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Jane Godwin - 20.06.2023
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Jane Godwin - 20.06.2023

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Coaches to the goldfields

I was wandering about on the web, looking for more information on the McEvoy of McEvoy’s Track fame when I came across page one of the Gippsland Times edition of Friday, March 13, 1863. It was a little hard to read but it told a fascinating story...

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Snapshot of the past

A photograph of Arthur Welesley Towers of Longwarry who was recognised for bravery in World War I. Each year, Longwarry and District Heritage Group record the story of one local man or woman to mark Remembrance Day. This year’s story is that of...

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Value of a good railway

A few weeks ago, I began to talk about the closing of the South Gippsland railway, but I do have a little railway anecdote that says a little about what we have lost. In the early 1980s I was teaching at Upper Beaconsfield and my wife, Val, was...

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Snapshot of the past

A photograph of Sergeant Ernest James Brough showing correct handball technique to Drouin State School students in 1944. In the lead-up to Remembrance Day, it is timely to remember a distinguished local soldier who served in World War II. Brough, aged...

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