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Submarine The Mainstone family on, ‘J7’, a submarine moored at Footscray Wharf in the 1930s. In 1930 there was a submarine sitting at the Footscray Wharves. It was one of six J Class submarines given to the Royal Australian Navy by the Royal Navy of...
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Sporting Events An artist’s version of the finish of the Clarke Cup, three mile race in 1882. The locals are cheering on the Footscray eight. Interest was strong in the Maribyrnong as a playground in the 19th Century and several commentaries from these times indicate...
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Irish Women Lizzie Picket Koch was born 1852 in the Punt (now Pioneer ) Hotel in Ballarat Road, lived to be 88 years old. The Wharves area was an intersection of paths, trails and events that captured so many important aspects of the day and was a window onto a number...
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Pathways / Lines of Desire There is a diagonal path across Grimes Reserve that might roughly follow the original track from the punt, where it stopped on the west bank of the Maribyrnong River. It is an important aspect of ‘heritage’, in the broader sense, that some...
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Grimes Replica of the boat, called a ‘clinker’, that would have been used by Grimes and his party when exploring the Maribyrnong and Yarra Rivers. The people in the boat are dressed in the clothes of the time of the early explorations during a re-enactment of the...
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First People William Barak ‘Wurundjeri Figures in possum skin cloaks’ (1898) pencil, wash, ground wash, charcoal, gouache and earth pigments. The Europeans were not the first humans to walk these lands, of course. They were already occupied by the Aboriginals who were...
