Sunday, July 19, 2015

Mr Rodger the baker at Bunyip - 100 years ago this week

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Hers is  a great advertisement from Mr Rodger the baker and general storekeeper at Bunyip in the Bunyip Free Press of July 22, 1915. In ke...
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Boys' football match - 100 years ago this week.

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From The Lang Lang Guardian of July 21 1915, comes this account of a a football match between the boys at Yallock and Yannathan State Schoo...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

100 years ago this week - Potatoes

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100 years ago this week, The Australasian , in the Country Gleanings column reported on the good potato season on the Swamp. The Aust...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

The beginnings of the Royal Hotel, Koo-Wee-Rup

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The January 8, 1915 issue of the Powlett Express reported on the hearing at the Wonthaggi Licensing Court  held on December 18, 1914. Ther...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Paying your Rates - 100 years ago

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How to pay your rates 100 years ago. Bunyip Free Press May 20, 1915 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129631341
Sunday, April 19, 2015

100 years ago this week - St Joseph's Convent Iona opened

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St Joseph's Convent Iona opened one hundred years ago, on April 11, 1915.  The Convent housed the Sisters of St Joseph, who established...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Growing up on a dairy farm in the 1940s and 50s.

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Small family dairy farms used to be the predominant farm on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp until the 1970s or so. In the 1920s, for instance, it was ...