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 5
Ada Cambridge, as we have seen in previous posts in this series, enjoyed an active social life. There were bazaars and church teas and such things – quite as exciting as the private functions – at which our circle of friends and acquaintances was...
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....
Ada Cambridge and the Wangaratta story – Part 2
Continuing on a study of the personal memoir of novelist Ada Cambridge titled Thirty Years in Australia we come to the first description of her social life in Wangaratta. The town of W-, where we spent the first year of our Australian year, was a typical country-town...
Ada Cambridge and the Wangaratta story – Part 1
Ada Cambridge was a well known, late 19th century novelist and poet. Born as Ada Cambridge in 1844 in Norfolk, England, she married the Reverend George Frederick Cross in Cambridgeshire in April 1870, and within five weeks the young couple had boarded a steamer...
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...
The Black Eagle Hotel
This post is part of an ongoing series looking at the history of hotels in Wangaratta. Hotels or Inns were interesting places in the early history of towns. When few public buildings existed, they served as official meeting places and were often a hub of gossip and...
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