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Dec 9, 2019 •
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Whoever invented the word hacker must have been watching a golfer whose efforts on the golf course were similar to mine. But I loved the game despite my disability because each round had resulted in a...
Dec 2, 2019 •
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Perhaps your dad and mum were stalwarts of the School Committee or Mothers' Club or volunteered for every working bee at these schools which no longer exist. Perhaps your old school photos were accide...
Nov 27, 2019 •
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N.B. COPY LINKS AND PASTE THEM INTO YOUR SEARCH BAR TO GET ARTICLES AND THE PARISH MAP.
JOHN BUNTINE, EARLY YUROKE REPRESENTATIVE ON THE BROADMEADOWS ROAD BOARD.
Reports of races at Broadmeadows i...
Oct 5, 2019 •
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The beautiful Roll of Honour is displayed in the Hume Global Learning Centre near the Broadmeadows Station. I presume that each Township had its own memorial. The Broadmeadows Township was that part o...
Sep 11, 2019 •
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I discovered recently that many names on the war memorial at the corner of Dalkeith Avenue and Broadmeadows Rd, Tullamarine cannot be viewed from the footpath and have asked Joshua Bull, the local sta...
Aug 25, 2019 •
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Recently on a rare trip to Melbourne, it dawned on me that the War Memorial on the Dalkeith Avenue corner of Tullamarine Primary School can only be partly viewed from the footpath. Joshua Bull, State ...
Jul 23, 2019 •
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I THOUGHT THEY WERE ONE AND THE SAME. The original Greenvale State School was at Melway 178G4 near the east corner of Somerton and Section Rd. The modern suburb of Greenvale started on Hughie Williams...
Jul 18, 2019 •
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MR. WILDING AND MR MANN, TWO EARLY MORNINGTON PENINSULA HISTORIANS.
Mr Wilding (who wrote the history of the Mornington Peninsula, published in the Mornington Standard in 1905) and Mr Mann (who wrote...
Apr 8, 2019 •
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WAS REV. RODDA, SORRENTO'S C. OF E. MINISTER, THE SAME REV. RODDA AS THE ONE AT BROADMEADOWS, KEILOR AND BULLA?
I've often wondered this but refused to be sidetracked from the research in hand. The ...
Mar 20, 2019 •
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THE RANDALLS.
Henry James Randall (born in 1857 at Richmond*) who established "Hindhope" on 29 acres might have been related to ...
Mar 14, 2019 •
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RAMSAY COUPER really was a knight and really was a pioneer of Rosebud but he didn't really have the title SIR RAMSAY OF ROSEBUD. I just made that up, with very good reason; Box Hill didn't deserve the...
Mar 12, 2019 •
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Queenscliff Sentinel, Drysdale, Portarlington, Sorrento Advertiser (Vic. : 1914 - 1918) Sat 18 Mar 1916 Page 3 ROLL OF HONOR
QUEENSLAND DISTRICT ROLL OF HONOUR
Last night I was trying to read ...
Feb 8, 2019 •
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VALE'S SUBDIVISION PLAN
THE ABOVE LINK IS PROVIDED IN A SEPARATE JOURNAL BECAUSE I CAN NEVER REMEMBER WHERE I HAVE INCLUDED PARTICULAR INFORMATION SUCH AS MAPS AND THIS PLAN.
From my journal A B...
Feb 3, 2019 •
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CHARLES SHUTER WAS A PROMINENT PIONEER OF MOONEE PONDS.
He didn't get a mention in THE STOPOVER THAT STAYED but Lenore Frost wrote about him in her STREET NAMES OF ESSENDON. He was a police magistrat...
Jan 27, 2019 •
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THOMAS PATRICK DURACK, HEADTEACHER AT DROMANA STATE SCHOOL FOR ALMOST FOUR YEARS AND HEAVILY INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES.
I am often asked to recommend a history which will contain information a...
Jan 15, 2019 •
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF ROSEBUD.
(Type WANNAEUE, COUNTY OF MORNINGTON into your search bar to see the parish map.
To see the map of the Rosebud/ Boneo area in 1855, copy Part of the Parish of Wannaeue n...
Jan 6, 2019 •
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Cr. John Davies of Balnarring got the myth rolling when he stated at a gathering of the Peninsula's earliest pioneers at the Balnarring hall in 1913 that a Frenchman named Simon lived in a large holl...
Jan 5, 2019 •
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THIS FISHERMAN'S NAME WAS WRONGLY RECORDED ON THE WANNAEUE PARISH MAP AS A. CHRISTIE.
County of Mornington, parish of Wannaeue, in the village of Rosebud, at the site of Mr. A. Christon's
fisherma...
Dec 9, 2018 •
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FRED WRIGHT, TULLAMARINE'S EARLY BLACKSMITH.
Links have not been formatted so you can just click on blue text. Copy the links (in bold type) into your search bar and press enter to access articles.
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Dec 8, 2018 •
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Because there are so many links they will not be formatted in the usual way so you can click on the word(s) in blue type. Just copy the links, which I will render in BOLD TYPE, into your search bar an...