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Vox Pop - 24.12.2024
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Vox Pop - 24.12.2024

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Our changing Christmas

One of the few delights in aging is that one can look back and enjoy reminiscences of the past. Perhaps fortunately, we wear rose-coloured glasses when we do that, so the past usually looks at least as good as the present, and often better. I can’t...

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Snapshot of the past

A photograph of workers, including William McNeilly (third right), felling trees and clearing land in Drouin. William McNeilly was born in 1871 as the fourth child of John and Eliza McNeilly, acknowledged as the first European settlers to take out...

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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
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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...

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