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Thousands of stunning historical photographs at the PictureAustralia site. Search for images of your home town or suburb (or enter “Horrie” for the saddest dog story you’ll ever read). Here’s the church where I was confirmed!

(Via Barista)

Posted by Tim B. on 06/05/2005 at 10:12 AM

  1. I couldn’t find a picture of St Scholastica’s church in Bennetswood - where I served many years ago as an altar boy - but I did find the old Methodist Church on the corner of Burwood Highway and Blackburn Rd. Not far from where I grew up in Newhaven Rd East Burwood. Took me back, Tim. Thanks...(muffled sobs for memories of long-lost childhood)

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2005 06 05 at 10:29 PM • permalink

  2. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Tim.  I grew up in a place called Streaky Bay on the far West Coast of South Australia and I used to think it was the arse end of nowhere in the 60s and 70s.  Now that I’ve seen some photos of how it looked in the 1800s and early 1900s I’m thinking I was lucky - our forefathers must have been incredibly tough to surive early settlement in Australia - especially the West Coast.

    Posted by Bruneidaze on 2005 06 05 at 11:52 PM • permalink

  3. G’day Tim

    In the same spirit here is the church where I received first holy communion, was confirmed and was an altar boy six days a week for four years.

    Russell

    Posted by Russell on 2005 06 06 at 12:07 AM • permalink

  4. </i>Horrie the war dog hero. Smuggled home from the front quaranteened for three years and then shot....</i>

    What a nice bunch of folks.

    Posted by Wallace-Midland Texas on 2005 06 06 at 12:38 AM • permalink

  5. G’Day Tim

    The pictures of Shepparton were outstanding. Many were before my time but those from the late 1960’s through now brought a tear to my eye. Thanks for the link.

    Cheers

    Posted by swassociates on 2005 06 06 at 12:41 AM • permalink

  6. Horrie the Wog Dog was the mascot of my grandfather’s unit (2/1 Machine Gun Bn).

    In an excellent example of the stupidity of bureaucrats, he was put down by quarantine officers three years after being smuggled back into the country.

    Surely any risk of imported infection had long passed by then.

    Vivian Alvarez Solon and Cornelia Rau should at least be thankful that the dills that protects Australia’s borders have become less muscular.

    Posted by The Mongrel on 2005 06 06 at 12:50 AM • permalink

  7. Fantastic Tim. I found a photo of our old family home in Terang, Victoria. It was originally the Presbyterian manse and some old Scots were aghast at its purchase by a Mick couple with eight kids.

    Posted by slatts on 2005 06 06 at 03:37 AM • permalink

  8. Oh that is a dreadful story, poor little Horrie and his master. And after 3 years? Were they crazy?

    Posted by EmilyM on 2005 06 06 at 05:40 AM • permalink

  9. #6, Only a ‘mongrel’ would know that, lol

    Posted by Nic on 2005 06 06 at 09:35 AM • permalink

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