Chapter 1, ‘Beginnings’ explains the construction of London’s Underground. I am amazed that it commenced so early, opening in 1863 -( about twenty years after the opening of the little Port Phillip courthouse shown on the top of my blog!) Privately owned London railway companies linked mos...
Beaches of the Victorian Coast and Port Phillip Bay; Coastal Studies Unit, Dept. of Geography, University of Sydney: Sydney, Australia; Surf Life Saving Australia: Sydney, Australia, 1996. [Google Scholar] DELWP. Environmental Management Plan 2017–2027; Environment, Land, Water and Planning: ...
a book which has firmer evidentiary foundations than this one. But I guess that’s part of the challenge of biography: finding the individual person while confronting the dearth of evidence. Even Phillip Bentley admits that perhaps they have not unpacked...
There was a flurry of public works activity during the early months of 1842, largely as a way of mopping-up all the emigrants who continued to flow into Port Phillip. Although the emigration scheme was supposed to be self-funding, once the tap had been turned on, it was not easy to tu...