Pete Monty – a long and busy life. After a lifetime of work, reserves and volunteering, Pete Monty has a lot to look back on. Not least is knowing his instruction [...]

How the Neighbourhood Centre got started in Clarendon Vale When Vonnie moved in, at the end of 1978, there were no fences, no clotheslines, no shops and bitumen was just being [...]

Cate and Nicole – Rokeby Neighbourhood Centre Cate “We’re one of the first Neighbourhood Centres in Tasmania. We celebrated our 40th year in 2019. Originally, neighbourhood houses started over 100 years [...]

Rokeby House – The home of Mabel Hookey. Rokeby House was in the Stokell family for more than 120 years, from when it [...]

Teena Bourne’s story – finding a second mother. “I was 32 when I met Mum. That’s going back over 30 years ago. I was adopted out when I was 10 days [...]

Harman’s story “Me and my husband, we both moved to Tasmania in March 2020. We lived with friends for the first ten days then we moved to Rokeby. So we’ve [...]

The bloody and sometimes sad history of Ralph’s Bay Just a few hundred metres from the busy Rokeby Road is Ralph’s Bay, the original waterways and lands of the Mumirimina people. [...]

Kayne – a Clarendon Vale teenager “I’ve always lived in Clarendon Vale. I love the community; the community is amazing. I’ve just finished college. It’s so weird and confusing to me. Now [...]

Rokeby Cricket Club – the oldest continuous community cricket club in Australia. Justin “A lot of the farmers back in 1858 started the club. They used to play down at village [...]

Maurice Connor – ‘a young country fella’ growing up in Rokeby 90 years ago. “Our childhood was good. We knew everybody. We played cricket and did everything together because there weren’t [...]