by pppg | Jul 2, 2024 | Articles From Our Newsletter, History, Places, Resources
John Hodgson (1799-1860), merchant, was the first owner of St Heliers before selling the property (due to insolvency) to Edward Curr in 1842 at a great bargain price at a sheriff’s sale. It was then a 4-roomed cottage before Curr built a new house in... by pppg | Feb 29, 2024 | Articles From Our Newsletter, History, Pioneers, Places
¨ Illustration of the changes to Batman’s Hill between 1840 and 1882 (J MacFarlane – The Illustrated Australian News, 1 April, 1980 [SLV Accession No. IAN01/04/92/13] Around 1836 John Batman built a house at the base of Batman’s Hill where he lived... by pppg | Jul 10, 2023 | History, Places
Judith Buckrich Judith Buckrich has had a long involvement with the arts and literature and has written many books. Her presentation focused on the Yarra River which runs for 240 kms from its source near Mt Baw Baw in the Yarra ranges, to its mouth at Port Phillip... by pppg | Aug 17, 2022 | History, Places
Within about three years of the founding of Melbourne in 1835, the Yarra River’s first punts emerged and were not unlike a couple of huge bullock-drays fastened together “… a dray without wheels, made water-tight by tarpaulin, which was launched through the... by pppg | Aug 17, 2022 | History, Places
From the Archives, 1997 By Gabrielle Costa, August 2, 2022 Melbourne’s longest running debate — the argument over who founded the city — has been reignited after the controversial decision to change the name of a prominent stretch of parkland. A section of Batman Park... by pppg | Jul 15, 2022 | Pioneers, Places
n the 1840s my great great grandfather, his wife and five young children lived near the Barfold Gorge, in northwest Victoria. Even today, 175 years later, very few people have seen this dramatic landscape [Fig. 1]. When John Ross McNaughton died on 18 July 1885, the...