On the block of land now occupied by the Epping Secondary College, there was a two-storey bluestone house. Built by or for Richard Scale. In 1947, the TATLOW family had purchased this property and lived there until the 1970’s when the Education Department bought the land from them. The bluestone house remained for a few years. It has long since...
When I first saw this street sign ( off McKimmies Road, Mill Park adjacent to the Darebin Creek) I assumed that COLLINS was a surname, but I did not get very far. A few weeks later I called in at Dysons Buslines (adjacent) to obtain some bus timetables and casually asked the receptionist about the name Laurie Collins. She told...
Received its name about then too, because it was the road to the Upper Plenty District. A Post Office was established there in 1853 as the Upper Plenty Post Office and this was changed to the Whittlesea Post Office in Jan.1864 and has been Whittlesea Post Office ever since.
The name ‘Plenty River’ was bestowed in Feb. 1836 by Joseph Tice GELLIBRAND, of the Port Phillip Association, because the nearby country had such a promising aspect. When the area around what is now Whittlesea was settled in the 1840’s, it received the name “Plenty” or “Upper Plenty” because of its proximity to the Plenty River.