Rascally Places and Dubious Old Dudes
On the 30th November I had the pleasure of joining historian Robyn Annear on a guided walk around the north-western corner of Hoddle’s grid in Melbourne as part of the soft launch of her new book of seven walking tours titled “Adrift in Melbourne”....
Trove Tuesday – Wangaratta 1863 – Part 6
I haven’t followed up with my Trove Tuesday posts using the description of Wangaratta that was published in the Ovens & Murray Advertiser (O&MA) in January 1863 for quite a while. Now that I am back on board, we will follow on from Part 5. On entering...
The Greyhound Hotel
This post in the series on Wangaratta hotels deals with the notorious Greyhound Hotel that developed from an earlier hotel on the same location named the Black Eagle. You can read about the Black Eagle here. After John Stephens (aka Stevens) purchased the Black Eagle...
Of Jurors and Blue Bottles
I’ve been reading early local inquests in an effort to solve a few minor but nonetheless interesting questions. My first question was about the location of Samuel Cheek’s Bridge. This existed in the 1860s and was not much more than a log across the One...
A Whirlpool of Profligacy
Fear not dear reader! This is not another post about riots and debauchery in the good town of Wangaratta. In fact, this story lauds the gentility and culture of early 1870s Wangaratta. The opening hours of the town’s Athenaeum was the subject of a letter to the...
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