MISS ANDREWS OF ULVERSTONE

MISS ANDREWS OF ULVERSTONE

I have been remembering Ulverstone (Tasmania) personality Miss Andrews, and discovering a lot more about her! When we are young we have such a one-dimensional view of our elders, especially those in authority. Miss Helen Andrews was in charge of the Lady Clark Memorial Library at Ulverstone

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THOMAS NEVIN, THE QUIRKY TOWN HALL KEEPER

THOMAS NEVIN, THE QUIRKY TOWN HALL KEEPER

Thomas Nevin was a rather eccentric personality, which is probably why I like him so much. 😎 He was one of Tasmania’s earliest commercial photographers. When Alfred Bock advertised for an apprentice in 1863, young Nevin applied. A few years later Mr Bock moved to the mainland

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VERE CHILDE AT GOVETT’S LEAP

VERE CHILDE AT GOVETT'S LEAP

Vere Gordon Childe spent his childhood at a home called Chalet Fontenelle, at Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains of NSW. He was educated at Sydney University and subsequently at Oxford. Childe returned home in 1917, but as a pacifist, atheist and committed socialist he was ostracized

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THE SWATARA & THE TASMANIAN DEVIL

THE SWATARA & THE TASMANIAN DEVIL

In 1875 a Tasmanian devil left Hobart aboard the American ship Swatara, bound for San Francisco Bay. I was fascinated, and very moved by the background story. In the 19th century the USS Swatara was involved in transporting scientific parties to the South Pacific, to observe the

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