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Broadmeadows Historical Society Inc

Locality: Broadmeadows, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9302 1456

Address: Pearcedale Pde 3047 Broadmeadows, VIC, Australia

Website: home.vicnet.net.au/~broadhs/history.htm

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25.01.2022 Who can name this building and where it was situated?

25.01.2022 In May last the Society received a small tin trunk filled with memorabilia of the Robertson family of Gowrie Park Homestead. Gowrie Park is siutated in Glenroy and is one mile south of its twin Meadowbank in Broadmeadows. The houses were built by Alexander Gibb for himself and his brother-in-law. May of the items received will be on display at the Broadmeadows Town Centre from October 18 to October 29.

22.01.2022 I apologise for not having added some information of late but I have been going through a personal matter that has taken me away from the museum for sometime. I am hopeful of getting back to doing what I love most - annoying the hell out of the data base at the museum and finding tit-bits to add here. In my absence I have had some exceptional support from museum volunteers - Dennis Bolger, Janet Bock, Beryl Jones, Kim Morrow, Susana Light, Sarah Adamthwaite and John Rae. It is hard to tell them just how much their support has meant these past three months. Thanks guys. Each of you are a star.

22.01.2022 This quaint little house was the site of the first overnight stop when coming from Melbourne. Upon leaving Melbourne the first stop was Flemington, the next stop was the Lincolnshire Hotel at the bottom of Keilor Road. From there the trip went to Broadmeadows where you spent the first night away at the Coach House above. It took eight (8) hours from Melbourne to reach this house. It still stands.

22.01.2022 Three hearty cheers. The mess three volunteers deliberately done to all the written material at the museum has been completed as it should have been in the first place. The current Work For The Dole volunteers at the museum have worked their little butts off to get the mess sorted. They need great praise for their sterling effort. We have now a majority of the written material in folders and stored in the compactors. Now the volunteers want to ensure that all written material is done and then start on the photos. The volunteers have even agreed to assist at the Broadmeadows Street Festival - they did so without me asking. This current group of volunteers run absolute rings around the stuff up ones - absolute rings.

21.01.2022 I nearly threw a major tantrum last night when I read in Scottish Place Names in Melbourne, Australia that the Melbourne suburb was named after the Earl of Gowrie, Brigadier-General Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, who was Governor General of Australia from 1936 to 1944. The house in the corner of this site was known as Gowrie and named such by John and Ann Robertson who came out from the Carse of Gowrie in 1841. This house is now in Glenroy, but we have mail in our museum which states the address is Gowrie Park, Campbellfield, when a son of John Robertson was appointed to the position of Superintendent of the Jika Reformatory School, Pentridge (Pentridge being the original name of Coburg. Now you have a tit-bit of useless information.

21.01.2022 The Broadmeadows Historical Museum closed on December 17 and will re-open on January 29; however in saying this it does not mean there will be no work done, and of course people interested in visiting the museum can always phone and someone will be there. We were almost at the end of cataloguing the huge number of photos when three schools closed and many items of memorabilia and hundreds of photos were donated to the museum. The Society is also associated with the Broadmeadows Remembrance Memorial and on February 19 will hold a service at the memorial to mark the Bombing of Darwin. This will commence at 10:45am. The Members of both groups is looking forward to a better year in 2013 than they had in 2012.

21.01.2022 I have been dreading about seeing how the historical photos were. Had they been catalogued correctly or the same as the written material. Well today I found out - just like the written information was. If the word Broadmeadows was mentioned or it looked like it had something to do with Broadmeadows then it went into one of the 10 bags of Broadmeadows photos. - no matter what - it had to go under. If the word Glenroy was mentioned or look like it was in Glenroy somewhere then it was in one of 8 bags of Glenroy photos. Now we have to re-catalogue each one. I really could never give praise or reference to RB, DA, FT and/or PW. They have created more work than was necessary. Might I add they were instructed how the cataloguing was to be done but these four thought they knew better.

21.01.2022 I hope just one person finds this as funny as I did when I first read it. A TRIP FROM MELBOURNE TO SYDNEY PRIOR TO 1883. A traveller would leave Melbourne by train at 3.00pm and reach Wodonga eight (8) hours later.... There a coach would take him to Albury - three (3 miles away) - where he would spend the night. Next morning at 5.30am he would catch another coach to Wagga Wagga. This 80 mile trip took twelve (12) hours in ten (10( mile stages. He would spend the night in Wagga Wagga and leave at noon on the following day for Bethanga about 44 miles - which took approximately 6 hours to travel. At Bethanga he would catch the 8.30pm train to Sydney - arriving there at 7.00am the following morning. If this traveller set out on a Monday for Sydney he would arrive in Sydney at 7.00am the following Thursday. In comparison - 124 years later it is possible to fly to Sydney in a hour go by car in 11 hours at most go by coach in 10-11 hours go by train in 10 hours. Todays transport is much more comfortable than the old stage coach, too.

21.01.2022 I would like to thank DialaStamp in Reservoir for their extremely prompt delivery of a stamp. Yes, it was a small stamp, but I ordered it on Monday (January 18. 2016) afternoon and received it today Tuesday (January 19, 2016). The stamp is exactly what I ordered. Thanks to all at Dial-a-Stamp Reservoir - your service is something to be truly proud of.

19.01.2022 Please note the Museums change of phone number it is now - 03 9309 2675 and the mobile is 0487 371 543.

19.01.2022 Volunteers week was held recently and it was wonderful to once again realise the volunteers at the Broadmeadows Historical Society and Museum were completely ignored by the Hume City Council. This council is always ready to put its hand out for a lease payment or give a reprimand for what they consider our diversion from their rules regarding the museum, but when it comes to being given even a minute amount of praise for looking after the museum and its contents then we do...nt even get to stand in line. However if our volunteers were anything but Australians then the Council would run rings around us to see what we wanted and to ensure we got it. I have been pushing for years for an extra workroom and storage space. But No. Thanks to Helen Patsi we did get compactors, for which we are extremely grateful. However, having to carry out work in the main museum room means there is no where for visitors to come. We are prevented from having schools, groups, etc. visit because of the work that is being carried out in the room. My office is in the kitchen reducing space for the volunteers to sit at breaks. Another annoying thing with having the Hume City Council breathing down our necks all the time is that fact that ANYONE can obtain a key from the Council and enter the museum. If we complain about illegal entry we are told such is nothing more than a figment of our imagination. but if someone can explain how expensive and valuable items - books, photos, memorabilia - can develop two legs and walk out the front doo then maybe, and only maybe, I will agree with the Council. Over the past months we have lost a set of Bulla crockery, and 18 various photos. Go to the police? Cant because we are not permitted a read out of the alarm security readings. See more

18.01.2022 For those who reside in the Broadmeadows/Glenroy area do you know why this vessel is so significant to two particular families?

17.01.2022 Anybody wishing to attend the Broadmeadows Historical Museum can do so by contacting the numbers on our website - broadmeadows historical society.com.au

16.01.2022 Received today and no doubt something attempted to be swept under the carpet for the people of Broadmeadows. The Federal Government plans to the sell-off the Maribyrnong Detention Centre and construct a 14- hardened bed detention centre for convicted paedophiles, drug traffickers and members of the outlaw bikie gangs in Broadmeadows. The existing facility is rated as low secueiry and next to the Maygar Barracks in Camp Road. Almost $30 million has been budgeted for constructi...on. A community assembly is to be held at 12.15pm next Monday, 20 February, in front of the Global Learning Centre, 1093 Pascoe Vale Road, Broadmeadows. Maximum community presence is sought to show the Federal Government that the Broadmeadows community does not support the proposed detention centre expansion and wants the money invested, as promised, in jobs and growth where they are needed most. Please pass this on to any friends, family and colleagues who may be able to attend to demonstrate that BROADMEADOWS DOES NOT WANT TO BE USED AS A DUMPING GROUND. (My suggestion for the construction of this facility is Point Piper in Sydney - its as good a place as any). See more

14.01.2022 Curious - are there people out there who live or had relatives that lived in the Old Broadmeadows area (between Kalkallo and the Moonee Ponds Creek in Strathmore / the Merri Creek and the well out past Westmeadows) who have items they consider rubbish, not worth anything, etc. Please dont throw this down the tip. It could be what we at the Broadmeadows Historical Museum label Memorabilia and worth displaying. You could also have photos or written information. These item...s are wonderful for they show our current students and those to come items used by past generations. Heres an example. How many of you remember the polished wood wireless cabinets. One young student asked Alan Mr. when you listened to that wireless, where did the pictures come out. So you see we definitely need to show our current children the wonderful past us oldies and our ancestors had. See more

14.01.2022 Volunteers week was held recently and it was 'wonderful' to once again realise the volunteers at the Broadmeadows Historical Society and Museum were completely ignored by the Hume City Council. This council is always ready to put its hand out for a lease payment or give a reprimand for what they consider our diversion from their rules regarding the museum, but when it comes to being given even a minute amount of praise for looking after the museum and its contents then we do...n't even get to stand in line. However if our volunteers were anything but Australians then the Council would run rings around us to see what we wanted and to ensure we got it. I have been pushing for years for an extra workroom and storage space. But No. Thanks to Helen Patsi we did get compactors, for which we are extremely grateful. However, having to carry out work in the main museum room means there is no where for visitors to come. We are prevented from having schools, groups, etc. visit because of the work that is being carried out in the room. My office is in the kitchen reducing space for the volunteers to sit at breaks. Another annoying thing with having the Hume City Council breathing down our necks all the time is that fact that ANYONE can obtain a key from the Council and enter the museum. If we complain about illegal entry we are told such is nothing more than a figment of our imagination. but if someone can explain how expensive and valuable items - books, photos, memorabilia - can develop two legs and walk out the front doo then maybe, and only maybe, I will agree with the Council. Over the past months we have lost a set of Bulla crockery, and 18 various photos. Go to the police? Can't because we are not permitted a read out of the alarm security readings. See more

13.01.2022 This sailing vessel (barque) is the 'India' and her last sail to Australia was a disaster. It caught fire in the south Atlantic and the passengers and crew were picked up by a whaling ship and taken to Rio de Janeiro. Two Broadmeadows pioneering families were aboard this vessel. The story of one family's survival is memorable. The Broadmeadows Historical Museum holds many items once owned by this family showing the life they led.

13.01.2022 It took volunteers two years, yes TWO YEARS, to catalogue the written information held at the museum to a point of almost being finished. It took from October 22 to December 16 for THREE - PW, RB, DA - NO NOTHING EXPERT BLASTED IDIOTS to wreck the work completely. RB considered putting all related information into one bag with a short list of what was in that plastic bag on the front. eg. anything and everything relating to Broadmeadows was put in one bag; anything an...d everything relating to Scots Church in Campbellfield was put into a bag. Anything and everything relating to John Pascoe Fawkner was placed in another plastic bag. And so it went on. This was her considered opinion of doing cataloguing in a quick and extremely satisfactory manner. The volunteers now have to sort through these bags, put each subject in a plastic sleeve, fill out a Written Information Catalogue sheet, plus a card. RB was encouraged by DA and PW. They have, in fact set us back two years. I am hoping that they eventually need a reference or some sort of support for employment from me for I will have the greatest pleasure in speaking my mind. There is still photos and memorabilia to be catalogued and I am hoping all this can be completed while I am on this side of the ground. See more

11.01.2022 Have just been going through some Broadmeadows Observers of the 1980s and came across some letters complaining about the aircraft flying over Gladstone Park and the possibility of a third runway. There was always going to be a third runway - long before Gladstone Park as a suburb was planned, so why people purchased land or a house and land in the area with this knowledge is beyond me. The museum holds documents, booklets, maps, etc. of the intention of this third runway being built. For anyone to now start complaining only means they purchased the property because it was cheap - nothing more. Should anyone be interested in seeing this information on the original plans, etc. then please feel free to visit the museum.

11.01.2022 The Broadmeadows Historical Society and its Museum have been doing very well lately, although we have had to close for a couple of weeks. There is a school being constructed behind the museum and with trucks coming and going and the rain the area around is more like a mud swamp that somewhere to park a car or walk. Of course if there are those who still wish to visit and contact me I will open the museum for them.

10.01.2022 The Broadmeadows Historical Museum will be opened next Sunday, April 3, during the Broadmeadows Festival in Tanderrum Way from 3:00pm to 8:00pm? Will you visit??

10.01.2022 Well the two weeks of school holidays is over and we re-open on Monday April 11. I have no idea where the two weeks time went. I feel as if I only started the hols yesterday. Oh, well, thems the breaks. Please remember I will conduct an ANZAC Service (to the best of my abilities) at the Broadmeadows Remembrance Memorial on Friday April 22 commencing at 10.30am. Everyone is welcome to attend.

10.01.2022 I will try and add some more history information here between now and February 28, as we members consider the recent actions of the Hume City Council point very clearly to their need to close the museum on March 1, 2015. The Council have raised the rent 700%, want us to sign a Occupancy Licence or Lease which in, should be we sign this document, and example of this document is - one clause stops us from having groups in, but the Council can do so. Sorry to have to tell you this, but it looks like the Council are about to close us down and given the building to a group who want to start up a museum - a group who wish to display their 15 years in this country. I could be wrong on this but all actions point to this being a fact.

08.01.2022 Well we are in a new year with the Society and Museum, and what a busy one it will be. The cataloguing is slowly coming to an end. Each time we seem to finish one group we receive some more. Not that I am complaining about the new items coming in. There is a major project to be done on Highway 31 from Melbourne to Albury. Highway 31 or Old Sydney Road, is now known as Pascoe Vale Road and our part in the major project is to cover from the Lincolnshire Hotel in Essendon ...thorough to Kalkallo. Another project we hope to be able to complete is to make small booklets on various history points of the Broadmeadows history, which will include excepts from former Shire / Council meetings. (Boy do some of them make one laugh?) We also hope the weather (and my health) will allow us to conduct services at the Broadmeadows Remembrance Memorial. Unfortunately our display within the museum is suffering badly these days as the space is becoming less and less. The volunteers have to work in the main room which reduces the chance of having large groups visit. The Hume City Council have been approached for an extension of this main room but apparently the council do not have the money to do this. I am about to approach them again but with the idea of a type of portable classroom for the volunteers to work in and a container to store more of the memorabilia. The volunteers and I know we will not get the extension (yet again) or the portable and / or container. I will keep you informed on our success / failure. See more

08.01.2022 This sailing vessel (barque) is the India and her last sail to Australia was a disaster. It caught fire in the south Atlantic and the passengers and crew were picked up by a whaling ship and taken to Rio de Janeiro. Two Broadmeadows pioneering families were aboard this vessel. The story of one familys survival is memorable. The Broadmeadows Historical Museum holds many items once owned by this family showing the life they led.

06.01.2022 We overcame the idiocy of the Occupation section of Hume City Council. At the present moment there are 28 volunteers doing cataloguing. Nothing, and I do mean NOTHING, has been catalogued since 1991, When I took over in 2003 I thought I might start on this task, but as was to be expected, there was a big black hole around and I fell in it. Then along come some volunteers and since then we have been cooking on gas. There is still a long way to go, but eventually it will all get done and dusted. Until this is finished it is impossible to have visitors or school groups at the museum, so I ask anyone intending to visit to not do so at the present time.

06.01.2022 I thought I would mention something that took place at the end of January, has had more changes than Abbott back flips, and will hopefully be settled one way or the other on March 6. On January 23 Alan, Robert and myself had a meeting with the heirachy of the Occupation section at Hume Council. We were present with a 24-28 page document which according to the HCC had to be discussed with BHS members and committee then signed, sealed and delivered by February 3. After advisi...ng them such was impossible the final day would be February 28. As we went through the document it seemed that the HCC wanted to push the BHS out to allow the building to be used by another group. The new rules in this document were all one sided and not on the side of the BHS. One example is that our token rent paid since 1991, $55 per year, was increased to $750 per year. When we stated we would not be able to raise that amount, we were promptly told well you will just have to. We contacted the Federal Members for Calwell and Wills who accepted this document with outrage. Even the local newspaper got on side. The two Federal Members wrote to the HCC CEO. From the flack we received it was obvious the HCC CEO had passed the letters on. How do I know. I received a phone call asking me why another Robert was receiving letter from Federal politicians, there was flack from new newspapers about this occupation lease/licence document. This Robert prattled on and each time I asked him to allow me to speak I was told I was to listen to him. It seems he considers his big wig standing in the Council is sufficient to dictate to what he considers small fry. Unfortunately he has met his match in this particular small fry. It seems that we have it all wrong. They dont wish to push us out, they dont want to dictate to us, they dont want to use the museum as they see fit, etc. etc. Well you could have fooled all of us completely. Well we have gone over this document with a fine tooth comb, marked all our queries and with the second Robert sitting quiet at the table we will tell him how we feel, and what we demand. Hopefully this Robert will realise he is NOT playing with amateurs ad we can wave the big stick just as well as he can. This brown duck has been around too long to play second fiddle to a snotty nose little would be, if he could be, but cant so he bloody not.

05.01.2022 Meadowbank (now known as the Manor House) The Manor House, Broadmeadows, formerly called Meadowbank is historically important as the residence of pioneer settler and prominent local identity Alexander Gibb and is the oldest surviving residence in the Campbellfield district. The house survives virtually intact and is a significant and comparatively rare example of the translation of Scottish vernacular traditions to the Australian contact ad thus expresses the dominance of th...e Scottish in pioneering pastoral Victoria. Meadowbank is a bluestone building of 1850 with appealing dormer windows but modernised internally and with some external alterations and additions. The single storey attic house is constructed of coursed rubble basalt with gable slate roof, hipped dormer windows and restrained Georgian details I a style identical with the nineteenth century farmhouse vernacular of the agricultural Lowlands of Scotlad. The single storey attic house is constructed of coursed rubble basalt with gable slate roof, hipped dormer windows and restrained Georgian details I a style identical with the nineteenth century farmhouse vernacular of the agricultural Lowlands of Scotland. The Victorian Heritage Register entry cites the house, a weatherboard shed and the garden path. The entry stated that the house was built on a U-shape plan and had weatherboard additions from 1910. Major elements in the building included distinctive hipped dormers, dwarf parapet wall ends which were noted as inspired by Scottish architecture. The roof is set out in two gabled bays ad the stonework is extended into the chimneys. Widows are multi-paned and fringed with quoining. The house has a cellar ad a hearth stone is inscribed with the date August 5 1850.

05.01.2022 I hope the peole of the City of Hume are as disgusted as I and my s.volunteers are about the disgusting amount of black, blue, green, pink, white and black currently adorning the Broadmeadows Historical Museum. I wonder what the parents of these museum grafitti artists would say if they knew what their young darling sons had done to a City of Hume public bulding and/or their darlings were told their parents rates would be used to clean their little darlings handiwork.... The Broadmeadows Police have been involved and they suggested putting in a request to the Hume City Council to install cameras and extra lighting at the museum, but the usual answer will be received it has not been considered in next years budget and wont be for a while. In any case the request would fall on deaf ears of many in the council. Things may have been different if Daryl Trealor was still Hume City Council Chief Executive Officer. It would have been possible to talk to him, investigate the matter and come up with a solution to take place within a short space of time. Not so with the current Hume City Council Chief Executibe Officer. It is totally impossible to even get to the point of making an appointment to see him. He has made himself totally untouchable to all common City of Hume residents. We are also wondering why we have to see the Hume City Council on January 22 next about a five (5) year lease? This type of thing has not been requested in the past eight (8) years so why now? There again could it be the Council want to increase the rent for the museum to over $100 a year? The museum is not at the moment making enough money really to stay open now. The President and Hon. Secretary have been paying most of the expenses from their own pocket. Doubt that will make much difference to the Council - if they want money they will get one way or another. Oh, well I have had my beef, so we will just have to put up with being graffiti-ing time and time again.

03.01.2022 The picture here is of Gowrie Park Homestead - the first house built in Glenroy. The hearth stone in this home is engraved "1855". James Robertston and his family lived at Gowrie Park for many years. The story of their life is available at the Museum.

02.01.2022 Gladstone Park Gladstone Park is the eastern part of Tullamarine, 15 km. north of Melbourne. It has the Moonee Ponds Creek to its north and east. The name comes from a grazing property owned by Thomas Gladstone between 1869 and 1883. The area was subdivided for farms in 1842, and the Gladstone Park property was the best-watered and the only one to be sold. It was farmed until sold in 1887 to a land speculator, but his speculation was unsuccessful and the property returned to ...the Gladstone family. It continued to be farmed until coming into the hands of the Gladstone Park Syndicate in 1954. The Syndicate was part of Stanley Kormans Stanhill conglomerate. Stanhill produced an elaborate subdivision plan but met with financial difficulties. The Commonwealth Governments credit squeeze in 1961 caused the company to default and Costain and A.V. Jennings became the joint developer/builder of Gladstone Park. In 1966 they began the ten-year project of building 3,000 houses in Gladstone Park. In 1970 the areas first primary school was opened. Gladstone Park has a street configuration which is designed to discourage through traffic in most residential streets. There is a second State primary school, a State secondary college and a Catholic school. Gladstone Park drive-in shopping centre has nearly 19,000 sq. metres of gross lettable area, and five neighbourhood reserves are distributed towards the edges of the residential area. Part of the skirting Moonee Ponds valley, however, is the site of the Western Ring Road which was constructed during the mid 1990s. The median house price in Gladstone Park in 1987 was the same as the Melbourne metropolitan median price and in 1996 it was 94% of the metropolitan median. See more

02.01.2022 There is a message somewhere within this site that states the information given is totally incorrect. Naturally there is no name or where the incorrect information is. If they have not the backbone to come forward then may I ask whoever it is to take a long bog jump of the deep end of a pier.