Farewell 2022 – Welcome 2023

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Fernville Lord Digby at the Museum
BySite Admin January 12, 2017March 5, 2024

Visit our museum to meet our life-size replica. The Old English Sheepdog is the brand mascot for Dulux paint. The dog was first introduced in advertising campaigns in 1961. Since then they have been a constant and highly popular feature of Dulux television and print adverts wherever the paint is sold. So much so, that many…

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Rhodes: Who Knew?
BySally Jerapetritis March 14, 2024March 26, 2024

Driving through the Canada Bay suburb of Rhodes, it is easy to conclude that anything related to heritage has long since been over-ridden by factories and apartment blocks, and what remains is a soul-less landscape and an anonymous past. Too often one reads of areas of historical interest being swept away in the haste to…

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Canandian Exiles in Tasmania
BySally Jerapetritis January 26, 2024May 23, 2024

More to Tell The words “Je me souviens” (I remember) are boldly displayed on T-shirts, flags and even vehicle number plates throughout French-speaking Quebec. It is more than an acknowledgement of bilingualism or the mere repetition of the official state motto. It is a reaffirmation of Quebec’s French past and more particularly, an expression that…

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Experiences of a ‘Dinki Di’ R.R.C. Nurse
BySite Admin January 21, 2020March 7, 2024

This following book review was published in The Labor Daily (Sydney) on 24 June 1933. War Letters “Experiences of a ‘Dinki-Di’ R.R.C. Nurse” by Gertrude Moberly, R.R.C., is an instructive and interesting publication of letters written by Matron Moberly during the Great War. She rendered very considerable services during that War, with the result that…

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A Tale of Two Pandemics: CBA during the Spanish Flu
BySally Jerapetritis March 1, 2022March 20, 2022

One hundred years ago, another pandemic was causing devastation around the world. At a time where digital banking and contactless payments couldn’t easily substitute the use of cash, Danny John and Juli Liddicoat investigate what the world looked like for Commonwealth Bank employees and customers, as seen through the eyes of the Founding Governor Denison…

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Anyone for Tennis?
BySally Jerapetritis June 15, 2024June 25, 2024

By the time I was 21, I was learning ballroom dancing, doing medal exams and training for competition dancing. My partner got hit with a hockey stick in the leg and ended up losing half of his leg. I was too distressed to continue and also gave ballroom dancing away. However, I was playing tennis…

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Farewell 2022 – Welcome 2023

Fernville Lord Digby at the Museum

Rhodes: Who Knew?

Canandian Exiles in Tasmania

Experiences of a ‘Dinki Di’ R.R.C. Nurse

A Tale of Two Pandemics: CBA during the Spanish Flu

Anyone for Tennis?

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