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The Surrey Hills Church of Christ football team was not only A Grade Premiers in 1938, but also Premiers B Grade in 1935 and Runners-up in C Grade in 1934.The inauguration of this Association took place at a meeting held at Camberwell Methodist School Office on the 19 March 1923. The following churches were represented […]
Rhoda was born in Lilydale and in 1916 at the age of 22 married into the Bell family, who lived in Windsor Crescent, Surrey Hills. She was a woman ahead of her time. Rhoda’s values were influenced by living through both World Wars and the Great Depression. Two of her husband Bert’s brothers served in […]
This is young Horrie Breeden. His family came to Surrey Hills in 1905 when he was aged seven and he lived first in Guildford Road and then Middlesex Road. As a primary school boy, he sometimes helped with milking at the adjoining Kenneally’s dairy in Highfield Road. At times, on his way to Surrey Hills […]
Our Holy Redeemer Church in Mont Albert Road was built in 1902 and blessed and opened by Archbishop Thomas Carr on 11 May that year. The land for the church had been purchased in 1901 on behalf of Fr George Robinson, Parish Priest of Camberwell, by Miss Amy Castles, a well-known opera singer and a […]
Matron Tank on the right, her daughter Mrs Irene Anderson and 2 other nursing staff of the Nethercourt Private Hospital at 11 Wilson Street, Surrey Hills in c1924. The hospital was opened by Miss Lucy Musselwhite in 1914 and taken over by Matron Tank in 1921. In 1930 / 1935 Matron Tank transferred the hospital […]
For many years, this home was hidden behind a large fence sheltering it from the noise of traffic along Canterbury Road, however it dates back to the very early days of settlement in this area. Canterbury Road was then known as Delany’s Road. ‘Spenceycroft’ is thought to incorporate part of the original farmhouse built on […]
Henry Jamieson was a familiar persona in Union Road and around the Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre for decades. Henry lived all his life within 3 kilometres of his radio shop. Son of Catherine and ‘Mick’ Jamieson, Henry was born in 1927 in View Street and was educated at Box Hill Grammar School. His father died […]
The Surrey Hills Historical Society acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin nation as the Traditional Owners and original custodians of the land on which we meet. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present.
