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- The Early Days of Highton and Belmont:
"Crossing Prince's Bridge from West Melbourne Rd. (now Shannon Avenue), and climbing up the embankment, we reach Strawberry Hill, named afterarailway station on the south-western line about 10 miles from London. When this hill was surveyed, it was thought that a township wouldbeestablished here, therefore the blocks had a frontage of only forty feet and a depth of about 120 feet. There were three terraces in it -Victoria,Albert and Regent.
Mr Joseph Spicer's home was in Albert St, facing the Barrabool Hills Rd. He came from Market Harborough in Leicestershire and was a brick maker.Henot only made the bricks out of a clay-hole on the same site, but also built most of the house. At the time of the diggings, he paid as much asapound for a mould for making bricks. His son, Mr Archibald Spicer, now resident in 392 La Trobe Terrace, Chilwell, was one of the pioneers oftheBelmont Methodist Church and Sunday School, and was an early member of the Temperance Life-Boat Crew."
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AIGS/FHC Member's - Family Trees
Abt 1817 - 1895 (~ 78 years)