Alphington Heidelberg Rd 849 Hillsview 1982 folder 01, p 17-18 1418
1982:.
`As a continuation of A D Hodgson’s first subdivision of Wills’ Lucerne Farm, in 1885, the Lucerne North Estate was created. This was land which appears to have been consolidated by William.
Manning in 1852, with his subdivision of Roemer’s Crown Portion on the west, and later taken up by John Sharp Adams as part of his farming activities..
Indian rubber manufacturer Barnet Glass purchased five of these lots, next to the Darebin Creek, on the new alignment of Heidelberg Road. Here he constructed a ‘handsome villa’ called Hills View..
Barnet Glass, who was Polish, arrived in Melbourne from Manchester in 1877, having learnt his trade there. He started in Lincoln Square, Carlton, manufacturing rubberised clothing for the first time in.
the Colony. By 1882 he had moved to Queensberry Street, North Melbourne, where he resided next to his three-storey factory. Expansion meant absorption of his residence and his decision to build.
Hills View in 1890..
After investigatory trips to England (when Hills View was leased out to Professor G B Halford) and the establishment of a branch in Adelaide, a new plant was brought from England and installed in.
large new premises at Kensington in 1898. By 1903, Glass had sold Hills View to quarry owner, Thomas Adams, who was the son of John.
Sharpe Adams, storekeeper of Alphington. By 1930 Thomas’s wife, Annie E Adams, lived in Hills View, whilst her son, Frederich Reginald Adams lived there in the 1950s. Frederich Adams, perhaps.
Hills View’s last owner from the Adams family, was born at Alphington in 1892. Educated at Scotch College, Melbourne and Manchester Universities, he became a lecturer at Brighton Grammar before.
entering the A.I.F. for the First World War. He taught Economics at Manchester University and in 1929 became Head Master of Launceston Church of England Grammar School. By the 1960s, Hills.
View had become the Bretheran Home for the Aged.'
Alphington Heidelberg Rd 849 Hillsview 1982 folder 01, p 17-18 1418
1982:.
`As a continuation of A D Hodgson’s first subdivision of Wills’ Lucerne Farm, in 1885, the Lucerne North Estate was created. This was land which appears to have been consolidated by William.
Manning in 1852, with his subdivision of Roemer’s Crown Portion on the west, and later taken up by John Sharp Adams as part of his farming activities..
Indian rubber manufacturer Barnet Glass purchased five of these lots, next to the Darebin Creek, on the new alignment of Heidelberg Road. Here he constructed a ‘handsome villa’ called Hills View..
Barnet Glass, who was Polish, arrived in Melbourne from Manchester in 1877, having learnt his trade there. He started in Lincoln Square, Carlton, manufacturing rubberised clothing for the first time in.
the Colony. By 1882 he had moved to Queensberry Street, North Melbourne, where he resided next to his three-storey factory. Expansion meant absorption of his residence and his decision to build.
Hills View in 1890..
After investigatory trips to England (when Hills View was leased out to Professor G B Halford) and the establishment of a branch in Adelaide, a new plant was brought from England and installed in.
large new premises at Kensington in 1898. By 1903, Glass had sold Hills View to quarry owner, Thomas Adams, who was the son of John.
Sharpe Adams, storekeeper of Alphington. By 1930 Thomas’s wife, Annie E Adams, lived in Hills View, whilst her son, Frederich Reginald Adams lived there in the 1950s. Frederich Adams, perhaps.
Hills View’s last owner from the Adams family, was born at Alphington in 1892. Educated at Scotch College, Melbourne and Manchester Universities, he became a lecturer at Brighton Grammar before.
entering the A.I.F. for the First World War. He taught Economics at Manchester University and in 1929 became Head Master of Launceston Church of England Grammar School. By the 1960s, Hills.
View had become the Bretheran Home for the Aged.'