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.

Saturday, September 11, 2021

The Brighton Switchback Railway

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A Switchback Railway operated at Brighton Beach from Christmas 1890  until early 1894. This post is about the railway and the two  promoters...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Walter and Veda Thewlis and their happy time at Middle Park

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My grandfather, Walter Herbert Thewlis, was born on December 15, 1900 at Monea North. He was the youngest child of Frederick and Catherine M...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

Telling time with flowers - Floral Clocks

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One of the new attractions at the Royal Melbourne Show in 1930 was the Floral Clock. The Argus was one of the newspapers who reported on th...
Monday, July 19, 2021

The Heriot family of Williamstown

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I came across this wonderful photo of Andrew Heriot's Sail Loft, in Nelson Place, Williamstown. It was taken in 1885. Andrew was a sail ...
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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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