Young People's League of Worship Art Stamp Album

I bought this the other day at Lloyd Holyoak's  shop,  Abra Card Abra Roycroft, at 680 High Street in Kew East. It's a Art Stamp Album from the Young People's League of Worship, of the Presbyterian Church of Australia. The object of the League of Worship, as noted in the album, was to form and foster the habit of regular attendance upon the Public Worship of God.  Members of the League had to pledge "As it is my desire to lead a Christian life I promise to do my best to attend the Church and take part in the Worship of God at least once every Sunday." I presume that each child received a new art stamp, every week at Sunday School. The Young People's League of Worship started in 1911, but it appears that the album was introduced in January 1937. (1)

This album belonged to Lola Eustace of 11a Everett Street, West Brunswick.  Lola was the daughter of Leslie Clyde and Margaret Dorothy Eustace; his occupation as  listed in the Electoral Roll was a boot operative. She was engaged to William Bruce Adams in October 1951 and they married on October 3 1953 at St Thomas' Church of England in Essendon.  William was 24 years old and Lola was 23, therefore born around 1930. (2)  

Lola's engagement notice

Sun-News Pictorial, October 6, 1951 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article279737488

St David's Presbyterian Church, in Melville Road, West Brunswick. It is now part of the Uniting Church. I don't know when the Church opened, the first reference in the newspapers on Trove that I can find is 1940. In November 1947 it was announced that - A Christian Community Centre in which special attention will be paid to the spiritual, mental, social, and physical development of youth is to be erected by St David's Presbyterian Church, West Brunswick. In addition to the Sunday School and Bible classes the buildings will provide a modern day kindergarten, under trained leaders, for the pre-school child; a junior library, gymnasium, scouts and guides for the growing boy and girl, and week night clubs and Saturday sport for young people. (3)  It was designed by Mr K. Murray Forster. (4) The building was officially opened in August 1951 and was  erected in appreciation of the work done by Rev. David Munro and the late Mrs. Munro within this parish.  (5)

I have scanned the complete album. Given that the album starts at stamp number 101; can we assume that as the cards were issued weekly, that this is the third year of operation, and thus this album dates from 1939?

 

Footnotes
(1) The Argus, November 15, 1911, see here; Mount Gambier Border Watch, January 13, 1912, see here;  Broken Hill Barrier Miner, January 2, 1937, see here; Shepparton Advertiser, January 4, 1937, see here.
(2) Electoral Rolls on Ancestry,com and Marriage Certificate.
(3) The Argus, November 8, 1947, see here.

(4) K. Murray Forster wrote an interesting article about Church Spires, you can read it here in The Argus, October 5, 1929, see here.
(4) The Age, August 18, 1951, see here.

Dandenong Market - a very short history

The Dandenong Market was originally located on the corner of Lonsdale and McCrae Streets, and its first trading day was likely to have been October 10, 1866. This site eventually proved to be too small and it was sold in June 1924 and a new location was selected in Clow Street, where it still operates. The first livestock sales at Clow Street took place in June 1926 and the produce market moved there by October 1927. In 1958 the Stockyards moved to Cheltenham Road. (1)  The Dandenong Stock Market was the last municipal owned and operated facility in Victoria, and closed on December 22, 1998. (2). The stock market site is now Metro Village 3175, a housing estate.

Market Day, Dandenong August 26, 1913.

Township of Dandenong - market day - Princes Highway East, 1913.

Photographer: Country Roads Board VPRS 17684 Image 13_00158

Dandenong in 1973. The Produce Market is on the corner of Clow and Cleeland Streets, next to the Sports Ground; the Stock Market is on the left on Cheltenham Road. 

Image:  Melway Street  Directory of Greater Melbourne, edition 6, 1973 (Melway Publishing Co)

Farmers from the surrounding area  took their produce to the Dandenong market. Elizabeth Andrews (1849-1934) had a farm at Hallam, originally owned by her parents John and Bridget Andrews, on the Princes Highway, opposite what is today the Spring Square Shopping Centre.  Her niece Marie Carson remembers that the butter was made into round half pound pats with Aunt Lizzie's scallop shell brand embossed on them. There they'd be like little golden suns waiting to be wrapped in muslin and taken along with the brown eggs and white, to Dandenong market on Tuesdays. She drove into Dandenong on her spring cart, pulled by old Tim, her pony. (3)

The Dandenong Market, next to the sports ground. 

Market Day, Dandenong, c. 1930s. Photographer: Charles Daniel Pratt - Airspy P/L

State Library of Victoria https://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/20207

My grandparents, Joe and Eva Rouse, had a dairy farm on Murray Road at Cora Lynn. The family milked cows and separated the cream which they sold to the Drouin factory to make butter; the rest was fed to the pigs, which when they were fat enough were sold at the Dandenong Market. When my father, Frank Rouse, was fifteen, in 1948, his family purchased a Austin A40 ute from Brenchley's Garage at Garfield. Dad taught himself to drive and although he was underage, he used to drive his parents from Cora Lynn to the Dandenong Market where they sold their eggs, chickens and calves (all carried on the back of the ute). Apparently not having a license was no obstacle to driving in those days.

Aerial view of Dandenong Stock Market, 1959

Aerial view of the stock yards at Dandneong, December 8, 1959. Photographer: Airspy P/L

State Library of Victoria https://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/4325236

The Dandenong Market was traditionally (and still is) a major shopping destination for people from the surrounding area for clothing, footwear, general goods and fruit and vegetables. My father's cousin, Betty, came in from Cora Lynn once a week to do all her shopping at the Market and visit her parents who had retired from the farm and moved  into Dandenong. Buses were put in to service on a Tuesday, which was Market Day, just for the Market, as these two articles below attest. [Market Bus for Narre Warren -Dandenong Journal, August 11,1944  from Newspapers.com; U.S. Motors Dandenong Market Bus Mountain Free Press, October 11, 1951 from Newspapers.com.]

In 1970s, when I was at Koo Wee Rup High School, a trip to the Dandenong Market to buy clothes and other goods was a ritual for many. We never shopped there, but we did shop in Dandenong.  Dandenong also had a Lindsay's store (which became Target) near Vanity Court Arcade. I remember both my sisters had a skirt from Lindsays - one had a bias cut, checked 'maxi' skirt and the other a short, checked, almost sun-ray pleated skirt. We were a family of home dress makers so it was quite unusual to buy clothes. Also, in the 1970s, at the back of Vanity Court, my uncle Ian Stagg had a pharmacy and my aunty Marion had a gift shop, so we would call in there. 

This postcard, from the 1970s, shows the Sale Yards top left and Dandenong Market in Clow Street, bottom left. The other photographs are Lonsdale Street and the Dandenong Town Hall.

Photographer: L. Hort. Publisher: Biscay Greetings

This postcard is from the 1980s. Images 1 and 3 are Lonsdale Street; image 2 is Langhorne Street and image 4 is the Rotary Fountain in Dandenong Park. Vanity Court, which I mentioned, above, is in the top left photo;  it is to the left of Coles with the red awning on the first storey.

 Publisher: Biscay Greetings

There are photographs of the Dandenong Stock Market and surrounds from 1992, here. 

Footnotes

(1) Ferguson, Jenny A Concise History of the Dandenong Markets (Dandenong & District Historical Society, 1998)

(2) Flanagan, Martin An urban stockyard passes into memory (The Age, December 23, 1998, p. 4)

(3) Stephan, Deborah A small farm at Hallam: The Andrews 1854-1934 (City of Casey Historical pamphlet 1, August 1992). Based on information provided by Mrs Marie Carson. 

Flanagan, Martin An urban stockyard passes into memory (The Age, December 23, 1998, p. 4) from Newspapers.com

This is an expanded version of a post, which I wrote and researched, which appears on my work blog, Casey Cardinia Links to our Past. It was also published in the Dandenong Star Journal on August 4, 2020, page 13. https://issuu.com/starnewsgroup/docs/2020-08-04_djs_657 I was very excited to have my own by-line!

You can see the images in the article, here. 

Dandenong Stock Market - photographs from 1992

These photographs are of the Dandenong Stock Market and surrounding streets, at its Cheltenham Road location, and were taken by the City of Berwick on October 27, 1992. They are labelled as 'University site suggested by Dandenong', so I assume it was once considered a possible site for the Monash University campus that was built in Berwick. They were part of the Casey Cardinia Libraries collection.

The Stock Market was in Charman Road.

Image:  Melway Street  Directory of Greater Melbourne, edition 6, 1973 (Melway Publishing Co)

The Dandenong Market was originally located on the corner of Lonsdale and McCrae Streets, and its first trading day was likely to have been October 10, 1866. This site eventually proved to be too small and it was sold in June 1924 and a new location was selected in Clow Street, where it still operates. The first livestock sales at Clow Street took place in June 1926 and the produce market moved there by October 1927. In 1958 the Stockyards moved to Cheltenham Road.  The Dandenong Stock Market was the last municipal owned and operated facility in Victoria, and closed on December 22, 1998. I have written more about the market, here.

Stock Pens at the Market

Blue Circle Cement works is in the background.

 With stock markets, come stock crates.

Victorian Producers Co-Op and Stevens, Egan & Johnston & Co. Offices

          

Wash down bay for trucks.

Poultry Sheds

City of Dandenong Depot, which adjoined the Market

I presume this is Greaves Street (above and below)

Cheltenham Road. 

For more information on the Market and other photographs, click here. 

Some of these photograph were posted on my work blog, Casey Cardinia Links to our Past. They were part of the Casey Cardinia Libraries collection.