Thursday, July 20, 2017

Lubecker Steam Dredge on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp

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The Lubecker Steam Dredge was the first machine used on the long running project to drain the Koo Wee Rup Swamp, which had started with sma...
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Friday, July 14, 2017

Flax Mills at Koo Wee Rup and Dalmore

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In 1940, the British Government asked Australia to produce more flax for the War effort. Britain had previously been supplied with flax from...

A trip from Dandenong to Garfield and Bunyip by road

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I wrote this for the Garfield Spectator and wrote a companion story for the Koo-Wee-Rup Blackfish about a trip from Dandenong to Koo-Wee-R...

Garages at Garfield

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Bill Parish wrote in his short history of Garfield, which was published in the 1962 ‘Back to’ programme, that the first motor cars appeared ...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

Koo Wee Rup Potato Festival 1987

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Here are some photos from the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society collection of the 1987 Koo Wee Rup Potato Festival. I have written a his...
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Koo-Wee-Rup Potato Festival

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The first Koo-Wee-Rup Potato Festival took place on February 17, 1973. Over 4,000 people attended the event. It started with a Grand Parade ...
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Sunday, May 28, 2017

Inaugural meeting of the Koo-Wee-Rup branch of the Country Women’s Association in 1944

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The Koo Wee Rup Sun of November 9, 1944 reported on the inaugural meeting of the Koo Wee Rup branch of the Country Women’s Association (CWA...