Rowville Red Cross

July 19, 2011

This article has been written to commemorate the 25th anniversay of the unit's formation. The first involvement in Rowville with Red Cross came with a request to the Rowville Progress Association to provide collectors for the "Red Cross Calling" door-...

Rowville Water Sindicate

July 19, 2011

The following account was prepared by an unknown author. I'd be grateful if anybody could let me know who the person is so that he/she can be acknowledged. I believe that the story may have been one of several documents written by local people in the mid 1...

Rowville Wishing Well

July 19, 2011

In the April 1992 edition of the News, I published an account of the Bergins, one of Rowville’s earliest pioneering families. It was the most confusing research project I have ever been involved in as so many of them had the same names: there were three Ma...

Schools

July 19, 2011

Schools and Preschools The first school in Rowville was established for Aboriginal children at the Native Police Depot in the 1840s. There were so few children in Rowville over the next 130 years, that no school was built and the few local children went to eit...

Seymour Brian

July 19, 2011

In 1945 Brian Seymour was a 12 year old school boy when his father was posted to the Rowville POW Camp as the senior non-commissioned officer. In this article Brian tells of the time he spent at the camp with his dad and of the friendships he made with th...