City of Darebin Heritage Study Volume 1 Draft Thematic

VOLUME 2: THEMATIC ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORYFigure 90Opening day of the NorthcoteSoldiers and Sailors MemorialHall, 1922[DHE 794]In Macleod the row of sugar gums along Cherry Street in part of the former Mont ParkHospital was planted by Hugh Linacre to commemorate the First World War.At the former Bundoora Repatriation Hospital a plaque commemorates Sister Sheila Sheldrake.In the Greek Monastery in Northcote there is a shrine for Greek and Australia soldiers (Bradley1994).CemeteriesCemeteries are important markers of the phases of human life. They are also rich storehouses ofcommunity and family history.The Preston General Cemetery in Plenty Road originated as the small Strathallan Cemetery in1864 and has the graves of many Preston pioneers, as well as the elaborate graves of Italianfamilies, demonstrating Darebin’s large post-war Italian community (Forster 1968: 16; Carroll1985: 224).Cawdortown Cemetery in Separation Street was established by the early German settlers in thearea and is a strong physical reminder of this distinctive phase of settlement.The Little Sisters of the Poor established a private cemetery for the Order in their conventgrounds in Northcote.Darebin acquired the Coburg Cemetery on its north west border at the time of municipalrestructure in 1994. It was established as Pentridge Cemetery in 1859 for the community ofthe district then known as Pentridge, later Coburg. It was enlarged in 1877 and 1884(Broome 2001: 90).129