| Roles held: | Captain 1957– 1964 |
| 2nd Lieutenant 1955– 1957 |
Jim West, Captain of Shoreham Fire Brigade from 1957-64, had a long family history of involvement in the local area. Jim’s grandmother was born in the area and lived in The Glen.
Jim was born in Oakleigh in 1926 and attended the Notting Hill State School and from there at the De La Salle College Malvern. He was an active member of the Notting Hill Young Farmers Club.
After leaving school Jim was heavily involved in the family dairying property at Notting Hill where they also conducted the highly successful “Grange Lea” Australian Illawarra Shorthorn Stud.
Ellie and Christie (J C) WEST (p58) dairy-farmed where Pinewood now stands, until 1957 when A V Jennings subdivided it. Then the family moved to Brighton. Their children were Eileen (Mrs John SALVANA), Jim (who married Pat LILBURN), Maurice (Rev Fr Cyprian WEST), Frank (who married Anne SPRUZEN), Margaret
Characters in the History of Waverley (http://home.vicnet.net.au/~whsvic/publications/WAWindex.pdf – accessed November, 2022)
(Mrs Michael POUND), Clare (now a Josephite nun) and Barbara (Mrs Colin YOUNG).
After the dispersal of the dairy herd in 1953 Jim married and with his wife Pat purchased a property in Tucks Rd, where he produced top quality fat lambs. His father Chris also purchased property in the area.
Jim farmed in the district until 1965, when he purchased a property at Hankesdale in the Western District of Victoria.
Jim’s sister Margaret and her husband Michael Pound now reside in Shoreham. Their son Bernard is carrying on the family tradition as a member of the current Shoreham Fire Brigade.
by Margaret Pound (sister of Jim West)
An extract from the Shoreham Rural Fire Brigade, 50th Anniversary Booklet (1999)