Index

A B C D G I J M R S T W

A

Alexanderson, Barry
  assisted in providing water for Wicks Reserve pavilion
Augusta Road
  Mortiboy Reserve on corner

B

Basin Football Club
  first began using Batterham Reserve
Basin Progress Association
  role in development of the Triangle
  Ted Mortiboy President
Basin-Olinda Road
  Wicks Reserve situated on
Batterham Reserve
  Batterham Tennis Club formed
  Don Maguire instigated purchase of land for
  Fergus Chandler did first landscape design
  first brick pavilion
  first cricket games by Boronia Church of Christ
  first hut and tent
  first netball use
  first oval
  first tennis courts built
  first tin shed pavilion
  named in memory of Rowley Batterham   
  second oval
  when proclaimed, interest in Wicks Reserve declined
Batterham Tennis Club
  first formed
Batterham, Mrs
  opened Basin Football Club brick pavilion
Batterham, Rowley
  association with Batterham Park

C

Chandler, Bert
  instigated purchase of land for Wicks Reserve
Chandler, Fergus
  designed original Batterham Reserve
Chandler’s Hill Estate
  Triangle originally part of
Cooper, Arthur
  Basin Football Club storeroom and scoreboard named after
  supplied tent for early days of Basin Football Club

D

Dance, Mr.
  Shire secretary when Wicks Reserve land purchased

G

Gravenstein Reserve
Greenwell, Les
  assisted in clearing for Wicks Reserve
Grumont Reserve

I

Inglis, Brigadier
  Ferntree Gully Councillor

J

Jackson, Arthur
  former Wicks Reserve committee member
Johnson, Eric
  former Wicks Reserve committee member

M

Maguire, Don
  first Basin Football Club brick pavilion named after
  instigated purchase of land for Batterham Reserve
  used draught horses to mow Batterham Reserve ovals
Maguire, John
  purchased part of J. J. Millers land
  sold land to Rowley Batterham
Major, Bill
  former Wicks Reserve committee member
Miller, John James
  owned land where Batterham reserve now stands
Mortiboy Reserve
  significance of circle of pine trees
Mortiboy, Ted
  assisted in Boronia level crossing accident 1926
  Mortiboy Reserve named after
  proprietor of the Wine Saloon on Mountain Highway.
  used Mortiboy Reserve land for early scouting

R

Recreation Reserves
  Batterham Reserve
  Gravenstein
  Grumont
  Mortiboy
  The Triangle
  Wicks Reserve
Robinson, Randall
  former Wicks Reserve committee member
Rowley Batterham
  Batterham Reserve named in memory of   

S

Stewart Street
  Mortiboy Reserve on corner
Sword-grass Brown Butterfly
  In Wicks Reserve

T

Triangle, The
  originally part of Chandlers Hill Estate

W

Wallace, Cr. Marie
  opened Basin Football Club brick pavilion
Wallace, Jack
  organised plans for first Basin Football Club tin shed pavilion
Wicks Homestead
  not originally on Wicks Reserve land
Wicks Reserve
  creation instigated by Bert Chandler
  drainage problems hindered development
  first committee
  first pavilion
  has unique plant and wildlife
  home to the Sword-grass Brown Butterfly
  land for purchased by Ferntree Gully Council
  land for purchased from Wicks family
  named in memory of the Wicks family
  planting of Red-fruited Saw-edge
  proclaimed in 1942
Wicks Road
  Wicks Reserve situated on
Wicks, Edmund
  and Wicks Reserve
Wicks, Emily
  approached to purchase land for Wicks Reserve