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Snapshot of the past

Jim Fitzpatrick’s 1944 series of photos of Drouin includes two of women from the Women’s Land Army working at the Drouin Flax Mill. In 1942 Australia’s farmers were struggling. The countryside emptied as young men enlisted to fight in the war and...

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The single copper wire

Most of us know about the Overland Telegraph between Adelaide and Darwin. We don’t all realise that it was built in three stages, beginning with the middle section for some reason I have never found out. The contractors had to deal with a lack of...

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Snapshot of the past - 1944 Drouin: A Small Town at War

This ‘staged’ photograph from the ‘1944 Drouin: A Small Town at War’ collection of photos taken by Jim Fitzpatrick, shows Arthur Holmes the Chairman of the War Agricultural Committee for Central Gippsland with its headquarters in Drouin. The photo...

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Snapshot of the past

In January 1966, Warragul’s ornate old brick post office came tumbling down to make way for a new brick office. The photograph shows the first stages of demolition as the roof was removed from the old Warragul Post Office. The wreckers – Harris...

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