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, October 14, 2023

The War Trophy Committee and the War Trophies distributed to the Shires of Berwick and Cranbourne and neighbouring Shires

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In late 1919 the War Trophies Committee was established and its role was to distribute 'war trophies' which had been captured during...
Saturday, September 9, 2023

Frankston and the Sun News-Pictorial Ideal Town competition 1927 and 1931

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In 1927 the Sun News-Pictorial newspaper introduced the Ideal Town competition. Towns could be entered into one of the three division - Div...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

The Hunt Train and the Melbourne Hunt Club

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 In 1850, George John Watson, the founder and first Master of the Hounds of the Melbourne Hunt Club arrived in Melbourne (1). His father, ...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

The mystery of the Quietly Club, Berwick

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This is one of my favourite posts which I researched and wrote for my work blog, Casey Cardinia Links to our Past . It was posted on Novembe...
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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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