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This week, I gave a presentation at Ashburton Library for Victorian History Month on the history of Ashburton's green spaces. The...

I realise this is a complete departure from the usual subject matter of this blog. However, as I was unable to find much information...

Almost a year ago, I began documenting the 1965 murder of a young Jordanville woman called Maureen Ferrari by an Ashburton man. Since I...

It’s Book Week! Or, as I call it in my house, F#@king Book Week. I love books. I love them so much I wrote one. You don’t become a...

On a cool Sunday morning on 8 August 1980, Bertha “Beth” Miller called out a farewell greeting to her housemate/brother-in-law Bill Ross....

I recently presented on this topic at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. Just as High Street turns down the hill towards Glen Iris...

This is the second post in my series on interesting things I find in Ashburton’s old community newspaper Progress Press (1946-63) In the...

Once upon a time in Ashburton, there was a community newspaper called Progress Press. This was a locally produced and edited publication...

When I first started writing this local history blog, a major resource was a document I found called ‘Ashburton through the Ages’, by...

For the 2022 Federal Election, the parents of Ashburton Primary School (located in Melbourne's Eastern Suburbs) ran a Sausage Sizzle and...

If you’ve lived in Ashburton awhile, you’ll know there is no public or private high school in the suburb. The closest option is Ashwood...

Recently, I’ve begun doing some research for the Ashburton Willows Cricket Club. My role in the research is more on the “Ashburton” side...

"No one actually knows where Solway is” (Julie Wilkinson, Principal 2007) The idea for a school on the hill between Karnak Road and...

The 1920s heralded significant social changes in Melbourne. Before then, Victoria’s Protestant majority – represented by English settlers...

I don’t really like Christmas that much. Maybe it’s because I have a December birthday, or because my mother loved it and it reminds me...

I could tell you that I first read Treasure Island as a kid and it sparked a lifelong passion for the world of pirates and their place in...

A couple of years ago, back when Ashburton Primary School used to have a School Fair, I walked through the small history display. In...

Every suburb has its dark underbelly. Ashburton is no exception. On 17 December 1965, Melbourne’s Sun newspaper ran a front page story on...

Transcript of presentation to the Ashburton Community Centre at the AGM on 20 October 2021 Link to more photos (public Facebook page)...

In short: There’s lots of reading practice How to autonomously devise a routine to complete daily tasks Negotiation and time management...