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.

Sunday, February 23, 2020

Michaelis, Hallenstein & Co. World War One Memorial

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In Hopkins Street in Footscray, just over the Hopetoun Bridge and near the corner of Moreland Street,  on the site of the now demolished Mic...
Friday, February 14, 2020

Cliffy Island - lighthouse, Dr Rutter, the Gledhills and the Myrtle Burgess.

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At the South Eastern Historical Association meeting held on Sunday, February 9, 2020 at the Hastings Western Port Historical Society , John ...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Baxter's Merry-Go-Round

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Baxter's Merry-Go-Round was a fixture of carnivals for many years and this is a short history of it. I first heard about it at St Kilda,...
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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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