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.

Friday, July 21, 2023

Dr John Newman Tremearne of Creswick and Mandeville Hall

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John Newman Tremearne was a doctor, an inventor, was at one time was charged with manslaughter,  and claimed to be able to cure cancer.  Dr ...
Friday, July 7, 2023

Best-kept Railway Stations in Victoria

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I came across this photograph of the Warragul Railway Station planted with tree ferns. It's a bit unusual, and I would have thought slig...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Arymtage Own Scout Hall, Dandenong

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This post looks at the construction and the official opening of the Armytage Own Scout Hall in Dandenong. When I was a girl (the 1960s and e...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Carrum Downs - a short history

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Carrum Downs grew out of a 1908 sub-division of a sheep run, which created many small farms and that year the Mornington and Dromana Standar...
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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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