POLICING IN OAKLEIGH
This article is part of a series of articles based upon information found in “Taking Its Place: A History of Oakleigh” by H. G. Gobbi, 2004. Prior to 1856 there was no local policing of the area around Oakleigh, and local residents and travellers were constantly anxious about robbery. Theft
ANZAC DAY TRIBUTE
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ANZAC DAY TRIBUTE 2020 – THE DIXON BROTHERS
The mood at the send-off for Oakleigh troops to War in 1914 was one of lightness mixed with bravado; it served to keep the ceremony upbeat. Enlistees were pinned with a medal naming the recipient as a soldier of the Empire, and inscribed ‘from Oakleigh residents, Sept. 4 1914’. Twenty-two
“The Old Hospital” in Palmer Street, Oakleigh
This is one of a series of articles based on Taking Its Place: A History of Oakleigh 2004 and on additional information provided by its author, H.G. Gobbi. Many people in Oakleigh were born at the “old hospital”, as they call it; that is, the Palmer Street Hospital. Perhaps, like
