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It's Festival time again! I chatted with Liz Webb about her memories getting the first festival up and running in 1997.

Its the end of 2024! Join me for a round up of local news.

The cheat's guide to doing Halloween in Ashburton.

How a few community-minded friends got together in 1981 to create the custodial publication of local history: Burwood Bulletin.

The untold story of Meals on Wheels in Ashburton

The collection of photographs and pictures I have acquired concerning Kooyong Koot/Gardiner's Creek.

Drownings, suicides and murders: Gardiner’s Creek holds many secrets.

How Ashburton's mothers have worked for nearly a century to improve their children's educational environment.

How beer, AC/DC, violence and pokies created a local institution.

When I started this blog, I did not want to shy away from the darker history of Ashburton and the surrounding areas. From writing about...

If you’re a reader of a certain age, you may remember waking up very very early in the morning – far too early for your mother’s liking –...

Few people want to go on record with their pre-conceived judgements and assumptions about Ashburton. Or for any other suburb for that...

In this post, I’m taking a break from writing about Ashburton’s growing list of murderers to cover something far more pleasant: the...

Almost a year ago, I began documenting the 1965 murder of a young Jordanville woman called Maureen Ferrari by an Ashburton man. Since I...

It’s Book Week! Or, as I call it in my house, F#@king Book Week. I love books. I love them so much I wrote one. You don’t become a...

On a cool Sunday morning on 8 August 1980, Bertha “Beth” Miller called out a farewell greeting to her housemate/brother-in-law Bill Ross....

I recently presented on this topic at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. Just as High Street turns down the hill towards Glen Iris...

This is the second post in my series on interesting things I find in Ashburton’s old community newspaper Progress Press (1946-63) In the...

Every suburb has its dark underbelly. Ashburton is no exception. On 17 December 1965, Melbourne’s Sun newspaper ran a front page story on...

Having walked the streets of Ashburton for days and weeks now (or is it months - what is time anyway during these lockdown days?) it...