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.

Sunday, October 22, 2023

Royal Victorian Motor Yacht Club World War One Honour Board

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We used to have a boat which we moored at the Royal Victorian Motor Yacht Club (RVMYC); we sold the boat many years ago, but the other day I...
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...
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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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