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, February 27, 2026

Bobbie Pearce (1891-1928) - the Singer from the Trenches

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Robert Murdoch Pearce was born in Tallangatta, on May 2, 1891 the fifth child of Henry Heath Pearce and Arabella Grace Murdoch, who had marr...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Wattle Path Palais De Danse, St Kilda

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The Wattle Path  Palais De Danse was built in 1923 on the Esplanade in St Kilda, next to Alfred Square,  and Table Talk reported on its gr...
Thursday, February 5, 2026

The destruction of the Glen Huntly Railway Station Garden in the 1920s.

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This post is about the destruction of the Glen Huntly Railway Station Gardens in the 1920s. It is yet another example of the alienation of p...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Young People's League of Worship Art Stamp Album

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I bought this the other day at Lloyd Holyoak's  shop,  Abra Card Abra Roycroft, at 680 High Street in Kew East. It's a Art Stamp Alb...
Friday, January 2, 2026

Dandenong Market - a very short history

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The Dandenong Market was originally located on the corner of Lonsdale and McCrae Streets, and its first trading day was likely to have been ...
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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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