Additional Material
A History of Parkerville & Stoneville
The following material has become available since the book was published.
Chapter 5 - 'The Railway': page 36/37: The man who carved the 'rock art' on the railway reserve was Archibald Paton, who lived at 1 Byfield Road from 1953 onward.
Chapter 17 - 'The People': page 219: The car in the creek was driven by Gary Robinson. The incident followed the Cricket Club dinner the previous day.
Endpapers - Photo 203: page 251: The women pictured in front of the hall are: [L - R] Dawn Wilson; Maisy Wilson and Joy Beard.
Errata
A History of Parkerville & Stoneville
Below is a list of errors or corrections in the First Edition of the book. (How many did you spot?)
Page vii: "Loreley Morling". Lorley
Page 8: Sadlier Court, Sadleir Court.
Page 9: para 2, Lot 168 is 1970 Seaborne Street, Footnote 18: Lot 169:10 Battery Road.
Page 9: para 2, Lots 119 and 120 are not footnoted with their current addresses, use Appendix Five to find today's street addresses.
Page 20, Photo 11: The view is looking southward, not northward.
Page 23: para 1, ". . Board meeting in on January 1928."
Page 31: para 2, Creedy Greedy.
Page 33: Footnote 70, warn. warm.
Page 52: para 7, Mornington Peninsular Peninsula.
Page 89: para 1, William Witham. Whitham.
Page 93: para 4, £6 5s. £65 7s
Page 95: para 3, ". . official reply is that that . . "
Page 111: para 2, ". . excised from Lot 69 in 1931 1938 by John Young . ."
Page 147: para 2, ". .staged its own first" ". . staged its first own . ."
Page 152: Photograph 67. Back Row [L to R] Pat McWhiter, unknown, Christine Cable, Robin Hitchcock, Pam Kelman.
Page 154: para 3, ". . travel to either to Mundaring Primary School . ."
Page 166: para 10, ". . Energy safety says it will be move to ensure . ." and ". . its vegetation control practices."
Page 170: para 5, John R. Webster 1897 - 1902. Joseph Webster
Page 174: para 3, adjoining, adjourning
Page 177: Footnote 241, Mrs Francis Frances Smith
Page 182: Footnote 249's date should include: "February 6, 1937".
Page 196: para 3, ". . enter into every detail . ." ". . into very detail . ."
Page 202: para 2, lode lobe
Page 209: para 5, Add "John Parkinson was the caretaker of the Hall and the library." to match Footnote 285.
Page 210: para 1, ". . bar set some 15ft . .", " . .bar some set. . ." and ". . spectacular sport . .", ". . spectacular sports . ."
Page 212: Footnote 292, Hazel Pither, Wazel
Page 216: para 2, ". .they were for kept for . . "
Page 225: para 6, ". .opened on in January 1971."
Page 246: para 1, " . . Understorey Program" program.
Page 250: Photo 201: " . . looking rather worse worst for wear.
Page 265: Photo 706: Colleen Collen
Page 276: Photo 1707: Peartree Lane Land
Page 277: Photo 1709: Parkerville Cricket Team, 1937-38 Premiership Team.1933 - 34. Some names may not be correct, however until more collaborating info comes to light, the names will remain.
Page 287: 9 lines up from the bottom - Seeker's Secker's. Also on next page, pp 288.
Page 289: ". . wraps then them with the unsold 'Wests'".
Page 289: Len Becker ran the store from 1949. 1948
Page 299: Appendix One, 5th line down: 'Falvey' Fulvey