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.

Saturday, 30 January 2021

Langwarrin Estate and Donald Larnach

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Langwarrin Estate , owned by Donald Larnach, was sub-divided and put up for sale in 1888. We have some information on Larnach's Estate f...

Tuesday, 19 January 2021

The Rocking Stone - 'a tottery lump of granite'

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The Rocking Stone is located somewhere between Ferntree Gully and Narre Warren. In 1917 the Melbourne Walking Club made three attempts to lo...

Friday, 8 January 2021

Dr John James Helsham of Cranbourne

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In 1866, James H. Watson, who later became the President of the Royal Australian Historical Society, spent some time on Quail Island, at the...

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, 3 December 2020

Cranbourne District State Schools Sports days

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These are photos of two winning sports teams from Cranbourne State School, No. 2068. Cranbourne State School, Basketball Premiers 1926 I...

Thursday, 12 November 2020

Stormy Weather

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Here are some reports, from one hundred or so years ago, of fierce storms in the area Pakenham - October 1892 A hurricane storm passed over ...

Tuesday, 20 October 2020

'Native Cats' or Quolls in the Casey Cardinia region

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I came across this snippet in the book Early Days of Berwick (1) , first published in 1948. It was referring to farming areas around Berwic...

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