This is a comprehensive, extremely well researched record of an area not well documented in the past. It covers the adventures and misadventures in the suburbs along the Steele Creek and Maribyrnong River including Niddrie, Airport West, Keilor East, Avondale Heights, Keilor Park, West Essendon and Tullamarine. Christine Laskowski examines land grabs, the goldrush, bushranging, villainy, warring landladies and hardworking farmers.
Christine Laskowski
2017 edition was reprinted by the Essendon Historical Society in 2022. Published 2013
Steele Creek and the Lady of the Lake
$30.00
The early history of Niddrie, Airport West, Keilor East, Avondale Heights, Keilor Park, West Essendon and Tullamarine.
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This is a comprehensive, extremely well researched record of an area not well documented in the past. It covers the adventures and misadventures in the suburbs along the Steele Creek and Maribyrnong River including Niddrie, Airport West, Keilor East, Avondale Heights, Keilor Park, West Essendon and Tullamarine. Christine Laskowski examines land grabs, the goldrush, bushranging, villainy, warring landladies and hardworking farmers.
Christine Laskowski
2017 edition was reprinted by the Essendon Historical Society in 2022. Published 2013
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