Just in case - Books

 

In the (recent) tradition of Little Free Libraries, this free library has popped up in Bradshaw St, North Essendon.  Take one, leave one.  Leave a message in the notebook. A lovely neighbourhood resource.  Visit them on Facebook.

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo

  'Get to your places!' shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder, and people began running about in all directions, tumbling up against each other; however, they got settled down in a minute or two, and the game began. Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in her life; it was all ridges and furrows; the balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and to stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches'. 

 

 Taking a break at the Essendon Croquet Club in Brewster Street.

Witch way

A sign of the times, witch you can see in Bradshaw Street.

New Arrivals in Rose Street

Red Christmas Bow

Red Christmas Bow in Napier Crescent, Essendon.

VR Signal Department

A nice solid looking steel box along the railway line in Moonee Ponds.  It was manufactured by AR & Co, Hebburn, England.  Can it have been in place since the line was electrified in 1918?  Still in use if the padlock is anything to go by.

Remnant tree from Fairview Farm.

This Moreton Bay fig is on the corner of The Avenue and Hotham Road, Niddrie, a remnant of the garden of the old farm 'Fairview'.  The original bluestone house stood opposite until the 1960s.  The tree has been placed on the Moonee Valley Council's Significant Tree Register, but it is cluttered with postal installations and a too-close planting of a cypress tree, not to mention overheard wires.