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, May 24, 2025

Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery Office and Solon Alonzo Peck

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The office at the Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery was built 110 years ago in November 1915. The Cheltenham Seaside News  reported on the new of...
Sunday, May 4, 2025

Sheila Mildred Jowett attains her Merit Certificate

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In December 1929 Sheila Mildred Jowett received her Merit Certificate having completed satisfactorily the Course of Study prescribed for the...
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Luna Park - a post card from 'your stony broke daughters'

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This delightful postcard of five women in an aeroplane over Luna Park, St Kilda was written on January 3, 1914. Luna park postcard, 1914 Whi...
Monday, April 28, 2025

Spion Kop, Domain Gardens, Melbourne

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In February 1900, the Ovens and Murray Advertiser published the following paragraph about recruitment of Victorians to fight in the Second ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Catholic Churches in the old Shire of Berwick and Shire of Cranbourne

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The Catholic newspaper, The Advocate , is available on Trove from 1868 until 1954- The Advocate was first published on 1st February 1868 by ...
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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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