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

In Part 2 of the history of Wattle Park, how it acquired a Lone Pine, Clock and the famous Tram shell picnic shelters.

Let’s examine how Wattle Park’s creation involved the murder of an inconvenient peacock.

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.

The story of a how a kind, highly intelligent and well-loved young man became known as the 'Chadstone Sniper'.

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

Update 5 May 2024: After 47 years, J & T Electrical Services in Ashburton closed its doors for the last time. Wishing Peter a long and...

Over the summer – should that ever arrive – I hope to run a series on some of Ashburton’s longest continuously operated shops. On High...

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 –...

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

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...

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...

Once upon a time in Ashburton, there was a community newspaper called Progress Press. This was a locally produced and edited publication...

Recently, I’ve begun doing some research for the Ashburton Willows Cricket Club. My role in the research is more on the “Ashburton” side...

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

If you know anything about your street and it’s not here I’m very open to suggestions and updates. Also, if I have forgotten your street,...