JANUARY CLOSURE OF HISTORY MONASH INC
The last day of opening to the public for History Monash Inc in 2024 will be Tuesday 17 December, 10 am to 2 pm. We look forward to meeting visitors to the Monash Federation Centre, Oakleigh, from Tuesday 11 February 2025 at 10 am. We wish all “Season’s Greetings and
NAMATJIRA PARK
Namatjira Park in Springs Road, Clayton South, was named as it suggests for Albert Namatjira. It was named in the 1960s along with a rash of name changes for streets, mostly in the Clayton area, to indigenous names. None of the names in a fast-developing Clayton appear to be indigenous
FIRST NATIONS MURAL IN OAKLEIGH
A mural commissioned by the City of Monash and painted by Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta and Wemba Wemba artist Tom Day, has been painted on a previously blank canvas ─ the southern wall of Monash Council’s Atkinson Street carpark in Oakleigh. Titled Nanyubak artist Tom Day explained his concept at a
‘READ ALL ABOUT IT!”: NEWSAGENCIES IN THE 1950s TO 1970s.
“Read all about it! He-r-ald!” The once-ubiquitous call of the newsboy at busy intersections is long gone, as is the sight of heavily-laden bikes bearing paperboys around the suburbs. Newsagencies, in the last fifty years in Australia, have undergone great changes. This article focusses upon newsagencies from the 1950s until
NAMATJIRA PARK
Namatjira Park in Springs Road, Clayton South was named, as it suggests, for Albert Namatjira. It was named in the 1960s along with a rash of name changes for streets, mostly in the Clayton area, to indigenous names. However, none of the names in a fast-developing Clayton appear to be
THE GOSNEYS AND THE GREEN OAK LENDING LIBRARY
In the 1930s to 1960s many people in Melbourne relied upon private lending libraries (also known as “threepenny libraries”, “circulating libraries” or “rental libraries”) for their reading entertainment. Oakleigh had six such libraries in 1940 and eight in both 1945 and 1950, one of which was The Green Oak in
WILKE AND CO. PRINTERS IN CLAYTON
Wilke and Co. H. G. Gobbi 2021 © What became the largest printing company in Australia, Wilke and Co. Pty. Ltd., opened its factory in Brown’s Road, Clayton on 1 July 1953. Its start as a business, however, came in 1896 in Port Melbourne, led by an enterprising Herbert H.
A CLAYTON’S BOROUGH – THE 1955-58 PROPOSAL
As the post-WW.II immigration from predominantly central and southern Europe increased, so too did the expansion of urbanised greater metropolitan Melbourne. One such area was Clayton, along the south-east railway and highway corridor from Oakleigh to Dandenong. Due east of the more urbanised Oakleigh, Clayton, like its surrounding areas of
The Young Brothers: A World War II Tribute
Cyril Frank Young and Ivan Charles Young Brothers Cyril and Ivan Young were both lost to World War II service in very different theatres of war and circumstances. Twenty-seven-year-old Cyril died at Kuching camp, as a prisoner of war of the Japanese; twenty-one-year-old Ivan died in the Middle East, shot
The Spanish Influenza: some local impacts of the 1919 pandemic
The pandemic referred to as the ‘Spanish flu’ started out on its devastating path in 1918, the last year of the First World War. It was passed among soldiers in Western Europe and at war’s end the virus spread rapidly around the world as soldiers returned from active service. Remote
