By Ilma Hackett, Balnarring and District Historical Society What was passing through their minds, those men and women wh…
Local Interest
The unsolved mystery of the body in Kananook Creek
By Peter McCullough One hundred and sixty-four years have elapsed since the body of a woman was found in Kananook Creek.…
Downward V. Smith
By Ilma Hackett, Balnarring and District Historical Society It really was a most extraordinary election. Early in 1895 t…
Somerville’s iconic photograph
By Peter McCullough Although the word “iconic” tends to be used rather loosely at times, there are certain photographs f…
The Peninsula’s own Nellie Melba
By Lance Hodgins The Hastings Hall was filled to its utmost capacity by many excited people who believed that this would…
Barragunda and Cape Schanck
Extracted from Ruth Gooch’s book “The Wildest Bit Along the Coast” by Peter McCullough, with the author’s permission. Be…
‘Saltbush Bill’ – the Balnarring connection
By Ilma Hackett, Balnarring & District Historical Society When Roderick William Mills was born in Balnarring in 1869…
A new era for Moorooduc Primary School
By Brodie Cowburn and Peter McCullough Moorooduc Primary, nestled in the corner of the intersection of Mornington-Tyabb …
The day we played ‘The Don’
By Lance Hodgins In 1940 the school year had almost finished when the students of Frankston High were informed that thei…