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Oak Park (Eliston District Park Playground)
Oak Park is the feature park of the Eliston Estate comprising an exercise circuit, jnr skate park, tennis and basketball half courts, giant slide and playground, complete with a flying fox, swings, tunnels and slides. *https://www.eliston.com.au/masterplan/ Oak Park Information signage Transcription A green space with plenty of historyThe design of this park was inspired by…
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Central Narre Warren Kindergarten and Infant Welfare Centre
The Narre Warren community worked for two and half years to raise $5,244 – their share of the total cost of $64,000 for the building. A joint effort between the City of Berwick, the community and the state government which contributed $27,000. At the opening ceremony Barry Simon remarked that while the City of Berwick…
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Hill Farm Park
Interpretive sign Transcription Farm and local historyA brief history of the area Pasadena is situated in what was originally the heart of agricultural land north of Westernport Bay in the Shire of Cranbourne. Prior to European arrival the land was covered in stunted gums, scrubby tea tree, cherry ballart wattles and native grasses. Hill Farm…
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Envir Vucic Memorial
Envir Vucic plaque Transcription In memory of Envir Vucic (8 years) cub scout with 1st Hallam, who died tragically 21st December 1991. RIP Address: Gunns Road Reserve, HallamSurveyed on: 9 Sep 2012Surveyed by: Kerryn
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Warneet Foreshore memorial seats
When our volunteers visited Warneet they found three seats with plaques along the path on the foreshore. Tom Barcham memorial seat In Loving Memory Of / Tom Barcham1982 – 2005 / Warneetian Edward White memorial seat Edward Thomas White / 31-8-1915 – 29-9-2001A Warneet resident who loved God, / his family and this view Alannah…
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Wilson Botanic Park Berwick
Wilson Botanic Park opening plaque Transcription Wilson Botanic Park This park was officially opened by / His Excellency / The Honourable Bill Hayden, A.C., / Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia / on 26 July 1992.Mayor – Cr. Kirsty J Lottkowitz / Chairperson, Advisory Committee – Mrs Janice Bateman, OAM, JP / President, Friends of…
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Ivens Reserve
Ivens Reserve was named in memory of Edward and May Ivens who farmed the property where the reserve is now in the 1930s. Edward was born in Baddaguinie, Victoria in 1891. He was twenty-four years old when he enlisted for service in the Great War. He served with the 24th Howitzer Brigade as a gunner…
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Narre Warren North street signage
a’Beckett Road and Old a’Beckett Road William Arthur Callander a’Beckett MLC, JP (1833-1901) son of Victoria’s first Chief Justice, Sir William a’Beckett, built The Grange in Narre Warren North in the 1860s. The Grange was well built with spacious formal gardens on all sides. The family coat of arms was inserted in the stained glass…
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Narre Warren & District Family History Group at Cranbourne
The Narre Warren & District Family History Group operated a Research Room at the Narre Warren Library from the time it opened in 1992 to 16 August 2017. With the City of Casey’s help, we moved from Narre Warren to Cranbourne as the new library and council complex at Bunjil Place was nearing completion and…
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Ron Mantel Boardwalk
Ron Mantel Boardwalk plaque Transcription: Ron Mantel (1954-2006) was a highly respected / local resident who worked tirelessly for the community. He was / a member of the Foreshore Reserve Committee of Management as president.Ron was a councillor of the Shire/City of Cranbourne from 1991 / to 1994 and the City of Casey from 1997…
Contact us:
Narre Warren & District Family History Group Inc.
Address: 110 High Street, Berwick, Victoria, Australia
Email: Lynne (Research Officer) or Eileen (Secretary)