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.

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Gippsland Battle Plane

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There was an appeal published in many local papers in 1918 to help Australia purchase 'Victory' Battleplanes (1). Each Australian w...
Monday, December 13, 2021

Diamond Hill, Dandenong

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 Diamond Hill was a location just out of Dandenong - the rise just over the railway crossing on today's South Gippsland Highway (1) or ...

Memorial to Sidney Webb in Narre Warren

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This is a story with a bit of a mystery - who is the creator of the memorial to Sidney Webb (1844 - 1920) at Narre Warren? I was reading Ear...

Street names in Cranbourne

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This post looks at the names of the streets in the original 1856 subdivision of the town of Cranbourne and the streets in the 1888 Cranbourn...

Pakenham - who is it named after?

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Pakenham is a town on the outskirts of Melbourne, it used to be a country town, but is now really an outer suburb. I went to Pakenham Consol...
Sunday, December 12, 2021

The Arthur Streeton painting of the Brown family of Berwick

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I was reading Early Days of Berwick (1) and came across the following in the Harkaway chapter - For some time an artist, Mr Ford Patterson...
Saturday, December 11, 2021

Elizabeth Parsons (1831-1897)

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Elizabeth Parsons (1831 - 1897) was a professional artist, who created many delightful landscapes in water-colour, oil and drawings. The Sta...
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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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