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, March 26, 2022

Construction of the West Gate Bridge over the Yarra River

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Construction of the West Gate bridge, over the Yarra River,  began on April 8, 1968. Tragically on October 15, 1970 part of the bridge colla...
Sunday, March 6, 2022

Dr Gweneth Wisewould and her father, Frank Wisewould

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Some years ago I read Dr Gweneth Wisewould's book, Outpost: a Doctor on the Divide (1) about her life as a doctor at Trentham. It is a...
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Saturday, March 5, 2022

World War One Soldiers with a connection to Bangholme

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Bangholme is a small town near Dandenong - it used to be part of the Shire of Dandenong and then when the Shire of Springvale and Noble Park...
Thursday, March 3, 2022

The Ordiyal Estate at Clyde.

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The Ordiyal Estate at Clyde was located at in the Parish of Sherwood - Sections 8 and 19, part sections 9, 10, 11 and 12 and Portions 47, 4...
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...
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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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