Tuesday, 28 November 2023

Football Teams in South Kensington, Victoria

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  I was fortunate to be given access to a South Kensington Football Club  (Victoria) with all players and office bearers named of the Premie...
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Saturday, 9 September 2023

Funding for the 2023 Victorian Community History Awards announced

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 In a message from the Royal Historical Society of Victoria today....... VICTORIAN COMMUNITY HISTORY AWARDS ARE BACK! AND NOW OPEN. HOORAY! ...
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Friday, 1 September 2023

George Hyde, pastoralist, insolvent, man of colour, who died at the Keilor Inn, 1844

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         Keilor Inn, by George Alexander Gilbert, 1845.     Courtesy of the State Library of Victoria Collection.  Even in death, George Hyd...
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Wednesday, 19 April 2023

Texas Star Memorial, Essendon Airport

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Memorial tree and garden bed at DFO, 2018. Photo:  ABC News     A few weeks ago I watched a report from Channel 7 on the small aircraft cras...
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Thursday, 13 April 2023

Flemington House, Travancore

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  Essendon Historical Society's new publication,  Flemington House, Travancore is to be released in May. When completed in 1856, this m...
Thursday, 9 February 2023

More titles for the Bibliography of Local History

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Image courtesy of The City Journal . Essendon Squash Centre published a history celebrating its 50th Anniversary.  Called "Cede Nullis:...
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Sunday, 18 December 2022

Additions to the Bibliography of Local and Family History Resources for Essendon, Flemington and Keilor

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"Lyndoch", Levien St, Essendon, painted by Karen Price, featured in an Exhibition at the Avondale Heights Library in 2018.   A pri...