By Lisa Bayley – Somerville, Tyabb and District Heritage Society Standing near the roundabout on Frankston-Flinders Road and Eramosa Road is one of Somerville’s most recognisable landmarks – the distinctive pink building…
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By Lance Hodgins It was a typically cold, drizzling, dull and miserable July morning in Melbourne when they boarded the “Challenger”. They were an odd collection – dressed too formally to be…
By Lance Hodgins Woodfull had just been hit above the heart by a ball, and the normally mild-mannered gentleman gave an earful to the English tour manager who had entered his dressing…
Graham Hosking’s father, Perc Hosking, didn’t know when he joined the Air Force at the start of WWII that he would become a watchmaker and jeweller – or that he would become…
By Lynne Woollard, President of the Rye Historical Society – adapted from ‘The Cain Story’ by Phil Cain More than 180 years ago Owen and Sarah Cain and their family, which eventually…
The Tyabb Packing House Antiques is home to more than 20 dealers, all specialists in their fields and many of whom have over 40 years’ experience.
By Peter McCullough Pictured above is the 1912 McDonald ‘EB’ Imperial tractor (No. 140) which recently was put on display at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. This imposing machine, one…
Last year, the Balnarring Picnic Racing Club celebrated the 160th anniversary of popular Emu Plains Racecourse.
It was one hundred years ago, on the evening of 31 October 1923, when a squad of constables at Russell Street police headquarters refused to go on duty. The move would result…