BANK HOUSES
If you live in a smallish (or once-small) Californian bungalow whose external features resemble those of others, then there is a good chance that your house was once a “bank house”. “Bank houses” were financed by the State Savings Bank of Victoria in the early twentieth century through the Credit
Congratulations Helen Gobbi OAM
It is a great pleasure to announce that Helen Gobbi, the History Monash Inc historian and Vice-President, was awarded a Medal (OAM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List on 8 June 2020. Helen’s award is for “service to community history”. Her award is very well deserved, as Helen has contributed
DOROTHY GIBSON: GARDEN PARTIES IN OAKLEIGH FOR COMMUNISM
Few people nowadays would recognise the name of Dorothy Gibson from Oakleigh, Victoria. Yet this woman was hailed by Australian historian Stephen Murray-Smith as a person whom history should not forget, and a “kind of latter-day saint”.[1] Dorothy Gibson had a remarkable life of political action dedicated to world peace
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
History Monash Inc pays tribute to all Australian service people. We thank them for their bravery and sacrifices. We respect the decision made by the Returned and Services League (RSL) to cancel local Anzac Day services on 25 April 2020 due to COVID-19. Instead of laying a wreath at the
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
WHY “ON BROADWAY”?
Why is the History Monash Inc (HM) member journal entitled “On Broadway”? No, it is not because we aspire to having our own stage show. The Broadway was in fact an early name for part of what is now Dandenong Road, between Warrigal Road and Atkinson Street. In her book,
BANK HOUSES
(A more detailed article on this topic is contained in the Autumn 2020 issue of the History Monash Inc journal “On Broadway”, available to members.) What is a “bank house”? If you had lived in Oakleigh one hundred years ago, you would probably have known quite a few people who
OPENING HOURS FOR HISTORY MONASH INC
If you would like to contact History Monash, please send a message to [email protected]. History Monash will be open at the Monash Federation Centre from 9 February until 14 December 2021 on Tuesdays, between 10 am and 2 pm, except for Public Holidays. If you have a specific query about
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