Memories of my Early Years in Malvern

 No.48 Hunter Street, Malvern. Vincent Wickenton lived here throughout his childhood from 9 years of age until his marriage.

Left: The house in Hamilton, Victoria, in which Vincent Wickenton was born in 1903.

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Tooronga Road School, Malvern, where Vincent Wickenton attended from 1911.

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Tooronga Road School ( now Malvern State School) from the playground. This is where Vincent and his schoolmates took part in the saluting the flag ceremony every Monday.

Left: Vincent with his sister Lily Adele who was six years his senior.

Two older siblings were born before Vincent, but both died as infants before his arrival.

Another brother was born two years after Vincent, but died before his first birthday.

A second sister Thelma Wynd was born six years after Vincent.

At right: Milkmen about to set off on their delivery rounds from Woodmason's Melrose Dairy, Malvern, 1910.

The dairy was on the corner of Glenferrie and Malvern Roads. The milk came from the dairy's own Jersey herd kept on a property off Waverly Road.

Land at the corner of Malvern and Waverly Roads was used to grow maize to feed to the cows.

Photo: Stonnington History Centre Collection

The two-wheeled horse-drawn fire cart Vincent saw in Malvern was similar to this one (right), operated at the same time by the Chelsea Fire Brigade.

Photo :Chelsea and District Historical Society

Kingston Historical Website

This confectionary shop was no doubt patronized by Vincent who would have often passed it on his way to the nearby Malvern Station.

The shop in Claremont Avenue was built  the same year in which Vincent moved to Malvern. 

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Left: The old Malvern Post Office in Glenferrie Road, in 1917. The building also housed the suburb's telephone exchange at a time when few private houses were connected to the phone network.

Photo: Stonnington History Centre Collection

This present day milk bar near the Wattletree Road and Tooronga Road intersection could well have been "Johnie Walker's" confectionary shop referrred to by Vincent, where ice-cream made by hand on the premises was available when it was "ready".

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Left: A Baker's delivery cart in Ballarat about 1895. Similar stlyles of carts were used in Malvern and other Melbourne suburbs in the 1900s.

Photo: The Biggest Family Album of Australia, Museum of Victoria. Acquired from Mrs Jessie Scott,1985.