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Journals (Page 16 of 36)
Mar 27, 2015 •
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It probably seems to some that I spend every idle moment thinking of a new journal to write but that's not how they come about. They usually come about from a chance discovery. Right now I could be wr...
Mar 25, 2015 •
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Considering that Douglas Picking probably helped to maintain tourism in Dromana after the days of the steamers,it is amazing that the only mention of his fauna park in Colin McLear's A DREAMTIME OF DR...
Mar 17, 2015 •
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I can't blame Andrew Lemon's BROADMEADOWS A FORGOTTEN HISTORY for my boo boo. Andrew gave me no grounds for assuming that there were no denominational sections at the Will Will Rook Cemetery. He may h...
Mar 15, 2015 •
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I HAD A DREAM! It was an obituary of a member of the Corrigan family and mentioned the Lavars and Corrigans being early settlers on Donald Kennedy's Dundonald Estate,followed by my great grandfather,J...
Mar 13, 2015 •
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Historical Archaeology Survey - VicRoads
https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/.../melbourneairportlinkbullahistoricalarch.
The above study took place in the areas where proposed alternate routes for a ...
Mar 9, 2015 •
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A CORRECTION.
My memory is fairly good but it's telling me now that at some stage, I might have called William Calder's son,who designed the Shire of Flinders offices at Dromana, Sam. If this is true...
Mar 5, 2015 •
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No,you haven't missed the reunion! It's on Sunday,March 22,not long now!
Sybil Cumming (nee Colliver)had already sent me Graeme Saunders' memoirs and today I received her terrific contribution. As ...
Mar 3, 2015 •
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· Information about the:
o History of Mickleham Road, including its date of construction / historical uses.
o Trees in Mickleham Road, Mickleham (in particular between Bardwell Dr...
Mar 3, 2015 •
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"Not to know what happened before one was born is to remain a child." Cicero.
itellya wants everyone to have the opportunity to move out of childhood. My particular object is to encourage a love o...
Feb 21, 2015 •
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The nearest swamp to Melbourne was the West Melbourne Swamp and it was a great nuisance causing a huge detour for those wishing to reach the areas to the west of the infant settlement. They had to tra...
Feb 16, 2015 •
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Charles Hollinshed had presented about a truckload of papers to the Victorian Historical Society and was selected by the Shire of Flinders to write its history:LIME LAND LEISURE. I had been researchin...
Feb 13, 2015 •
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COPIED FROM:
John Gibson 1859 - 1932 Kangarong, Victoria, Australia
www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gibson-2063
Cert reads: 3 August 1859, Jamiesons Survey, Kangerong, Victoria, John, not ... or nurse to cer...
Feb 12, 2015 •
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CATTLE TRESPASS
COUSINS GO TO LAW.
At Frankston Court on Friday, Mr Pyvis, P.M., was occupied from 11.30 a.m. until 5.30 p.m. with the hearing
of a claim for £20 damages by Leeland Davey, of Bound...
Feb 11, 2015 •
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Well it was easy for me because I cut the outline of the pieces (A DREAMTIME OF DROMANA, trove articles and the evidence of a foundation member of the Safety Beach Country Club) and knew how to fit th...
Feb 10, 2015 •
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I still haven't given up on the almost impossible task of trying to find the article in which Watson Eaton testified that he'd never attended university or had any medical training. Another go found t...
Feb 10, 2015 •
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THE BUS BAN.
Spencer Jackson was Dromana's dynamo and his fellow members of members of the Mornington Peninsula Development League used a similar term to describe him: LIVE WIRE!
PENINSULA DEVELO...
Feb 10, 2015 •
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This journal resulted from a quest to confirm a theory that a building,the remains of which are shown in an aerial photo of portion of Dromana taken after the bushfires of December 1939, was the Kange...
Feb 8, 2015 •
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The Shire of Flinders and Kangerong wasformed by amalgamating the Flinders and Kangerong Road Districts. The former had listed ratepayers geographically which had made propertieseasy to identify,by lo...
Feb 6, 2015 •
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I don't know how many times I had to search through Colin McLear's great book about the pioneers and events in Dromana's history to find certain illustrations such as the map showing early tenants on ...
Feb 5, 2015 •
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DROMANA.
A well attended working bee in connection with the new golf links was held the other afternoon, and under the direction of the president of the club, who was a most energetic toiler, a very ...