For those of you who like to get out and take photos of historical areas, have a read of this article.
Landscape photographers, including you, are losing rights
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29 Mar 2010 | By Kaz Robertson-Gorrie
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27 Mar 2010 | By Kaz Robertson-Gorrie
Received the following email from The Mad Genealogist
Free Australian Newspaper Archives
Posted: 25 Mar 2010 06:20 PM PDT
If you are researching your Australian family history, one great source of information is the Australian newspaper archives. This is a free online service that enables full-text searching of old newspaper articles. The Australian newspaper archives includes newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s.
By searching the Australian newspaper archives, you can not only find birth, marriage, death and funeral notices, which might uncover unknown facts, but also social, political, economic and cultural issues of the day.
The first 100 years of the Sydney Morning Herald are now publicly available. (The Sydney Herald 1831-1842 and The Sydney Morning Herald 1842-1931). Issues from 1932-1954 will be added weekly over the next few months.
The Argus (and its previous title the Melbourne Argus) from 1846 -1945 are now completed and available. The remaining 10 years (1945-1954) of the Argus will be made available in 2010 (mid to end of year).
Other titles included in the Australian newspaper archives: The Maitland Mercury, The Courier-Mail, The Hobart Town Gazette, The Advertiser and The West Australian.
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27 Mar 2010 | By Kaz Robertson-Gorrie
A Fascinating article by KELSEY MUNRO on March 27, 2010
HE WAS a baronet, a doctor, an explorer, a founder of the University of Sydney and
three-time speaker of the colony’s legislature. Sir Charles Nicholson, who died aged 94 in 1903, was also a famous collector of antiquities, establishing the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney in 1860.
But a historian now says Sir Charles took a lifelong secret to his grave: he was not who he said he was.
Read More in The Sydney Morning Herald
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09 Mar 2010 | By Kaz Robertson-Gorrie
From the Happy Haggis a snippet on the Tay Bridge disaster, the full casualty list can be found here
28th December 1879
During a violent storm the centre section of the bridge collapsed, taking with it a train which was running over its single track. The train left Edinburgh at 4.15pm bound for Dundee. Around 75 lives were lost, including the son-on-law of the bridge engineer Thomas Bouch. The number of victims is deduced a ticket count from St. Fort Station in Fife, being 72 passengers and 3 crew. Not all bodies were found. For more information visit Wikipedia’s page or the excellent page at the Scotsman newspaper.
Among those killed in this disaster were a William Robertson aged 21 and his brother Alexander aged 23, from 100 Foundry Lane. Both were labourers.
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