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Chairo Athletics Day - 04.04.2023
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Chairo Athletics Day - 04.04.2023

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Seaforth, the town that never was

On July 5, 1889 the Victorian Gazette announced the creation of a township at Mount Singapore on Wilson Promontory. This was to be one of several townships to be created around Corner Inlet and on the Prom, but the others did not get far enough to...

Carolyn Turner
17 Dec 2024
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Snapshot of the past

A photograph of the Waugh Motors building in Drouin under construction in August 1952. This building at 116-126 Princes Way still stands today. It houses three businesses, including Roger Manson Panels. William Waugh built Waugh Motors after...

The Gazette
17 Dec 2024
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“Wreckers” on the Gippsland coast

A “wrecker” was some one who set false lights and fires to lure ships onto rocks, there to be pillaged. Jack Loney uses the term for those who stole from wrecks but did not actually cause themLoney has produced many small books of historical and...

The Gazette
10 Dec 2024
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Snapshot of the past

A photograph of a community swimming carnival at Picnic Point at Longwarry North in 1926. As the long, hot days of summer approach and people turn their minds to how to stay cool, give a thought to those in the 1920s. There certainly wasn’t the modern...

The Gazette
10 Dec 2024