Banyule Heritage Study

Banyule Council are commencing a Heritage Study to identify additional heritage places within Banyule and are seeking help from the local community to point out the unknown local heritage gems. The Centre Ivanhoe, Greensborough War Memorial Park and the Viewbank Silos are among those sites that already have heritage status.

There are currently 190 places and precincts protected by the Heritage Overlay in the Banyule Planning Scheme. This study will identify and assess the heritage value of places that are not yet covered by the Heritage Overlay. The local community are encouraged to nominate potential heritage places to be considered as part of the study.

For more information about the project, including dates for community information sessions in March and how to nominate a place, please visit Shaping Banyule .

The Victorian Heritage Register lists and provides legal protection for heritage places and objects that are significant to the history and development of Victoria.

Book Launch: Migration stories from Banyule

MIGRATION-Stories from Banyule reveals fourteen personal journeys of migration by and about people originally from the Aeolian islands, England, the Greek islands, Italy, Malta, Slovenia and Poland who came to Australia by ship, disembarked at Port Melbourne, and now call Australia Home. 

Watsonia Library is pleased to host the launch of this publication as part of Yarra Plenty Regional Library's Local History Month program on Saturday 7 October 2.00pm - 4.00pm.

This publication can be viewed as a vessel for transporting previously untold, unwritten and unheard family journeys. And while a great deal remains to be told, each story is significant, not simply because some of the Memory Keepers started life as young immigrants who experienced long, perilous and circuitous sea journeys before reaching Australia; or whose mother tongue belonged to ‘a language other than English’; whose parents would have been regarded ‘working class’; and who in a single generation, broke barriers of adversity and flourished as highly respected members of the community, as artists, politicians, business operators, volunteers and thinkers. But essentially because each family narrative found between the pages of Migration- Stories from Banyule introduces us to each other, reveals the story behind the story of who we are, where we came from, and why we call Australia home.

Bowling for 100 years

The City of Banyule’s current “Banyule Banner” May – June 2013 features a story on the City of Heidelberg Bowling Club which will celebrate its 100^th birthday in August.  The club began after a meeting in the Heidelberg Presbyterian Church Hall.  Mr. John May, the first President held the position from 1913 to 1949 with a break between 1917 and 1926. In 1914 a pavilion and four rink green was opened, with electricity, telephone, gas and sewerage connected between 1915 and 1922.

The club has grown to 140 members today with modern facilities.

A local history: A history of City of Heidelberg Bowling Club, 1913-1988 was published in 1988.  Unfortunately Yarra Plenty Regional Library does not hold a copy in its local history collection.  If you have a copy you would like to donate to the library please contact the Local and Family History Librarian at localhistorygene@yprl.vic.gov.au

There are a number of references to the club in the Heidelberg News and Greensborough and Diamond Creek Chronicle available online at Trove

Source: Banyule Banner (City of Banyule) May-June 2013 p. 13

Banyule Heritage Online

City of Banyule have released Banyule Heritage Online.

It is fully searchable online database containing information about Banyule Heritage Places and Precincts, including statements of significance, physical descriptions, historical information, builder, architectural style, photographs and heritage overlay number.

This is an excellent addition to our local history resources.