Showing posts with label Rouse family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rouse family. Show all posts
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...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

The Rouse family buys a car

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The first car ever purchased by the Rouse family of Murray Road, Cora Lynn was an Austin A40 ute from Brenchley’s garage in Garfield. This w...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Home Deliveries to Cora Lynn in the 1940s and 1950s.

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The Rouse family have had the newspaper delivered to Cora Lynn and Vervale since the end of World War Two. Dad remembers that Mrs Simcocks, ...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Royal Melbourne Agricultural Show 1960

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This is what the Royal Melbourne Agricultural Show used to be like.  My dad, Frank Rouse and my Uncle James Rouse (J. & F. Rouse Potato...
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Sunday, March 3, 2013

100 years ago this week - Food production

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One hundred years ago, this week in March 1913, this appeared in the West Gippsland Gazette, and is a reminder of what a rich area this onc...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Swamp wedding

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 It is 90 years since my grandparents, Eva Eleanor Weatherhead and Joseph Albert Rouse married at the Methodist Church in Garfield on Nov...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp - early drainage schemes

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We will start this blog off with a brief overview of the drainage works on the Swamp. Small scale efforts to drain the  96,000 acre  (40,000...