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Echuca Lions President Glenn Brotchie extends a warm welcome to visitors to our Club Website. Lions of the Echuca Lions Club are members of Lions Clubs International, a community service organisation dedicated to the idea that the men and women who live in a community are in the best position to know who needs help and why.

Fellowship, good times, meeting people, building friendships, service to the community, learning new skills, leadership and personal development - these are just some of the benefits of being a member of the largest service club in the world.

Lions have been a part of the Australian community since 1947, and a proud to be part of the Echuca community since 1965.

They have been helping to serve the community without promise or want of reward and are people just like you!

Be a part of the change at Echuca.

CONTACT US

Club Postal Address: P.O. Box 258 Echuca 3564

Club email address:

President: Lion Glenn Brotchie, Phone 5480 7527. brotchieg@gmail.com

First Vice President: Lion Peter Mitchell, Phone: 5484-9257. colande1@bigpond.com

Second Vice President: Lion Geoff Crossman, Phone 0428 865 491.

Third Vice President: Lion John Patterson. john@jppumpconsulting.com

Secretary: Lion John Simson. j.simson@bigpond.com

Treasurer: Lion John Meincke, Phone 5480 0341. meincke@ctemail.net.au

Webmaster: Lion Bruce Williams Phone 0425 681 805 brwilliams45@bigpond.com

Bulletin Directory & Publicity: Lion John Taylor (5482 1309, jayangee1@myacn.net.au) & Lion Glen Brotchie (5480 7527, brotchiegm@bigpond.com).

OÚR TOWN'S HERITAGE

Echuca is located in the heart of rich river country at the junctions of the Campaspe and Murray rivers, and at the junction of the Murray Valley Highway (B400), the Northern Highway (B75), and from New South Wales on the Cobb Highway 75. It is a vibrant town with a population around 13,000. Lions has played a strong role in the local community.

Echuca is served by daily V/Line Rail and Coach Services from Melbourne and Bendigo, is a popular tourist destination, and is the location of the popular television series All the Rivers Run.

Echuca was founded by one of the most enterprising characters of the early colonial days, an ex-convict named Henry Hopwood. In 1850 he bought a small punt which operated across the Murray River near the Campaspe junction. The relatively small settlement known as "Hopwood's Ferry" became Echuca as the town grew. The Post Office known as Hopwoods Punt opened around 1854 and was renamed Echuca on 1 January 1855.

By the 1870s Echuca had risen to prominence as Australia's largest inland port. Being the point of shortest distance between the Murray River and the major city of Melbourne, Echuca was both a key river port and railway junction. Steam-driven paddleboats would arrive at the 400-metre long redgum Echuca Wharf, unloading it to be transported by rail to Melbourne. Wool, wheat, other grains, livestock and timber were the most common cargoes. The wharf has been listed as a Heritage Place on the Australian National Heritage List. This industrial boom led to a rapidly expanding population, at one stage in excess of 15,000, with more than a hundred pubs (hotels) rumoured to exist in the Echuca district at one time. An iron bridge was constructed over the Murray River in the 1870s.

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