Yalla-Y-Poora on the Fiery Creek When the Cannon's Roar Was Stilled by James Affleck (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Local Nonfiction
Stories of soldier settler families who settled on the Yalla-y-Poora Estate after World War II and the community they created.The sixth book in James Affleck's series on post World War II settlement in the Western District of Victoria.
She Who Dares! A Selection of Port Fairy Women 1840 - 2020 by Judith Kershaw
$32.99 AUD
Category: Local Nonfiction
From Tents & Tin Huts to Timber Houses & Tiger Snakes - Soldier Settlers' Stories from Hawkesdale, Macarthur & Penshurst by James Affleck (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Local Nonfiction
Stories of soldier settlement in the Hawkesdale, Macarthur and Penshurst districts of South West Victoria as told by the settlers themselves and their descendants from the time of moving on to blocks with a tin hut or tent to live in until the each block was developed into a working farmstead. Many sett ...Show more
Tarrone Estate - Soldier Settlement by James Affleck (Editor); Tarrone Families (Contribution by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Local Nonfiction
The Soldier Settlement Commission purchased 23,373 acres of Tarrone Station from the Boyd Brothers in February 1947, fully stocked with sheep, cattle and horses. The first wool clip was sufficient to cover the cost. The first portion of fourteen holdings was subdivided in December 1947 and occupied in M ...Show more
A Special Spirit - : a History of Mercy Regional College 1973-2023 by Lachie Lee; Sharon Gillett (Foreword by)
$65.00 AUD
Category: Local Nonfiction
Lachie Lee makes history come alive with this very engaging story of Mercy Regional College from its inception to the present day. It celebrates many of the significant people and events that have helped to shape the school.
The O'Connors of Uffington Terang - MJ & Bessie O'Connor's Family by Maureen Glazebrook (Research by)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Local Nonfiction
This family history is the story of the family of Michael James (MJ) O'Connor and Elizabeth Marion (Bessie) Clancey of Terang.The O'Connor family lived for almost forty years, between the early 1900s and 1942, at Uffington, an historic bluestone homestead on the outskirts of Terang in South West Victori ...Show more
Abalone Pioneers: The Untold Stories of the Victorian Western Zone Divers by Rhonda Whitton; Liz Doran; Harry Peeters
$49.99 AUD
Category: Local Nonfiction
Abalone Pioneers is the Australian story of the divers, deckhands, researchers and processors who established and developed the zone's abalone industry, from the amateur fishermen of the 1950s and the hazy crazy tribe of 'scruffy longhairs', who were attracted by the hedonistic lifestyle and fantastic p ...Show more
The Lighthouse Keeper and the One-Armed Cricketer by Richard Patterson
$20.00 AUD
Category: Local Nonfiction
Dysons Ford - Early Settlement of the Woodford and Yangery Districts by David Turland
$59.99 AUD
Category: Local Nonfiction
Explains the lives of the Aboriginal people before European settlement, the arrival of the settlers, and how the two cultures coped with each other. It describes how and why Woodford was established on the Merri River.Part II details the lives of over 100 pioneer settlers.