Showing posts with label Pakenham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pakenham. Show all posts
Tuesday, 22 December 2020

Patrick O'Halloran's General Store at Pakenham

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I bought this postcard the other day of Patrick O'Halloran's store in 'Old Town', Pakenham. The 'old town' was the t...
Thursday, 7 November 2019

Pakenham Railway Station photographs from the Public Records Office of Victoria

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The Public Records Office of Victoria (PROV) have a collection of photographs produced by the Victorian Railways, Public Transport Corporat...
Friday, 14 June 2019

Fraser's Hotel at Pakenham

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Michael Kelly established a hotel in Pakenham, on the west side of the Toomuc Creek in 1869. From 1881, the hotel was operated by Eliza and ...
Tuesday, 9 October 2018

Who was Pakenham named after?

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I have seen four possible suggestions for the source of the name Pakenham. In the Wake of the Pack Tracks suggests Pakenham is named afte...
Tuesday, 5 April 2016

Yakkerboo Festival turns 40!

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The Yakkerboo Festival in Pakenham  is turning 40 - the Festival will be held on Sunday, April 17 and the theme is not suprisingly  - 'L...
Monday, 7 December 2015

Robinson's Grocery store at Pakenham

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If you grew up in Pakenham or shopped at Pakenham in the 1950s to 1980s then chances are that you would have shopped at Robinsons Grocery sh...
Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Pakenham Telephone Directory from 1973

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In the last post I put up some pages for Cranbourne from an Interim Telephone Directory, produced when the new automatic exchanges were ins...
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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