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, 18 September 2021

The Narre Warren Cool Store

In 1891, William Bailey purchased 50 acres of land at Narre Warren, and began planting out his orchard, which was the first commercial orcha...

Friday, 3 September 2021

Mr Nutting 'invents' a new type of Ute

The Argus of October 13, 1936 published the following article A NEW TYPE OF COUPE UTILITY Victorian's Invention An interesting variati...

Wednesday, 25 August 2021

The Arthur Streeton painting of the Brown family of Berwick

I was reading Early Days of Berwick (1) and came across the following in the Harkaway chapter - For some time an artist, Mr Ford Patterso...

Monday, 16 August 2021

Pakenham Consolidated School photographs - Part 1

I came across these photographs of Pakenham Consolidated School on the Public Records Office of Victoria (PROV). The Pakenham Consolidated S...

Pakenham Consolidated School photographs - Part 2

I came across these photographs of Pakenham Consolidated School on the Public Records Office of Victoria (PROV). The Pakenham Consolidated S...

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