The Kulin People
The Bunerong and the Wawoorung clans of the Kulin nation were the original inhabitants of the Rowville and Lysterfield district. The white settlers referred to the Bunerong people as the Western Port tribe and the Wawoorung people as the Yarr...
FJ Holden Test
This is Grant's old FJ Holden
Field of brussel sprouts
30 acres of brussel sprouts grown by the Alberni brothers to the north of Kelletts Road in 1936. Their home, in the background, was about opposite where the Rowville Lakes Shoppin...
This is a story of a poor immigrant family who through hard work became very successful farmers in Rowville and Lysterfield.
Marty Alberni maintains this is 'virtually a story of people coming to this country with very little money and doing a lot of hard w...
Michael and Moya Aston
Mike and Moya Aston were the second couple to establish their home on what is now commonly referred to as the Seebeck Estate. However, when it was first released to the public about 1960 it was known by the grand name of the Ashbroo...
The War Diary of Herbert Bailey (1)
This is an extract telling of Lysterfield settler Herbert Bailey's experiences during the final bloody battles in France in 1918.
During November - specifically at 11.00am on the 11th day - we remember the end of W...