Here’s an interesting article from The Guardian published 10 December 2014 - Ebooks can tell which novels you didn’t finish. Kobo Britain’s statistics have revealed that Britons were most likely to finish a romance novel, with 62% completion, followed by crime and thrillers (61%) and fantasy (60%). Italians were also most engaged by romance (74…
Local History Month
November was Local History month. Seventeen events took place across the region. Highlights and popular events included Stories form Mont Park at Rosanna Library, the first City of Whittlesea tour with twenty participants in partnership with the City of Whittlesea Cultural Heritage Program at Mill Park Library and a WW1 military memorabilia display and associated…
Poppies Displays
As part of the 2015 Anzac Commemoration, the 5000 Poppies project will be “planting” a field of more than 66,000 poppies in Federation Square Melbourne as a visual tribute to Australian servicemen and women for more than a century of service in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations. YPRL was the first Victorian public library…
Paddington Bear
The new Paddington Bear movie will soon be screening in cinemas in Australia. Paddington first appeared on 13 October 1958 - his author (biographer?) Michael Bond featured him in more than twenty books. Paddington hails from deepest, darkest Peru and with his old hat, battered suitcase, duffle coat and love of marmalade has become a…
Zinio Title of the Month – Your Family Tree magazine
Your Family Tree magazine is one of the most respected genealogy magazines around. Balancing the use of PCs and the Net with the many traditional means of research, Your Family Tree makes tracing family history accessible and rewarding for everyone. It offers practical advice, written by experts, on all areas of family history research. Please…
PD James
The crime novelist PD James, who wrote more than 20 books died peacefully at home in Oxford this week - she was aged 94. The author's books, many featuring sleuth Adam Dalgliesh have sold millions of books around the world and have been adapted for television and film numerous times. You can read an obituary…
“Clarivue” Ivanhoe RSL
Clarivue, which now houses the Ivanhoe RSL at 3- 5 Studley Road Ivanhoe was built for Fitzroy timber merchant Wallace Stone by builder John W. Brown in 1913-14. It was sold to Robert A. Tregowan of Ramsay & Tregowan (oil & grease merchants) in 1936. If you have information about this building please contact…
Westgarthtown
Westgarthtown is recognised as being of national and state-wide significance for its representation of German migration to Victoria. It is historically significant in relation to early German settlement in Australia and the early development of the suburb of Thomastown. It is also of architectural significance for local use of bluestone, exemplary 1850s architecture and the…
They’re racing at Eltham
Did you know that John Wren, proprietor of the notorious Collingwood Tote in the early 1900s, once seriously proposed to establish a racecourse at Eltham that he claimed would rival famous Flemington ? Early horse racing took place at Eltham Lower Park in Main Road, Eltham. Source: Eltham District Historical Society …
Shillinglaw Farm
The Shillinglaw farm comprised lot 90 of Holloway’s 1851 Little Eltham subdivision. It was originally 30 acres in area and situated east of the Diamond Creek and north of Henry Street. Before Phillip Shillinglaw purchased the property in the 1870s the eastern part had been acquired by the Colonial Government to establish the main road…
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