Broadmeadows Historical Society Inc

Broadmeadows Historical Society Inc The Historical of Broadmeadows . It has photos, memorabilia, written
information, slides of the area of Broadmeadows. eg.

Broadmeadows Hotel, Scots Church, Campbellfield,
Sawbridgeworth (Wiseman House) just to name a few. The length of the original Broadmeadows area was from Kalkallo to the
Moonee Ponds Creek at Strathmore from just the other side of the
Moonee Ponds Creek in the west to the Merri Creek in the east.

02/10/2017

THE ARMIDALE EXPRESS, N.S.W. FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER 1942

MRS. AENEAS GUNN, Australian Authoress.

February this year marked an interesting anniversary. Just 40 years have passed since the arrival at Elsey Station of Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, authoress of the delightful ‘We of the Never Never’ and ‘Little Black Princess’. I thought of her when reading ‘The Women of the West’, by George Essex Evans. Here is an extract: ‘They left the vine-wreathed cottage and the mansion on the hill, The houses in the busy streets where life was never still, The pleasures of the city, and the friends they cherished best, For love they faced the wilderness – the Women of the West’.
Mrs. Gunn was born in Melbourne, the daughter of Thomas Taylor, a journalist of Scottish origin. Her husband was the son of the Rev. Peter Gunn, the first Gaelic minister in Melbourne and was at the time the librarian of the Prahran Library. However, he had an adventurous spirit and spent some time on cattle stations in the north of Western Australia, he accepted a position as manager of the Elsey Station, on the Roper River, 400 miles from Darwin, the scene of her two famous stories.
Early in the following year, the city-bred girl set out for the ‘Land of the Never Never’ where she spent a yearo sunshine and happiness with her husband, the ‘Maluka’ before he died. The ‘Little Missus’ is now 72 years old, and has lived to see ‘We of the Never Never’ translated into German by Alice Schalak, under the title, “Wir aus dem Niemals’.
It enjoyed a considerable success among our enemies of two wars. More than 235,593 copies have been sold, and the book has now reached the status of an Australian literary classic. The manuscripts of this book and of ‘Little Black Princess’ are in the National Library at Canberra.

22/05/2017

I do wish whoever is sending messages as to what I MUST DO on this particular page would mind their own blasted business. If I need their assistance I will break wind and they can answer

16/05/2017

I apologise for not having added some information of late but I have been going through a personal matter that has taken me away from the museum for sometime. I am hopeful of getting back to doing what I love most - annoying the hell out of the data base at the museum and finding tit-bits to add here. In my absence I have had some exceptional support from museum volunteers - Dennis Bolger, Janet Bock, Beryl Jones, Kim Morrow, Susana Light, Sarah Adamthwaite and John Rae. It is hard to tell them just how much their support has meant these past three months. Thanks guys.😭😵 Each of you are a star.🌠

15/02/2017

Received today and no doubt something attempted to be swept under the carpet for the people of Broadmeadows.
The Federal Government plans to the sell-off the Maribyrnong Detention Centre and construct a 14- hardened bed detention centre for convicted paedophiles, drug traffickers and members of the outlaw bikie gangs in Broadmeadows. The existing facility is rated as low secueiry and next to the Maygar Barracks in Camp Road. Almost $30 million has been budgeted for construction.
A community assembly is to be held at 12.15pm next Monday, 20 February, in front of the Global Learning Centre, 1093 Pascoe Vale Road, Broadmeadows.
Maximum community presence is sought to show the Federal Government that the Broadmeadows community does not support the proposed detention centre expansion and wants the money invested, as promised, in jobs and growth where they are needed most.
Please pass this on to any friends, family and colleagues who may be able to attend to demonstrate that BROADMEADOWS DOES NOT WANT TO BE USED AS A DUMPING GROUND.
(My suggestion for the construction of this facility is Point Piper in Sydney - it's as good a place as any).

13/11/2016

Have just been going through some Broadmeadows Observers of the 1980s and came across some letters complaining about the aircraft flying over Gladstone Park and the possibility of a third runway.
There was always going to be a third runway - long before Gladstone Park as a suburb was planned, so why people purchased land or a house and land in the area with this knowledge is beyond me.
The museum holds documents, booklets, maps, etc. of the intention of this third runway being built. For anyone to now start complaining only means they purchased the property because it was cheap - nothing more.
Should anyone be interested in seeing this information on the original plans, etc. then please feel free to visit the museum.

13/11/2016

This sailing vessel (barque) is the 'India' and her last sail to Australia was a disaster. It caught fire in the south Atlantic and the passengers and crew were picked up by a whaling ship and taken to Rio de Janeiro. Two Broadmeadows pioneering families were aboard this vessel. The story of one family's survival is memorable. The Broadmeadows Historical Museum holds many items once owned by this family showing the life they led.

21/08/2016

Meadowbank (now known as the Manor House)

The Manor House, Broadmeadows, formerly called Meadowbank is historically important as the residence of pioneer settler and prominent local identity Alexander Gibb and is the oldest surviving residence in the Campbellfield district. The house survives virtually intact and is a significant and comparatively rare example of the translation of Scottish vernacular traditions to the Australian contact ad thus expresses the dominance of the Scottish in pioneering pastoral Victoria.

Meadowbank is a bluestone building of 1850 with appealing dormer windows but modernised internally and with some external alterations and additions.

The single storey attic house is constructed of coursed rubble basalt with gable slate roof, hipped dormer windows and restrained Georgian details I a style identical with the nineteenth century farmhouse vernacular of the agricultural Lowlands of Scotlad.

The single storey attic house is constructed of coursed rubble basalt with gable slate roof, hipped dormer windows and restrained Georgian details I a style identical with the nineteenth century farmhouse vernacular of the agricultural Lowlands of Scotland.

The Victorian Heritage Register entry cites the house, a weatherboard shed and the garden path. The entry stated that the house was built on a U-shape plan and had weatherboard additions from 1910. Major elements in the building included distinctive hipped dormers, dwarf parapet wall ends which were noted as inspired by Scottish architecture. The roof is set out in two gabled bays ad the stonework is extended into the chimneys. Widows are multi-paned and fringed with quoining. The house has a cellar ad a hearth stone is inscribed with the date August 5 1850.

25/07/2016

Gladstone Park
Gladstone Park is the eastern part of Tullamarine, 15 km. north of Melbourne. It has the Moonee Ponds Creek to its north and east. The name comes from a grazing property owned by Thomas Gladstone between 1869 and 1883.
The area was subdivided for farms in 1842, and the Gladstone Park property was the best-watered and the only one to be sold. It was farmed until sold in 1887 to a land speculator, but his speculation was unsuccessful and the property returned to the Gladstone family. It continued to be farmed until coming into the hands of the Gladstone Park Syndicate in 1954. The Syndicate was part of Stanley Korman’s Stanhill conglomerate.
Stanhill produced an elaborate subdivision plan but met with financial difficulties. The Commonwealth Government’s credit squeeze in 1961 caused the company to default and Costain and A.V. Jennings became the joint developer/builder of Gladstone Park. In 1966 they began the ten-year project of building 3,000 houses in Gladstone Park. In 1970 the area’s first primary school was opened.
Gladstone Park has a street configuration which is designed to discourage through traffic in most residential streets. There is a second State primary school, a State secondary college and a Catholic school. Gladstone Park drive-in shopping centre has nearly 19,000 sq. metres of gross lettable area, and five neighbourhood reserves are distributed towards the edges of the residential area. Part of the skirting Moonee Ponds valley, however, is the site of the Western Ring Road which was constructed during the mid 1990s.
The median house price in Gladstone Park in 1987 was the same as the Melbourne metropolitan median price and in 1996 it was 94% of the metropolitan median.

28/05/2016

Volunteers week was held recently and it was 'wonderful' to once again realise the volunteers at the Broadmeadows Historical Society and Museum were completely ignored by the Hume City Council. This council is always ready to put its hand out for a lease payment or give a reprimand for what they consider our diversion from their rules regarding the museum, but when it comes to being given even a minute amount of praise for looking after the museum and its contents then we don't even get to stand in line. However if our volunteers were anything but Australians then the Council would run rings around us to see what we wanted and to ensure we got it. I have been pushing for years for an extra workroom and storage space. But No. Thanks to Helen Patsi we did get compactors, for which we are extremely grateful. However, having to carry out work in the main museum room means there is no where for visitors to come. We are prevented from having schools, groups, etc. visit because of the work that is being carried out in the room. My office is in the kitchen reducing space for the volunteers to sit at breaks. Another annoying thing with having the Hume City Council breathing down our necks all the time is that fact that ANYONE can obtain a key from the Council and enter the museum. If we complain about illegal entry we are told such is nothing more than a figment of our imagination. but if someone can explain how expensive and valuable items - books, photos, memorabilia - can develop two legs and walk out the front doo then maybe, and only maybe, I will agree with the Council. Over the past months we have lost a set of Bulla crockery, and 18 various photos. Go to the police? Can't because we are not permitted a read out of the alarm security readings.

01/05/2016

Curious - are there people out there who live or had relatives that lived in the Old Broadmeadows area (between Kalkallo and the Moonee Ponds Creek in Strathmore / the Merri Creek and the well out past Westmeadows) who have items they consider rubbish, not worth anything, etc. Please don't throw this down the tip. It could be what we at the Broadmeadows Historical Museum label 'Memorabilia' and worth displaying. You could also have photos or written information.
These items are wonderful for they show our current students and those to come items used by past generations.
Here's an example. How many of you remember the polished wood wireless cabinets. One young student asked Alan 'Mr. when you listened to that wireless, where did the pictures come out'.
So you see we definitely need to show our current children the wonderful past us oldies and our ancestors had.

09/04/2016

Well the two weeks of school holidays is over and we re-open on Monday April 11. I have no idea where the two weeks time went. I feel as if I only started the hols yesterday. Oh, well, thems the breaks. Please remember I will conduct an ANZAC Service (to the best of my abilities) at the Broadmeadows Remembrance Memorial on Friday April 22 commencing at 10.30am. Everyone is welcome to attend.

30/03/2016

The Broadmeadows Historical Museum will be opened next Sunday, April 3, during the Broadmeadows Festival in Tanderrum Way from 3:00pm to 8:00pm?

Will you visit??

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