Kingston Local History

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Christ Church, Anglican Church, Dingley from land originally owned by Mary Attenborough and given to the church on her death. Crop of Dutch carrots. Land worked by Mitchell Bros at this time and originally used as a horse paddock.
Source: Jean Mitchell. View photo

Highett General Store and Newsagency, Reynolds & Company, opposite Highett railway station. Shows truck from Llewellyn Bros Carrier and loaded horse wagon. People in photograph unknown.
Courtesy: John Brooks. View photo

Students from Mentone Grammar School watch Mr R Chatterton operate a linotype machine at Standard Newspapers, 1964.
Courtesy: Leader Collection, City of Kingston. View photo

Cheltenham State School, Charman Road. Old students under pine trees with school buildings in background, 1936.
Source: City of Moorabbin Historical Society. View photo

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Winning More Friends: Mentone Station Gardens

Leo Gamble completes his story of the Friends of the Mentone Station Gardens with ‘Winning More Friends’. There he takes the story up to 2018, noting the developments of the gardens, the actions to prevent the building of six storey apartments overlooking the railway line, the grand sausage sizzle of 2014, and the new concerns associated with the crossing removal at Balcombe Road, Mentone.

Braeside State School

The small rural school, originally called the Mordialloc Settlement School, was built in 1915 in response to local families demands that such a facility be provided for their children. They deemed it unsatisfactory that their children should have to wade through water to attend Mordialloc Primary School and sit in class with wet feet. Named Braeside State School in 1925, it was closed in 1976 due to lack of pupils.