LITTLE did the judge know when sentencing a 19-year-old farm labourer to spend years in Britain’s Van Dieman’s land penal…
Browsing: Local History
A MEMORIAL “pilgrimage” conducted at Queenscliff last week has special relevance to families living on the Mornington Peninsula. It marked…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire councillor Hugh Fraser has added to the national debate over Australia Day being 26 January by pointing…
OBITUARY Barry William Leslie Ross 30/1/1943-7/12/2019 Banker, surfer, conservationist BARRY Ross played a major role in the protection of green…
By Barry Morris TUCKED away in a closed-up shed at the back of a Mornington Peninsula property rests a cardboard…
By Doreen Jeremiah JOHN Jeremiah, together with his wife, Joanna and large family, took up land in Old…
A LIMESTONE cottage in Ocean Beach Road, Sorrento, and cargo shed have jointly won the Creative Reuse of a Heritage…
By Lance Hodgins Part Three The members of the 1913 “Greatest Team Ever” JACK CAMPBELL was the 1913 captain and,…
NEW interpretative signs on Tanti Creek, Mornington, explain the natural environment of the creek, and its use by traditional owners…
By Lance Hodgins Part Two The final showdown And so it comes down to a simple matter: which of two…
By Lance Hodgins Part One HASTINGS Football Club has an outstanding history. Since its founding in 1889, there have been…
IT was many happy returns for Kunyung Primary School last week when celebrating its 40th anniversary with a big cake…
FORMER Balnarring resident David Wisken thought he was seeing double when visiting The Sir John Monash Centre at Villers-Bretonneux, France,…
THE iconic Mini Minor still radiates an intoxicating air of engineering elan and “swinging 60s” fashion flair in the eyes…
IT’S hard to doubt Sorrento CFA veteran Greg Salmon when he says his 50-year medal presentation was “one of the…
THE edition of Western Port News dated 30 August, 2011 told of the enormous contribution made to the Tyabb Football…
ON 30 June light from the Cape Schanck lighthouse will have been shining into Bass Strait for 160 years. Now…
TAKING a close look at the history of a cement works at Mornington can easily turn into probing ancient geological…
By Fred Wild EWART Melbourne Brindle saw his first Rolls Royce Silver Ghost on Dromana Esplanade on a summer afternoon…
In it for the long haul: Western Port Community Support life members Babs Peters, Nanette Cumming and Molly Warren with…
In the shadow of Flinders: Historian Diane White, “town crier” Ian Morrison, Allan Day, Mornington MP David Morris, Flinders MP…
ANZAC Day in Mornington can be solemn for those that served and those who remember, but it can also be…
Let’s celebrate: Fiftieth wedding anniversary couple Estelle and Neil Gold. Pictures: Andrew Hurst A MT ELIZA couple who celebrated their…
Clifftop cottage: On the first floor balcony of Ramsay House, overlooking Port Phillip, in about 1970 are, from left, architecture…
Let’s celebrate: Jo Cooper enjoyed her birthday party on the Labour Day weekend. Picture: Supplied JO Cooper is a woman…
ALAN Sage unveils a copy of Nora Heyson’s portrait of his great grandmother, Annie Sage. MEMBERS of the Somerville Community…
FOR many visitors to Mornington and for many of its residents, Alexandra Park is the place at the top of…
OBITUARY Michael Owen Parkinson, 1954-2019Surfer Michael Parkinson tucks in at Avoca Beach, near Sydney in the early 1970s. Picture: Keith…
Jannetje Witte with her family whose members came to Mornington for her 100th birthday. Family and friends of Jannetje Witte…
Question: How many Thompsons does it take to fill the Tankerton Memorial Hall? Answer: Lots. Thompson family members and their…
