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.

Monday, December 9, 2019

Australian Farmers' Harvester Works Ltd.

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A friend of mine, Isaac, came across an album of photographs connected to various families including the Gilmour and Penhalluriack families...
Wednesday, December 4, 2019

The St Kilda Yacht Club WW1 memorial on the St Kilda pier

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I heard of this memorial by chance when my friend, Isaac, came across a reference to it in Isaac Selby’s Old Pioneers’ Memorial History of M...

Ten Best Citizens of Victoria 1905

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I was given this post card by a friend, Isaac, who is a collector of postcards.  It shows one of the Ten Best Citizens of Victoria and I wa...
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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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