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.

Reverend Alexander Duff (1824-1890)

The Reverend Alexander Duff (1824-1890) played a large role in the early development of the Cranbourne area and this is a short biography

Reverend Alexander Duff

Image: The Good Country: Cranbourne Shire by Niel Gunson  (Cheshire, 1968)

Sources - The Good Country: Cranbourne Shire by Niel Gunson  (Cheshire, 1968) and Early Settlers of the Casey Cardinia District researched and published by the Narre Warren & District Family History Group in 2009.

The Reverend Alexander Duff was born in Coagh in Northern Ireland in 1824 and obtained a Master of Arts from the University of Glasgow. He married Annie Tucker in Belfast when he was 29, around 1853, and they came to Australia soon after. Their eight children were all born in Victoria.

The Reverend Alexander Duff was appointed by the Presbyterian Church to Dandenong on June 26, 1855 and on September 20 he was ordained. The Duffs initially lived with Alexander Cameron, of Mayfield, Cranbourne and conducted services in his house until Scots Presbyterian Church was opened on May 27 1860. A manse was also built at the same time. Reverend Duff also preached at Berwick in the early days and as far south as the Bass River area. He visited parishioners on his horse, Dobbin.

Cranbourne Presbyterian Church, opened 1860.

A Presbyterian School opened in Cranbourne on June 1, 1856. This school was located on the site where the Presbyterian Church stands,  the first teacher being James Henry, the next teacher was Archibald Thomson. In 1862, the Commons School Act was passed and the School became Cranbourne Common School, No. 144. The School was closed in 1878 and the students moved to a new School on the South Gippsland Highway (where the Elderly Citizens are now located). In 1969, the Cranbourne State School, No. 2068, moved to Russell Street location.

On October 31,  1855 Alexander was appointed the Registrar of Births and Deaths for Cranbourne and Dandenong. 

Reverend Duff's appointment

Victorian Government Gazette, No 110, 2 November 1855, page 2806

The Reverend Duff also held evening classes for young men and women on 'arithmetic, physics, mathematics, English, Latin, Greek, French and German. He was obviously interested in intellectual pursuits but he also valued physical activity - Dr Gunson wrote that he tried his hand at black smith work and that he experimented with ways to improve cheese making. He ploughed his own paddocks and, in 1858, the Mornington Farmers Society held their ploughing competitions on his farm.

Reverend Duff retired to his farm at Cardinia in 1888 and he died on December 22, 1890 aged 65.  He left his entire estate to 'my dear wife, Annie Duff'. He was buried at the Cranbourne Cemetery. The value of his Estate was personal property of £1312 and real estate valued at £1574. (1)

Short obituary of the Reverend Duff 

South Bourke & Mornington Journal, December 24, 1890.  http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70398485

As we mentioned before, Alexander married Annie Tucker in Belfast around 1853. He was the son of Thomas Duff and Ann McMorran. They had eight children - 

Walter (1855 - 1925, married Eva Sharp)

Annie Elizabeth (1857 - 1934, married John Gason)

William Tucker (1859 - 1935, married Alice Hobart)

Dora Robina (1861 - 1939, married Robert Gibb)

Maggie (1864 - 1938, married James Lecky)

Mary Clarissa (known as Minnie, 1865 - 1924, married Ingebert Gunnelson)

Alexander (1869 - 1941, married Mary Irwin) 

Edward John Tucker, born and died 1877. 

Annie died November 24, 1905 aged 74. The three surviving sons farmed in the Cardinia area. Walter Duff, James Lecky and Robert Gibb were all Cranbourne Shire Councillors. 

Five of the Reverend Duff's grandsons were killed in the First World War - Charles Alexander Duff, the son of William and Alice Duff;  James Alexander Lecky and William Mervyn Lecky, the sons of Maggie and James Lecky and Ingebert and Perch Gunnelson, the sons of Mary and Ingebert Gunnelson who lived in Garfield. (2)

Alexander's brother, Robert (1827 - 1861) was also in Australia. He and his wife Margaret (c.1832 - 1902) established the Cranbourne Hotel, around 1860. It was in High Street, where Greg Clydesdale Square is now and was demolished around the 1970s. Margaret was also a Duff, perhaps a cousin, and her father operated an Inn in Coagh, County Tyrone, the birthplace of Alexander and Robert. After Robert died, Margaret married Edward Tucker (c. 1836 - 1872), who was born in America and operated a store in Cranbourne. Edward's brother William (born in Belfast) was also in the area. What connection were they to Annie Tucker, the wife of the Reverend Duff? Some sources say that she was the sister of Edward and William Tucker, however in the Early Settlers of the Casey Cardinia District their parents are listed as Edward Tucker and Elizabeth Moore and Annie's death certificate has her mother's maiden name as Phillips, so I am not sure.

The Cranbourne Hotel, established by Robert and Margaret Duff

Image: The Good Country: Cranbourne Shire by Niel Gunson  (Cheshire, 1968)

Footnotes

(1) Read his will at the Public Records Office of Victoria, here.

(2) Charles Alexander Duff - is listed on the Cardinia Honour Board and had a Memorial tree planted at the Cardinia School; he also listed on the Tooradin State School Honour Board. 

The Lecky brothers are on the Cranbourne Presbyterian Honour Board and the Cardinia Honour Board and had a Memorial tree planted at the Cardinia School. 

Cardinia Memorial Grove, see here https://kooweerupswamphistory.blogspot.com/2021/12/cardinia-tree-plantation-in-honor-of.html

Cardinia Honour Board, see here https://kooweerupswamphistory.blogspot.com/2022/01/unveiling-of-cardinia-state-school.html

Tooradin School Honour Board, see here  https://kooweerupswamphistory.blogspot.com/2022/02/tooradin-state-school-honour-roll.html

Cranbourne Presbyterian Church Honour Board see here,  https://victoriaspast.blogspot.com/2022/02/cranbourne-presbyterian-church-honour.html

The Gunnelson brothers are on the Garfield Honour Board - see here https://kooweerupswamphistory.blogspot.com/2021/12/world-war-one-soldiers-with-connection.html