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.

Thursday, December 29, 2022

Victorian Railways and Marion Steam Shovels

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The Victorian Railways possessed a Marion Steam Shovel which they were using in 1909 on such projects as the regrading of the railway line a...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

The property known as Mayune, then Mayfield, Cranbourne and the Ruffy Brothers

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This post is the history of the squatting run, Mayune , at Cranbourne starting with the arrival of the Ruffy Brothers in the 1830s. This is ...
Friday, November 18, 2022

The property known as Ravenhurst, then Gladys Park and then Tulliallan, Cranbourne

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For many years, the Melway Street Directory showed a property called Tulliallan on Berwick-Clyde Road, just south of Pound Road / Grices Ro...
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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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