Our environment #1

Way, way back before plastics were invented the environment was a different concept.

Waste (a.k.a. recycling) bins were fine galvanised iron lidded cans referred to as dustbins - and were the approved receptacles for the sweepings collected off the kitchen floor linoleum, and carried carefully in the dust pan.

Boys of tender years, and easily dented egos, who could not match the Middle C tuning fork in primary school choir singing lessons, might find themselves roaming the school grounds emptying such dust bins. They had evolved by 1960 into rubbish bins.

The ever-alert Nilss of Innsbruck - formerly of Odenwald Road Eaglemont - has returned from a spot of annual leave, and messaged Eaglemonts Voice:

Evelyn Observer and Bourke East Record, 22.01.1909, Page 5

HEIDELBERG SHIRE COUNCIL.

JAN. 13TH

PUBLIC WORKS COMMITEE.

"That the dustcart call at tenements in Eaglemont once a month to remove tins, broken china, etc."

‌The dust cart was made of natural wood, and was pulled by an internal engined, hay-digesting biological unit called a horse.          ‌

Tenements? Do those cads on the Heidelberg Shire Council disrespect us of leafy, elevated Eaglemont?

Or do they show un-nerving foresight that their heirs and successors in the Banyule Council will be creating tenement living in the district?

Back in the day, Eaglemont was promoted in the media - OK, by real estate types using the media - as the place for healthy living:

The Argus, 02.12.1909, Page 2

THE SPOT

For

HAPPY, HYGIENIC HOMES

Is

HIGH and HEALTHY HEIDELBERG

At

EAGLEMONT.

Close to the station, convenient to the river, and commanding extensive and entrancing views.