Showing posts with label Local Histories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Local Histories. Show all posts
Friday, 21 October 2016

"Settlers and Sawmills" and Bellbrakes, bullocks and bushmen" - the local timber industry

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In this post we will look at two great local histories, both written by Mike McCarthy and published by the Light Railway Research Society of...
Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Berwick Nostalgia: a pictorial history of Berwick

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One of my main sources of photographs for Berwick is the book Berwick Nostalgia: a pictorial history of Berwick . It was published by the Be...
Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Berwick Grammar School 1882-1928 and the Vieusseux family

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Berwick Grammar School began in 1882 as a private school owned by the Head Master, Edward Vieusseux (1854-1917). Edward was the third son of...
Monday, 1 September 2014

North of the Line: a pictorial record and a short history of Officer and Garfield

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The Berwick Pakenham Historical Society published North of the Line:  a pictorial record in 1996 and it still provides us today with a grea...
Monday, 21 July 2014

Garfield North School. No. 3849

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Dr Ron Smith has written a history of Garfield North Primary School. The book is called T he school on the small plateau: the history of ...
Monday, 5 August 2013

Bunyip

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The Bunyip Historical Society has republished Call of the Bunyip: History of Bunyip, Iona and Tonimbuk 1847-1990 , written by the late Denis...
Friday, 5 July 2013

Beaconsfield Upper history

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A history of Beaconsfield Upper has just been published. The author, Dr Charles Wilson and his wife, Yvonne, moved to the 'charming, loo...
Friday, 25 May 2012

Pages from the Past

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The Casey Cardinia Branch of the National Trust has recently produced the local history Pages from the Past: shapshot histories of people...
Monday, 23 November 2009

A little of Emerald Lake - by Graeme Legge

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With the advent of a local swimming pool in the 1930s, residents had ready access to the refreshing coolness of water in the summer heat as ...
Friday, 6 November 2009

The Encyclopedia of Melbourne

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The Encyclopedia of Melbourne was published in 2005 by Cambridge University Press, and there is now an on-line version. The on-line version...
Friday, 10 July 2009

Cannons Creek, Warneet and Blind Bight - Part 2

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In our last blog post we talked about the two squatting runs, Kilmore and Balla Balla. These two runs were eventually broken into smaller f...
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Wednesday, 11 February 2009

Vision and Realisation : a centenary history of State Education in Victoria

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I have written before about some of my favourite local history resources, and Vision and Realisation : a centenary of State Education in Vi...
Friday, 9 January 2009

Australian Newspapers Beta project

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The National Library of Australia commenced a four year project of digitising Australian newspapers in 2007 and ultimately aims to digitise ...
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Friday, 26 September 2008

Australian Dictionary of Biography

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The Hon. James Buchanan. M.L.C., and his wife Anne (nee Wilson) with their daughter Annie, and her two children Nancy and Effie Wilson. Ann...
Friday, 20 June 2008

In the Wake of the Pack Tracks : a history of the Shire of Berwick

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In the past three blog posts we have covered some of the key Local Histories for the Casey Cardinia Region - The Good Country , which trace...
Tuesday, 17 June 2008

Story of the Dandenongs 1838-1958 by Helen Coulson

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In the last two blogs we have looked at two of of my 'frequently referred' to resources and in this blog I will look at another grea...
Friday, 13 June 2008

Early days of Berwick and its surrounding districts

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In the last post I talked about The Good Country : Cranbourne Shire by Niel Gunson. In this post I will look at another of my well used re...
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The Good Country: Cranbourne Shire by Niel Gunson

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My role as Local History Librarian is to answer any Reference questions from patrons on the history of the towns, families, groups or events...
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Monday, 21 April 2008

Pearcedale

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Pearcedale School in the 1930s . Image:  Pearcedale: moments in history ( Pearcedale Hall Committee, 2003) Pearcedale was originally call...