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, May 31, 2020

Miss Emily Soldene and Henry Nelson Weippert

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In December 1877 Miss Emily Soldene appeared at the Prince of Wales Opera House in Melbourne. This was the first time Melbourne had seen thi...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

Pageant of Loyalty, Frankston, September 1917

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This photograph  comes from  Museums Victoria , and is labelled  Armoured Car in a Street, Victoria, 1914-1918. Part of the description off...
Saturday, May 2, 2020

Alden family of 'Little London', Tyabb

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This delightful postcard of the Queen Victoria Memorial Gardens in Melbourne was sent to Mrs Alden, of 'Little London', Tyabb on Au...
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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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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