Many Worse Places Than Warburton
SKETCHES NEAR WARBURTON Since the opening of the railway to Lilydale the progress that the small townships farther out are making has been remarkable. Places...
Author: pjg
Maryborough Saviour
TRAGIC INCIDENT AT PARK – CHILD NEARLY DROWNED CALLOUS INDIFFERENCE OF STRANGER Three boys, a youth, an infant and an adult were the human elements in an episode...
Bewitched, Hitched & Snitched
Ken Quennell was a ‘softgoods’ salesman who had travelled with his parents to England in 1933 on the ‘Esperence Bay’. After he returned to Australia, his engagement...
Judd scud rocks fox stocks
CHELTENHAM Market Gardeners and orchardists in the Moorabbin district are complaining bitterly of the depredations caused by the foxes rapidly multiplying in the shire, owing...
Pleas to appease Portuguese unease
A Tale Of Kiwi Charity in 1873 We have a curiosity of tailoring at our office the equal of which we defy Mr Samuel Coombes, or...
The Demon Drink
Waiheke is a lovely island in the Hauraki Gulf, east of Auckland, New Zealand. My great, great, great grandparents John Fraser and Mary Kempt were...
Good On You Grandma!
My father’s family hail from Maryborough, a lovely old country town about 170k north-west of Melbourne. The local rag, the ‘Maryborough & Dunolly Advertiser’ reported the...
Inez Saved!
On the occasion of a ‘Band of Hope’ picnic at Mordialloc recently, Miss Mary Howard and Miss Inez Judd visited the local baths to bathe....
The Holy Bonds
A wedding in Cheltenham early in the 20th century certainly was a large and festive occasion. It also garnered an enormous number of the household items needed by...
Alf Quennell and the Australian War Memorial
After sending excerpts of his military record and the only other photo of him I know of (as a young boy), I received the following email...