687 Doncaster Road - Real Estate

1800's G.S. Grover Real Estate

DP0145 | Gerald Grover's house | Photograph of the shop and residence of G. S. Grover, estate agent and orchardists' supplier. The premises were built for L. H. Smith in the 1880s. Smith was a bootmaker, but in 1900 he became a drawing teacher, visiting the local schools to give lessons. He also gave private tuition. Mr Grover purchased the premises in the 1920s. The property extended from Doncaster Road to Elgar Road, and on the Elgar Road frontage Mr Smith had also built another brick house about the same time. (Photograph mounted with caption) | Doncaster  Grover, Gerald Stanley|Smith, Lawrence Hislop|Doncaster Road|Scanned images | 

Source: DTHS Researchers.

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G.S Grover established in 1919

Source: Ben Dawson, Dawson's Real Estate.

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2024 Dawson Real Estate

GoogleStreetView OCT2024 

Corroboree Reserve, Corroboree Place, Templestowe Lower

 Location: -37.75959976335994, 145.10483522081068

Corroboree Reserve, Corroboree Place, Templestowe Lower VIC 3107  GoogleStreetView OCT2024

Corroboree Place and Corroberee Reserve, GoogleMaps OCT2024

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Corroboree Reserve

Catering for young children, Corroboree Reserve playground features a junior unit with slide, spinner and swings. The Reserve is in close proximity to Chatsworth Quadrant local shops, Templestowe Pre-school and Templestowe Primary School. The reserve is fenced.

Source: https://www.manningham.vic.gov.au/parks/corroboree-reserve OCT2024

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Line image of a Corroboree of Victorian Aborigines.   aborigines, aboriginal, corroboree, celebration, dancing, camping, campfire, possum skin cloak.

Location, date, creator unknown. 

Source: https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/57affe8dd0cdd12018e56e2b

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Thiele Family

Frederick Thiele and his family.

Frederick THIELE was born at Doncaster in 1855, the sixth child of Gottlieb and Phillipine Thiele who were pioneer settlers of the district. He attended the school conducted in the Lutheran Church at Waldau where Max Schramm was the teacher. The transfer of the school from Waldau to Main Road in 1864 was effected during the time of his attendance. After leaving school, Fred worked on the family orchard at Friedensruh, and grew up to become one of the district’s most successful orchardists.

Early in his life he was sent by his father for professional training in horticulture at the nurseries of J.C. and T.C. Cole in Hawthorn where he learnt various methods of plant propagation. Fred was an innovator and introduced better methods of management to make the orchard more profitable. He was also a mentor to his brothers Edmund and Alfred, who in later years with Fred, worked the family orchard in partnership. At one time Fred realigned a section of Ruffey Creek below the homestead, digging this out by pick and shovel. Evidence of this can still be clearly seen in the creek today.