by pppg | Jun 27, 2022 | Places
With 8,400 km of waterways in its care, Melbourne Water is custodian of a significant heritage base. The history of Yan Yean and the search for a reliable supply of water to Melbourne stems back to the days when white settlers took over sites with fresh water with no...
by pppg | Jun 27, 2022 | History
Anne Grant and her colleagues have discovered that research often reveals surprising facts behind stories which have been passed down through time. Edward Henty is given credit for being the first resident of Portland Bay as he arrived with stock and plants and with...
by pppg | Jun 27, 2022 | History
A map on the wall of his parent’s shop in country Victoria is what got Frank Hutchinson interested in the geography and early settlement of Victoria. He later moved to Ballarat where he spent most of his working life. Whilst there his interest in the early...
by pppg | Jun 26, 2022 | Methods & Sources, Pioneers
In 1870 this enterprising photographer began collecting photographs of Victoria’s early settlers. His plan was to produce a single large picture containing the portraits of old colonists who settled here between the years 1835 and 1842. He planned to present the...
by pppg | Jun 26, 2022 | Pioneers
This photo is of the pioneer great-grandmother of Leith Landauer, PPPG member No. 1388. Great-grandmother Mrs. Louisa Ellen Tyre Davies, nee Allen, arrived in the Port Phillip District on 18 January 1838 from Sydney, New South Wales. She was just six months old at the...
