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.

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Discoverers of Port Phillip monument, Sims Street, Footscray

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I came across the following in the 1957 book   Peeps into the Past: a book of  Melbourne   Curiosities  by  Mary Maxwell (1) -   Remembered...
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Sunday, April 12, 2020

Mrs Julia Benjamin's Labor Office

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This post, like others in this blog, started with a photo that I came across to put on the Lost Melbourne Facebook page - it's this grea...
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Saturday, April 4, 2020

White Horse Hotel at Box Hill and Patrick Trainor

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The White Horse Hotel was established by Patrick Trainor (c.1822-1888) in 1853 in what was then known as Nunawading, and later called Box H...
Monday, March 30, 2020

Melbourne - Seventh City of the Empire

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Melbourne:  seventh city of the Empire.  Artist: Percy Trompf State Library of Victoria Image H2008.73/23. SLV dates this as c. 1930-...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Albert Drayton's accident - an epic tale of survival and mateship

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I bought a postcard of the Melbourne Fire Station, mainly because it was very pretty with the horse shoe of forget-me-not flowers. The po...
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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...
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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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