Picture this: Black Rock
Cities & towns, Such was life:
Black Rock, in Melbourne’s bayside east, was named after Charles Hoston Edben’s Black Rock house which, in turn, was named from Black Rock, Dublin.(1)
Cities & towns
Clunes – the golden town
Cities & towns, Such was life:
Sitting in a steep valley surrounded by extinct volcanoes lies Clunes, a historic gold mining town located in the central goldfields region of Victoria, north of Ballarat. The Djadja Wurrung… Read More ›
Bendigo or Sandhurst? History through newspapers
Cities & towns, Such was life:
Did you know that Bendigo used to be called Sandhurst? And then changed its name back to Bendigo?
Houdini flies in Diggers Rest
Cities & towns, Such was life:
On 18 March 1910, Harry Houdini, the world famous escapologist, made what is claimed to be the first controlled powered flight in Australia.
A marvellous mercantile map of Melbourne
Cities & towns, Such was life:
The most complete popular & mercantile map of Melbourne, Victoria was produced by Frederick Proeschel in the early 1850s. Proeschel describes the map as ‘giving most useful information as to… Read More ›
