Northcote Prospect Gr 15 1982 folder 01, p 20 1471
Northcote Conservation study 1982 survey images: colour slide, black & white:.
`Olinda was built on land subdivided in the late 1880s as the Fairfield Hill Estate, which was.
originally as part of Crown Portion 101 purchased by W F A Rucker in 1840.1 Allotments were.
sold by auctioneer Mr Robertson, of Carlton, in February of 1885. Robertson boasted that the estate.
was adjacent to the Borough Council’s offices, in the old Wesleyan Schoolroom (qv), and lay.
between the Dandenong’s and the Fairfield Hill allotments, constituting a grand view..
William G Swift, the new town clerk of Northcote Borough, purchased two of these allotments from.
L Oldfield in1 1885. Swift replaced Goodwin as Town Clerk in Northcote in1885, after he served at Collingwood. Soon after his arrival in the new suburb of Northcote in April 1886 he had established.
a real estate agency which had ceased business by 1887, when he commenced construction of Olinda..
Swift lived at Olinda for forty years, retiring from his position as town clerk and treasurer in 1923.
and shifting to Ivanhoe. Before he left he wrote ‘The History of Northcote, from its First Settlement.
to a City’ in 1928. William Swift died in October 1945 at the age of 83..
Subsequent owners of Olinda include the Dihm and Finlay families. Frank Brennan, a solicitor,.
leased Olinda from the Dihms for a period. Brennan was MHR for Batman from c1911 to 1931 and.
1934 to 1939, as well as serving as Attorney General from 1929 to 1931.'
Northcote Prospect Gr 15 1982 folder 01, p 20 1471
Northcote Conservation study 1982 survey images: colour slide, black & white:.
`Olinda was built on land subdivided in the late 1880s as the Fairfield Hill Estate, which was.
originally as part of Crown Portion 101 purchased by W F A Rucker in 1840.1 Allotments were.
sold by auctioneer Mr Robertson, of Carlton, in February of 1885. Robertson boasted that the estate.
was adjacent to the Borough Council’s offices, in the old Wesleyan Schoolroom (qv), and lay.
between the Dandenong’s and the Fairfield Hill allotments, constituting a grand view..
William G Swift, the new town clerk of Northcote Borough, purchased two of these allotments from.
L Oldfield in1 1885. Swift replaced Goodwin as Town Clerk in Northcote in1885, after he served at Collingwood. Soon after his arrival in the new suburb of Northcote in April 1886 he had established.
a real estate agency which had ceased business by 1887, when he commenced construction of Olinda..
Swift lived at Olinda for forty years, retiring from his position as town clerk and treasurer in 1923.
and shifting to Ivanhoe. Before he left he wrote ‘The History of Northcote, from its First Settlement.
to a City’ in 1928. William Swift died in October 1945 at the age of 83..
Subsequent owners of Olinda include the Dihm and Finlay families. Frank Brennan, a solicitor,.
leased Olinda from the Dihms for a period. Brennan was MHR for Batman from c1911 to 1931 and.
1934 to 1939, as well as serving as Attorney General from 1929 to 1931.'