August 2016
Heather Farm, Kilmore Junction ,1879
Stories we heard as children paint a picture of the lives of our great, great grandparents, Joachim and…
Story Thread · 6 Stories
The Homes We Made
A route through the homes, farms and neighbourhoods that held family life: from Heather Farm to Croydon, Moore Street, Box Hill and Hawthorn.
Read in the order chosen by the family. Each Story leads to the next.
The sequence
November 2017
The Farm
About 1950, our mother’s aunt, Beat, and her husband Bill sold up their grocery store and their Balwyn…
June 2018
The Croydon Years
Our mother’s and aunt’s formative years were spent in Croydon. Alice was six and Marge nine when they…
July 2016
Twenty-Eight Moore Street
Alice describes the acquisition of the land in Box Hill South in 1946: Dad built the house over…
November 2019
The Built Environment – Box Hill
We grew up in Box Hill South in close proximity to Surrey Hills where our family has had…
July 2019
The Built Environment – Hawthorn
Our forebears have been part Melbourne since the 1850s. They came from Europe, Ireland and Great Britain, arriving…