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 20, 2022

Cranbourne Presbyterian Church Honour Board

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The Cranbourne Presbyterian Church Honour Roll is now housed at the Fishermans Cottage Museum at Tooradin. The Museum is operated by the Cra...
Friday, February 18, 2022

Great War Soldiers with a connection to Lyndhurst and Skye (Lyndhurst South)

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This is a list of soldiers with a connection to the towns of Lyndhurst and Skye.  I have linked these towns together as Skye changed its nam...

Lyndhurst Memorial Hall

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Communities commemorated the Great War in various ways -  War Memorials, Avenues of Honour, Memorial Gates, Memorial Hospitals and Memorial ...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

Patrick O'Halloran's General Store at Pakenham

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I bought this postcard of Patrick O'Halloran's store in 'Old Town', Pakenham. The 'old town' was the town on the Gip...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

Fawkner Cemetery postcards

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I have three postcards of the Fawkner Cemetery, which was also known as the New Melbourne General Cemetery.  It does seem like an unusual su...
Saturday, February 12, 2022

Dr John James Helsham of Cranbourne

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In 1866, James H. Watson, who later became the President of the Royal Australian Historical Society, spent some time on Quail Island, at the...
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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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