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Lost & Found: Donkeywoman's Gully - go on, find it, I dare you!

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Sunday, November 2, 2008. Donkeywoman's Gully - go on, find it, I dare you! Yep, go on; hop onto Google Maps and see if you can find Donkeywoman's Gully in Victoria (or any where else for that matter! Give up, yet? Tapping foot, looking at watch*. Oh, alright, it was properly known as Lamplough. Yes, you will find it on Google Maps. No, you won't find a seething metropolis there. Soon it had the usual baubles any self-respecting town decorated itself with ; general stores, pubs, billard halls, churches, ...

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Things to do

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For many, simply visiting Glen Falloch Farm Cottage is enough. The experience of fine accommodation, fine food and wines in the comfort of this glorious setting requires nothing further. However, for our guests that wish to experience a taste of what Benalla and surrounds has to offer please browse on. This following suggestions are in no particular order and by no means complete. In and around Benalla:. Wildflowers, scenic drives, bicycle trails, picnic spots. Mt Samaria State Park. And the rose garden.

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Lost & Found: The Murrells of Mentone

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Thursday, August 21, 2008. The Murrells of Mentone. I came across this a few weeks back and it intrigued me. Why did they inspire such a dedication? Newspaper files of the time show stable fires - with horse and human deaths - weren't uncommon, so what made this couple special? Turns out William and Violet Murrell were the Brad and Angelina, the Nicole and Keith, the Mary and Fred of the racing world in their day. One mini-biography states she was also the first female jockey to race at Randwick, NSW.

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Lost & Found: Cockle Steam Train...but no Molly Malone.

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Sunday, November 2, 2008. Cockle Steam Train.but no Molly Malone. Molly Malone might have been trundling a barrow through streets broad and narrow but the Cockle Steam Train can beat that any day. All the poppets in South Oz who lived near Victor Harbour would hop on board a horse-drawn train to Goolwa and trip lightly down to the beach to collect those yummy cockles (but not mussles) from near the mouth of the Murray River. You can click HERE. For more info on times, tickets and trivia. National Vietnam...

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Lost & Found: Cremorne Gardens

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Thursday, January 10, 2008. From 1853 -1863 Richmond, Victoria, played host to Cremorne Gardens, Australia's first ever fairground. It was the finishing point for the world's very first Eight Hours' Day march and the starting point for Australia's very first manned hot air balloon flight, it had its own train station, gas-lit public street lights, a tree house for lovers , and it even provided Burke and Wills with their camels for their expedition. For more information click HERE. Get my ramblings FREE.

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Lost & Found: Bendigo Trams

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Sunday, May 11, 2008. Beginning way back in the dark ages of 1890 Bendigo streets were graced with chugging battery powered trams for a whole 4 miles of track. After a very short 13 months the Sandhurst and Eaglehawk Tramway Company found their finances as flat as the tram batteries and were bought out by the Bendigo Tramway Company. This new business saw the writing on the wall for the batteries and, instead, made it over into a steam- engine driven tramway which proved a winner with everyone. There wer...

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Lost & Found: Victor Harbour Horse-drawn Tram still going since 1894.

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Sunday, November 2, 2008. Victor Harbour Horse-drawn Tram still going since 1894. But I'm sure they've changed the dobbins a few times since they began. A lovely old style of transport still working it's magic on tourists to Granite Island from Victor Harbour in South Oz. Once upon a time Victor Harbour thought it was in the running to become the capital of the South Oz colony, so it built the causeway to Granite Island on which the neddies still clip-clop today. Get my ramblings FREE. The Army Museum Ba...

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Lost & Found: Laura and Charles Ferguson Museum in Mentone

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Monday, August 18, 2008. Laura and Charles Ferguson Museum in Mentone. Going tell you about this brilliant little museum tucked away in Old Bakery Lane, behind Mentone Parade, in Mentone. I was also going to tell you that it has some fantastic items on display, is rich in resources and is quite an eye-opener of what our urban beaches once looked like. Another thing I was. But Feral Beast has beaten me to the punch and blogged about the museum HERE. Labels: Laura and Charles Ferguson Museum. Robert O'Hara...

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Lost & Found: Codrington - where bushranging is honoured in a town that never was.

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Sunday, November 2, 2008. Codrington - where bushranging is honoured in a town that never was. If you're tootling down the Princes Hwy to Portland you'll pass through an area called Codrington. There are a few houses there, set well back from the road, but no bustling, busy service town. Nothing but paddocks, trees, grass, cows, paddocks, more cows, and a few more trees. After Port Fairy and Yambuk but before Portland. That's the long stretch of countryside I mean! Don't fret, he was the one who got away).