What’s new at the Museum – Colonial Robert Watkin Savage

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A display of Colonial Robert Watkin Savage’s army combat ensemble.

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English – she’s a funny language
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Who Stole Xmas Dinner
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au December 20, 2020March 10, 2024

The Barrier Miner (Broken Hill) published the following article on Wednesday, 7th January, 1953. Sydney-Early on Christmas morning an intruder entered the kitchen of the Dame Eadith Walker Hospital, Concord. The intruder put into a hospital patients’ Christmas sack: a dressed turkey, a dressed fowl, two dressed rabbits, a leg of mutton, thirty-two mutton chops,…

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The Man Behind the Dog on the Tuckerbox
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au August 22, 2019March 7, 2024

The news that Gundagai’s Dog on the Tuckerbox had been damaged recently made national headlines and prompted an outpouring of love for the beloved pooch. But why does the dog sit five, and not nine, miles from Gundagai? And what does the side-altar at London’s Westminster Cathedral have to do with it? Somewhat surprisingly, this…

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The Armistice and Beyond
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au April 19, 2020March 10, 2024

The armistice of 11 November 1918 was celebrated in Concord with fervour. Citizens immediately formed tin-can bands and took to the street and within twelve hours of the news of armistice the Western Suburbs Master Carriers’ Association had organised what was then the largest procession in the history of the Western Suburbs. Beginning at Concord…

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Regulations for Baking and Sale of Bread 1816
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au July 14, 2017March 5, 2024

Having ascertained that many bakers had been supplying shortweight bread of inferior quality, His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor announced that production and sale of bread would be controlled. All persons who wished to operate a bakery were required to obtain a licence, costing 5 shillings sterling, from the Police Officer. Granted a licence the baker was…

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Edward Smith Hall
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au October 13, 2016

Edward Smith Hall was of those early pioneers whose great work in winning for us the freedom of the Australian Press has been obscured by the more widely known achievements of Wentworth. Bom in London in 1786, Hall came to Australia in 1812 armed with letters of introduction to Governor Macquarie. Failing to gain Macquarie’s favour, he joined Simeon Lord in forming…

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What’s new at the Museum – Colonial Robert Watkin Savage

English – she’s a funny language

Who Stole Xmas Dinner

The Man Behind the Dog on the Tuckerbox

The Armistice and Beyond

Regulations for Baking and Sale of Bread 1816

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