Greensborough articles
Pioneer Families of Diamond Creek District STARLING & STEWART
George Durrant Starling and his wife Clementina left Norfolk, England and arrived in Melbourne in 1859 to start a new life, first living at Janefield, now Bundoora, where they ran a farm. They were joined ten years later by their grandsons George Davey Starling jnr. and Adrian Starling, then in 1886 their son George Davey […]
The Pub with Three Names – Evelyn Arms – Halfway House – Tunnel Camp
The building that was on the road to Greensborough had three names during its sixty year history, each relating to a particular period of its operation and although it was outside the township boundary it was Diamond Creek’s first pub. It was first licensed as the Evelyn Arms Hotel to Isaac Hawkins on 31st January, […]