the Federation’s web site: that because, as we have heard, some profit ‘projected to average around $0.5
look for ‘Local History Backup’ on the councillors are driven by anger against million per annum’. (Economic Justification
Federation home page or go straight to: Heritage Victoria for its refusal to grant a Submission to Heritage Victoria, 3.4).
https://www.history.org.au/local-history- permit for the now discredited Doyle Plan The issue now before Heritage Victoria is
backup/ . to rebuild the Queen Victoria Market? the construction of two major structures,
This is also a good time for local societies The Doyle Plan lives on as a zombie ‘Trader Shed’ and ‘Northern Shed’. These
to review emergency plans, safe storage in the Council’s current improvement, would both contain loading docks and
protection and insurance policies; sorry, ‘renewal’ plan—‘Option A’—which, extensive waste management facilities.
remember that the RHSV offers member like the Doyle Plan but with different Trader Shed would contain more storage,
societies insurance tailored to the special strategies, aims to refashion and sanitise as well as toilets, showers, lunchroom,
needs of historical organisations. the market with uniform permanent stalls, meeting rooms and lockers for traders,
The Heritage Committee fights for more events and more ‘hospitality’ (read plus public toilets and a parents’ room.
assets threatened by fire, but also those fast food). To squeeze all this in, six levels are
threatened by human ‘improvements’. The permanent stalls, that are technically required (three underground). As a result,
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the proposed Trader Shed is much too Neither of these structures will revive the Proposed ‘Trader Shed’, Rear View from
bulky for the site, as well as being totally market. Making the market more hygienic Shed H Looking West, with the 1869 Meat
Market to the Right (City of Melbourne/
unsympathetic to its Victorian surrounds. will not increase custom. Loading docks NH Architecture, Planning Submission to
We do not oppose a new facility, but it won’t be needed if traders continue to Heritage Victoria, p. 11).
must fit the space as infill. The current use their own vans. The People’s Panel
proposal, as the architect’s elevation opposed ‘the gold plating of infrastructure’
shows, is brutally out of character with the and expressed ‘concern that increasing
infrastructure to the proposed scale could
existing roof lines.
The proposed Northern Shed is to cover
result in a larger redevelopment than what Enhance your next
the northern, Victoria Street, end of
Queen Street, between the meat market,
is needed’. That is precisely what we see
in the Council’s current proposals. Will the book with an Index by
the Victoria Street shops and the sheds.
It would be a single-story structure
zombie Doyle Plan walk again?
Charles Sowerwine
Terri Mackenzie
with a slightly futuristic sloped canopy Chair, Heritage Committee.
constituting a major visual intrusion totally
out of character with the surrounding
structures.
Ardent Supporter of Regional
Historical Associations dies.
Professional Back
Long time and past members of seeking assistance in the preparation of Book Indexer
historical societies throughout Victoria of submissions for National Trust and
will note with sadness the death of local classification drawing upon her Member of Australian and
Christine Evelyn Gray on 30 January talent as the author of historical notes New Zealand Society of
2020 at the age of 94 years. on Lilydale historical features. Indexers
Christine will long be remembered Christine served as Chair of State
Honorary Victorian
for her strong and dedicated support Committee, proving most capable
Historical Journal Indexer
of the foundation of the Victorian bringing to consensus the differing
Committee of Affiliated Historical opinions of delegates; yes, there terrianne@bigpond.com
Societies (V.C.A.H.S), which was the were certainly differences not easily
fore runner of the very active History navigated.
Support Group. Christine was elected as a Councillor terrianne@bigpond.com
Based upon her work as Ringwood of the RHSV from 1985-1990 and
Society delegate to the newly formed served as Vice President 1989-1990.
Eastern Region, Christine travelled She was awarded Life Membership Very wise words from one who gave
widely across Victoria speaking at of the Lilydale Society in 1989 and the of her best – always.
meetings, seminars and workshops on RHSV Award of Merit in 2018 when Judith A. Bilszta F.R.H.S.V.
the benefits of Regional Association President Don Garden and Councillor
January 2020
development as focus points for the Carole Woods spoke sincerely and
RHSV involvement in and support for meaningfully of Christine’s great service A postscript from the RHSV
local society projects. to the History Movement throughout the Sue Thompson, president of Lilydale
Her work in co-ordinating Museums State of Victoria. & District Historical Society, nominated
Victoria workshops and arranging In one of my last conversations with Christine Gray for the RHSV Award
indexing workshops involving member Christine, whilst then on a trip to England, of Merit in 2018. Sue organised, and
late John Adams, RMIT lecturer, Christine told me of publications she was present at, the award presentation
provided the basis for museum indexing had viewed in local museums in Essex. at Christine’s retirement home in
and cataloguing, much appreciated “You know Judith, you cannot put off Geelong on 21 March 2019. Christine
by small historical groups. She gave publishing our local history material. was a foundation member of the
unstinting support to local societies You need to do it now.” Lilydale & DHS in 1971.
RHSV NEWS APRIL 2020 5
How the Yarra
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got its name
It has recently been suggested that the this, two Sydney men, two Wathurong entrenched around the history and
Yarra River should be renamed ‘Birrarung’ men and one of the colonists took Wedge meaning of the name, making it difficult to
as this was its original Woiwurung name. to Melbourne in a whaleboat, arriving correct. This started when it was wrongly
This indeed was its name and means there on 2 September 1835. The two assumed that the natives with Wedge
’River of Mists and Shadows’. Wathurong men and the colonist then were locals. Building on this, it was then
However, there is a lot of confusion and returned to Geelong by boat, whilst the assumed that ‘Yarra’ was a Woiwurung
urban myth about how the name ‘Yarra’ two Sydney men accompanied Wedge word. It is, but Yarra in Woiwurung means
actually came about. This is made all the on his survey work. ‘hair’ and Yarra-Yarra means ‘fur’. The
more complicated by the fact that the Back on 2 September though, as the boat many Woiwurung words with ‘yarra’ in
principal characters in the story were all came up the river and approached the them have since been conveniently
practiced liars. This included the warring Queen Street falls, a Sydney man exclaimed ignored. All these words refer to specific
co-founders of Melbourne, John Batman Yarra! Yarra! This meant ‘waterfall’ in their types of hair such as eyebrows, eyelashes,
and John Pascoe Fawkner, plus the Sydney tongue, but Wedge misunderstood. beards, moustaches, pubic hair and even
surveyor for the Port Phillip Syndicate, He thought they were telling him it was the baldness.
John Helder Wedge. name of the river. The situation was further confused
The story begins in May 1835, when John Wedge was at that time probably a fifty years later by Hugh McCrae, the
Batman made his historic journey to Port bit distracted, because John Pascoe grandson of Georgina McCrae, an early
Phillip, bringing with him seven Aboriginal Fawkner’s ship Enterprise, with a party led settler on the Mornington Peninsula. In
people from Sydney as guides and by Captain Lancey, was already moored at his grandmother’s Boonwurrung language
interpreters. Although Batman scarcely the falls. Wedge subsequently got into an notes, one word containing ‘yarra’ referred
mentions them in his diary when in argument with Lancey and said they had to tidal flows. Hugh noted he thought it
Melbourne, these Sydney men did their no right to be there on the land claimed meant ‘ever flowing’ and once more the
required job. They made contact with by Batman. He then gave Lancey a written idea stuck. One Boonwurung word about
the Woiwurung people and organised order to leave. tidal flow has now been misapplied to
the historic meeting with Batman on the wrongly claim that Yarra-Yarra means
According to John Pascoe Fawkner,
Plenty River at Greensborough. ‘ever-flowing’.
Lancey handed the paper back to Wedge
This Plenty River meeting site was and informed him that he ‘...might want This error on how the Yarra was named
confirmed by William Barak in 1888, but it for some necessary occasion, which continues to this day, despite Wedge
the myth promoted by Fawkner that it was would be the full worth of such a notice’. having later publicly corrected his
on Merri Creek, still persists. In the flowery language of the day Lancey mistake. In correspondence to Batman’s
was of course telling Wedge to wipe his biographer, John Bonwick on 23 February
After this meeting, Batman returned to
bum with it. 1856, Wedge wrote that after finishing
Tasmania on 9 June 1835, leaving five of
his survey work in Melbourne in late
the seven guides from Sydney at Geelong, This clearly demonstrated the rivalry and
September 1835, he and the Sydney
together with the other three colonists in ill-will between Batman and Fawkner that
men began walking back to Geelong. On
his party. The surveyor in the Port Phillip continued unabated for the rest of their
reaching the ford at the Werribee River,
Syndicate John Helder Wedge then came lives. Batman died disfigured by syphilis
the Sydney men again pointed to the
over from Tasmania with Henry Batman in 1839, but for the following twenty
rapids and said ‘Yarra’.
and his family and they were dropped off years Fawkner continued to give public
at Geelong on 7 August 1835. lectures on what a liar and degenerate Wedge wrote it was then he realised he had
Batman was. been mistaken in the name of the river. But
Wedge surveyed today’s Geelong region
it was already too late and the myth is today
for four weeks accompanied by William However back in 1835 Wedge told
still firmly entrenched as fact.
Buckley the escaped convict, who had everyone the name of the river was Yarra,
come into the camp on 6 July 1835. After and it stuck. Myths have now become Jim Poulter
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Wheatlands Warracknabeal
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Vintage Machinery Rally
Before the COVID-19 restrictions, the collection had a home at last. second-hand shop. It started from humble
Warracknabeal and District Historical The banking chamber has been retained beginnings in 1998, selling off excess parts
Society was all ready to stage its 53rd as it was, featuring beautiful wooden and tools, that were no longer needed.
annual vintage machinery rally at its panelling. Part of the downstairs is used as Other people wanted to sell their items
Agricultural Museum on the Henty a sitting room containing historical items and it snowballed from there. Today the
Highway at Easter. as well for storage of collections: records, shop is staffed by volunteers and is open
A Victorian wheatbelt town, photos, maps and books. The upstairs seven days a week. There are about
Warracknabeal is situated on the banks manager’s residence has been set up with 1600 active vendors and a commission is
of the Yarriambiack Creek, 330 km north- collections of kitchen, bedroom, nursery received from goods sold.
west of Melbourne. It is the business and and other household items. There are five committees or divisions that
services centre of the northern Wimmera In 1971 a committee of representatives run these activities, with the Warracknabeal
and southern Mallee districts, and is the from surrounding local towns in the and District Historical Society being the
base for local government offices for the Wimmera was formed with the aim umbrella organisation. The Historical
Shire of Yarriambiack. of establishing a machinery museum. Centre has a committee that meets every
Wa r r a c k n a b e a l ’s m u s e u m s a n d The site of Warracknabeal was chosen three months. Wheatlands Warracknabeal
historical collections reflect the region’s because of its central position. Agricultural Machinery Museum has three
strong farming base and showcase its committees or divisions. The Machinery
By 1973, with the aid of government
development and the innovation of local division meets monthly and handles
grants, the museum building had been
residents. The rally has its roots in a the restoration program, other rallies to
erected, and the machinery collection
parade held as part of the town’s 1967 attend and business to do with machinery.
moved to the new facility. A wonderful
centenary celebrations. The Management Committee manages
tarmac in front of the building to display
the Museum, particularly building and
The Warracknabeal and District Historical and parade items has now become the
maintenance and future planning. It also
Society began five years earlier. As site for the Easter Rally. A 2014 bequest
meets every month. The Rally Committee
the society’s collecting began, initially enabled construction of a new foyer
concentrates on running a successful
largely stored in members’ homes, containing an office, archive room,
rally and meets monthly before each
some of the local farmers led a push to meeting room, kitchenette and toilets.
rally, and every two months after that.
collect and restore the old machinery This was officially opened in 2017.
The Warehouse has a Committee that
that was ‘lying about under trees on Showcasing and preserving Australia’s meets every two months and deals with
farms’. These were kept in a shed behind agricultural history, the complex includes Warehouse concerns.
the showgrounds. Following a street a replica of the log ‘Smithy’ hut where
parade for the centenary, the machines Warracknabeal is not a large town and
Hugh McKay produced the world’s first
were taken to the showgrounds and this many of the members are on several of
Sunshine stripper-harvester in 1884.
became the first rally. the committees. There are around 120
There’s also a permanent display of
members: about half of these are ‘expats’
In 1970 when the town’s historical 1907 more than 1000 samples of grain from 40
or people who are not particularly active,
State Savings Bank of Victoria closed, countries. The collection focuses on the
but are interested in the town’s history.
it was purchased by the Shire Council invention and modification of machinery
and leased to the Historical Society. This designed from necessity to suit farming The 2020 two-day Easter rally would
became the Historical Centre, providing a conditions locally and Australia-wide. have featured working vintage tractors
formal base for the Society after a decade and machinery, stationary engines,
Another branch of the Society is
of meeting at the Mechanics Institute. And steam engines, axe handle lathe and
Wheatlands Warehouse, which is a
vintage cars. There was to be a on CASE
and American Machines this year plus
shearing demonstrations and model
aeroplanes, as well as craft stalls and
vintage and collectable displays.
Lesley Stephan, WDHS Secretary
PS The RHSV shares the disappointment
experienced by the Warracknabeal
and District Historical Society and the
wide range of other events planned by
Victoria’s Historical Societies for the
coming months.
But, as historians, we all know that good
times come and go, and bad times
come and go. We look forward to the
time when we can again promote the
importance of history and historical
artefacts with future events.
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Windows on
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History: St George’s
Presbyterian Church,
Geelong
As Anzac Day 2020 approaches, when Alexander McLean and his two sons,
Australians will once again honour the 21 years old Alex and 18 years old Victor
service and sacrifice of so many during went into the line together on 19 July 1916
hard years of war, as they have done at Fromelles. Both young men were killed.
since 1916. The longed-for peace in 1918 A year later their mother wrote to the
brought the men home but it also brought authorities that her husband Alexander
hardship for many: striking workers, ‘has never been the same in health since’,
unemployment, shortages and illness, and asked for his early return, which was
not the least of which was the influenza ultimately granted.
pandemic that swept the world. Even St George’s two-light window, The Crown
during the tough days of war, public of Life, was based on the text, ‘Be thou
monuments were already being built faithful unto death and I will give thee
in the landscape and grieving families the crown of life’ (Revelations 2:10). The
commissioned stained glass memorials subject suited a two-light window, as the
to individual soldiers in churches across ‘heavenly’ figure of Christ (or sometimes
the country. an Angel) could be placed on one side,
The need for shared remembrance juxtaposed with an ‘earthly’ kneeling
was strong, and church communities knight or soldier on the other. At St
everywhere began collecting funds to George’s, traditional armour was replaced
provide permanent monuments, including by a khaki-clad Australian accepting the
many stained-glass windows, to their laurel wreath of victory.
fallen and to those who served. It often The digger and the AIF badge entered the
took years to amass the necessary funds iconography of stained glass in 1920, firstly
and was not until 1921 that St George’s in secular settings such as at Melbourne
Presbyterian Church in Geelong installed Teachers’ College and was accepted
a window, costing £157.10.0, dedicated to in the Barkly Street Methodist Church,
20 men who died and a brass plaque to Ballarat, later the same year. St George’s
honour all 120 Presbyterians who enlisted. Crown of Life was designed and made by
Church secretary and benefactor James Melbourne’s leading stained-glass artist,
H. McPhillimy, ordered the window on William Montgomery. Montgomery made
behalf of the congregation and probably more than 80 commemorative windows
contributed to the cost, equivalent to from 1915 onwards including eight two-
about $76,000 in 2020. lights for the first stage of the new chapel
Both memorials were unveiled by at Geelong Grammar School and another
Brigadier-General Robert Smith during a suite for Newtown’s All Saints.
solemn service conducted by Presbyterian It is likely that William Montgomery’s son,
Chaplain-General, the Rev. J. L. Rentoul, ‘Mont’, was the auburn-haired model for Heritage Council Victoria, ‘Stained
two men who had served with distinction the young soldier depicted in the window, Glass Window at Geelong St. George’s
in France. his slouch hat and rifle at his side. In Presbyterian Church’ https://vhd.
heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/196891
Like thousands of other young men across 1915, Mont was a senior art student at the
Australia, the 120 men from St George’s National Gallery of Victoria Art School,
left jobs and families to defend the British when he enlisted in the newly forming to one community’s loss as well as
Empire and serve their God, King and Victorian 6th Brigade. He survived a acknowledging his own.
country. They were from a diversity of torpedo attack in the Aegean Sea, fighting
For more than 140 years, St George’s
backgrounds, trades and professions: on the Gallipoli Peninsula and went on to
Church served Presbyterians in Geelong
grocers to graziers, labourers to law take part in battles over more than two
and, although its doors closed in January
clerks. Of the 20 who died, 18-year-old years in France and Belgium. Well aware
2015, its solid bluestone and distinctive
recruit Edward Palmer died of pneumonia that the war was soon to end, he was
broach spire remains an integral part of
in Geelong Hospital, four were killed in killed at Montbrehain on 6 October 1918,
the Geelong landscape. As time goes by,
action at Gallipoli, four were thrown into one day before the last Australian troops
only a few will remember the wealth of
the debacle at Fromelles, and others were withdrawn from the Western Front.
stained glass inside, which documents
survived illnesses and wounds only to die Typically, families grieved quietly, generations of Geelong pioneers and
in later battles in the Somme mud and in understanding the pain that was felt people. The Crown of Life remains among
Flanders fields; stories tragically repeated by other families’ losses. Perhaps this its treasures, a small but significant part of
with variations in every community. One outstanding work of art might have been St. George’s and Geelong’s history.
St George’s family was particularly hard hit Montgomery’s way of paying tribute
Bronwyn Hughes
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If Trees talked:
RHSV NEWS
A Conversation
with Old Red
By Green Gully Creek, close to Newstead, in 1861, while the township grew around in the nearby sale yards, the bleating of
estimated to be well over 400 years the crossing; two flour mills, a creamery, stock waiting to be loaded onto trains en
old, a majestic old river red gum grows, later the Butter Factory, blacksmiths, route to Melbourne
dominating the skyline, towering over wheelwright and coach builder, ginger
And what of your tales, about the rushing
nearby trees and buildings. beer factory, bank, butchers, hotels,
floodwaters that spread across the
A silent historian, watching and waiting. police station with Newstead’s mounted
paddocks, swirling around your roots?
constable, post office, churches,
What secrets do you keep Old tree, The Loddon River, a quiet stream in
Mechanics Institute, Courthouse, biscuit
what have you witnessed as our history summer, has a long history of floods,
factory and general stores.
unfolded? inundating houses and businesses with
I know you heard the cursing of the ‘fearful’ damage. In 1911 a levee bank was
Old Tree talk to me, or do I read your
bullockies as bullock wagons passed constructed to prevent such disasters,
silence?
by, the whip cracking drivers of horse but still the water spread across the flats.
I know you witnessed Major Mitchell’s drawn vehicles, saw the weariness of
party passing by on his way home to I know you also witnessed the tears as
those who walked, often pushing a
Sydney in 1836; the Major’s glowing Newstead sent its sons and daughters
wheelbarrow or with a swag on their
reports of the country he had seen soon off to war. The Relief of Mafeking (Boer
back as they negotiated rough bush
brought the squatters and their flocks to War) was celebrated in 1901, the streets
tracks, later roads, that often turned to
the area. were illuminated with lighted tar on
boggy quagmires in winter.
either side, and the whole town turned
And the discovery of gold in 1850 which I know you witnessed the first combined out to celebrate, the streets ringing with
brought a huge influx of miners of many church services in 1854, your spreading joy. Other wars followed and again the
nationalities to the area. They searched boughs their shelter. In 1856 the residents, ‘welcome home’ was one of joy and
for the alluvial gold scattered close to most of them living in tents or slab huts relief, but perhaps not with the same
the surface, then through quartz mining took up a subscription to provide for the exuberance of 1901.
expanded into payable mines, you saw establishment of a church and school.
them move on to richer gold fields. Old Tree you have always been an
They purchased a tent and you watched
important part of my life and of our
In 1854 you witnessed a site for the township as they erected it in the vicinity, and fitted
celebrations; Five hundred people
of St. Andrews surveyed at Mingus’s it out as a chapel. It was used by different
gathered under your spreading boughs for
Crossing downstream on the Loddon, and denominations and a school until the
a religious service which commemorated
how that new township didn’t eventuate. Common School was built in 1859. That
the re-enactment of Cobb and Coaches
You waited until 1856, when a new site year the first agricultural show was held,
in 1963. Afterwards the coach continued
was surveyed for Newstead, and land sales with the showground then being moved
its journey to Plaistowe, an old changing
began. The site of Newstead township was elsewhere as the site was required for a
station in the 1840-50s.
situated on the Tarringower run. But when new railway station.
land was made available for selection in In 1968 celebrations were held to mark
I know you saw the Castlemaine to
1854-56, you saw the forced abandonment the centenary of the Mechanics Hall and
Maryborough railway being built in 1874,
of pastoral runs. in 1977 a church service was held to mark
the line passing close by, you heard the
the centenary of education and the first
I know you watched the building of the three trains rumbling past, felt the vibrations,
church services.
bridges built over the Loddon, the first built heard the auctioneer’s raucous voices
Old Tree, a silent witness to our history,
of the first people of country, the coming
of the squatters, the settlers, diggers
in search of their fortune, the birth of
the first white baby, the first motor car,
floods, droughts, fire, the hardship and the
struggles of the people who came before
as they coped with the harsh conditions
of a new country.
Old Tree, you stand before me, tall and
strong, a reminder of the strength and
endurance of our pioneers who called
this place home.
Joan Sartori
Secretary, Newstead and District Historical
Society. Inc.
1968 gathering to mark the centenary of the Mechanics Hall
Photo courtesy of the Newstead & District Historical Society
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Around the We welcome Societies to submit an
article/event of around 50 words, or email your
Newsletter to us and we will write up around
SOCIETIES
Societies
50 words for you around twice per year.
FOR THE JUNE 2020 ISSUE
please send details to
Prepared by volunteer Glenda Beckley on office@historyvictoria.org.au
behalf of the History Victoria Support Group. by Friday 8th May 2020.
In this rapidly changing situation, please to time. In April 1979 the Society acquired plans will incorporate input from Special
check with individual societies as to the use of the Old Court House after a Advisory Groups (SAGs). If you haven’t
whether their exhibitions, museums, new nearby Magistrates’ court was built. registered your interest in one or more
meetings and other events mentioned In the following months the Society did SAGs, then you may wish to do so now.
in Around the Societies, will still be restoration and maintenance work and Or, you may choose to participate by
happening as advertised. established a museum in the old court. simply keeping the MMHN Board ‘in the
CHELSEA AND DISTRICT: We have The exhibition of Heidelberg’s ‘Busy Bee loop’ about relevant maritime matters
finalized our lease agreement to remain Signature Quilt 1895-96’ will close on by emailing info@mmhn.org.au. Your
at 313A Station Street, and our storage Sunday 26 April 2020. Our new exhibition input is invaluable to us. We rely on
facility “shed” will still remain in the on the Arts and Crafts movement will open your continuing interest, advocacy and
grounds of the Court House. We also in the second half of the year. participation. Remember to join the
have the availability to hold exhibitions KEW: ‘The Feminine Aesthetic – Fashion Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network,
and events at the Court House but due in Melbourne 1860-1950 - Villa Alba https://www.mmhn.org.au/wp-content/
to our present circumstances we are Museum’. Enter a glamorous world uploads/MMHN-Membership-Form.pdf
not in a position to so do! Manning an exploring the feminine aesthetic in NEPEAN: ‘Behind The Name’ exhibition
exhibition does require at least two able fashion and design at the historic Villa - Do YOU know who or what were:
bodied people per session. Our Society, Alba Museum. The exhibition showcases Cheviot, Nepean, Sullivan, Darbyshire or
like most Volunteer organisations, is almost one hundred years of Australian Corsair? What connections to the past
facing new challenges as the pool of fashion and design, drawn from the do these names hold? That the beach
volunteers has lessened. The Committee collections of the Kew Historical Society where PM Harold Holt disappeared in
welcome your suggestions or ideas. Even in one of the great remaining Victorian-era 1967, was the site of a shipwreck 80
so, the committee is ensuring all files are interiors. Curated by Nicole Jenkins. In years earlier? That Portsea was named
being catalogued and updated. This is a addition to the general days of opening, by a convict transported to Tasmania?
massive task and one that will take many a special day of lectures by experts Discover more interesting facts about the
hours of work. Contact chelseahistorical@ will explore the work of Melbourne naming of Nepean Peninsula sites during
bigpond.com designers and home dressmakers on the National Trust Heritage Festival 2020
CIVIL AVIATION: Meetings are at the Wednesday 29 April, 10am-3pm. Villa - 18 April to 19 May 1.30-4.30pm Saturday
Airways Museum, and commence at Alba Museum, 44 Walmer Street, Kew and Sunday at the Sorrento Museum
12noon at 1 Edgar Johnston Lane, located Saturday and Sundays from 25 April to Mechanics’ Institute, 827 Melbourne
in the rear of the building at the corner 17 May, 1-4pm General Entry - $12, $10 Road, Sorrento. Contact (03) 5984 0255
of Wirraway Road and Shaw Court, concession. Lectures $20 Contact info@ PORT MELBOURNE: At the January
Essendon Airport. Following Wednesday kewhistoricalsociety.org.au meeting three members presented and
meetings, a light lunch is served. The KOO WEE RUP SWAMP: How pleased each gave a brief talk about an item in
cost is $4. The program for the first half we are to say that the Society’s Museum the collection. John gave a lively account
of 2020 includes: 8 April - Speaker: Mr has now re-opened after over two years of how a 1942 air raid siren was acquired
Barry Bennett, Subject: ‘From Electrical of renovations. We plan to be open on for the collection. David presented a
Apprentice to Manager: 43 Years with the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month photo of the arrival at Port Melbourne
DCA’; 10 June - Speaker: Mr Geoff Goodall, from 1.30-4.00pm or by appointment. We of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
Subject: Cocos Islands Airport: Indian had our grand re-opening on 1 March, who was attending the 1934 Victorian
Ocean Aerial Crossroads. See www. attended by about 75 people. The Mayor Centenary celebrations. He showed how
airwaysmuseum.com or contact (03) of Cardinia did the honours of cutting the one photo led to a trail of information
9374 3905 cake and made a lovely speech and our discovery. Janet presented a charming
HEIDELBERG: The Society was formed local ward councillor also made a speech. panoramic ‘fold out style’ sketch book,
in April 1967 and the historic Old We acknowledge and are grateful for the which seemed at least two meters long,
Heidelberg Court house has been our financial support of the Cardinia Shire, depicting the beach front from Station Pier
home since April 1979. Through our the Bank of Bendigo and the Lions Club to Lagoon Pier. Janet took the opportunity
collections and exhibitions, we provide an Opportunity shop, both at Koo Wee Rup. to remind members that history was all
informative insight into the development Contact harnold@dcsi.net.au around us and significant items about Port
of the Heidelberg district, its history and MELBOURNE MARITIME HERITAGE Melbourne are also always appreciated
heritage. Our area of primary interest is NETWORK: In organisational terms we as acquisitions by PMHPS. See www.
the District of Heidelberg as generally are still ramping up our capacity to affect pmhps.org.au
referred to, the Shire of Heidelberg, City change and to pursue those maritime QUEENSCLIFFE HISTORICAL MUSEUM:
of Heidelberg and City of Banyule within objectives identified thus far: see our ‘THE HUB’ is a truly exciting project. As
their boundaries, as established from time website www.mmhn.org.au. The Board the ‘Cultural Centre’ of the Borough,
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NEWS
the HUB will enliven the commercial
precinct of the township of Queenscliffe
History Victoria from group to group and it’s an ongoing
challenge to get the balance right!
and is expected to act as a focal point for
many community activities and events.
Support Group Where societies or networks are planning
seminars or workshops, we hope RHSV
During the anticipated twelve to fourteen As a child I enjoyed frequent family trips can enhance these events by providing
months construction period, the Museum exploring Victoria, including historic presentations from RHSV or helping
will relocate to a suitable venue. It will centres such as Beechworth, Mildura, identify suitable experts.
continue to deliver its core services to Rushworth and Whroo; as well as the Do let us know if you believe you could
residents and visitors, albeit on a much- Goldfields area and Gippsland. benefit from a particular workshop or
reduced scale. Our popular ‘Monthly
My mother’s extensive research into training session in your area; particularly,
Talks’ will continue to be presented, the
family history also whetted my appetite if you have a network organising a
History Research function will operate as
for history. She did most of her research seminar we could link into. And we may
usual, as will some of the Displays and the
the ‘hard way’: microfiche, microfilm, hard be able to direct you to online resources
imperative Administration. In addition, we
copies and snail mail letters to researchers to assist you.
hope to keep the public informed as to
and distant ‘potential’ relatives: also, We hope that stories of the success of
the progress of the ‘rebuild’ with ‘artist’s
trips around the state to visit those sites various societies, such as Wedderburn’s
impressions’ of what we may all expect
we were connected to through our cataloguing project and Warracknabeal’s
when the building is completed. See
ancestors. She came home, not only great activities, both showcased in this
http://www.historyofqueenscliffe.com/
with stories of our ancestors, but with issue, will inspire others to identify a need
WODONGA: Associate Professor Bruce news of new friends and mentors, such for support in those areas. We’d love to
Pennay’s professional and personal as our late Joan Hunt AO, who was also hear from you all.
pursuits have aligned with Charles Sturt researching a Hitchins connection! And
University’s goals of enriching the lives It was exciting to read the results of a
so, it seemed inevitable that I’d be a happy
of regional Australians. More than two recent Australia Council survey that
victim of the history bug and I now spend
decades working at the University and revealed tourists were more likely to
countless hours pursuing this for work
its predecessor institution and a further visit their local museum and art gallery
and relaxation.
21 years of service post-retirement than stop at wineries or theme parks.
While I am delighted to be appointed the The survey recorded an increase in all
was rewarded when he was conferred
new convenor of HVSG, I am also in awe arts activities and noted more domestic
an Honorary Doctor of Arts. When
of those who have come before and I tourists attended the arts than organised
his full-time employment with the
am cognisant of the huge task we face sport, amusement parks or wineries.
University ended after 22 years in 1998,
to provide the appropriate support to
Professor Pennay became an Adjunct We all know the value of local museums
societies around the state.
Associate Professor and took up state- and their collections, which can help
wide responsibilities within history and There’s a wealth of knowledge about visitors understand the development
heritage. He served terms as a councillor historical groups around the state held and the stories of the local area. While
of the Royal Australian Historical Society by the other fabulous volunteer members we often struggle to find the volunteer
and as an appointee on the NSW Heritage of the HVSG and I’ve benefitted from numbers to open as often as we’d like,
Council History Advisory Panel from their energy, ideas, feedback and it’s great to be recognised as contributing
2004 to 2011. In recent years he has understanding of past achievements of to tourism, which is a major contributor
published three histories, 12 academic the HVSG. to local economic sustainability in many
journal articles and the same number of There are many issues we all face but areas.
academic journal book reviews. He was each society also has its particular I look forward to catching up with many
a successful advocate in winning National challenges. Delivering support across the of you in the coming months, at least
Heritage listing for Bonegilla Migrant state is a mammoth task. What training by phone or email, if not in person, but
Camp and then State Heritage listing is required, and where do we deliver it? I encourage you to let us know of your
for Benalla Migrant Camp. With support A series of workshops delivered by Sophie successes and the key issues you face, to
from councils and funding sponsorship Shilling in Gippsland, in partnership with help us direct our assistance in the best
from the Murray Darling Basin Authority, the Gippsland and Regional Studies possible way.
he arranged commemorative activities Collection at Federation University, has Pauline Hitchins
to mark the centenary of Hume Dam on provided valuable guidance to a group
28 November 2019. Professor Pennay Convenor HSVG (RHSV)
of societies and individuals, not all from
said he was, “pleased to be honoured”, Gippsland: but, it’s a small drop in the Phone: 0437 296925
but paid tribute to the efforts of others in ocean really. The level of those courses, Email: hvsg@historyvictoria.com.au
furthering his career and his causes. beginner, general, advanced, varies
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Mistresses of the House
in Doveton Street
‘Castlemaine, Victoria – View’, c. 1861
Photographer J.H. Jones,
From State Library Victoria collection
In History News, October 2019, Elizabeth then his widow was unable to service the
O’Callaghan laments the invisibility debt after construction was completed
of women in the historical records of in 1857. Consequently, the land, house
Warrnambool, in her article ‘Silent Lives: and outbuildings were advertised in the
My Inspiration’. Mount Alexander Mail, in September
That view is also consistent with the 1859, and the title deeds confirm the
story of women in Castlemaine, as told sale in November, to the Goldfields
by Heather Holst, in her book Making Commissioner, AJ Smith.
a Home: a History of Castlemaine. The resourceful Mrs Living then became
Holst notes that Australia’s ‘pioneer Smith’s first tenant at No. 14. She
miner narrative’ trumpets the courage, earned her rent by taking in boarders. A
perseverance and ingenuity of men who photograph by JH Jones, c.1861, provides No. 14 Doveton St, 2019,
developed new settlements in the 19th a birds-eye view of Castlemaine, before photo K. Mather
century. In contrast, she says, evidence of the completion of the Market Building significant improvements to the house
the women settlers is largely absent from construction project, 1861-1862. Magnified and garden, the Kanes were famed for
the public record. detail shows the house with its distinctive the numerous sophisticated parties that
Holst cites several women members of gables and tall chimneys but minus the they hosted there.
Castlemaine’s prominent pioneer family bay windows, presumably a later addition,
standing proud at No. 14 Doveton Street. However, they did not stay long in
the Yandells, to illustrate her point that
Castlemaine, and the property rapidly
women, too, deserve recognition for AJ Smith died in 1872, leaving his changed hands from Kane to Dunn to
‘courage, perseverance and ingenuity’. properties to his wife, Sarah, nee Read. Ely, who converted it to flats, renting it
The Yandell brothers built and occupied She became a wealthy woman, and out until 1973.
numerous houses in Castlemaine. For continued to use the house as an
investment until 1887, when it was sold Despite being dilapidated after tenant
example, in his 1929 Will, held by the
to another widow, Elizabeth Cramer, occupation, the house still charmed the
Public Records Office of Victoria, A.C.W.
nee Nicol. Elizabeth Cramer’s death in writer and poet, Pauline Rough, nee
Yandell bequeathed thirteen Castlemaine
1891 brought the house yet another new Johnson, and her husband William, who
properties to his wife, Lavinia, nee
owner: the widow Bessie Lewis, nee bought it in 1973, and began restoring it to
Jorgensen.
Newton, who rented it out again. the handsome seven-room dwelling that
Lavinia already owned a property: it still is. For a time, the house enjoyed a
Allotment 10 of Section 5 (No. 14 Doveton The chain of female owners was rare period of stability. However, financial
Street). The chain of ownership in original interrupted when ACW Yandell acquired concerns forced the Roughs to sell the
title deeds, from 1858 to the present, the house from Bessie Lewis in 1901. house to their daughter, Marguerite and
admirably demonstrates the capability of Perhaps it was Yandell who added the her husband and young family.
single and widowed women, in managing bay windows.
As Pauline wrote in 1987, the year before
their financial affairs and their dwellings. Within the Yandell family, ownership relinquishing it: ‘I doubt that anyone has
Now classified as National Trust Property changed hands from ACW Yandell to ever loved this old house as much as
B5401, Allotment 10, Section 5, is recorded various women relatives: his daughter I have, but we are finding it difficult to
in the Crown Grants Register as being Lavinia Margery, 1921-1924, then his keep it up to the standard that it was
purchased in 1856, by Richard Living. wife, Lavinia, 1924-1950, who, in her Will, back in 1990. It then changed hands
He died the following year, leaving all his mistakenly surmised that it had been built twice in two years, finally coming into the
properties to his wife, Sylvia Living, nee around 1890. Thereafter it went to her possession of its current owner who has
Hodges. daughter Valerie Yandell, 1950-1951, and faithfully restored the house and who is
then her daughter-in-law Hannah Yandell, undoubtedly the equal of Pauline Rough
The next year, 1858, Sylvia is recorded as
nee Rosewarne, until 1965. in devotion to it; carrying on the tradition
paying exceptionally high council rates
on a ‘brick villa residence’ on Allotment After 65 years in the Yandell family, of the female version of the ‘pioneer miner
10, Section 5. Possibly, before he died, the house was sold to Castlemaine’s narrative’.
Richard Living had borrowed money to Municipal Engineer, Henry Kane and his Karen Mather
commission the substantial house, and wife Mary, nee Jenkins. Whilst making
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