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Carmel Galvin

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Interests - reading, #genealogy, #familyhistory, sewing. Blog at earlieryears.blogspot.com and carmelgalvin.info Archiving my family history at weare.xyz Webmaster at https://www.genealogy-noosa.org.au/

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AnneYoungAu@anneyoungau.bsky.social · 4mo ago

T is for tents Temporary housing in Melbourne and on the goldfields was in tents. Melbourne Canvas Town In November 1852 a canvas town was established south of the Yarra near Princes Bridge in Melbourne. It accommodated newly arrived immigrants who had nowhere to stay. Canvas Town, Emerald Hill,…

T is for tents

Temporary housing in Melbourne and on the goldfields was in tents. Melbourne Canvas Town In November 1852 a canvas town was established south of the Yarra near Princes Bridge in Melbourne. It accommodated newly arrived immigrants who had nowhere to stay. Canvas Town, Emerald Hill, Sth. Yarra, 1854. Watercolour painting by Raymond Lindsay.

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AnneYoungAu@anneyoungau.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I is for Inkerman "Battle of Inkermann - Arrival of Bosquet's division" by Adolphe Bayot (1855)From Wikimedia Commons The Victorian gold rushes, which began in 1851, coincided with the Crimean War (1853–1856). With patriotic fervour miners and settlers named new townships, gold leads, and…

I is for Inkerman

"Battle of Inkermann - Arrival of Bosquet's division" by Adolphe Bayot (1855)From Wikimedia Commons The Victorian gold rushes, which began in 1851, coincided with the Crimean War (1853–1856). With patriotic fervour miners and settlers named new townships, gold leads, and geographical features after the battlefields and heroes of the war.  Newspapers reported the conflict with enthusiasm. For example:

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