I have just purchased the new book Keilor to Footscray: Mr Solomon's Maribyrnong by Rick Keam, and have added it to my Bibliography of Local and Family History Resources for Essendon, Flemington and Keilor.
Rick Keam is someone who has walked and fished the Maribyrnong for many years, and in this excellent small study examines just where Solomon's Ford was, and likewise, who Mr Solomon was. He has carefully footnoted his sources, and introduced some rarely seen map extracts and images to illustrate the whole. Some of the photographs he took himself.
It is a very nicely produced small book, published by Australian Scholarly Publishing in conjunction with the Footscray Historical Society, and edited by well-known historian John Lack.
I am very much enjoying reading the book. The only thing I complain about is that there is no index!
