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FARTHING - Audrey
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Loved sister of Gordon and family.
 Rest in Peace. 

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The vanishing Victorian governor

March to November 1889 saw Victoria under the nominal rule of a man of whom most of us have never heard. When we read a list of Victorian governors we don’t find him there. The names of most of our governors are shown on our various maps in great...

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Snapshot of the past

A photograph of the Vallance and Edney Store in Longwarry c1895. At about the same time that the railway line was completed in 1878, so was a rough road that started at Sale Rd and ran south to cross the railway line at Longwarry. This is still where...

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More mountain cemeteries

I gave the Aberfeldy Cemetery its own story recently but there are three others close by and yet remote, are well-known to four-wheel-drivers and others. They are also now the de facto responsibility of the Aberfeldy Cemetery Trust. I am talking...

The Gazette
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Snapshot of the past

A photograph of the original Longwarry Railway Station in 1911. The look back in time comes after a second platform was built at the current train station. In 1867, a road of sorts had been constructed from Melbourne to Sale. This road is now...

The Gazette
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