Friday, 14 August 2020

Selling newspapers on the corner of Blyth Street and Sydney Road, Brunswick, post 1880

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Newspaper seller known as 'The General', Blyth Street.  Lantern Slide no. 400. Courtesy Moreland Libraries. It's a great image...
Tuesday, 30 June 2020

We've faced a pandemic before. Influenza. 1919

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The Influenza crisis made its presence felt in Australia from the time troops returned home from the war in Europe at the end of 1918.  Our ...
Thursday, 25 June 2020

The faces behind the naming of Harding Street, Coburg

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This street was made in the very earliest days of Coburg (when it was still called Pentridge) but was first listed in a Sands and McDougall ...
Wednesday, 3 June 2020

Selling fish in Sydney Road, around 1914

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Fish market, Coburg, ca 1914 – ca 1916.  Accession number H2002.198/69. Courtesy Radley Collection, State Library of Victoria. The ...
Thursday, 21 May 2020

Land of Promise Estate, Moreland Road, West Brunswick

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In 1839 the first ‘suburban’ lots were surveyed. The Brunswick area was laid out – two straight lines marking south and north (later Park...
Saturday, 9 May 2020

Grace and Strength - athlete Joan Morrison of Coburg Harriers Club

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              Joan Morrison of Coburg at the Women's Athletics Championships at Royal Park,  Argus , 4 March 1946 Sporting G...
Thursday, 16 April 2020

Annie Beauchamp takes her first aeroplane ride aged 93

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Herald , 16 November 1951 The newspaper article that goes with this photo tells us that this was Annie Beauchamp's first trip in ...
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