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Oct 21, 2013 •
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On Saturday I had a lovely meal at the Five Flags Hotel in Campbells Creek after my ma-in-law's ashes had been buried at the cemetery. As I drove through Campbells Creek every school day in 1965-6, I ...
Oct 21, 2013 •
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Hay Lonie operated his dairying on a farm owned by James Hearn,15 B Will Will Rook, which fronted Pascoe Vale Rd, so how is it that when the farm was placed on sale in 1868,it was described as being o...
Oct 21, 2013 •
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I will never forget the first time I saw Hay Lonie's name in a Broadmeadows Shire ratebook. I was having trouble deciphering some of the words because of terrible handwriting, sometimes taking five mi...
Oct 17, 2013 •
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POSTSCRIPT 23-12-2021.
TIME TO CORRECT HISTORICAL ABSURDITY!
JAMES REID'S 1855 MAP OF BRAYBOOK TOWNSHIP
This is the map referred to previously in this journal. Obviously no heritage consultant has ...
Oct 15, 2013 •
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Hi XXX,
Can you help me, we are at the moment cataloguing photos given to us by the Wells Family of Derril Road, where the Butter factory used to be.
Leslie Moorhead says in her book that the ...
Oct 12, 2013 •
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Civil Aviation Historical Society President Roger Meyer OAM has announced the appointment of Dr Arun Chandu BDSc, MBBS(Hons), MDSc, FDSRCS(Eng), FRACDS(OMS) as the inaugural Research Fellow at the CAH...
Oct 8, 2013 •
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MY APOLOGIES FOR MANY VAGUE STATEMENTS IN THE FOLLOWING. FOR EXAMPLE,"GEORGE MANSFIELD BOUGHT DALKEITH IN ABOUT 1910. BECAUSE I CANNOT ACCESS ANY OF MY COMPUTER FILES (WHICH WOULD CONTAIN TITLE INFO...
Oct 7, 2013 •
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The Royalauto for October, 2013 has an article on page 8 called THE FISH SHED in its feature CURIOUSLY VICTORIAN.
It states that five generations of Hutchins have fished Port Phillip at Mornington si...
Oct 1, 2013 •
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This journal results from a private message conversation between myself and Shah, who has consented to her information being published.
COMMENT UNDER MY JOURNAL ABOUT THE DROMANA MUSEUM.
Very inte...
Sep 30, 2013 •
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It's not often that I base a new journal on just one incident. There are six people mentioned in this story, an Australia-wide hero in 1905, a renowned wooden boat builder, an un-named Greek fisherman...
Sep 16, 2013 •
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Red Hill and Main Ridge residents don't have the same access to local papers as Peninsula coastal dwellers but thanks to the Red Hill District Lions Club,they enjoy the HILL 'N' RIDGE COMMUNITY NEWSLE...
Sep 13, 2013 •
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Mornington News 10-9-2013. "100 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK."
A meeting of the Beachdale Progress Association was held at Latimer's store etc.
Where the hell was Beachdale? Beachdale was the original nam...
Sep 10, 2013 •
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SORRENTO.
MR COPPIN AND SORRENTO.
TO THE EDITOR.
Sir.-In your issue of the 18th May Mr Coppin is called the discoverer of Sorrento. This is a mistake. When
the Hon. James Grant was Minister of...
Sep 9, 2013 •
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CHAPTER 6.
I have read much about the area west of Rye but as the Nepean Historical Society has published so many books, I never felt a need to write about the area and thus made no notes. Elizabeth ...
Sep 9, 2013 •
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We continue our journey to The Heads.
CHAPTER 5.
NO RYE TOWNSHIP IN 1850 BUT WHO WAS IN THE AREA? TYRONE, NO SORRENTO BUT ITS FIRST LIMESTONE COTTAGE.
COURAGEOUS HARDY WOMEN AND JENNIFER NIXON'...
Sep 9, 2013 •
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We continue our journey to The Heads.
CHAPTER 4.
TOOTGAROOK STATION.
James Purves' contribution to Mornington Peninsula history.
1.He was one of the two most important horse breeders in the co...
Sep 9, 2013 •
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We continue our journey to The Heads.
CHAPTER 3.
DROMANA.
Having just lost 150 minutes worth of text through careless clicking, I will have to abbreviate this entry. Dromana celebrated its 150th...
Sep 9, 2013 •
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This is the start of an examination of the coast south from Mornington with a focus on early settlement in incorporating later history (especially regarding the pioneer families.)
CHAPTER 2.
CIRCA...
Sep 9, 2013 •
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I have broken THE ORIENTAL COAST OF PORT PHILLIP BAY into parts so that all of the pioneers mentioned can be included in the surnames list, which has a capacity far too small to include them all in on...
Aug 30, 2013 •
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The superb laminated place mat,detailing the history of the Dromana Hotel (and its competitor) that Ray Stella had printed has an error and it's all my fault. As my journal THE ORIENTAL COAST OF PORT ...