ONE of Mornington’s iconic properties of the 19th century is on the market for $1.6 million. Mossgiel at 28 Bath…
Browsing: Local History
EILEEN Elizabeth Clarke was born in Somerville on 5 January, 1916 at the private hospital run by Sister Hodgins. In…
HASTINGS Football Club recently established their Hall of Fame with the induction of ten men who have been star players…
LONG before the extensive and frightening casualty lists monopolized the Melbourne papers in the years 1914 – 1918, there were…
LATE in 2014 Keith Stevens, DFM, a long-time resident of the Village Glen at Rosebud, was informed that the President…
MONTAGUE Romeo was born in Hastings to Charles and Katherine (nee Howard) Romeo in 1894. He first enlisted in Hastings…
1. BULLECOURT – Arnold Roy Bartram, KIA 13th May, 1917. BULLECOURT was the scene of two costly battles for the…
Frankston’s Avenue of Honour In her book “Echoes from the Front”, Val Latimer tells how as early as 1917 a…
THE Gallipoli Campaign has long been regarded as being the birth of our nation; the moment the newly Federated Australia…
By Cameron McCullough The entrance to Port Phillip is considered to hold some of the most treacherous waters in…
ONE of Frankston’s most colourful personalities at the turn of last century was an unlikely celebrity who sought obscurity in…
By Isabel Cassidy HOMICIDE detectives who investigated the murder of 14-year-old Shirley May Collins (pictured), whose battered body was found…
Arthurs Seat has been the scene of two RAAF aircraft crashes. The first was an Avro Anson A4 on 10…