Victoria's Past - Rescued and Retold

With the ebb and flow of time, a little of Victoria's jettisoned past has washed up upon my desk: a discarded photo, a worn postcard, or a fading newspaper. Their long forgotten characters now retell their stories in a digital sampling, post by post. Their voices are my blog's vignettes. Researched and written by Heather Arnold.

Showing posts with label South Melbourne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Melbourne. Show all posts
Saturday, March 18, 2023

Emil Heinrich Schellenberger aka Emile Henry Shelley

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Emil Heinrich Schellenberger was born on June 17, 1869 at the family home and business, the Bakers' Arms Hotel in Sandhurst, as Bendigo ...
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

McArthur Drinking Fountain, South Melbourne

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Postcard of the McArthur drinking fountain in La Trobe Reserve or  Park Street Reserve as it is called here. On December 5, 1906 a drinking ...
Friday, March 5, 2021

Dixon's Bakery, Kerferd Road

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In 1891, Henry Edwin Dixon, baker of Clarendon Street, South Melbourne commissioned local architect, William Elliott Wells to design a new b...
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Heather
I am a local history enthusiast, the President of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society and the Secretary of the South Eastern Historical Association. I was the Local History Librarian at Casey Cardinia Libraries from 2005 until 2021.
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