Casey Cardinia - links to our past

This blog covers the post contact history of people, places, organizations and events in the City of Casey and Cardinia Shire. Everyone has a story, every thing has a story and this blog tells and shares these stories.

Friday, 20 April 2018

City of Cranbourne logo

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The City of Cranbourne must take the prize for the shortest-lived local government body in Australia - it lasted 237 days. It was created o...

Friday, 13 April 2018

Shire of Cranbourne Information booklet 1975

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This is the Cranbourne Shire Information booklet from 1975. The Cranbourne Shire area was just a rural Shire then - they had revenue of $2....

Tuesday, 3 April 2018

Farm Hedges

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Hedges have traditionally been used in the country to delineate property boundaries and as wind breaks. In this region, Cypress trees have b...

Tuesday, 27 March 2018

Casey Cardinia and the End of the World - Nevil Shute's 'On the Beach'

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Casey Cardinia has a double connection to the 'end of the world' and the connection is through Nevil Shute and his book, On the B...

Wednesday, 14 March 2018

Quail Island

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Quail Island is situated at the northern end of Western Port Bay across Rutherford Inlet from Warneet. Adjacent to Quail Island is Chinaman ...

Thursday, 1 March 2018

Stratford Strettle and his family

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I have come across the Strettle family name on many occasions in my historic research - Stratford Strettle was a Stock & Station Agent a...

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