Stevens Michael

July 19, 2011

Michael Stevens recalls the years he spent at Stamford Park with his uncle Alfred Stevens. Michael Stevens is the nephew of the late Alfred Stevens who was a co-owner of Stamford Park from 1954 until his death in 1987. Michael lived with his uncle...

Stewart Nellie – Idol

July 17, 2011

AUSTRALIA'S IDOL - NELLIE STEWART More than 100 years before Guy Sebastian became a household name in this country, there was a stage performer who was so much loved for her beauty, talent and charm that she became known as Australia’s idol. Her name wa...

Sturrock Mary

July 19, 2011

Mary recalled that her strongest first impression of Rowville was the smell of percolated coffee brewing on the wood stove of the farm in Wellington Road that her father had bought from Bill Phillips in 1936. She had left Geelong with her father early one morn...

Sullivan Vern

July 19, 2011

Vern was born in New Zealand in 1918 to Australian parents, Alexander and Elizabeth Sullivan, who had met and married while on holiday in the shaky isles. After the wedding Alexander and Elizabeth decided to stay in NZ and they bought a dairy farm at Levin on ...

Tampe Albert

July 19, 2011

Before Albert died in 1963 at the great age of 94 he wrote about aspects of his life in Rowville. I am grateful to the Knox Historical Society for permitting the R-LCNews to reprint the following reminiscences of Albert Tampe. You will see that Albe...