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Vicars, Violet

Violet Halliday Vicars was born in Scone to James Little and his wife Mary Ann (nee McLaughlin). Her father was an accountant. She married Robert

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Vickery, Joyce

Joyce Winifred Vickery D Sc MBE [1] was born on 15 December 1908 at Strathfield as the youngest of four children of George Begg Vickery

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Village Green

Despite appearing on Department of Lands maps from at least 1886 as a reserve, the Village Green was ‘opened’ on 5 September 1903 by the

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Village Life

 Changing times – Village life While this website contains a wealth of detail about Cheltenham and Beecroft, what this article hopes to achieve is to

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Wachsmann, Albert

Albert Ernest Wright de Berri Wachsmann was born in Nelson, New Zealand, in 1874, of German and French stock. His father, Captain Albert Frederick Wachsmann,

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Warren’s Pharmacy

Warren’s Pharmacy, Beecroft  In 1929 Harry Robert Warren, in partnership with his brother-in-law, Norman Edwards, bought a pharmacy at Beecroft on the corner of Beecroft  

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Water & sewerage

Water supply and sewerage in Beecroft and Cheltenham The growth of a community like Beecroft/Cheltenham can be charted in many ways; through the lives of

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Wheeler Family

The Wheeler Family moves to Beecroft in 1894 Originally written by the late Roy Wheeler 1924-2008 My grandfather, Charles Walter Wheeler, was born on 9th

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Whittell, Henry

Henry Rawes Whittell was born in 1857 in College Street, Sydney, where his father practised medicine. His mother, Esther, was from a wealthy Wiltshire family

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Willis Family,

George Frederick Willis was the father of David John Willis [1], in whose memory Beecroft’s Boer War memorial was built. George Frederick was a first

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