5ab16e0e4e4b14b8a9d6d84bb2cf0b99
About Us Contact us
Sunday, 23 February 2025
Menu
Thanks
LAWRY - Thomas
1 min read

Thank you 
  To our families for taking such good care of their father, Thomas Lawry 9.1.1935 - 21.1.2025, for the last few weeks of his life, and previously to then as well.
- With thanks, Leila Lawry.

Latest stories
Our History

Snapshot of the past

A photograph of Drouin nurse Kate Ethel Hearn standing outside her home “Thorney” at 144 Princes Way in the early 1900s. Kate opened “Thorney” - located opposite the primary school site - as a private hospital. Kate was born in St Arnaud in 1878 to...

The Gazette
19 Feb 2025
Our History

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...

The Gazette
12 Feb 2025
Our History

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...

The Gazette
11 Feb 2025
Our History

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...

The Gazette
05 Feb 2025