Historical Ragbag

I’ve always liked lighthouses.

Welcome to this guest post by Sam Mee, the founder of the Antique Ring Boutique. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Queen_Victoria_outside_the_Queen_Victoria_Building_in_Sydney_2011.jpg Walk through Australian cities today and you can’t miss their 19…

So, this is technically not a new post.

It’s been a while, life, work and other writing are basically the reasons.

This is a slight departure for Historical Ragbag, as I’ll be looking at a mythical figure.

The story behind this post comes from a couple of pages of Dr Clare Wright’s excellent book The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka.

Bear’s Castle is an enigma.

Tae Rak, a wetlands environment which is part of the World Heritage Listed Budj Bim Landscape, is a remarkable place.

Welcome to another iteration of Ragbag On Road.

The remarkable twelve story neo-gothic Manchester Unity Building opened in December 1932 in Melbourne, a gothic salute to the industry of the time and home to the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows.