by pppg | Jul 4, 2022 | Places
First Post Office at Melbourne 1841 (Source: Watercolour by W. F. E. Liardet, State Library of Victoria) Bullock team and cart on a dirt road, small wooden Post Office building with shingled roof, tents, established house belonging to John Batman in the distance....
by pppg | Jul 4, 2022 | History, Miscellany
An Historian’s Point of View In a ‘meandering’ talk Paul de Serville discussed the attitude of the’immigrants’ who arrived in Victoria during the gold rush, towards the Port Phillip Pioneers or ‘settlers,’ and the treatment of...
by pppg | Jul 4, 2022 | History
A trivia question in the “Herald-Sun” Melbourne newspaper on 21 November 2014 asked “In the 1860’s a proposal was put to Queen Victoria to combine sections of which two (present day Australian) States to create a Colony called...
by pppg | Jul 4, 2022 | Pioneers
Many of the pioneers of the Port Phillip time are claimed by our members, many are not. Jan Brooks noticed an obituary in “The Age” Melbourne newspaper in December 2014 for Sir Christopher Staughton who called himself “a fifth generation...
by pppg | Jul 4, 2022 | History
Janet Creed’s father, Percy Spiden was employed by “The Argus” for 50 years. He progressed from a 15 year old messenger boy to junior artist, to dark room assistant and in 1928 to photographer. His first work camera, which was a German...
