Hawthorn which council

Coronavirus remains a serious health risk. Please continue to follow national government advice. Request further information. Please enable javascript in your browser settings to view virtual breadcrumbs marking the 9 most recent pages you have visited on birmingham. After her death in this property passed to her daughter Barbara a singing teacher, who built a small house next door, and Council purchased the Belair Road frontage to be developed as Soldiers Memorial Gardens.

This Memorial was extended in the name of Mitcham Memorial Library when it was opened on this land in along with the little water fountain dedicated to Dr Arthur Gault the local doctor who died during World War I. Soon after qualifying as a medical practitioner in England, Arthur Gault migrated to Australia and in bought a block of land between Belair Road and Brownhill Creek and built "Ardmeen", a residence with adjoining surgery.

He, and later his son Kyle became well known doctors around Mitcham. Due his asthmatic problems Dr Arthur Gault brought the first car into Mitcham around after visiting England.

He also was Health Inspector to Council and this may have contributed to the Council Ward bearing his name. A century after being built, his home has been remodelled as the "Lenzerheide Restaurant". The three unmarried Bloor daughters, Catherine, Selina and Margaret were approached by members of the Hawthorn Vigilance Committee to buy the property for an oval in Mr Edwin J Hosking, a land agent, was the moving force behind the project subdividing land between Hawthorn Crescent and Egmont Tec to pay for the oval land.

The Audrey Park subdivision of 19 allotments were sold within three months which enabled the Hawthorn Oval Trust to complete the purchase.

It was opened in and transferred to Mitcham Council although the Trust continued to manage it until Mr Bloor had already donated some land in for a Church of Christ to serve the new residents of the "Working Men's Blocks", called Cottonville, west of Hawthorn. The Cottonville Mission Chapel was of wood and iron and in replaced by a stone building built by Mr P Culley of neighbouring Hawthorn.

The area between Angas and Grange Roads was mostly subdivided in the s. For at least 50 years the Thomas family had run cows there before the land began to change hands. Hollard's Garden Centre began in as a firewood supplier. On the next corner was Bosley Ware a glazed pottery business started with Government Assistance during the Great Depression. Bread crocks, garden gnomes, pots and plates all grazed distinctively green or mustard colours.

The take-away shops on the corner of Grange and Belair Roads have replaced home cooking using the products of Mases Meat shop. This small family butcher expanded their business after the War to a chain of shops throughout the metropolitan area and in Adelaide City. They produced small goods and pre-packed cuts of meat on these premises. The construction of the Railway across Hawthorn had a profound influence on its development as a suburb because people no longer had to live near their work.

The whole concept of a public playground is a very modern one. At the turn of the 20th century, they allowed kids, many who were living in urban slums, a place not just to exercise but also to be free and to lark about. To be children. That reflected a change about how we look at childhood itself dating back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the mid s. He proposed the revolutionary idea, that we now take for granted, that children have a direct, sensuous, creative and innocent relationship with the world.

Adults may get corrupted by experience but the least we can do is respect and nurture the natural goodness of children.

So, all power to the residents of Hawthorn as they fight to preserve not just their small corner of history but also the beauty and innocence of childhood. Real history, personal, private history happens where you least expect it, sometimes in local playgrounds.

Hawthorn, we have a problem.