Wangaratta Agricultural High School
By guest blogger Rod Martin A question about the 1909 photograph shown above led to an unlikely coincidence as a blogger attempted to discover the real story behind it. The Albury Library and the State Library of New South Wales had both captioned it as being a...
Ada Cambridge and the Wangaratta Story – Part 7
After Ada Cambridge wrote about the people who became her closest friends during her short residence in Wangaratta, she took to observing the community and comparing it to life in England. And as for the cottage people – the marked thing about them was that they...
Ada Cambridge and the Wangaratta Story – Part 6
As we saw in Part 5 of this series, Ada Cambridge remarked on the egalitarian nature of early 1870s Wangaratta society, and mentioned a few friends who were from the “tradesfolk” class. After recalling the wife of a stationer – identified as Anne...
Ada Cambridge and the Wangaratta Story – Part 4
After doctors, bankers came next in social importance in Wangaratta according to Ada Cambridge’s memoir Thirty Years in Australia. She described them as “the backbone of country society”, remarking how important it was that “they should be...
Ada Cambridge and the Wangaratta story – Part 3
After discussing the Police Magistrate who she considered the upper echelon of Wangaratta society in her memoir Thirty Years in Australia, Ada Cambridge tackled the doctors. Next to the P.M. in the social scale came the doctors. There were two, English gentleman both....
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