Edition 19, June 2019 a Project of the Brown Hill Progress Association, Supported by the Brown Hill Community Partnership
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Brown Hill Community Newsletter Edition 19, June 2019 A project of the Brown Hill Progress Association, supported by the Brown Hill Community Partnership. We are proud to walk this land with the Wadawurrung people and all other First Nations people. Diary Dates See brownhill.vic.au for details. JUNE Friday 21: 1.30pm, Stress Strategies Workshop, Brown Hill Uniting Church (p.12) Saturday 22: 9.00 am - 1.00 pm, Brown Hill Market, Brown Hill Hall (p.5) Friday 28: Last day of Term Two ... continued p.2 E. & J. Bawden Service Grocers at 341 Humffray Street North, Brown Hill. Joy and Ed Bawden are standing out the front. Image supplied. Brown Hill's General Store - 'back in the day' Well-known Brown Hill locals, Ed and run by Ed’s parents. Most of the local producers. supplied goods came in large tins. Joy Bawden, share some memories of The business became known as 'W Grains and meal came in hessian their time running the Brown Hill and E Bawden Service Grocers', bags. The shop sold fruit and General Store with local, Rhonda run by Ed and his father William. vegetables, groceries, chook food, Lyons. School children from nearby wheat, bran, pollard, newspapers, Brown Hill Primary School would The Brown Hill General Store was briquettes and some crockery. The spend threepence on their way located at 341 Humffray Street shop had rows and rows of tins home. Threepence would buy a North opposite the Brown Hill stacked in shelves, mostly tins of small bag of lollies. Barber. The store was originally biscuits of all different varieties. owned by Ed’s great grandparents, During the mid-60s Ed and Joy During the 1940s there was a the Lane family. Maryann Lane took over the running of the shop petrol bowser with two hoses at (Ed's grandmother) was born at and renamed it 'E. & J. Bawden the front of the shop. the shop in 1869. Hence Lane Service Grocers'. They lived in the Street, which meets Humffray The shop sold locally made house behind the shop with their Street North opposite the shop, is biscuits. The huge 'Sunshine' four children. named after them. biscuit factory was located Each week the shop was open for between Victoria and Mair streets, When it opened the shop was five-and-a-half days, closing at where the Bakery Hill Shopping named 'Wm. Lane, Temperance lunchtime on Saturdays. Ed and Centre is now. The biscuit Store'. The term 'temperance' Joy say, "They were long days in factories were big employers of meant there was no alcohol sold at the store, with our mornings people from the community. the shop. beginning at 5.30 am to collect the From 1932 the general store, Soft drinks, mainly lemonade, newspapers and roll them, then do supplying household goods, was came in glass bottles. the home delivery, some thrown 'Goodfellows' and 'Rowlands' were ... continued p.16 1 ... continued from p.1 Tuesday 6: 7.00 pm, Brown Hill Friday 20: End of Term Three Progress Association meeting, rear Saturday 29 June to 21 July: Saturday 21: 7.00 pm - 2.00 am, room, Brown Hill Hall, all welcome Ballarat Winter Festival. See: White Night Ballarat. See: ballaratwinterfestival.com.au Saturday 10: Men's Breakfast, whitenight.com.au/ballarat JULY Brown Hill Uniting Church (p.12) OCTOBER Monday 12: Due date for articles Tuesday 2: 7.00 pm, Brown Hill Monday 7: Start of Term Four and advertising for the Brown Hill Progress Association meeting, rear Community Newsletter (Edition Friday 25: 5.00 pm - 7.30 pm, 2019 room, Brown Hill Hall, all welcome 20). Please note the change of Brown Hill Community Festival, Monday 15: Start of Term Three date. Brown Hill Recreation Reserve and Cricket Oval (p.4) Saturday 27: 9.00 am - 1.00 pm, Friday 23: Delivery of Edition 20 Brown Hill Market, Brown Hill begins across Brown Hill NOVEMBER Hall (p.5) Saturday 24: 9.00 am - 1.00 pm, Friday 15: Caledonian Primary Sunday 28: National Tree Day. Brown Hill Market, Brown Hill School Trivia Night (p.6) See: treeday.planetark.org Hall (p.5) Sunday 17: Eucalypts of Slaty AUGUST SEPTEMBER Creek Walk and BBQ. See: brownhill.vic.au/directory/wattle Sunday 4: Brown Hill Tuesday 3: 7.00 pm, Brown Hill -flat-pootilla-landcare-group/ Kindergarten fundraiser - Progress Association meeting and Bunnings BBQ (p.6) AGM, rear room, Brown Hill Hall, For updates, visit: brownhill.vic.au all welcome. or you can subscribe by emailing any officers, members, agents or About our us: [email protected]. contractors. Newsletter Contributions are welcome from Occasionally, some content the Brown Hill community. included in our newsletters may This publication is a community Articles are due by the first be upsetting for some readers. project of the Brown Hill Progress Monday of the month in which If you need support, contact Association. the edition is published to numbers are available here: It is published bi-monthly in [email protected] or brownhill.vic.au/new-to-brown- February, April, June, August, in hard copy to the reception desk hill/need-some-support/ October and November. at Caledonian Primary School, Layout using Scribus 1.4.3 Editorial Advisory Committee: Thompson Street, Brown Hill Printed by Ballarat Mailworks on Ange Davies, Geoff Dickson, Brian during school term and school 100% recycled paper. Green and Sarah Greenwood- hours. Smith. Proof reader: Peter Edition 20 articles are due by This publication is licensed as Morton. Editorial Support: Sally Monday 12 August 2019. Please Creative Commons Attribution- McAlpin. Social Media: Rachael read the editorial policy regarding ShareAlike 4.0 International. Houtsma. Brown Hill Directory: contributions before submitting ISSN 2209-9050 Hazen Cleary and Ange Davies. an article: Local volunteers distribute the brownhill.vic.au/newsletter. newsletter to all businesses and The views expressed or residences in Brown Hill with information provided in this additional copies available at local publication are not necessarily businesses and community hubs. those of the Brown Hill Electronic copies are available on Community Newsletter the Brown Hill Online Community Committee or the Brown Hill Hub: brownhill.vic.au/newsletter/ Progress Association, including 2 In this edition I am so pleased to have the wonderful Ed and Joy Bawden on our front cover. I met Joy at Brown Hill Playgroup at Caledonian Primary School. Joy loved giving tired mums a break by holding our babies so we could have a cuppa and chat. The kids and parents all enjoyed seeing Joy each week - a very popular Playgroup Grandma! I met Ed at the Brown Hill Progress Association meetings. Sunset over the rooftops at Hemsley Park Retirement Village. Photographer: What a character! An active Gordon Williamson. member of the Brown Hill Lions Club and unoffically known as the Reader lived for over thirty years. Our 'Mayor of Brown Hill', Ed has two married daughters both live dedicated much time to helping to Feedback in Dubai. Our home was too large, make our Brown Hill community as was the garden, hence our We received this delightful email what it is today. Read more about decision to move to Hemsley Park from Gordon and Annette Williamson Ed in Edition 4 (November 2016, - a very prudent decision we feel. who live in nearby Hemsley Park p.5) in an article about starting However, my main reason for Retirement Village. We are sharing it the Brown Hill Community Hall. writing to you, apart from the with their permission. Thanks again to our sponsors: congratulations, is to thank you Good Afternoon Sarah, Silver: Brown Hill Hotel and for publishing the Vale to Ian Brown Hill Market. Bronze: On behalf of my wife Annette and Westerland and Jack’s Tribute to ALDON Tutoring Centres Ballarat, myself, I wish to congratulate you Pop. Ian and I shared the same Ballarat Health Foods, Ballarat and the Editorial Advisory birthday six years apart and the Treeworks, Bakers Delight Bakery Committee on Edition 17 of the Monthly Birthday Morning Tea at Hill, Dazzlin' Doggie Country Brown Hill Community newsletter Hemsley Park was the last time I Village, Jigsaw Puzzles Australia - a bumper edition which we have spoke with Ian. My wife and I and The AFL Store - Ballarat. much enjoyed reading. travelled to Dubai the next week to spend Christmas & New Year We are residents of Hemsley Park, Sarah Greenwood-Smith, Volunteer with our family. Ian was a true having relocated here almost Editor, Brown Hill Community gentleman and very proper in his eight years ago from the other end Newsletter and Directory Committee contribution to any Hemsley Park of town (Alfredton) where we had Silver sponsor: ...continued p.4 3 ...continued from p.3 everyone associated with the please get in touch with Megan. newsletter and contributing Residents meeting, adhering We are also looking to add one groups e.g. the Brown Hill strictly to meeting procedure. additional food van so if you have Progress Association, the local He offered helpful advice to me any suggestions please let Megan Area Plan synopsis and many during my term as Secretary of know: [email protected]. the Residents’ Committee. He more items. Keep up the good shared silverbeet seedlings, which work - you do a mighty job and we The 2019 Brown Hill Community he had grown, with us. His dear look forward to reading Edition 18 Festival will be held on Friday 25 wife Jean also gave me a number and many more thereafter. October from 5.00 pm to 7.30 pm at the Brown Hill Reserve. of her highly prized hippeastrum Yours most sincerely, bulbs which, with their annual Annette and Gordon Williamson brownhill.vic.au/brown-hill- spectacular blooms, have given us Hemsley Park community-festival/ much pleasure.