A short history of Holy Trinity Church, Taradale 1859-1999. The first recorded Anglican services at Taradale took place in 1855 when the Reverend F G Barton, the indefatigable Incumbent of Kyneton, took two service in a room of the Taradale Hotel. In the same year he also visited the town to take religious instruction for the school children.
Time for Tea is a small collection of family recipes, all tried and true. Whether it was a family birthday party, a church fete or a school lunch stall these old favourites were trotted out time and time again. They were the staples of our childhood, and rarely was there a deviation.
The history of Victoria Police is a fascinating read. It is a tale of everything we have been, our triumphs, our failures, of good government and bad. It is a tale of thousands of men and women who have served the community, often with amazing courage and at personal cost.
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“A Successful Failure” tells of the Aboriginal Protectorate System in Colonial Victoria during the period 1883 to 1952. The system was designed to be a buffer between the original inhabitants and the influx of white squatters.
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But for the existence of a little old chest, full of faded family letters and papers, it is unlikely that this story would not have been written. The characters in it are men and women long dead, it is true, but more interesting surely than the cardboard figures of fiction, and, if the ambition of the authors be realized, brought to life in an atmosphere of the history book proper, for there is nothing cut and dried, or dry as dust about these old letters. They are as natural and vivid as the day they were penned, and shimmer still with the silvery sand used to dry their ink – ink faded now to the colour of last year’s leaves.
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Castlemaine Primary School No 119 – 150 Years, 1855 – 2005. The reaching of the 150th anniversary of a school indicates a massive journey full of many riches, sadness, diversions of interest, an extensive range of talented people (both students and teachers) and many an anecdote to trigger a fond memory or a belly aching laugh.
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A short history of Dr William Barker and the Mount Alexander station, 1845.
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The narrative themes brought together in this history of Maldon are based on research conducted by the author for an MA thesis completed in 1997. The original subject matter has been broadened and the theme reworked with a view to providing a general introduction to Maldon’s social and economic history. Further research has since been undertaken, so that ideas pursued for the original thesis sometimes differ in detail, emphasis or even interpretation in the present account.
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Thompsons’ Foundry has played a pivotal role in the economic sustainability and wellbeing of Castlemaine since it first opened its doors in1875. It would be surprising to find a family in town that hasn’t at some point had a member working there.