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🌟 James Downie
Builder and contractor James Downie made his home at Glenview in Longwarry South after retiring from business in 1892. Born in Dundee and brought to Australia as a child, he worked on major Victorian building and infrastructure projects, some in partnership with other contractors. A council heritage assessment records connections with Melbourne’s law courts, railway works and public buildings, as well as later St Kilda housing investments. His local link is the property where he lived until his death in 1926. The Longwarry connection therefore follows an extensive working career elsewhere, showing how a country home could be part of a much larger Victorian business biography.
🏅 Peter Knights and Eric Guy
Peter Knights played senior football for Longwarry at sixteen in 1968, an important preparation for his later Hawthorn career. The side’s captain-coach, former St Kilda player Eric Guy, reassured Knights’s father that he would look after the teenager on the field. Longwarry won the premiership that year. The AFL’s retrospective preserves that small exchange as well as the result, showing the personal trust behind a young player’s move into senior sport. Knights’s later fame should not obscure Guy’s local role: coaching and encouragement helped make the opportunity possible.
