Showing posts with label Koo Wee Rup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Koo Wee Rup. Show all posts
Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Mobile Library towns - back in time

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Casey Cardinia Library Corporation (CCLC)  has a Mobile Library which services various towns throughout the Cardinia Shire.   If you aren...
Monday, 25 August 2014

Bush Nursing Hospitals

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The Bush Nursing Hospital Movement began in 1910 with the establishment of the Victorian Bush Nursing Association. At the time, the current ...
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Monday, 23 June 2014

Motor Garages or Service Stations

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Here are a few photographs of service stations in the region. Service Stations or motor garages were established in most areas after the Fi...
Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Prisoner of War Camp at Koo-Wee-Rup

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The Koo-Wee-Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society has copies of Commonwealth Government documents relating to the World War Two Italian Prisoner ...
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Friday, 26 February 2010

Bills Troughs in Casey Cardinia

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You may have seen some Bills Troughs, on your travels throughout Australia and overseas. They were funded from a bequest from the will of Ge...
Tuesday, 1 December 2009

The 1934 Flood

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It is 75 years since the worst flood on record hit the Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp on December 1, 1934. The original Drainage works on the Swamp wer...
Friday, 4 July 2008

Wireless Experimentation Station at Koo Wee Rup.

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A very poor quality photograph of one of the buildings at the Koo-Wee-Rup Wireless Experimentation Station. Photo is taken from the Koo Wee...
Wednesday, 28 May 2008

The Railways - The Strzelecki Line

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The train leaving Yannathan Station, Easter 1940, on the way to Bayles. From the Bayles Fauna Park Collection. In this post we will look ...
Monday, 5 May 2008

The Railways - The Great Southern line

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Cranbourne Railway Station Photo source: T he Great Southern Railway : the  i llustrated history of the building of the line in South Gip...
Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Koo-Wee-Rup

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Small scale drainage works on the Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp had been undertaken by private landowners from as early as 1856 but it wasn't unti...