Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Darebin Historical Information

Firstly apologies for the lack of posting over the last few days. IT issues.

Anyway a news article in the Preston Leader the other day about how the Darebin Libraries are now listing a lot of the historical information about the city and localities.

So this all leads to the following website:

It certainly has some interesting facts and history about various locations in the are of Northcote and Preston. It even has the history about how this blog gets it's name.

4 comments:

Jayne said...

It is a fab site, I've often referred to it as it is a gold mine of those little tidbits of info that can't be confirmed elsewhere/dates and facts confirmed, etc.
Well done to those who transcribed all the info!

Jayne said...

So Cazaly had "tremendous natural spring". Teehee.

Anonymous said...

HEY Dam Buster,

I have made some grods posts that answer all your questions but it seems that I am blocked now.

You are always polite, but the man with a strange Surname doesn't like being shown up!

So - polite debate over, thanks for your intercourse and g'bye

Geoff Brown

dam buster said...

Jayne - I think I am going to have to visit the library to look at some of the original plans that relate to the location near my house. It certainly confirmed a couple of things neighbours had told us about the area.

FL - indeed "Up there Cazaly"

Geoff - I am always interested in public open and fair debate. Name calling and silly remarks do not get us anywhere.

I hope the points I made can be used constructively by your group. Although I do not agree with your position on the debate I feel like you guys may leave yourselves open to a credibility challenge.