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Page, Fred
Article about Fred Page (ex Preston Tech), Brian Harris and John Miller and their adventures in show... [more]
Palms for Parks
Victorian Society for Protection of Animals bought a nursery. Northcote was offered 1000 palms for ... [more]
PANCH - Preston and Northcote Community Hospital (3.7 .1960- 2.1998)Cnr Bell and Hotham Sts Preston -15 images
Preston and Northcote Community Hospital was envisaged during World War II, constructed in the post-... [more]
Panch Plaques
Plaques collected from former Panch Hospital.
Note: # indicates small unmounted plaque approx 50mm... [more]
Panther Place - Northcote
Previous name Bond St. Since 1994 within City of Yarra. [more]
Papadopoulos, S. - Northcote - Mayors
Socrates Papadopoulos was elected Mayor of Northcote in 1982/83. He proposed that Batman Park should... [more]
Parer St - Reservoir -1 Web link
Parer, Vickers, Vimy, & Cobham Streets:
These streets have links to aeronautics and Australia. ... [more]
Park Avenue - Preston
Previous name Agnes St. [more]
Park Street - Northcote
Between Creek and Union St. Previous name Davies St. Changed 24 Oct 1917.
Between Gordon Gve and ... [more]
Parks, gardens and sporting reserves - Batman Park -1 image
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Parks, gardens and sporting reserves - Cramers Park -2 images
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Parks, gardens and sporting reserves - H.L.T. Oulton Reserve
In 1925 the City of Preston acquired land from G. Haxby at corner of Albert Street and Bell Street f... [more]
Parks, gardens and sporting reserves - Johnson Park -1 image
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Parks, gardens and sporting reserves - McDonell Park
In 1922 the Northcote Council spent 4,250 pounds to buy twenty-one acres of swampy land in Victoria ... [more]
Parks, gardens and sporting reserves - Northcote Park -2 Web links
Northcote Park, originally and briefly named Jika Park, was set aside as parkland in the 1860s. Tre... [more]
Parks, gardens and sporting reserves - Preston Park, Cramer Street -3 images
In 1876 the Jika Jika Shire Council acquired land in Cramer St for use as a recreational ground. Th... [more]
Parks, gardens and sporting reserves - St Georges Road Reserve -1 image
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Parsons, George H. - Northcote - Mayors -1 image
George H. Parsons served back to back terms as Mayor of Northcote in 1897-8 and 1898-99. While a cou... [more]
Paterson, William (? - 1905)
The Paterson family arrived from Scotland in the early 1860s and in 1862 established a ham and bacon... [more]
Patterson, Gerald Leighton (1895 – 1967) -1 Web link
Gerald Patterson was born in Preston on 17 December 1895. His father was a local auctioneer and his... [more]
Peacock, Edward
From what is known of his life, Edward Peacock with his wife by his side, devoted himself to the edu... [more]
Penders Grove Estate Progress Association -1 image
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Penrose, Cornelius Reginald (1889 – 1952)
Cornelius Penrose was born in Maryborough in 1889, moving to Preston in 1926 and beginning work at t... [more]
Peters, A. V. - Northcote - Mayors -1 image
A. V. Peters was a three time Mayor of Northcote, serving in 1936-7, 1941-2 and again in 1950-51. [more]
Phillips, R. A. Northcote - Mayors -1 image
R. A. Phillips was Mayor of Northcote in 1961/2. [more]
Pigeon Shooting
In 1858 Samuel Brownlow, publican at the Northcote Arms Hotel organised a pigeon shooting contest at... [more]
Pike, Fred G. (1872 - 1933) -1 image
Fred Pike established his home decorating and hardware store on Plenty Road, near the Bell Street in... [more]
Pike, Fred G. Junior (? - 1963) - Preston - Mayors -1 image
Fred Pike Jnr. followed his father into the family business, a home decorating and hardware store in... [more]
Pinkney Street - Northcote
Previous name Green St. Changed 7 April 1924, 5 Nov 1923. [more]
Pitt, Marie Elizabeth (1868 – 1949) -1 Web link
Marie Pitt, like her partner Bernard Patrick O’Dowd, was a radical writer of the Federation period. ... [more]
Plant's Paddock
Plant's Paddock was located on the east side of High Street Northcote at the base of Rucker's Hill. ... [more]
Plant, Frederick J. - Northcote - Mayors -1 image
Frederick Plant was born at the Peacock Inn, Northcote in 1862, his father George being the publican... [more]
Plant, George (1834 – 1895) - Northcote - Mayors -2 images
George Plant arrived in Northcote in 1856, having arrived in Melbourne on the Oliver Lang, the previ... [more]
Plenty Road -3 images
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Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company
Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company was formed in the mid 1880s in Launceston by James Joseph Pollar... [more]
Post Offices - Preston -1 image
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Potter, J. C (c1909 - ?) .- Northcote - Mayors -1 image
In August 1953 J. Potter was elected unopposed to the Northcote Central Ward. He was one of four La... [more]
Potter, Jack (1938 - ) -1 Web link
Coburg born Jack Potter was a versatile sportsman, representing Australia at both cricket and baseba... [more]
Pratt Street - Reservoir
Previous name Davis St. [more]
Premier Pottery, Preston
Premier Pottery in Preston commenced in 1929 by friends David Dee and Reg Hawkins. Both men had had ... [more]
Preston
In 1837 Robert Hoddle surveyed the parish of Jika Jika, the suburb later to be known as Preston. The... [more]
Preston City Hall (1929 - ) -2 images
In 1929 a new Town Hall was built east of the original building which increased the size of the muni... [more]
Preston Fire Station -5 images
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Preston Junior Angling Club -1 image
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Preston Ladies' Benevolent Society 1888-1986
The Preston Ladies' Benevolent society was formed in 1888 with the aim of relieving'distress among t... [more]
Preston Market (1869 - ) -9 images
Construction on the Preston Market began in October 1969 when Preston Mayor W. K. Larkins drove home... [more]
Preston Reservoir - High Street Reservoir -3 images
The dams on either side of High Street in Reservoir were built in 1864 to help filter water pumped f... [more]
Preston Shire Hall ( -2 images
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Preston Swimming Pool -1 PDF 7 images
In 1927 Preston Council secured a subsidy of £1,000 to start work on excavating land in St Georges R... [more]
Preston Town Hall -17 images
In 1885 Preston split from Jika Jika Shire to form the Preston Shire Council. Council offices were l... [more]
Public health – Diseases - Bubonic Plague (1900)
In January 1900 Sydney was terrified by an outbreak of bubonic plague. In May a case was reported i... [more]
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