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.

Thursday, 9 August 2018

Michael Drew - photographer

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The State Library of Victoria has 470 photographs taken by Michael Drew. You can access them on the State Library of Victoria website www.sl...

Wednesday, 18 July 2018

Dr John Tremearne

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John Tremearne was a doctor, an inventor, was at one time was charged with manslaughter, claimed to be able to cure cancer and is responsib...

Friday, 22 June 2018

Charles and Ellen Rossiter

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Rossiter Road is named after Charles Rossiter. Charles and Ellen Rossiter took up 317 acres of land at Yallock in 1873 and called the proper...

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Thursday, 7 June 2018

Sarah Fagan - hotel keeper

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Sarah Fagan operated a hotel in Lyndhurst in the 1850s. She had arrived in Victoria in 1853 and after her husband Alexander died in 1857 she...

Monday, 14 May 2018

Miss Fanny Dango

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Miss Fanny Dango State Library of Victoria Image H85.73/6 On November 29, 1910 the actress and comedienne, Miss Fanny Dango, marr...

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Friday, 4 May 2018

Grassmere becomes Doveton

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The suburb of Doveton was established in the mid 1950s by the Housing Commission to provide housing for the employees of the 'Big Three...

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...

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