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 18, 2023

Emil Heinrich Schellenberger aka Emile Henry Shelley

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Emil Heinrich Schellenberger was born on June 17, 1869 at the family home and business, the Bakers' Arms Hotel in Sandhurst, as Bendigo ...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

The Inebriates Asylum at Beaconsfield

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Between 1889 and 1892 there was an Asylum for Inebriates operating at Beaconsfield, and even though the Asylum was short lived, it gave its ...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Victoria Hall, Yarra Glen

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I came across this photograph, below, of Yarra Glen and wondered what the building on the right was and discovered that it was the Victoria ...
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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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