Who Stole Xmas Dinner

Before Scottish expatriate James Harrison, then a member of the Victoria Legislative Council and owner of the Geelong Advertiser newspaper, making ice was difficult.  In fact, no one had invented a mechanical method to produce ice or refrigerate items. Whenever you use your ice machine to create a delectable cocktail for guests, or crack open…

Valentine’s Day, or St Valentine’s Day, is celebrated every year on 14 February. Flowers, cards, chocolates, red hearts and romance. That’s what Valentine’s day is all about, right? Well, maybe not It all goes back to a mysterious, third century saint who suffered a brutal fate The celebration appears to have its roots in a…

The image, from a postcard dating to the first 10 years of the 20th century, is an evocative glimpse into a business that has long been linked to Martin Place (then Moore Street). Martin Place had long been a bustling hive of activity, full of people going about their daily work. This bustling activity made…

Following is a comment posted by Ann B to an article of the Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital. We felt it was too good not to share. What a wonderful description!  I grew up in the 1950’s in the gatehouse of the Thomas Walker Hospital.  By that time, of course, suburbia was well established and most…

(The following article was published in the Concord Recorder, dated Thursday, 3rd December, 1959) The first guests in residence at Concord House are individually happy, and last Sunday, over a salad luncheon, they laughed and joked in recalling Concord as it was forty years ago. Most of Concord was, then, vast paddocks.  Streets were deeply…

With Remembrance Day upon us, and marking 100 years since the end of the First World War, we pay tribute to the amazing work done during the war.  Many millions of soldiers have served in war, and many lost their lives.  Yet there were others who made brave contributions at the front, without even entering…