Heany Park

July 19, 2011

The proposed new school (in 1991) to be built in Buckingham Drive has been given the interim name of Heany Park Primary School. This article by Heather Ronald explains how the name Heany Park originally came to Rowville. The Belgrave Reservoir was c...

Hill Ivy

July 19, 2011

HILL Ivy and Jim Hill Elsie Rhodes, daughter of Ivy and Jim Hill, tells of their lives in Rowville. Mrs. Ivy Hill (nee Gallagher) was a Rowville resident for 53 years. In this article Ivy's youngest daughter, Mrs. Elsie Rhodes of Severn Crescent, R...

History of Lysterfield

July 14, 2011

This article has been elaborated from notes written by Fred Williams in 1949 for Cr Violet Lambert who collected such material for Helen Coulson's book "Story of the Dandenongs". Lysterfield was called after a Mr Lyster who took up an original Grant of Land. T...

Hobbs Hedley

July 19, 2011

Hedley came to Lysterfield as a child after his parents had been forced off their farm in the Western District by bad seasons. Hedley's mother became the first postmistress in Lysterfield and his brother Gordon built and ran the first store in the tiny com...

Jells Park

July 19, 2011

History of the Dandenong Valley Metropolitan Park Area A history of the area now popularly known as Jells Park. Dandenong Valley has always been a well-watered area. This proved valuable to the Bunurong and Woiwrong Tribes who gathered and killed f...